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soulswallo) wrote2010-04-10 08:54 pm
soulswallo) wrote2010-04-10 08:54 pm
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Nothing else matters ...
Is it wrong to cap off a round of yoga with a couple peanut butter cups? Maybe it's best if you don't answer that.
This morning my mom wanted to go to Costco and I was having a severe Oh.My.God. I need coffee moment. It was bad. So I stopped at McDonald's (which I wouldn't normally do but I really, really needed that coffee) and got a mocha. It was pretty darn good. In fact, it was downright delicious. Yummers.
I read some books today ...
Book #55 - Feast of Fools (The Morganville Vampires #4) by Rachel Caine - I'm really digging this re-read. Reading the entire series back to back in order is letting me pick up on a bunch of little things that passed me by the first time. When bad-ass vampire Bishop rolls into town, Claire has to keep herself out of his path as best she can. However, it looks as though Amelie is going to hand over Morganville without a fight when she decides to throw a welcome feast in Bishop's honor and the only ally that Claire is left with is the half-mad scientist Myrnin. One human girl and one crazed vampire against Bishop and his ruthless horde? Yeah, right.
-and-
Book #56 - The Awakening (The Vampire Diaries #1) by L.J. Smith - I really wanted to like this book. I really did. The problems I'm running into are that (a) Elena is a whiny, spoiled little brat and (b) the writing is sloppy. Honestly, if I hadn't bought the first two books in the series I'd be dropping it right now. But I did buy both of them so I'm going to at least read the 2nd before deciding whether or not it's a waste of time.
Honestly, I don't like Elena. She's so self-centered and unlikable. At least on the TV show she's given some backstory and there's a reason for the way she's drawn away from the world. Here? Not so much. Is it explained in later books why she's so distraught after her summer in France? Do I care? And therein lies the problem. I don't. In my eyes it all comes down to sloppy writing. Now, admittedly I'm not a teenage girl anymore but I have a hard time believing that someone just falls deeply, madly, insanely in love with someone who continually avoids her and in fact doesn't speak to her at all. Oooookay. Stalker much. But honestly, if she had been shown with a bit more character development along the way I could have gone with it. If she had been shown as someone who's evolving as a person, I would have believed it. Unfortunately, I'm not seeing that. I see someone who will ruthlessly use anyone in her way to get what she wants. Yeah, she felt bad about it. For about half a second. And then she blew past feeling bad because she was getting what she wanted. That's not character development. She didn't learn anything from it. She didn't even really learn that she was being selfish. She thought "ooh, I can't believe I'm using Matt, the boy who's loves me and was recently my boyfriend, to get to Stefan, the mysterious stranger who won't give me the time of day. Oh, well. I wonder what's for dinner." Once again, there's no epiphany there. She's learning nothing about herself. She's not even someone I like.
So. Yeah. I'm really not feeling this series at this point. It's going to have to jump through some major hoops to make me care about any of the main characters. On the other hand, maybe Damon will make everything better. Hell, he does on the show.
It always amuses me when I go on and on and on about books or movies or whatever that I don't like.
Jut to recap - The Vampire Diaries TV show, good (see icon). The Vampire Diaries books, not so good.
Huh. It would seem that review drained me. Awesome. Now I have to go read something good to scrub the not-good out of my brain. I'm thinking something dirty. Hmm. I must ponder this.
Later.
This morning my mom wanted to go to Costco and I was having a severe Oh.My.God. I need coffee moment. It was bad. So I stopped at McDonald's (which I wouldn't normally do but I really, really needed that coffee) and got a mocha. It was pretty darn good. In fact, it was downright delicious. Yummers.
I read some books today ...
Book #55 - Feast of Fools (The Morganville Vampires #4) by Rachel Caine - I'm really digging this re-read. Reading the entire series back to back in order is letting me pick up on a bunch of little things that passed me by the first time. When bad-ass vampire Bishop rolls into town, Claire has to keep herself out of his path as best she can. However, it looks as though Amelie is going to hand over Morganville without a fight when she decides to throw a welcome feast in Bishop's honor and the only ally that Claire is left with is the half-mad scientist Myrnin. One human girl and one crazed vampire against Bishop and his ruthless horde? Yeah, right.
-and-
Book #56 - The Awakening (The Vampire Diaries #1) by L.J. Smith - I really wanted to like this book. I really did. The problems I'm running into are that (a) Elena is a whiny, spoiled little brat and (b) the writing is sloppy. Honestly, if I hadn't bought the first two books in the series I'd be dropping it right now. But I did buy both of them so I'm going to at least read the 2nd before deciding whether or not it's a waste of time.
Honestly, I don't like Elena. She's so self-centered and unlikable. At least on the TV show she's given some backstory and there's a reason for the way she's drawn away from the world. Here? Not so much. Is it explained in later books why she's so distraught after her summer in France? Do I care? And therein lies the problem. I don't. In my eyes it all comes down to sloppy writing. Now, admittedly I'm not a teenage girl anymore but I have a hard time believing that someone just falls deeply, madly, insanely in love with someone who continually avoids her and in fact doesn't speak to her at all. Oooookay. Stalker much. But honestly, if she had been shown with a bit more character development along the way I could have gone with it. If she had been shown as someone who's evolving as a person, I would have believed it. Unfortunately, I'm not seeing that. I see someone who will ruthlessly use anyone in her way to get what she wants. Yeah, she felt bad about it. For about half a second. And then she blew past feeling bad because she was getting what she wanted. That's not character development. She didn't learn anything from it. She didn't even really learn that she was being selfish. She thought "ooh, I can't believe I'm using Matt, the boy who's loves me and was recently my boyfriend, to get to Stefan, the mysterious stranger who won't give me the time of day. Oh, well. I wonder what's for dinner." Once again, there's no epiphany there. She's learning nothing about herself. She's not even someone I like.
So. Yeah. I'm really not feeling this series at this point. It's going to have to jump through some major hoops to make me care about any of the main characters. On the other hand, maybe Damon will make everything better. Hell, he does on the show.
It always amuses me when I go on and on and on about books or movies or whatever that I don't like.
Jut to recap - The Vampire Diaries TV show, good (see icon). The Vampire Diaries books, not so good.
Huh. It would seem that review drained me. Awesome. Now I have to go read something good to scrub the not-good out of my brain. I'm thinking something dirty. Hmm. I must ponder this.
Later.