Coming of Age in the Age of Coming Zombies: A Book Review

[lukadia]

Read "The Forest of Hands and Teeth." The main character is a small-town girl whose dreams of greatness are being slowly drowned in a sea of zombies on the other side of the fence

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[renatus]

It felt like I was reading Wicked all over again, and I do not forgive that lightly.

It is such a relief seeing that there's someone else who didn't like Wicked. It's seemed like the entire internets adooooores that damn book.

[ambrmerlinus]

You are not alone. I was bored to tears by the end of it. And apparently it's all some giant political metaphor that I'm not getting?

[renatus]

My very dim, hazy memories of the book feel some stirring at 'political metaphor', but what it might have been I have no idea. I, too, was crashingly bored (and incredibly irritated) by the end of it (you'd think a novel with a misunderstood girl protagonist would appeal to a misunderstood girl, but no!), and have zero urge to go back and re-read to see if I like it any better now that it's ~15 years later.

[lukadia]

Fans tell me it's because the musical fixed most of the problems and is supposed to be amazing.
But do I dare risk chapping my ass a second time?

I know. I will watch clips of Kristin Chenowith's scenes and her personal awesomeness will protect me from infection.

[ambrmerlinus]

All the ingredients were there, but she never became cake.

The saddest sentence I have read all day.

[lukadia]

Her cake was a lie ;_;

[ellin_grey]

I think you have a future as a book reviewer!

[anonymous]

Love the review, but there's something I gotta ask:

The Da Vinci code wasn't THAT bad, was it?

On an unrelated note, did you read Stephen King's "Dark Tower" series? Just testing a theory.

[plotbunnydoom]

Yes. Yes it was that bad.

[lukadia]

Da Vinci Code wasn't *irredeemable*, but it had serious problems. Mirror writing should not baffle a master of cryptography. Also count how many women are described as having "soft eyes" and prepare to be stunned.

As to the Dark Tower: ho yeah, love that series. Mostly.

[anonymous]

You know, I actually agree with you on that. Da vinci code, that is.

Anyway, I asked about dark tower because stephen king mentioned that while the series was his favourite, many of his fans haven't even heard of it.

Just wanted to see if it was true.