let's talk some more about hush hush

[pico_the_great]

...because it keeps popping up onto my brain, and I don't believe I was complainsome enough about it in that last post. (Because a good Hungarian can always find more things to complain about :D)

1:The Main Female Character And What I Didn't Like About Her

Hush, Hush presented the reader with a type of person whom I tried to avoid in high school

Comments

[historicula]

CREEPER.

I have no idea how you managed to read this. I mean, I read badly written books all the time. But this? This is burn-it-before-your-brain-melts-away material.

I don't even....

[pico_the_great]

Curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought it back. Meow.

I can't say I was satisfied by the end of the book, though - if anything, it brought up more questions than I had before reading it, hte main of them being things like "oh god, do some people really think like this?" I mean, I know intellectually thatsome do, but having them in evidence is just ....horrifying? fascinating? train-wreckly? It makes me really stop and try to think about what the hell life would be like if I lived around people who thought like that.

(Oh god I would go nuts.)

[pico_the_great]

PS:

I read badly written books all the time.

yes you do so why is you complaining 8D

[historicula]

:P At least the ones I read have potential. They have interesting ideas that are either poorly executed, or poorly written. I have never willingly read a train wreck.

[kuridee]

...how did you even get through this? This was like the time my friend made me read "Fallen" and I nearly vomited. I don't understand how stuff like this gets published, honestly. Probably because a lot of the things you didn't like (ie, the main characters and the underlying plotness) really...sort of are the things that Twilight has, and we all know how well that went over. :I

[pico_the_great]

...I was curious? Really, that's my only defensible point: I was really, really curious, in much the same way as you're curious when you see wank on the internet: you watch, wondering "why is it still going?" and "don't these people have otehr things to do?" and "why for the love of god does no one do something about this?" (pretty much the same questions I was asking the book, in fact...)

Oh gosh, there's more books like this? But I shouldn't be surprised - of course there are. Trends are trends, and trends never come with one example alone. So - yeah, to your points. That's why there's more of that. D:

(Also, haven't seen you in forever! How's things? :D)

[kuridee]

....that is kind of exactly why I read Twilight, in addition to the whole "omg this is a vampire book I'm writing a vampire book I have to see if they are similar they had better not be similar" factor, which is basically the story of my life. Then I just had to see how bad it would get and ended up reading them up until halfway through the fourth one, at which point I just said NOPE NOPE NOPE.

THEY ARE ALL THE SAME BOOK. Seriously. Every YA book looks exactly the same to me these days. It is just...it is no bueno.

(I just found this comment in my inbox??)

[pico_the_great]

Haha, I can completely understand that. I'm finding a whole lot of YA books are similar in structure (but not plot!) to one I was writing when I was 14... wheee, 14 :D

(I read Twilight because I was taking a trip round Shanghai & associated cities, and wanted some light, easily pickupable-putdownable book I didn't mind if I lost. Twiliggle fit all those categories. It worked. I got to teh point where I was writing comments in the margin about the character's actions. I regret nothing.)

YES. EXACTLY. HOMG EXACTLY. It is why I jsut skip merrily on past the "YA Paranormal" section - nope, ain't muffin for me here!

(No prob, I go back every now and then and discover new comments have mushroomed where one - IE, I - have least expected them. Who'd thunk people'd respond to me? NOT I SAID THE FLY)