Intelligent conversation?

Hit me with your best shot, people.

First of all, define “intelligent”.

Lol that "first of all" makes all the difference

Anything that requires sufficient brainpower as opposed to opinions, where everyone involved shares, teaches others, and debates, it is literally, what the name entails.

Intelligent=Ability to think and learn, and apply information.
Conversation= a back and fourth between two or more people.

And putting those two together, we're going to have a back and forth between two or more people, that both requires, and helps build, brainpower. I guess another name would be intense conversation.

I'm open to subjects. I wanted to talk about Dante's Divine Comedy. But I don't suppose anyone actually reads Dante.

Books can be the subject…

Well, has anyone read Dante? Probably not.

No, to be honest.

OK… Well, do you have any suggestions?

Something science-y?

Have you read the Da Vinci Code?

no…

Oh. What have you read?

Warriors? Wings Of Fire? Percy Jackson? Harry Potter. WondLa. The Heroes Of Olympus. Have you read those?

I enjoyed Percy Jackson. Rick Riordan is a great, great YA writer, but I think it's cliché that he makes everyone so sarcastic, like most YA writers do.

Doesn't make the books any less awesome though.

True.

I find that almost every YA writer makes their characters sarcastic. The only example of non-sarcastic "YA" writing that I've come across, is anything written by Alexander Gordon Smith, whose work is like, way too graphic to be YA, it's delicious nightmare fuel. But I also think he's the best YA writer, tying with Rick Riordan, and I think that the reason he's so good at it is because, well, he's the closest to being a young adult, he knows what it's like to be one. Riordan has natural talent that makes him so good.

Agreed!

I actually disagree, I felt that the only good series by Riordan was the first Percy Jackson series. I've tried to read the rest, and none of them live up to or surpass the first series he wrote. All the characters felt like copies of what he'd already written before, and his formula started to become too basic and predictable. In my opinion. Although I only read the first and second Percy Jackson series all the way through.

Heroes Of Olympus isn't that bad, but I don't really like Trials Of Apollo..

My favorites are The Lightning Thief, and Son of Neptune, other than those, the rest are meh.

The Lightning Thief for obvious reasons, and Son of Neptune because, well, it's darnright awesome.

Okay

Intelligent conversation.

I've read Dante's Inferno?

The first part of Dante's Divine Comedy)

Yes, finally. I've read the whole Comedy.

And now I have no idea what you all are talking about. Uh huh I am so intelligent.