I am starting to like the term Deja Moo. "I've heard this bull before."I'm having some serious deja vu.
With some name replacements, this very much sounds like a description of Sansa's behaviour in GoT. Which is why she's not a strong female lead, but a well-written weak female character.I read some of it, a few of the first chapters of the first book. It is not well-written. The characters are not interesting. A lot has been said/speculated about Bella being a Mary Sue, but I don't know enough about Stephanie Meyer to say for sure. However, Bella has a lot of the qualities I'd expect to find in a much younger author's Mary Sue character. Plain-looking except that everyone else sees her as beautiful; tormented by, well, not really anything, so constructs a drama with her as a supposedly helpless centrepiece. Bella's every move is to simply to make her wholly uninteresting by defering all consequences to the decisions of those around her. She never has to make a choice, which is great, because young people love avoiding responsibility. Plus the hottest guys want to commit their lives to her (and then bang her, which is the benchmark for romantic, when you're 15 and 16).
The sad thing to me, is that it's the Mary Sue of a normal teenage girl, which implies Meyer's held onto some stuff she really ought to let go of. Well, maybe writing the book was cathartic.Chad was not the only person to notice that Bella was a Mary Sue.
We are? I thought us North Americans weren't capable of being glad? Or capable of anything?Glad to see you are still around, though.
Not just a boyfriend, but one that is constantly battling the urge to murder them for their precious life fluids...Literature that teaches young girls that their lives aren't complete unless they have a boyfriend to protect them.
Not just a boyfriend, but one that is constantly battling the urge to murder them for their precious life fluids...
Well dear that meal was like eating raw vomit, but hey, at least it wasn't diarrhea!I've read at least the first book. I might have read all of them. My wife has enjoyed them, and takes me to see the movies.
I'm not the target market or demographic for this work.
However, I have read worse.
I've read Harlequin romances while bored and in college. I would go through 2/day between studies. They were like Snickers bars.I've not read it, but from what I understand 50SoG is basically straight-up porn. Like, Harlequin romance-style porn.
The Da Vinci Code wasn't great, and doesn't hold up to scrutiny at all (seriously, the main character... just... aagh) but I didn't think it was -terrible-. But when I tried reading Dan Brown's other books, I had to keep checking the cover to make sure I wasn't reading the exact same book.I rather enjoyed The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, and The Lost Symbol.
Also the Sahara movie was fun as hell.I have read and bought every book of the Dirk Pitt series by Clive Cussler. He has been writing them for 30 years. It's 23 books in total.
It's the cheapest, most pulp book series out there... but it's basically Dan Brown done right, except with finding ships. Plus I know that every book I buy gives Mr. Cussler more money that he ether spends on classic cars or to find real life sunken ships. Mother fucker found the Hunley.
Basically what I'm saying here is that I imagine everyone has a guilty pleasure in books.
It was better than Raise the Titanic, but it was still pretty awful.Also the Sahara movie was fun as hell.
I never read The Lost Symbol, but I did like the other two books. Actually, we used Angels and Demons as a guide when we were in Rome. We visited a lot of the different sites and churches that were in the book. It was pretty neat.I mean, people rag on Dan Brown's writing, but I rather enjoyed The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, and The Lost Symbol. They weren't great prose, but they grabbed and kept my interest throughout the novels. So personally, I thought the hate against Dan Brown is a bit unwarranted.