Talk:House of Stairs (Sleator novel)

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)

I dropped:

== 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: and  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 9-26
Removed some links, because the page was overlinked. Applejuicefool 17:13, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

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)

Wikify
This reads too much like an advertisement. An article should never ask the reader a question, and should not leave out crucial details in a way that makes one want to read the book. 75.118.170.35 (talk) 20:23, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

I agree. Although I think it's a worthwhile book, the article should just say what's in the book rather than acting as a review. I've improved the wording and layout to make it more objective, and removed the header that complained of a lack of references (the book IS the reference for all the details in the article, and the ISBN is stated). 12.193.27.158 (talk) 02:52, 31 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Who ever created it, the article has a good synopsis of the book's plot! 69.198.205.2 (talk) 00:38, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Title
What's with the title, it is rendering as: "House of Stairs (William Sleator novel)" with the italics tags. This can't be right can it? Not sure how to change it. phocks (talk) 06:12, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Sounds like a browser problem; I'm not encountering it. -- Orange Mike &#x007C;  Talk  17:37, 22 October 2011 (UTC)

B. F. Skinner's "superstition in the pigeon" experiments
Upon recently learning about Skinner's experiments with pigeon superstition, I was struck by how similar the setting of this book is to Skinner's experiment -- "He discovered that the pigeons associated the delivery of the food with whatever chance actions they had been performing as it was delivered, and that they subsequently continued to perform these same actions." Perhaps a link would be in order.

76.14.87.90 (talk) 22:33, 11 November 2012 (UTC)