On Friday, I gave Twilight a try. The book, not the movie. I have several reactions to the first hundred pages, which I struggled to get through and scrapped the book after that.
Reaction #1: From a writer's standpoint, the voice Stephanie Meyers uses is passive. (Example: "He was looking at her." vs. the active voice - "He looked at her.") That all but drove me insane. Not completely, but it came thisclose. I toyed with the idea of counting how many times the word "was" occurred on each page. This gave me a thumb-down right off the bat.
Reaction #2: High school romantic drama. Need I say more? *gags*
Reaction #3: I fail to see how great the "hero" of this story is if he's stalking the heroine. Yes, I said stalking.
Reaction #4: Aren't vampires evil? The whole story had a darkness shadowing it, which, I think, is a main draw.
Reaction #5: Well... At least she had a Chevy truck... (I'm stretching for a good point to mention)
My vote on this book is for you to pass on it. Go find something better to read. It won't be that difficult.
Female Persimmon Flowers
3 months ago
I like this blog! But why didn't you call yourself "Lyric"? :-(
ReplyDeleteAnd in what way are you "tired" of Punmaster's Palace?
Honestly, I scrapped my Suzy's Scribbles blog over here on blogger and plan to concentrate on either Andi's blog and/or my "book bait" blog, which you may find of interest:
http://www.bookbait.blogspot.com
Lots of writing and publishing hints. A fellow author and I co-author it
I just have too little time and had too many blogs. I also deleted the Writing Workshop blog over on HSB. I put all my Suzy's Stories into pdf files and have a link from my Website rather than on the blogger blog (but I haven't scrapped that one yet. But I will. Maybe). I'm just tired of so many BLOGS and not time.
Keep writing, and I'll keep follow'.
I've always enjoyed your humorous blog posts, and blogger is much easier. And . . . you should at least put your Malkari blog link over here, as well.
I coulda told you that without even picking it up. :D
ReplyDelete"I was happy enough to read reviews and say, “Eew! Yuck!” and then an 11-yo of my acquaintance asked me to read it, because she thought it was great. Now that I’ve read a very small part of it, I can see what emo teens might see in Twilight, but a happy little kid? The only explanation I can come up with is that she’s still of the age where she reads books, but the true message doesn’t stand out. And that scares me."
ReplyDeleteyeah scares me too.
I love "thisclose". Too bad you couldn't squish them any closer. :D
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