his friends were not of kind company
The great question in life of today is--if a book's bad, do you go on reading it?
I've got Maximum Ride here. I have it for a friend's recommendation (though that was a bit of a warning, actually) and a study. At least I thought a study.
Turns out, the Avatars books by Tui T. Sutherland are actually thought provoking in the way I need to put perspective on my lame little supers book. And this...well it's got that way of writing, which is crutch-ridden, overspoken so I can't enjoy a sentence of it. Not a one. Especially since the 14 year old girl sounds like what in a random pass I'd figure was a 17 year old boy.
Sexist? I still will claim there's a difference.
Even a precocious tomboy girl with a lot of stress on and violence to deal with I'm not sure would sound like so bit-off sentence male.
The problem is not that it couldn't work. But because J Patterson is a guy, it makes me suspect he doesn't have the chops to imitate how a girl talks.
I think this is a problem unique to me, but I'm just not that impressed.
I think I'm going to use my time reading something I like better. Or watching the Fullmetal Alchemist mini-series volume this same friend loaned me. Because while I'm agonizing about how to read all the stuff I'd rather not that she's excited about, I don't have any reservations about borrowing some of the anime.
I know I'm going to come off as picky to her. Which I am.
I don't put up with stuff I don't like.
I do like lots of things, though! I mean, is it a crime to avoid that sort of lazy writing you dislike most?
Mini-review for posterity
All-American Girl (Meg Cabot): kudos for a red-head goth girl heroine who blushes as easily and immaterially as we all do--I *heart* voice--though there's no significant difference in underpinning plot from her other books.
I've got Maximum Ride here. I have it for a friend's recommendation (though that was a bit of a warning, actually) and a study. At least I thought a study.
Turns out, the Avatars books by Tui T. Sutherland are actually thought provoking in the way I need to put perspective on my lame little supers book. And this...well it's got that way of writing, which is crutch-ridden, overspoken so I can't enjoy a sentence of it. Not a one. Especially since the 14 year old girl sounds like what in a random pass I'd figure was a 17 year old boy.
Sexist? I still will claim there's a difference.
Even a precocious tomboy girl with a lot of stress on and violence to deal with I'm not sure would sound like so bit-off sentence male.
The problem is not that it couldn't work. But because J Patterson is a guy, it makes me suspect he doesn't have the chops to imitate how a girl talks.
I think this is a problem unique to me, but I'm just not that impressed.
I think I'm going to use my time reading something I like better. Or watching the Fullmetal Alchemist mini-series volume this same friend loaned me. Because while I'm agonizing about how to read all the stuff I'd rather not that she's excited about, I don't have any reservations about borrowing some of the anime.
I know I'm going to come off as picky to her. Which I am.
I don't put up with stuff I don't like.
I do like lots of things, though! I mean, is it a crime to avoid that sort of lazy writing you dislike most?
Mini-review for posterity
All-American Girl (Meg Cabot): kudos for a red-head goth girl heroine who blushes as easily and immaterially as we all do--I *heart* voice--though there's no significant difference in underpinning plot from her other books.