I recently finished Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne. Let's just say it would be interesting if I liked science. I mean, it had it's "exciting" parts but instead of being suspenseful they were just painful. Like, ughhhh that sucks that they're starving to death and in a horrible situation. For the most part though, it was painfully boring. I'm just not interested in geology.
Of course, I just got back from the movie. (Is it possible for me to read a book and NOT see the movie?) Although it had an uninteresting story, it was at least exciting. It didn't have a lot to do with the book, but it didn't pretend to. The 3D was like WOAH! I think the only way I can reccomend the movie is in 3D though, it wouldn't hold itself up otherwise.
Yeah this is a short post, just a brain reminder. I just didn't get really worked up over this book.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Twilight
...When's the movie, right? Actually, when I began reading Twilight I had no idea they were making a movie about it. I simply realized that every 12 year old kid on the planet was making a huge fuss about it, and I had to see what the big deal was.
The big deal is that it's actually pretty good. It was exciting and romantic. And kind of realistic in the way I like a good fantasy to be. It was well written. Worth the fuss. The only problem I had with it was that the love was totally shallow. They kept saying "I love you! I love you! I want to be with you forever!" but they only knew each other for like, 3 months. It was very fickle, and based on the wrong things. I'd like to rewrite the entire book, replacing every "love" with "infatuation." It was kind of funny though, because the other piece of literature I think of when I think of this teenage "love" is Romeo and Juliet, and they mentioned it in the book. Maybe the author had some idea of her silly vision of what love is.
But anyways, I was on this website where this kid was asking people whether they preferred Twilight or Harry Potter. Before I read the book, I answered Harry Potter. But now? I'm not going to answer that, I'm just going to make a new comparison. Twilight kind of reminded me of the book Ella Enchanted, and I think it's safe to compare the two.
So, Twilight or Ella Enchanted?
The big deal is that it's actually pretty good. It was exciting and romantic. And kind of realistic in the way I like a good fantasy to be. It was well written. Worth the fuss. The only problem I had with it was that the love was totally shallow. They kept saying "I love you! I love you! I want to be with you forever!" but they only knew each other for like, 3 months. It was very fickle, and based on the wrong things. I'd like to rewrite the entire book, replacing every "love" with "infatuation." It was kind of funny though, because the other piece of literature I think of when I think of this teenage "love" is Romeo and Juliet, and they mentioned it in the book. Maybe the author had some idea of her silly vision of what love is.
But anyways, I was on this website where this kid was asking people whether they preferred Twilight or Harry Potter. Before I read the book, I answered Harry Potter. But now? I'm not going to answer that, I'm just going to make a new comparison. Twilight kind of reminded me of the book Ella Enchanted, and I think it's safe to compare the two.
So, Twilight or Ella Enchanted?
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