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Here's something that baffles me. If you don't like a certain pairing, then why are you reading fanfiction specifically for that pairing? I mean, it was a good review anyway, which was gratifying, but it just made me kind of go bzuh?
Ordered Frank Beddor's The Looking Glass Wars off Amazon since I couldn't find it anywhere to read. It looks pretty cool, but I'm halfway through and... underwhelmed. I'm not sure how something based on Alice in Wonderland can come off so bland and uninteresting. It's not a terrible book (though I do have a few issues with his writing; I'm of the opinion that if you're writing what basically amounts to fanfiction for a previously-published book, your writing style should at least not clash horribly with the source material. Not that everybody can pull off mimicking tone, and not that everything should be a flat imitation. But the spirit of the original should be at least discernible, right? Because after all, that's probably why people are reading your stuff: because they liked the source material. Although, like they say, YMMV) but the only reason I got through so much of it in one sitting was because I was on a car trip and had nothing else to do.
Had a sudden urge to write on my Southern Gothic-style comic novel this afternoon, which led to jotting down a disastrous kissing scene in my notebook. I've never actually kissed anybody just after they've eaten a bagful of raisins, but I can't imagine that it tastes very nice. I have no idea why the chauffeur was eating so many raisins, except for that there were some in my oatmeal cookie. That must have set me off.
Ordered Frank Beddor's The Looking Glass Wars off Amazon since I couldn't find it anywhere to read. It looks pretty cool, but I'm halfway through and... underwhelmed. I'm not sure how something based on Alice in Wonderland can come off so bland and uninteresting. It's not a terrible book (though I do have a few issues with his writing; I'm of the opinion that if you're writing what basically amounts to fanfiction for a previously-published book, your writing style should at least not clash horribly with the source material. Not that everybody can pull off mimicking tone, and not that everything should be a flat imitation. But the spirit of the original should be at least discernible, right? Because after all, that's probably why people are reading your stuff: because they liked the source material. Although, like they say, YMMV) but the only reason I got through so much of it in one sitting was because I was on a car trip and had nothing else to do.
Had a sudden urge to write on my Southern Gothic-style comic novel this afternoon, which led to jotting down a disastrous kissing scene in my notebook. I've never actually kissed anybody just after they've eaten a bagful of raisins, but I can't imagine that it tastes very nice. I have no idea why the chauffeur was eating so many raisins, except for that there were some in my oatmeal cookie. That must have set me off.