The Little Prince is very anti grown up :)

I didn’t know that. And if you rearrange those letters, it spells Stephen King! Good God!

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God creates dinosaurs, god destroys dinosaurs, god creates man, man destroys god, man creates dinosaurs, dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the earth

Not far fetched. Koontz used many aliases:

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Leigh Nichols

K.R. Dwyer

Deanna Dwyer

John Hill

Owen West

David Axton

Brian Coffey

Anthony North

Aaron Wolfe

Richard Paige

Leonard Chris

Our capacity for reason should make us less predictable, but everything we do is relative.

I don’t know. Maybe Dean Koontz?

Dark, but interesting!

""""Researchers""""

Hundreds of millions of possible stories is a pretty good amount, especially when you account for all the different ways each of them can be told.

So who do you think it was?

A few of things that might be worth a punt maybe?

• The Monster is (AFAIK) made completely from parts of adult humans, so maybe you could argue that it's a human adult? Some sort of "ship of Theseus" type of thing? How many parts can you transplant on a person before they become a monster instead of a human?

• By a similar note it presumably has a brain from a specific person? If I die and get revived and lose my memory and commit a crime, am I still culpable? Maybe you could argue that it's like a Doctor reviving an injured person who then has brain damage which leads to them being violent?

• The Monster presumably shares no DNA with Frankenstein and I doubt he did any formal paperwork to adopt it, so is he legally responsible for it? Morally he probably is, but would that hold up in court?

I think he wrote that the Bachman books were trashy and at one point he wanted to be a "serious" author who was known for literature.

Your goose is cooked. This is all your fault. The biggest issue is how did the court know that the monster was your creation?

It’s heavily implied that they weren’t actually related to Ike by blood, but their parents would have made it appear so to Poe.

It is an interesting question if an aunt by marriage would get priority in custody if you’ve never even met. I’m actually a lawyer lol but not a family lawyer. Just going off what I remember from the bar, custody would be determined based off the best interests of the child. If goes to a non-blood aunt meant that they remain in a similar cultural setting to what they grew up in, then that might be in favor of her.

However, I forget, is Justice Strauss from the same city they grew up in? The stability of staying in the same city would heavily be in favor of her in that regard. And Violet and Klaus’s opinions would be taken into account.

Because we're all fragments of a singular universal consciousness. The sleeping mind remembers what the waking mind forgets.

We are all. All are one.

Or, something like that. You'll know it when you see it.

I know I’m in the minority here and you all will rip me apart. BUT, I still don’t believe they are the same author. It just doesn’t make sense. Stephen King was already well-known. So why would he write under a pseudonym?! He’d just make less money and get less exposure by doing so. Does that make any sense?!

Those books are great when you first start them. But the author seems to be a one-trick pony and the series did not need to be as long as it was. I also got to book 9 or 10 and stopped because they were becoming so repetitive.

I like the idea that every story has been told, but it’s how you tell the story that will make you stand out

I never read the full series but as a child I enjoyed the ones I did read as a child. To me, the books are meant to be darkly humorous and absurdist rather than realistic so criticizing them on the grounds of not being realistic seems to miss the point of the books. It is like thinking that Monty Python and the Holy Grail is meant to be realistic. Not everything is meant to be realistic.

It is common for children’s books to feature cartoonishly evil or incompetent adults (think of books like those by Roald Dahl for example) and series often feature repeated plots and recurring villains. That is part of the appeal for many readers.

Because.

I like your beard, DarthSalyavin … or should I say COUNT OLAF?!

If you take a group of objects and look for similarities, you will find similarities. If you will look for uniqueness, you will find uniqueness. The same applies to stories.

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