Post by Martina on Oct 13, 2009 3:13:51 GMT -5
I've been reading a bit these days:
Twilight: not as bad as I expected, writing-wise, though it surely isn't a very complex prose.
Anyhow, it took me a lot of time to read it as I wasn't interested in what was happening to the characters. I don't know if this had to do with the fact that I had already watched the movie or if simply the characters weren't interesting.
Moreover, the story never really starts until 3/4 of the book. The first 400 pages of it goes on only about Bella falling in love with Edward, he not wanting to be with her, but then giving in to his feelings. Then we have a baseball game (WOW! *sarcastic*) and the hunt of the bad vampire, all in the last 100 pages.
I don't know if I'll read the other books of the series, I don't care much for knowing what happens to Bella, if she really is so silly to become a vampire or if she simply dies some painful death.
The catcher in the rye: though it's known as a teenager classic, I had never read this, and probably I am no longer in the right age to read this.
Here as well as in Twilight the main character is so silly that sometimes I wanted to slap him... Since he's been kicked out of school and he doesn't want to go back home he heads for NY, where he has some disadventures, gets drunk and smokes a lot. Really, I don't know why so many people find this book so interesting. Moreover, the book was written and translated in the '50s, so it reads a bit strange at times.
Confessions of a shopaholic: still a silly character, but at least Becky Bloomwood isn't meant to be serious! All in all I liked this book more than I expected, and much more than the other two. It's simply "chick-lit" (you can't imagine how much I hate that definition), but it was a funny read for a evening alone. I had already read "The undomestic goddess" by Kinsella, and I recognized some similar patterns, but I found "Confessions" better.
Actually reading "Mystic River" by Dennis Lehane.
Twilight: not as bad as I expected, writing-wise, though it surely isn't a very complex prose.
Anyhow, it took me a lot of time to read it as I wasn't interested in what was happening to the characters. I don't know if this had to do with the fact that I had already watched the movie or if simply the characters weren't interesting.
Moreover, the story never really starts until 3/4 of the book. The first 400 pages of it goes on only about Bella falling in love with Edward, he not wanting to be with her, but then giving in to his feelings. Then we have a baseball game (WOW! *sarcastic*) and the hunt of the bad vampire, all in the last 100 pages.
I don't know if I'll read the other books of the series, I don't care much for knowing what happens to Bella, if she really is so silly to become a vampire or if she simply dies some painful death.
The catcher in the rye: though it's known as a teenager classic, I had never read this, and probably I am no longer in the right age to read this.
Here as well as in Twilight the main character is so silly that sometimes I wanted to slap him... Since he's been kicked out of school and he doesn't want to go back home he heads for NY, where he has some disadventures, gets drunk and smokes a lot. Really, I don't know why so many people find this book so interesting. Moreover, the book was written and translated in the '50s, so it reads a bit strange at times.
Confessions of a shopaholic: still a silly character, but at least Becky Bloomwood isn't meant to be serious! All in all I liked this book more than I expected, and much more than the other two. It's simply "chick-lit" (you can't imagine how much I hate that definition), but it was a funny read for a evening alone. I had already read "The undomestic goddess" by Kinsella, and I recognized some similar patterns, but I found "Confessions" better.
Actually reading "Mystic River" by Dennis Lehane.