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* Early in Inkheart, when Dustfinger is explaining to Meggie about Capricorn's "evilness" he uses an analogy about Capricorn feeding a bird to a cat and enjoying it, suggesting that...[[A Nazi
** I agree, though I suppose what the author meant was that Capricorn enjoyed to watch out of sheer sadism, while naturalists and so do it to study (though obviously there might be exceptions)
** Er, you forgot the key words. '''Enjoying it'''. People who ''like'' to watch animals being torn apart out of sheer sadism (like the troper above said) are generally messed-up people. After all, one of the big signs that someone is going to be a physco serial killer is loving to torture small animals. Actually, this troper personally is disturbed that the original troper thinks people enjoying watching small animals be torn apart is okay behavior. (BTW, [[Berserk Button|STOP ABUSING THE]] [[Unfortunate Implications
*** Well, I am a borderline sociopath, and I have always enjoyed watching animals fighting and killing each other, but I am by no means crazy or stupid enough to go around shooting people like a madwoman. I just like watching animals tearing each other apart in nature documentaries, or seeing my cat attack the birds in the yard. It just struck me as ridiculous and a tad offensive on Funke's part that such a minor thing should, in her mind, indicate a complete unhinged personality. For the record, it doesn't. Just because mental instability is more common in sociopaths than non-sociopaths does not mean the two are mutually exclusive. (Also, you're right about [[Unfortunate Implications]]. Changing it to [[What Do You Mean
**** Being a sociopath doesn't imply being a crazed [[Knife Nut]] or gunman. It just means a basic lack of a conscience and enjoyment of other's suffering. Your average crazed gunman is, in fact, less of a sociopath than a guard that works on death row because he likes watching the executions.
*** Are you honestly getting offended about people not liking it when other people enjoy watching animals kill each other? Anyway Funke isn't saying that watching animals killing each other and enjoying it makes someone a sadist it's just one of the many elements of his personality that make him like that and as for Dustfinger choosing to tell Meggie that out of a few things it's going to make quite an impression on a young girl.
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* Speaking as someone who enjoyed the series, I'm now very curious as to why others hate the third novel so much.
** Personally, I disliked how Meggie was put on the back burner. She's essentially been our protagonist for the past two books, and now we get a few chapters of her being romantic with an out of the blue character. Perhaps that's just me.
** Seconded. This Troper was pretty miffed when the ''only'' useful thing that Meggie does in the third book is call something out of a book once...and even then Darius could have easily done it instead. Then there was [[Strangled
** I haven't read the third book, but I know what happens, so I don't intend to. For me, the moment I decided I wouldn't was when I read a Q&A with the author and, when asked if she would write anymore books, she responded that she would like to explore what happens to Meggia and Doria. No mention of Farid, despite him being just as important as Meggie in ''Inkspell'', arguably getting more attention. I don't like him apparently being shoved into the background because the author decided she wanted her protagonist with someone else. And again, the romance. I don't like romance much anyway, so discovering that I forced my way through so much of it only for that particular love story to come to nothing is quite infuriating.
** This Troper wasn't bothered by it. Most teenage relationships don't last and there were pretty clear reasons for it. Much as I liked the characters it's not unrealistic for it to end like that. I can still understand why it was frustrating.
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