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So, I just saw in a comment at canonrantsthat Christopher Paolini's father is in the publishing industry, and that's how he got published.  Is this true?  I had heard that his parents pushing the book is part of how he got published, but this would explain so much.

It also occurs to me that making people rewrite any given page of Eragon or Eldest using half as many words could train anyone out of purple prose.

Somebody get him out of my pet genre, I beg you.

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 You know, this is based purely on what the previews indicate is the plot of Definitely, Maybe, but who on Earth decided that the right way to do a father/daughter bonding movie is for him to tell her how he spent his college years fooling around with and juggling three women, one of whom is her mother, who does not appear to be in the picture in the present day?

Cardcaptor Sakura Vol 3

TWO IMPORTANT QUESTIONS!

1.  Is Clamp capable of writing any sort of student/teacher relationship without indications of (though they seem to prefer explicit) romantic feelings?

2.  So, does anyone know if Clamp had always planned to go the Sakura/Syaoran route?  Because if I didn't know how it ends up on that front and Tsubasa hadn't already conditioned me to believe that any two people named Sakura and Syaoran belong together, I'd probably be thinking Sakura/Tomoyo was the intended pairing at this point.  Of course, as all three are 11, I'm not really invested on that front beyond OMG THE CUTE!!

( a few spoilery exclamations )