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m_pendulum

Fallen: So Bad the Cover Face-Palms

Sep 09, 2010 00:48

Long ago there was an angel. The most sublime of his kind. So much so that he was sometimes called Morning Star. Despite his standing, he was still, of course, considered inferior to the one that created him. This angel decided that it was "better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven" and managed to turn fellow angels against the very being they ( Read more... )

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an_angels_light September 9 2010, 04:58:10 UTC

three chapter in and I was already bored and gave up

x_the_duck September 9 2010, 09:05:03 UTC

I tried to read Fallen once. After ten pages I was bored as hell and closed it.

You know, these books are kind of interesting, and not in a good way. Interesting because some YA books are filled with teenagers from an adult's (the writer who is an adult) point of view. And what do we have to represent the teenage world in most of these books? Nothing good. Teenagers are represented as shallow, vain, stupid, stuck up and love sick. Examples in this case are obvious: Twilight, Marked, Evermore, Hush hush, even Fallen. I don't know if this is intentional, but it's interesting how some adults view teenagers.

anticagirl September 9 2010, 09:59:40 UTC

I was very close to buying this .. But decided to get it the next time I was book shopping
Thank God I read you're review before getting it .. Otherwise i would been having a huge WTF moment .. As well as pissed off at how she let him treat her like that ..
Thanks for the review .. Can't wait to read more

vox_mortem September 9 2010, 19:20:53 UTC

I have to disagree with you about fallen angels having to be evil. The Bible names an unreasonable amount of things as sins, making it impossible not to fuck up. Besides, the crime for romantic fallen angels is usually noble, such as falling in love with a mortal, or disobeying God's orders of genocide.

Regardless, this book still sucked. That excerpt you posted pretty much sums up why.

m_pendulum September 9 2010, 19:34:24 UTC

Well, that depends on how you view God and Angels. I also find the idea of romantic fallen angels a little melodramatic. To be a fallen angel, imo, means committing a crime of a certain level (like all out war on Heaven) not deciding that you wanted to go out with a human girl. Also, and this is my Catholic School education coming in, who is to say that Angels are governed by the same rules as man? In terms of falling in love with a mortal, that was not the issue. It was reproducing and in the Hebrew Bible, that was perfectly acceptable. The reason they were killed off was due to disobeying God.

As for your second example, refusing to obey orders of genocide (are you alluding to Dogma because I <3 that movie) again, that is making it seems as though Angels and Humans are alike in the way they think. Also, in the case of Dogma, I'm pretty sure the problem was flipping God off ( ... )

vox_mortem September 9 2010, 20:41:13 UTC

True, and I think the misunderstanding stems from authors failing to understand the principles of Christianity in general. To the, angels are cool winged humanoids, and fallen angels are cool winged humanoids with tragic backstories and angst. I'm an atheist, but from my understanding, angels don't have a will of their own the way humans do.

m_pendulum September 10 2010, 03:34:08 UTC

I am not catholic/christian (I believe in many paths to enlightenment through any individual decision), however I went to Catholic school for 13 years, so thats where my "knowledge" comes from.

Too many people assume that humanoid=human, which is not the case and it would actually make a story more interesting if they made those leaps.

stigmata_crow September 11 2010, 00:08:32 UTC

There's a reason why I avoid angel fiction like the plague.

No one seems to fucking know what the fuck an angel is.

They're not cute fucking winged things, they're scary motherfuckers with dozens of eyes and thousands of wings and flaming swords whose job it is to generally fuck something's day. Maybe it's your day, maybe it's a demon's day, but someone's day is getting fucked ( ... )

angel_renoir November 22 2010, 07:21:22 UTC

I've always wondered where the whole story about Lucifer being a Fallen Angel came from. I thought I never read ANYTHING about that in the Bible and I have read every single chapter in the Bible. I guess that wasn't exactly quoted from the Bible.