5 random things

Sep 20, 2013 20:12

1) No book post this week due to lack of time, but I will say that I thought that Divergent had the most utterly silly and poorly worked out dystopia idea EVAR ( Read more... )

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sartorias September 21 2013, 04:02:01 UTC
Divergent: silly plot, too. (Did you notice the Big Discovery about the mom happened twice, and no one seemed to remember the first one?)

But it's one of those that works like gangbusters when you're fourteen.

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gwyneira September 21 2013, 04:51:37 UTC
I did notice that! Along with a number of other plot dopinesses (many of which Rachel pointed out when she read it, if only I'd remembered to look up her review in advance).

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rachelmanija September 21 2013, 05:03:34 UTC
[Wags disapproving finger.] If only you had remembered!

It is pretty memorably stupid.

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gwyneira September 21 2013, 06:35:30 UTC
I got about three-quarters of the way through and thought, "Wait a minute, didn't Rachel review this and dislike it?" I should know better than to rely on Goodreads reviews.

I almost want to read the second one, though, just for the laughs. I read a review saying that her idea of conveying Erudition is to have all the Erudite talk like dictionaries, which I'm sure I would find hilarious when I wasn't finding it annoying.

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georgmi September 21 2013, 04:22:29 UTC
And yet you didn't shriek. Go you!

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gwyneira September 21 2013, 04:52:02 UTC
Let's just hope it didn't migrate into the bedroom.

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