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ladyslvr at 11:34am on 01/03/2009
ladyslvr at 11:34am on 01/03/2009Books finished:
The Little Book by Seldon Edwards (2) - A time travel story in which the main character wakes up from an accident in 1896 Vienna. Loved it, though it took a while to warm up to the story. The end was a let down.
Still Me by Christopher Reeve (2) - Fascinating insights into the life of a person who suffered from a tremendous personal loss, but who managed to turn it into a social gain.
The Dead Girls Dance by Rachel Caine (2) - Book two in the Morganville Vampires series. A new favorite because it manages to bring something new to the vampire genre.
Twilight by Stephanie Meyers (2) - A dating fantasy for 14 year old girls. Not much value for anyone else.
The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman (3) - An expose on how the business world is changing, and has to change, because of the development and proliferation of information technology. It's an interesting argument, but is very clearly aimed at the type of old school CEO who still thinks that the Internet is a computer program.
Total points for the month: 11
Total points for the year: 25
Currently reading: Self Made Man by Norah Vincent, Amazonia by James Rollins, One Hundred Pages for the Future by Peccei, The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross, and others.
The Little Book by Seldon Edwards (2) - A time travel story in which the main character wakes up from an accident in 1896 Vienna. Loved it, though it took a while to warm up to the story. The end was a let down.
Still Me by Christopher Reeve (2) - Fascinating insights into the life of a person who suffered from a tremendous personal loss, but who managed to turn it into a social gain.
The Dead Girls Dance by Rachel Caine (2) - Book two in the Morganville Vampires series. A new favorite because it manages to bring something new to the vampire genre.
Twilight by Stephanie Meyers (2) - A dating fantasy for 14 year old girls. Not much value for anyone else.
The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman (3) - An expose on how the business world is changing, and has to change, because of the development and proliferation of information technology. It's an interesting argument, but is very clearly aimed at the type of old school CEO who still thinks that the Internet is a computer program.
Total points for the month: 11
Total points for the year: 25
Currently reading: Self Made Man by Norah Vincent, Amazonia by James Rollins, One Hundred Pages for the Future by Peccei, The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross, and others.
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The movie was surprisingly well directed and well acted.
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Explain, please.
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People say its Mary Sue, but really the text is all about teenage angst and self-loathing, the tension between that the child's notion that they are the center of the universe AND the vampire's narrative of irresistibility. Bella's internal dialog is very teenaged and they way all males are on deck for her affections is very like-a-child, but not-a-child. Then of course you have the fact that none of these "safe" boys are as appealing as the guy who wants to drink her blood until she is dead.
But because the text is all about Bella Bella Bella -- because she is like-a-child but not-a-child in a different way than the Cullens -- he saves her from a WORSE bad boy, doesn't drink all of her blood, and takes her to the right of passage into adult courting. The Prom!
So, vampires are just big babies, and teenagers are so emo -- but it is also clear that the author just intended it to be a big 14-year old's idea of romance wish fulfillment. It doesn't know it is making excessive the genres it pulls from, but it is.
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19 Points for the year??
Questioning my own arithmatic...
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Eggs in Purgatory-2pt
Dark Tower, Long Road Home-1pt
Poison Study-2pt
Sword and Sorceress 23-2pt
Graveyard Book-2pt
Stephen King's On Writing-2pt
Pemberly-2pt