I REALLY HAVE NO CLUE WHAT ANY OF THIS IS ABOUT, BUT I'D LIKE TO EXTEND MY CONDOLENCES THAT YOU READ SUCH A TERRIBLE-AWFUL BOOK, IT SOUNDS LIKE IT GAVE YOU A ROUGH DAY. (If anything, your frothing rage is kind of entertaining?)
(If anything, your frothing rage is kind of entertaining?)
This is always my #1 goal anyway, so YAY!
It's kind of funny because the PURE HATRED for this book is bound to be remembered as fans not being able to accept the main character dying, and while that's TOTALLY the problem for a lot of people who hate it, I DON'T EVEN CARE ABOUT IT! I hate this book for being garbage! No character death will ever do to me what Wally did, this doesn't even rank! Maybe it would have hit me harder if the book weren't already terrible, but the book WAS terrible.
THE MORE I THINK ABOUT IT THE DUMBER IT GETS. IF THE EXTREME SPECIFIC DICKISHNESS OF MOST FACTION MEMBERS IS ACTUALLY THE MANIFESTATION OF THEIR DAMAGED GENES, HOW COULD THE FACTION SYSTEM POSSIBLY HAVE BEEN AN EFFECTIVE SOCIAL COMPONENT OF THE EXPERIMENT WHEN IT'S BEEN SHOWN TO EXACERBATE AND ENCOURAGE EVERYONE'S WORST INCLINATIONS?
This is amazing. And from what I've seen/been told of the reaction, it seems like she kind of fridged Tris for a boy's pathos and personal growth? Which: wow. Uncool.
I wouldn't really call it fridging, honestly, although I can see how the aftermath could have that flavor to it for some people since it's from Four's POV and he's obviously fucked up about Tris dying. But a) the only reason Allegiant had alternating POVs after the Tris-only POV of the first two books is pretty clearly that Roth needed a way to keep writing chapters after her POV character died, which IMO makes his overwhelming manpain more of a narrative side effect of her death than the desired result of it, if that makes sense?
And b) the book is, AS I SAID, a total thematic mess and didn't pull this off at all, but Tris walking into a literal deathtrap had a LOT to do with her finally coming to terms with her complicated relationships with her family, her parents' history, the society she grew up in, and the difference between sacrifice and suicide, and absolutely nothing to do with Four. If it had been properly executed, it honestly could have been incredible, because there was so much to tie it to, going back to the first few
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This is always my #1 goal anyway, so YAY!
It's kind of funny because the PURE HATRED for this book is bound to be remembered as fans not being able to accept the main character dying, and while that's TOTALLY the problem for a lot of people who hate it, I DON'T EVEN CARE ABOUT IT! I hate this book for being garbage! No character death will ever do to me what Wally did, this doesn't even rank! Maybe it would have hit me harder if the book weren't already terrible, but the book WAS terrible.
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And b) the book is, AS I SAID, a total thematic mess and didn't pull this off at all, but Tris walking into a literal deathtrap had a LOT to do with her finally coming to terms with her complicated relationships with her family, her parents' history, the society she grew up in, and the difference between sacrifice and suicide, and absolutely nothing to do with Four. If it had been properly executed, it honestly could have been incredible, because there was so much to tie it to, going back to the first few ( ... )
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