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Merge

Pipe-works laborer should be merged into this article; it is only a single paragraph, and does not meet the Wikipedia standards for Notability. Noclevername 09:13, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, that article really shouldn't exist. There's nothing there that can't be included in this page. DanielEng 18:30, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

𝓘 𝓪𝓰𝓻𝓮𝓮, 𝓮𝓼𝓹𝓮𝓬𝓲𝓪𝓵𝓵𝔂 𝓼𝓲𝓷𝓬𝓮 𝓸𝓷𝓮 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓶𝓪𝓲𝓷 𝓬𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓪𝓬𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓼 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓹𝓲𝓹𝓮𝓻𝓼 𝔀𝓸𝓻𝓴 𝓵𝓪𝓫𝓸𝓻 𝔀𝓸𝓻𝓴𝓮𝓻 Amber Afton (talk) 19:49, 26 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I read this book a year ago, and, it is still one of my favoreites. Do not be fooled by the fact that it is juvenile, it is a great book.--69.104.40.145 00:10, 27 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I agree, the City of Ember was my favorite book of all times, it surprises you, and I made my mom read it, she loved it and my sister read it too. My mom still has to read the Prophet of Yonwood. 24.203.182.78 (talk) 17:27, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:The City of Ember.jpg

Image:The City of Ember.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.aaliyah likes the book to

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Merger proposal

This book may be combined with its movie article —Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.234.184.67 (talk) 12:55, 19 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Usually not a good idea if there are significant plot differences... AnonMoos (talk) 07:19, 24 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Reading

Wow, I'm reading the book from my school libary. Now I have to renew it again because my mom is also interested in the book and I can't belive I'm not done. I'm only on chapter 7 in 4 days! Wow, I love it. It's fantastical so far. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.39.18.71 (talk) 12:07, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Wikipedia discussion pages are not for reviews of the subject of the article. They are for discussing the entry itself, how it is written, why was this thing put here and not there, etc. ;-) Soren121 (talk) 20:21, 22 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

𝓲 𝓪𝓰𝓻𝓮𝓮, 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓼 𝓫𝓸𝓸𝓴 𝓲𝓼 𝓪𝓶𝓪𝔃𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓘 𝓵𝓸𝓿𝓮 𝓲𝓽 𝓼𝓸 𝓶𝓾𝓬𝓱, 𝓘 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓵𝓲𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵𝓵𝔂 𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓭 𝓲𝓽 𝓵𝓲𝓴𝓮 15 𝓽𝓲𝓶𝓮𝓼 Amber Afton (talk) 19:48, 26 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Why fantasy?

Why is this novel categorized as fantasy when there aren't any 'fantastic elements'? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.213.217.215 (talk) 03:54, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that this is not really a fantasy book. It fits more with Science Fiction.Blueglobe (talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 20:24, 17 January 2009 (UTC).[reply]

𝓑𝓮𝓬𝓪𝓾𝓼𝓮, 𝓯𝓻𝓸𝓶 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓫𝓮𝓰𝓲𝓷𝓷𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓸 𝓱𝓪𝓵𝓯𝔀𝓪𝔂 𝓽𝓸 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓮𝓷𝓭 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓭𝓸𝓷'𝓽 𝓴𝓷𝓸𝔀 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓵𝓲𝓿𝓮 𝓾𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻𝓰𝓻𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓭, 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓽𝓸 𝓯𝓲𝓷𝓭 𝓪 𝔀𝓪𝔂 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓾𝓷𝓴𝓷𝓸𝔀𝓷 𝓻𝓮𝓰𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓼 𝓪𝓫𝓸𝓿𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓒𝓲𝓽𝔂 𝓞𝓯 𝓔𝓶𝓫𝓮𝓻 Amber Afton (talk) 19:45, 26 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't sound like how Fantasy is described in the Wikipedia article either. 74.176.152.98 (talk) 14:54, 24 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Plot Summary

I have attempted to rewrite the entire Plot Summary to fit the Wikipedia Guidlines. I also removed most of the plot spoilers. If someone sees a big problem with my changes let me know.Blueglobe (talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 21:30, 17 January 2009 (UTC).[reply]

I removed some plot points that gave away the ending of the story. It is my understanding that any plot point that gives away the story should not be added.166.70.86.169 (talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 23:33, 13 February 2009 (UTC).[reply]

Oops you're not supposed to do that. Read [1]. 74.176.152.98 (talk) 14:49, 24 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Edinburgh?

