Ironically though, Pattinson himself had zero support when he was first cast as Edward!

You need to finish this novel and publish it NOW!

Um, I highly doubt you actually read The Hunger Games trilogy.

I really, really wanted to like TFIOS, but I just could not get into the story or the characters at all. I just found the dialogue so pretentious and overly stylised that I could not warm up to it, and that scene in the Anne Frank house just had me roll my eyes instead of being all moved and emotional about it. I know…

Aw man, I wrote my PhD on His Dark Materials so they will always hold a special place in my heart! SUCH good books!

Oh my God, that would be amazing! What magic they could have made with all the dream-like, quite surreal scenes of the original tale, sigh.

As someone who grew up loving the original fairy-tale and being fascinated by its dark, gloomy and somewhat wistful mood this makes me sooooo mad!

I squeed so hard over the way his little trunk is swaying around, like he can't quite control its movements yet. Squeeeeee...

Yep, elephants and chimpanzees undo me every damn time! I once saw this documentary on chimpanzees and it showed a chimp mum grieving over her dead baby. Holy shit, just typing this and remembering how she held onto the body for ages and then slowly, slowly released it in a clearly ritualistic fashion makes me start…

Again, I said none of those things. It is interesting how you go off like that when I said none of these things. What is triggering you so much?!

Some people knew, some didn't (not everyone lived in cities, there was a large rural population who were far removed from the "real world" until the war, when protesting anything would have killed you, clean and simple). Some kinda sorta knew bad things were happening, but they didn't know HOW bad it was. And a large…

I didn't say it was like Germany.

Anti-semitism was rampant in ALL of Europe long before the 1930's! Ever read/seen The Merchant of Venice?

Um, the lampshade thing is a myth, that did not actually happen. But yeah, she was bad, the classic Nazi opportunist without a soul. Irma Grese was another infamous woman who actively participated in the torture and murder of Jews at Auschwitz. And if you want to read what the truly fanatic women of Nazi Germany were…

And then their Arian babies were taken away from them to be raised by even more hyper Arian (mostly connected to the SS) families to become those child soldiers Hitler sent into war as young as 13 in the end phase of WW2, and who basically were so fanatic that they wouldn't surrender and almost all died. Ugh, my…

Britain was strongly anti-semitic at that time, especially the aristocracy. The German ambassador in London at the time was wined and dined by pretty much everyone during the pre-war time (when Germany was already killing Jews by the thousands), and in fact Hitler was courted by all great powers of the time at first.…

I would guess it points to some sort of trauma experienced during the time. My grandfather refuses to talk about his time in the Wehrmacht - apparently he fought in the battle of Stalingrad (one of the worst battles during the war) and was in russian captivity, but he never mentions it, never says a word about the…

Um, none of this is new information?! Maybe it's because I'm German but we learn that stuff about Nazi women in high school, none of this is specifically newsworthy or any new research worth publishing a book on. *shrugs

Um, does investigative journalism now need a precise mission statement?!?!?

He was adorable last episode in his subtle but more and more noticeable crush on Emma. I totes ship them and hope boring Neal dies in a (magical?) fire.