While most of my life is perfect, occasionally a wrench does get thrown into the works. Today I had the extreme misfortune of drinking bad orange juice at work. Which led to me not being physically able to leave work for a full 15 minutes after my shift was over. Ugh. Of course I am starving now. Gross, eh?
Also, I broke down and bought a new book: Twilight by Stephanie Meyer. It’s crazy popular right now and a movie is being released soon…but the book sucks. It really really sucks. The writing is dreadful, it’s got no flow at all, choppy and juvenile. It’s like reading the blog of a 13 year old girl who’s self absorbed and boring. There is virtually nothing compelling about it. Even the characters are dull, flat and substance free. At first I thought maybe I am just too old for it, but I enjoyed all the Harry Potter books and they are geared for an even younger crowd. Not that they are perfect, I have problems with JK Rowling too, but not like this. I will finish reading it (to be fair, I am only 125 pages in) and write a proper review when I do.
Unrelated baby picture:
Tomorrow I will sit on Gabe and Bea Bea and everything will be ok.
Okay THANK YOU! Thanks to Brogan, my entire Windsor-side of the family are obsessed with those vapid, ridiculous books (is it really worse than the Poppy Z. Brite one you lent me though? Or the OTHER “true crime” one? I doubt it, that one was awful! Haha!) and they’ve all been begging me to hop on the teenage vampire train with them. I’ve been resisting so far, and since I know you and I will read just about anything, and you don’t like it, then I am not going to bother. Beisdes, it’s really hard to read when your eyes keep rolling back in your head.
In other news, I am at Body Shop and we have this mattifying gel that I use instead of foundation now, and I know you were using something like that too. I just wanted to let you know that this stuff is AMAZING. Srsly.
You’re working at Body Shop now? There’s something that I like there. Something that smells good.
I will check out that gel.
I don’t think there’s any need to be fair with these. I’ve read the first three because I had to throw a party for the last one at work, and if anything they just get worse. (There was HUGE backlash over the last one–lots of teeny girls who loved them returning it because it was so bad.) After I read them I wrote about a 1,000 word angry rant about their awfulness. They just get progressively more and more insulting. Bella basically stops speaking to all of her friends and family because they aren’t as great as the Cullens. You keep expecting some moral lesson to come where perhaps she realises that there is more to life, but it never does.
Ali, your sister really is ga-ga over this book. I find that very…weird. Dani, I doubt you read this, and I like you, but your taste in books is dreadful.
Rach, did you read/enjoy Interview with a Vampire? It was so hot when I was in high school and I tried to read it, but I found that book equally terrible. I mean, completely unreadable. But other than Emily, I might be in the minority on that. Might be that I just don’t like vampires!
She DOES have dreadful taste in books. All her books are very, hm, Lite Reading.
I never read the Anne Rice series, though I’ve been meaning to. Just never got around to it, and I figure that must have cost me some demerit points when I was a goth in high school.
Ali, I have to admit, I am surprised that you never got into Anne Rice.
Funny? Shannon read them! Har har!
I’ve been debating on whether or not to read the Twilight series. I kept thinking they can’t be that good if all these teenagers are reading them. I’ll be looking forward to your review.
Well, my review might not amount to much more than “this book is dumb and boring and if you like it you are also dumb and boring”. Which isn’t entirely fair.
Ali put it best: Lite Reading.
And reading further, I realize my mainly problem is that Edward is rude. He’s constantly angry, raising his voice, smirking. Who in the world wants a boyfriend like that, hot or otherwise???
Okay, except that the guy playing him in the movies (from what I can see in the commercials for them) is GROSS. Or at least not very conventionally handsome. And smirking is NOT an attribute I look for in a man.
Dani and all the gang (I’m assuming Bob declined to go, but who knows?) went to the midnight opening of the movie. I haven’t heard from them yet, but I will be sure to let you know their opinion.
The irritating thing about the books for me, is that Dani kept going on about how many pages they were. “Brogan is reading these like, 600 page books, and now so am I! We’re reading like you do!” And they aren’t really understanding the quality over quantity thing. Yes, they LOOK big, but really…
And now I realize I am sounding like a book snob. Which I totally am not. I am happy whenever people read ANY book, seeing as there’s such a lack of that these days.
But the Anne Rice thing, yeah. I don’t know why I never read them. I read her Mayfair witch trilogy, and I guess that kind of turned me off from her. You can only read so many incestuous sex scenes before they get a little ho-hum.
I tried to read Interview with a Vampire. totally dreadful.
speaking of bad but popular books, I read Fall on Your Knees, by Ann-Marie MacDonald (before it was an Oprah pick) and it was one of the worst books I have ever read in my life. and I know lots of really smart, cool women who have read it and loved it. but the tone was awful, the storyline seems to have been written by VC Andrews, and well it was just awful. I’m still the only person I know who freaking HATED that book.
I did not read Interview With the Vampire but I did fall asleep watching the movie. Also, a few years ago Anne Rice made this big proclamation while reviewing her own book on Amazon that people who didn’t like her writing didn’t understand its “Dickensian quality.” She then left her email address for anyone to respond. I emailed her and called her a hosebeast. She called me vulgar. This is one of my favourite stories to tell about books.
Oh, is ‘hosebeast’ a Dickensian insult?
Spunky, you got it right about Fall on your Knees. I hated it too, I don’t think I got past the first page, it was so eye rollingly terrible. Which is weird, I love her play Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet. LOVE it.
I loved VC Andrews when I was in junior high. I actually have Flowers in the Attic on VHS, it’s so awful and wonderful and perverse, if anyone wants it, I will mail it to you-we don’t have a vcr anymore.
woo, I’m not alone! I didn’t mind the end sentiment of the book, but the rest was just too ridiculous.
hmmmm, I have a vcr! and I read all of the Flowers in the Attic books! do you have an email address where I could send my postal address? or email mine and I’ll email ya back.