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persephone_blue

In Twilight land, everyone dazzles you until your eyes hurt.

Jan 09, 2009 13:09

I finally grit my teeth and finished it this morning. In writing this review, I'm trying to figure out what exactly this book is and what it wants to do.

( Spoilers of spoileryness in seven parts. )

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rapunzels_tears January 10 2009, 17:53:30 UTC

Hey, this is Maureen Hitch of Woo.

I admire you for getting through the book and writing such a good critique. Every time I think about the Twilight Franchise I get tense and angry - my feminism is allergic. I also object to the idea of everything being "perfect" in a glorification of superficiality.

Really, I should probably actually read the books and know my enemy...but I know I won't. Mostly because thanks to IS I don't really have time for recreational reading anyways. *sadface*.

Buffy and Angel are better.

persephone_blue January 10 2009, 18:38:51 UTC

Hi Maureen!

After finishing the book, I had a lot of thoughts about it and I wanted to organize them. LJ seemed like the best format. If I wrote an opinion article for the Wooster Voice, I don't think I would have been able to ramble so much!

Go ahead and put off the book. If anything, reading it after the fad has passed might put it in a better perspective.

This is fun. Isn't this fun? blue_infernian January 11 2009, 03:24:09 UTC

You should critique books for a living. Maybe I'd actually read critiques if you wrote them for a living ( ... )

Re: This is fun. Isn't this fun? blue_infernian January 11 2009, 03:26:06 UTC

I just realized that I repeated myself in the first sentence.

I hate when I do that.

persephone_blue January 11 2009, 05:21:28 UTC

You should critique books for a living.

I'd prefer to write them, but because it's hard to live on just writing fiction/novels, maybe it would be a good idea. I already write movie reviews for my school paper.

Now, does this mean that you prefer third over first person, no matter what book you're reading? Or did you mean it just for 'Twilight'?

When first person is written well, I love it. I think Twilight would have been stronger in third.

I look at parts of dialogue and decide whether I have too many "said"s or too many "replied"s, etc. Then I tend to change 80% of them.

I think "saids" are fine. They flow naturally and are invisible to the reader. You forget they're there and can concentrate on the characters. Meyer doesn't always trust her audience to realize what the characters are feeling just from what they say.

Shoot me now. I hated that description.

In the passage's defense, it fits a little better in context. A little.

In one part of the story, the main character wears broccoli around his neck.That sounds ( ... )

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