Consider Joanna the General Washington and me the Cornwallis of teen fiction. I put up a good fight; it even looked like I might win. But, then - BOOM! Blindsided at Yorktown with the French in the harbor and the Yanks on my tail.
Despite the first two books being very silly (and I didn't really like
New Moon much at all, honestly...much too
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AND YAY! I AM NO ALONE IN THINKING THAT BELLA IS SO VERY ANNOYING!:D
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Isn't the Macbeth one the one set in a restaurant? And James McAvoy plays Macbeth?
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And now you and Mojo can fangirl it up about Edward. I'm sure you'll be back at B&N next week to buy the next two books.
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Though, I will say, All the Pretty Horses is phenomenal. Hypnotically beautiful. It's like the literary version of The Joshua Tree. But that's the only Cormac McCarthy I've read.
As for Bloom, I mainly don't like him because he's a Eurocentric misogynist bastard. For what he does, I appreciate him - he's insightful when it comes to writers like Shakespeare, Milton, Keats, Chaucer, etc. But he all but disregards everyone else. The fact that in his book Genius the only writers he begrudgingly would call "genius" instead of just outright giving them the title, were both women - Charlotte Brontë (whom you know I personally love) and Edith Warton. For a post-Freudian, you'd think he'd be a little more self-aware. And that's not even jumping into the fact that non-white people barely register on his radar! Seriously, not even Toni Morrison or Salman Rushdie as two of the greatest writers alive today? What's that about? He's even said that he thinks the prevalence of idenity ( ... )
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btvs ftw
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