The page used to have a hat-note reading "For the capital of Scotland, see Embra", and Embra is a redirect to Edinburgh. I'm not sure if this was a joke (which I'm too massively dense to laugh at), or if editors think the pointer may be helpful. Some people do pronounce the name /'ɛmɚ.ə/ in rapid speech, so I suppose some readers may be genuinely confused. Cnilep (talk) 16:16, 18 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Cnilep. The hat-note is still there - I think its just had a preceding CRLF removed. I added this, really not quite sure in myself if I was adding a light-hearted diversion that pretty quickly would be dumped as vandalism or a valid edit - in truth, I was probably just having a laugh. However, Embra (purposefully said using that pronunciation) is a much-used colloquialism in Scotland, and although such parochial references might be inappropriate on Wikipedia, the fact that an Embra redirect to Auld Reekie already existed, made my edit seem more acceptable. Also, some other editor a while back --- I've just checked - jings! it was you ---, I was going to say 'edited the hat-note without having too much of a problem with it'...maybe you have a small bee in your bonnet with my edit. If so, just delete it, I will not add it back again. If you don't delete it, I may be tempted to add the same hat-note to City of Ember. Regards, Mannafredo (talk) 23:42, 19 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, didn't realise all your edits regarding this were back in December 09. I need to pay more attention. Mannafredo (talk) 11:46, 22 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Similarity to other works

This story is very similar to two earlier works - the movie "Logan's Run" and the book "The City and the Stars" by Arthur C Clarke. In both cases you have a city which is locked in to protect the remnants of mankind and a plot which centres on a young person who wants to get out / find out why. This book seems to be a weak derivation of the city part of Clarke's masterpiece. It is so close a copy of Clarke's ideas that its origin should be acknowledged.

It is interesting that the review of the movie says that it seems incomplete. When you read The City and the Stars, you can clearly see that incompleteness in City of Ember. It's taken only part of the story and left out why the city is there and what hapens to it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.167.15.161 (talk) 03:23, 18 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nonfiction?

Why is this described as a non-fiction book? 71.113.238.110 (talk) 00:33, 4 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism. Mannafredo (talk) 13:39, 4 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

what the city of ember suggest?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.177.175.219 (talk) 02:28, 22 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This is a duplicate wiki with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Ember — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.168.164.29 (talk) 18:37, 13 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Other works

Ambiguous sentence in the lede: "Similar to Suzanne Martel's The City Under Ground published in 1963 and Helen Mary Hoover's This Time of Darkness published in 1980, the story is about Ember, an underground city threatened by aging infrastructure."

Are these other works about a city called Ember or are they just similar in the sense of being about a city underground? Also, as these books don't seem on the face of it to be much more recognisable than this one, they are not that helpful in establishing the subject matter. Possibly, move them to a separate section on "Other works". Btljs (talk) 11:04, 20 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

How to make a cat pillow

First you will need any colored piece of fabric that would look like a cute cat color. Then you will need any color of string to sew with. After that you will need a pointy sewing needle and fluff to fill your cat pillow with. Last thing you will need is a pair of scissors. The first thing you will do is put your two matching pieces of fabric together. Next you will cut out a cat shape and you should be using fabric scissors. Then you will put the string through the sewing needle and start to sew close to the outside edge of the fabric. You will go under and above and keep doing that. Leave a good sized hole to put some fluff in. So start to put some fluff in untill you think it is enough. Make sure to double knot at the end of sewing so you can tie your string off. You will then sew the hole closed and tie a double knot at the end. Last you can decorate the outside to make it look like a cat. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.97.17.182 (talk) 13:52, 11 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Spoilers

The first sentence of this article reveals where Ember really is, but it's not revealed until the last section of the book. This is a major spoiler and should be removed. Paranoid666 (talk) 21:00, 7 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]