Heya Squeaks! I was actually going to comment and be like 8I~ THAT'S A RLY PURDY USERNAME because it is.
Yeah, to be honest, that's what bothers me most about this book. The fact that we're supposed to sympathize and relate to a character that shallow and petty. I had a (very polite) Twilight defender comment on my DA and explain that 'If Meyer SHOWED how misunderstood and outcast Bella was, then she'd have to waste pages and pages on it instead of moving the plot along!'
You know. Except that showing us wouldn't have wasted pages (one little scene would have done perfectly well to SHOW us something about her, instead of pages of her WHINING) and hundreds of good authors have pulled off character development without stalling the plot, and furthermore, the fact that she DOESN'T show us and then includes bad prose along with it, just makes the character look like an irredeemable bitch.
That's not what she was going for, and therefore it's bad writing no matter what genre it's for.
BLARHTGHGH. That said, I'm still reading, but yeah. XD
Ahaha. It kinda is ain't it! Roxas wouldn't thank you for the compliment, though 8D <3
And yeah, I saw that comment on dA. SIGH. I didn't want to say this, because, you know, different strokes for different folks and all that, but I really can't understand why people defend this book! I mean, reading it and enjoying it is one thing (I think anyone who says they don't enjoy reading/watching rubbish every now and then is either lying or incredibly pretentious), but I don't get why anyone tries to maintain it has the slightest bit of literary worth.
- And man did it bug me when that commenter said it didn't matter if it was that good because it was teen romance. WTF! Surely it's especially important, with a romance, to have well-developed characters you can relate to? And when it's aimed at teenagers surely the last thing you want to do is write a character who spends the entire first chapter bitching about a situation that a lot of teenagers would be grateful for? Given its enormous success, though, apparently not. @__@
OH ROXAS, YOU SHOULD BE MORE APPRECIATIVE. IN MY DAY, WE HAD TO WALK TWO MILES IN SNOWSTORMS TO GET PRETTY USERNAMES.
Yeah, to be honest, I'm open-minded. I know not everybody will like things that I like, just like I won't always like what they like. Heck, I even have my own guilty weaknesses when it comes to certain things that I know suck but love anyway.
And jesus, yeah, that bugged the hell out of me. I wanted to say everything you just mentioned. In the end I probably should have just said "I'm not saying whether it's a romance book or not, I'm saying whether it's a GOOD book or not."
I wasn't complaining about how boring it was or "MAN WTF THIS BOOK SUCKS, THERE'S NO ACTION." I was complaining about the lack of character development and the bad writing, things that are UNIVERSAL in fiction, regardless of genre.
Yeah, to be honest, that's what bothers me most about this book. The fact that we're supposed to sympathize and relate to a character that shallow and petty. I had a (very polite) Twilight defender comment on my DA and explain that 'If Meyer SHOWED how misunderstood and outcast Bella was, then she'd have to waste pages and pages on it instead of moving the plot along!'
You know. Except that showing us wouldn't have wasted pages (one little scene would have done perfectly well to SHOW us something about her, instead of pages of her WHINING) and hundreds of good authors have pulled off character development without stalling the plot, and furthermore, the fact that she DOESN'T show us and then includes bad prose along with it, just makes the character look like an irredeemable bitch.
That's not what she was going for, and therefore it's bad writing no matter what genre it's for.
BLARHTGHGH. That said, I'm still reading, but yeah. XD
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And yeah, I saw that comment on dA. SIGH. I didn't want to say this, because, you know, different strokes for different folks and all that, but I really can't understand why people defend this book! I mean, reading it and enjoying it is one thing (I think anyone who says they don't enjoy reading/watching rubbish every now and then is either lying or incredibly pretentious), but I don't get why anyone tries to maintain it has the slightest bit of literary worth.
- And man did it bug me when that commenter said it didn't matter if it was that good because it was teen romance. WTF! Surely it's especially important, with a romance, to have well-developed characters you can relate to? And when it's aimed at teenagers surely the last thing you want to do is write a character who spends the entire first chapter bitching about a situation that a lot of teenagers would be grateful for? Given its enormous success, though, apparently not. @__@
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Yeah, to be honest, I'm open-minded. I know not everybody will like things that I like, just like I won't always like what they like. Heck, I even have my own guilty weaknesses when it comes to certain things that I know suck but love anyway.
And jesus, yeah, that bugged the hell out of me. I wanted to say everything you just mentioned.
In the end I probably should have just said "I'm not saying whether it's a romance book or not, I'm saying whether it's a GOOD book or not."
I wasn't complaining about how boring it was or "MAN WTF THIS BOOK SUCKS, THERE'S NO ACTION." I was complaining about the lack of character development and the bad writing, things that are UNIVERSAL in fiction, regardless of genre.
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