no sparkles for you
Sep. 16th, 2008 10:20 pmI'm addicted to Twilight sporks. No, I haven't read the actual books - and never will - but there's just something so entertaining about this sort of, uh, "literary criticism".
SOME AMUSING ONES:
http://stoney321.livejournal.com/tag/lds+dogma
http://cleoland.pbwiki.com/Twilight
http://www.anti-shurtugal.com/wordpress/ (now with bonus Inheritancetrilogy dissing! I lie, it's critical feedback in a very real sense)
On literary news so much more sophisticated it's almost a crime to mention them in the same entry, I'm re-reading Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. This time being the "enjoy every damn sentence of it" round. WITNESS:
*rolls*
The gentleman with the thistledown hair is so. Sinister. And odd in a story like this considering how it's not even trying to be an epic at all or perhaps the writing style just throws me off. IMAGINARY EXAMPLE: He explains how he threw a litter of tiny kitten infants into a well full of RAVENOUS ALLIGATORS sounding like he's GENUINELY EXPECTING COMPLIMENTS. GOD THAT'S SO HORRIBLEtell me more
Making most of the other characters unsympathetic (?? may or may not mean "common and realistic" - though I really feel for Mr Norrell this time around, surprisingly enough) works brilliantly in highlighting those characters who genuinely are just... good people. Stephen. D:
...I have the most embarrassing crush on John Usklass. Which on the one hand is UTTERLY UNDERSTANDABLE but otoh sort of funny considering he's not... really... a character in this story...? Childermass too is so great even though I'm not at that part of the book quite yet. --also ahhh the dry british wit -- how i adore thee --I like how even the most world-shattering events for characters are presented with this sort of distance so that you don't maybe even realize just how badly things affect them until it's too late. (And he wept.)
...BRB fondling my paperback edition.
SOME AMUSING ONES:
http://stoney321.livejournal.com/tag/lds+dogma
http://cleoland.pbwiki.com/Twilight
http://www.anti-shurtugal.com/wordpress/ (now with bonus Inheritance
On literary news so much more sophisticated it's almost a crime to mention them in the same entry, I'm re-reading Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. This time being the "enjoy every damn sentence of it" round. WITNESS:
"He supposed the gentleman must be a guest of Sir Walter's or Lady Pole's - which explained the gentleman but not the room. Gentlemen are often invited to stay in other people's houses. Rooms hardly ever are."
*rolls*
The gentleman with the thistledown hair is so. Sinister. And odd in a story like this considering how it's not even trying to be an epic at all or perhaps the writing style just throws me off. IMAGINARY EXAMPLE: He explains how he threw a litter of tiny kitten infants into a well full of RAVENOUS ALLIGATORS sounding like he's GENUINELY EXPECTING COMPLIMENTS. GOD THAT'S SO HORRIBLE
Making most of the other characters unsympathetic (?? may or may not mean "common and realistic" - though I really feel for Mr Norrell this time around, surprisingly enough) works brilliantly in highlighting those characters who genuinely are just... good people. Stephen. D:
...I have the most embarrassing crush on John Usklass. Which on the one hand is UTTERLY UNDERSTANDABLE but otoh sort of funny considering he's not... really... a character in this story...? Childermass too is so great even though I'm not at that part of the book quite yet. --also ahhh the dry british wit -- how i adore thee --I like how even the most world-shattering events for characters are presented with this sort of distance so that you don't maybe even realize just how badly things affect them until it's too late. (And he wept.)
...BRB fondling my paperback edition.
