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book 1, book 2
Sep. 11th, 2010 09:53 pmI forgot to mention some books I finished.
The Invention of Hugo Cabret. Meh. It was a graphic novel in hardback form. It was in the children's section masquerading as a regular book. Supposedly it's actually based off of some true stories which were combined and fictionalized. I found the book to be almost completely random because 70% of the book was pictures, so there wasn't room for actual character development or for exposition. The other part of the problem is that it said it was about a boy who discovers he's a magician, but it was actually about a boy who learns to tinker with movie props and accidentally meets a long-retired movie maker who everyone thought was a magician. I really hate books where magic turns out to be something mundane that only historical people saw as astonishing.
The fifth Godmother book by Mercedes Lackey. It's got a title, but it hardly matters. I didn't like this one very much. It seemed like the Godmother spent a lot of time trying to circumvent things that should have happened and if they had happened, it would have been a lot easier. In that series all magic comes from The Tradition, but this Godmother loathes it and whinges constantly. I know people should make their own destinies and they should rebel against a scripted life plan, but since the Godmother didn't do jack for the princess for 20 years then suddenly has to rush around fixing things just rubbed me the wrong way. The side characters were really cardboard too. The casting is straight out of the minds of the writers of the original Scooby Doo cartoons. And the heap-big solution to the country-wide problem was ridiculously obvious. The Godmother books are a Luna imprint and these read like the kinds of romances with numbers on the spine. Well, not really, there is a plot, the main characters have real actual problems which keep them apart, they have real reasons to interact. If it had been a numbered spine book, I would be complaining that it could have been so much more. There wasn't any sex in it, so that would have made it a sucky romance IMO.
I don't have any books for reading now, so I've been re-reading fanfic based on a list I found recently. I have a bunch of stuff "bought" for the Kindle-for-PC program from Amazon, but I haven't been feeling like sitting at my computer lately.
The Invention of Hugo Cabret. Meh. It was a graphic novel in hardback form. It was in the children's section masquerading as a regular book. Supposedly it's actually based off of some true stories which were combined and fictionalized. I found the book to be almost completely random because 70% of the book was pictures, so there wasn't room for actual character development or for exposition. The other part of the problem is that it said it was about a boy who discovers he's a magician, but it was actually about a boy who learns to tinker with movie props and accidentally meets a long-retired movie maker who everyone thought was a magician. I really hate books where magic turns out to be something mundane that only historical people saw as astonishing.
The fifth Godmother book by Mercedes Lackey. It's got a title, but it hardly matters. I didn't like this one very much. It seemed like the Godmother spent a lot of time trying to circumvent things that should have happened and if they had happened, it would have been a lot easier. In that series all magic comes from The Tradition, but this Godmother loathes it and whinges constantly. I know people should make their own destinies and they should rebel against a scripted life plan, but since the Godmother didn't do jack for the princess for 20 years then suddenly has to rush around fixing things just rubbed me the wrong way. The side characters were really cardboard too. The casting is straight out of the minds of the writers of the original Scooby Doo cartoons. And the heap-big solution to the country-wide problem was ridiculously obvious. The Godmother books are a Luna imprint and these read like the kinds of romances with numbers on the spine. Well, not really, there is a plot, the main characters have real actual problems which keep them apart, they have real reasons to interact. If it had been a numbered spine book, I would be complaining that it could have been so much more. There wasn't any sex in it, so that would have made it a sucky romance IMO.
I don't have any books for reading now, so I've been re-reading fanfic based on a list I found recently. I have a bunch of stuff "bought" for the Kindle-for-PC program from Amazon, but I haven't been feeling like sitting at my computer lately.
