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Augustuzziah
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Posted on Sunday, October 23, 2005 - 06:14 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Here is my question - should there be a purpose or a message in every book written or story told.
Is a book considered 'good' or important or even literary if it doesn't have some 'deeper meaning' beyond perhaps an entertaining story, where every plot or subplot is brought to a conclusion or every question that is ask is answered.
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Cynique
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Posted on Sunday, October 23, 2005 - 10:47 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

That's a good question. I would think that all a book really has to promise is that the protagonist encounters some form of conflict that by the end of the book has changed him or her in some way.
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Chrishayden
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Posted on Monday, October 24, 2005 - 10:02 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

<<Every book has a purpose or message even those purporting to be mindless entertainment.

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