Allegiant is a HOT MESS. There were some things I liked, but its writing style was really different from the first 2 (and I don't mean because of the switching POVs). It was more...opaque. I didn't feel as immersed in the world as I did with the first 2.
Zoe: Nobody's saying that, sir. Wash: Yeah, we're pretty much just giving each other significant glances and laughing incessantly.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Steph L. - Jan 15, 2014 5:13:28 pm PST #21964 of 28359
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Jessica - Jan 15, 2014 5:17:48 pm PST #21965 of 28359
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I *sobbed* at the end of Where The Red Fern Grows. That book was UPSETTING.
It was also like the third book I'd read that year in school where the protagonist's best friend or beloved pet dies. There was that one, Bridge to Terabithia and I think The Yearling.
Kat - Jan 15, 2014 5:48:06 pm PST #21966 of 28359
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I *sobbed* at the end of Where The Red Fern Grows. That book was UPSETTING.
My teacher read this aloud to us, after lunch and recess. When we got to the end, there were lots of sniffles in class.
There's a whole sub-sub-sub genre in children's fic of Dead Dog Books.
Kat - Jan 15, 2014 5:48:50 pm PST #21967 of 28359
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
flea, have you decided what to do?
megan walker - Jan 15, 2014 10:17:58 pm PST #21968 of 28359
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I remember one of my college roommates often harping on how the opening of Babar had traumatized her for life. So you never know. (Mostly I was traumatized when I gave it to my friend S and in reading it to her son realized how bad the standard translation was.)
Aims - Jan 16, 2014 2:41:06 am PST #21969 of 28359
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Our elementary librarian decided that reading WtRFG was not enough and so showed the movie to each class. TRAUMATIZED.
flea - Jan 16, 2014 3:14:16 am PST #21970 of 28359
information libertarian
Ha, I had to google WtRG. I was like, "Walter the Red Farting Dog? No..."
I am still not over reading Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry in 5th grade.
Dana - Jan 16, 2014 4:11:17 am PST #21971 of 28359
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Bridge to Terabethia was pretty traumatic.
Polgara - Jan 16, 2014 7:09:04 am PST #21972 of 28359
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
I'd never even heard of Bridge to Terabethia the book, so when I saw the movie (in my late 30s!), I was traumatized. And then stunned that it was a YA book.
EpicTangent - Jan 16, 2014 8:28:33 am PST #21973 of 28359
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Bridge to Terabithia and A Taste of Blackberries both stunned me as a kid. "What do you mean Leslie's/Jamie's dead? Like DEAD dead? No way!" I'm not sure if they were accomplishing what they were supposed to - introducing the concept of death and how to deal, or if they just helped to set me on my current path of avoiding stuff with sad endings like my life depended on it. (Never read Where the Red Fern Grows, Sounder, The Yearling, etc. - forewarned was/is forearmed, yo).