Drives. me. nuts. Her lessons and maxims never actually suit the situation. At all. Or make sense. And I suspect if someone told her this, she'd say something about how ~you're not supposed to be able to understand wisdom easily~. Which makes me even more annoyed.
but the hilarious part is, IN HER MIND those weird things actually DO make sense somehow. I wonder what she *thinks* she's writing??
Maya continued, "We will not accept this situation as it is presented to us and I will tell you what I have heard from your own lips 'all glory comes from daring to begin'."
is this like, 'the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step?' - confucious
but... say i dare to begin a book and i never finish it... do i still get the glory?
sometimes people get glory though they do nothing. for example prince william gets glory for being a prince but all he did was be born.
dude... what am i doing, trying to apply logic to this stuff??
To be fair to Prince William, modern royals are typically expected to live up to the glory and earn what they're born to. They get a lot of flak if people think they're not.
But that is not the point! XD
I agree with you, really. So often, I can kind of see where Gloria Tesch is going, or trying to go, and the sad thing is I honestly think she could become a decent author. She sort of... has the right scope of vision, and just has trouble getting it into the right words, and she could learn.
This is sad because I know she never will. Her resistance to criticism and willingness to think she's already completely polished are going to make sure she never improves.
yeah and i compare her writing to nancy yi fan, cayla kluver and THE BANE OF MY CURRENT EXISTENCE alexandra adornetto's Halo (and I do realize all three of those girls got tons of editor help whether the publishers will admit it or not and we are witnessing gloria's work in it's raw form) but her talent is just not there compared to the other three girls. i do think cayla kluver's plot is weaker (because NOTHING HAPPENS for 93485835 pages and then it ends on a cliffhanger) but gloria's plot is so goofy that i don't even know which is worse, to have no plot or to have a plot that makes no sense?
lol the iron curtain is an actual wall made of iron.
and it just stands over the ground? cant they just push it down then?
glitter tree? i laughed the first time (with the spork on impish idea) and this still makes me laugh!!!
"The fairies are temptresses and they are using one of the two tactics: 'Deception and Temptation.'"
so the fairies deceive OR tempt? they cant do both at the same time? when they deceive, are they still called temptresses? shouldn't they be called deceiveresses? and aren't there any male fairies? if not, then how do they reproduce? do they make baby fairies fall out of the sky the same way they make fire?
i love how it ends with them both getting unicorns.
wow, this book... the level of fail is off the charts.
If they were at all genre savvy, they'd realize something was wrong. lol
The really, really blatant Biblical allusions continue (like, walking through a fire isn't enough?): Daniel 3:26-27 Nebuchadnezzar then approached the opening of the blazing furnace and shouted, “Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out! Come here!” So Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego came out of the fire, and the satraps, prefects, governors and royal advisers crowded around them. They saw that the fire had not harmed their bodies, nor was a hair of their heads singed; their robes were not scorched, and there was no smell of fire on them.
... and Moses got all shiny on occasions too. (He was maybe probably the fourth dude who joined Shadrach and co. in the furnace, a lot of people think.)
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Maya continued, "We will not accept this situation as it is presented to us and I will tell you what I have heard from your own lips 'all glory comes from daring to begin'."
is this like, 'the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step?' - confucious
but... say i dare to begin a book and i never finish it... do i still get the glory?
sometimes people get glory though they do nothing. for example prince william gets glory for being a prince but all he did was be born.
dude... what am i doing, trying to apply logic to this stuff??
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But that is not the point! XD
I agree with you, really. So often, I can kind of see where Gloria Tesch is going, or trying to go, and the sad thing is I honestly think she could become a decent author. She sort of... has the right scope of vision, and just has trouble getting it into the right words, and she could learn.
This is sad because I know she never will. Her resistance to criticism and willingness to think she's already completely polished are going to make sure she never improves.
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and it just stands over the ground? cant they just push it down then?
glitter tree? i laughed the first time (with the spork on impish idea) and this still makes me laugh!!!
"The fairies are temptresses and they are using one of the two tactics: 'Deception and Temptation.'"
so the fairies deceive OR tempt? they cant do both at the same time? when they deceive, are they still called temptresses? shouldn't they be called deceiveresses? and aren't there any male fairies? if not, then how do they reproduce? do they make baby fairies fall out of the sky the same way they make fire?
i love how it ends with them both getting unicorns.
wow, this book... the level of fail is off the charts.
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I am totes safe from the impending zombie apocalypse.
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lol
The really, really blatant Biblical allusions continue (like, walking through a fire isn't enough?):
Daniel 3:26-27 Nebuchadnezzar then approached the opening of the blazing furnace and shouted, “Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out! Come here!”
So Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego came out of the fire, and the satraps, prefects, governors and royal advisers crowded around them. They saw that the fire had not harmed their bodies, nor was a hair of their heads singed; their robes were not scorched, and there was no smell of fire on them.
... and Moses got all shiny on occasions too. (He was maybe probably the fourth dude who joined Shadrach and co. in the furnace, a lot of people think.)
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Anyway, Maya and Joey are idiots. How is vision the art of seeing invisible things, and how does that allow Maya to know that the fire's not real?
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