Talk:House of Stairs (William Sleator novel)

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NOTE: Moved discussion here from "The House of Stairs (William Sleator novel). The title doesn't have "The" in it. Applejuicefool 13:54, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

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== External links ==
Amazon.com's page for The House of Stairs

Unless there's something special about the Amazon.com page for this particular work, there's no need to link there. Anyone who wants to follow the ISBN link to Amazon or a variety of other sources can do so. Ellsworth 22:51, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Going to move this entire article to House of Stairs (William Sleator novel) instead of The House of Stairs. Applejuicefool 13:47, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Ok, everything I can find on the Internet (Amazon, etc.) says THE House of Stairs, but the book cover and the copyright info (Amazon has a scan of the copyright page) say "House of Stairs". Any thoughts? (Other than I shouldn't have been so hasty to move it?)

B&N leaves off the "The". Applejuicefool 14:21, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

This site, in fact, has both: [1] and [2] Applejuicefool 14:26, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

You did the right thing: the True Name is the True Name. the The House of Stairs redir is all that's necessary.--Orange Mike 19:45, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] EDIT 9-26

Removed some links, because the page was overlinked. Applejuicefool 17:13, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Critical thoughts.

I think all the statements in the critical review section suffer from being unsourced weasel words. If "some critics" feel this way, then we need to source them. Particularly :
"the moral to Sleator's story is a far more sophisticated message than Golding's, which is, at least on one level, a simple exhortation for children to behave politely."
Really? Do some critics say that?
--Knulclunk 02:56, 13 April 2007 (UTC)