i just finished jane eyre and i'm ready to devour another great book. maybe it's the english in me, but i've got so much love for the bronte sisters and their lofty british love stories....but, i digress.
anyway, i saw the lovely bones movie preview and it looked decent. i figured i'd try to read that next and then go see the movie. wrong. i cannot get farther than three chapters. this is a #1 bestseller? it's painfully elementary and it hurts to read. i feel my iq dropping page by page. if anyone has read it and thinks that the book gets better, please tell me. i cannot believe what pure shit it is.
anyway, i saw the lovely bones movie preview and it looked decent. i figured i'd try to read that next and then go see the movie. wrong. i cannot get farther than three chapters. this is a #1 bestseller? it's painfully elementary and it hurts to read. i feel my iq dropping page by page. if anyone has read it and thinks that the book gets better, please tell me. i cannot believe what pure shit it is.
Nope. It doesn't get any better. Trust me. I was yawning through the first six chapters, and then I decided my time would be better spent vacuuming. It is Not Worth It. Check out Diaz if you haven't already.
ReplyDeleteOne of the reasons it's a bestseller is because it appeals to the Fluff Reading Mainstream (see: the Twilight Saga Fiasco).
Speaking of which, did you know that the first Twilight book is required reading for one of the Rowan Adolescent Literature courses? I almost had a rage-fueled heart attack when I found that out.
-Lit Snob, Jr.
say it ain't so! i won't lie, the movies are shit and i secretly love them. but there is a great divide between my own guilty pleasures and making students read horse shit. this is why i chose my rowan profs wisely, and still no one taught any of my favorite writers. the world loves shit, and the people of the world love to roll around in it and read what oprah put on her book list this week.
ReplyDeleteand kristen, i can tell this is you just by your writing!
Well, obviously. I have yet to set up my sketchblog, so for now, "Anonymous" works.
ReplyDeleteOh, wait. There's an option for a name that isn't connected to anything. Nevermind.
In all seriousness, though, "The Lovely Bones" tries so hard to Have Meaning, it borders on the saccharine. I have no idea what I mean by that, but I do know that I mean it's awful. I just had to comment on that because I am so tired of hearing about how good it's supposed to be. Everyone else must be reading a completely different book. Or maybe there are special glasses you have to buy separately to read it, and I missed the memo.
no, it really is saccharine. i gagged as soon as she tried to switch it up with some badly conjured poetry in the rape scene. "i was mortar, he was pestle," give me a damn break lady. giving the author any sort of writing implement should now be illegal, for the sake of the masses.
ReplyDeletekristen, i need you in my life! i tried searching high and low for you on the internet-all to no avail! i've yet to find another person whose cynical pessimism brings me so much joy. can we please hang out more? bull shit and talk smack on everything?
Oh my goodness, absolutely. I'll buy the drinks!
ReplyDelete(PS: This is the weirdest reconnection ever.)
hahah it is an odd reconnection. my email is jilliannnm@gmail.com, let me know whenever you want to get together and shoot the shit,
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