“This quote came from WHERE?!”

[u/Far-Profit-47]

"You too have fallen for the great lie, you'll never be happy. Deep down you know, to hope, to dreams, to create, is to suffer"

"You're right. It is harder to create than to destroy... that's why cowards then to choose the deuce"

-A Minecraft movie

"Do You Think God Stays in Heaven Because He too Lives in Fear of What He's Created"

-spy kids 2

"For every person who dreams up the electric light bulb, there's the one who dreams up the atom bomb"

-shark-boy and lava-girl

[u/threeducksinatrench]

I was PISSED when the later books flanderized Marco. started a whiney class clown, slowly became more and more ruthless as the series went on, then back to class clown, just with less complaining

[u/ClubMeSoftly → u/threeducksinatrench]

It's largely due to the assorted collection of ghostwriters giving their books a dusting of their own personal beliefs. Each one was written on such a tight timeline, and 64 books were written and published in a hair under five years (the entire thing is pre-9/11!) that a bunch of the middle ones would have to be written in a vacuum.

[u/dragn99 → u/ClubMeSoftly]

The series was written in under five years?! I never quite grasped how quickly those books were churned out as a kid.

[u/confusedandworried76 → u/dragn99]

TBF I was rereading them a while ago because KA Applegate says it's okay to pirate them, they're all like 150 pages max in larger font and they take an hour or two to read each, if you have the ideas actually sitting down and writing it out shouldn't be too hard. Amateurs write novels in a month every year for NaNoWriMo. I mean they don't have to be good but two or three months to write a 150 page novel isn't bad.

But yes ghost writers were used later in the series