You'd probably like Girl in a Tangerine Scarf. It's about a muslim girl growing up in the middle of indiana and her life as she tries to work through her identity.
My only issue with TLB is that sometimes it seemed like it was trying too hard. It was a good book, but sometimes I'd read something and just go...well, that wasn't necessary.
Nope! I tried to love it, I did. And I mean, I think Twilight got a lot of flack after being compared to things it wasn't - it's not Harry Potter or Buffy, and I don't think it's fair for people to want it to be either of those things. That said, it's still not a well written book... in my opinion at least.
I liked Clan of the Cave Bear and Valley of the Horses, but, yeah, she lost me in the next one (is that The Mammoth Hunters? I can't remember). And LOL about Ayla being the Eve of Mary Sues.
The Lovely Bones killed me. Just absolutely made me a complete and total emotional wreck. I had to stop reading and go and hug Maggie more times than I could count. Excellent, excellent book, but not one I think I could ever read again--too emotionally draining for me. But I'm the person who refuses to see Schindler's List and probably wouldn't be able to step foot into the Holocaust museum, because I don't think I could handle either of them emotionally. (Yes, I'm a chicken, but the thought that people can do things like that to some other person makes me physically ill.)
Haven't read Twilight. Tried, but...yeah. I could never generate sympathy for the main characters (and pretty much spent the time I was reading wanting to reach through the pages and strangle/slap them).
Clan of the Cave Bear - I must have read when I was eleven or twelve. My mom told me that the totem animals that the people have are something like daemons. I should probably reread it - I remember liking it but being frustrated to no end with the society and how it seemed geared especially towards making Ayla miserable. And when I heard there were no sequels dealing with her son I was uninterested.
My mom started to read The Lovely Bones when I was even younger than that... and she couldn't finish it. Kind of like how I couldn't finish Wicked, in all likelihood. However, Twilight was a special case of could-not-finish. A few pages of wallowing through the prose left me unwilling to try more.
Hee, last night my sister had two of her friends around for her birthday and after dinner they went to the new Twilight movie with our parents. One of them asked if I was coming and my mum said no because I don't like Twilight and you should have seen it. "WHY DON'T YOU LIKE TWILIGHT?!?!?!" "I just can't get into it." *scandalised expressions* XD
I do like to laugh at om nom rough sex nom, as one awesome person put it, though, and the concept of that birth. And the concept of falling in love with a baby. I was annoying my friend greatly the other day by singing the Pedobear song about that. :P
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Shock and awe!
My only issue with TLB is that sometimes it seemed like it was trying too hard. It was a good book, but sometimes I'd read something and just go...well, that wasn't necessary.
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Nope! I tried to love it, I did. And I mean, I think Twilight got a lot of flack after being compared to things it wasn't - it's not Harry Potter or Buffy, and I don't think it's fair for people to want it to be either of those things. That said, it's still not a well written book... in my opinion at least.
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The Lovely Bones killed me. Just absolutely made me a complete and total emotional wreck. I had to stop reading and go and hug Maggie more times than I could count. Excellent, excellent book, but not one I think I could ever read again--too emotionally draining for me. But I'm the person who refuses to see Schindler's List and probably wouldn't be able to step foot into the Holocaust museum, because I don't think I could handle either of them emotionally. (Yes, I'm a chicken, but the thought that people can do things like that to some other person makes me physically ill.)
Haven't read Twilight. Tried, but...yeah. I could never generate sympathy for the main characters (and pretty much spent the time I was reading wanting to reach through the pages and strangle/slap them).
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My mom started to read The Lovely Bones when I was even younger than that... and she couldn't finish it. Kind of like how I couldn't finish Wicked, in all likelihood. However, Twilight was a special case of could-not-finish. A few pages of wallowing through the prose left me unwilling to try more.
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I do like to laugh at om nom rough sex nom, as one awesome person put it, though, and the concept of that birth. And the concept of falling in love with a baby. I was annoying my friend greatly the other day by singing the Pedobear song about that. :P
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