User talk:Yunzhong Hou/cliches

You forgot basic ones like "Amnesia, horror stories usually happening in dark places, genies that give three wishes, car chases, superheroes that fly, evil powerful mages, impenetrable fortress that ends up being penetrated, etc". I think that most clichés are okay, what matters is how you present them to the reader, how you talk about them. By the way, if we're going to follow that, then every book ever wrote is made up of clichés (Kafka's "The Trial" comes to mind as a particularly heavy offender, with unscrupulous dealers, bureaucratic intrigue, awkward moments, toying with fate and ordeals of pain and terror). As a matter of fact, I really like stories that have some of these clichés, like full circle. --Nonimportant 15:34, 8 November 2007 (UTC)