I admit that I had a lot of preconceived notions about this book. I thought for sure that while 33 year old Pris was going to hate it (especially since I hate vampires), inner 13 year old Pris was going to think it was full of sparklicious awesomesauce. But as I read, inner Pris13 kept telling me that this book sucked ass
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every time Bella whined about how annoying it is that every dude in the school thinks she's hot... But when the main character lives the perfect escapist awesome fantasy and acts like her life is really, really hard, well... that's pretty fucking irritating.
I never get this. From Elizabeth Haydon's Rhapsody (WOE, I AM BEAUTIFUL AND PERFECT) to Bella to various assorted fantasy princesses who want to run away--what do authors think it'll accomplish? Is the whining supposed to make them sympathetic and long-suffering rather than simply bratty? Doesn't everybody want to smack that kind of people in real life?
And yeah, this is why I don't even want to give these books a try--I suspected they'd be mostly boring rather than cracktastically bad hilarity, which is often the case with bad fiction.
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Date: 2009-02-23 07:50 pm (UTC)^____^
every time Bella whined about how annoying it is that every dude in the school thinks she's hot... But when the main character lives the perfect escapist awesome fantasy and acts like her life is really, really hard, well... that's pretty fucking irritating.
I never get this. From Elizabeth Haydon's Rhapsody (WOE, I AM BEAUTIFUL AND PERFECT) to Bella to various assorted fantasy princesses who want to run away--what do authors think it'll accomplish? Is the whining supposed to make them sympathetic and long-suffering rather than simply bratty? Doesn't everybody want to smack that kind of people in real life?
And yeah, this is why I don't even want to give these books a try--I suspected they'd be mostly boring rather than cracktastically bad hilarity, which is often the case with bad fiction.