It's Friday night and I will DEFINITELY be dedicating the evening to myself. Must fight the overwhelming urge to feel guilty about said decision. So what do I do when I'm not studying or at work? Apparently, I watch Freaky Friday and read Vampire Academy. Oh yeah - about the vampire novel - it's a guilty pleasure. I got the first books because there was a Buy-one-Get-one free offer at Waterstones in Scotland. It's really not bad - definitely TRUCKLOADS better than the Twilight "saga". I'm not going to deny reading Twilight, because I read them all like they were literary crack. In hindsight, they were lacking in a number of aspects normally associated with 'good' novels. First of all, she falls in love with him (irrevocably!) after a few intense stare-downs. Also, Bella Swan? NOT A REAL TEENAGER. I just read Wuthering Heights myself, and it is mentally impossible to read again and again..and again, as she claims to have done. The better part of chapter one consists of Bella NOT giving us a valid reason as to why she's moving to somewhere she "detests", and continues with Bella complaining about every possible part of her day. Chapter two - more of her complaining about how CRAP her day was, because she hated school and Edward wasn't at school. Stephanie Meyer has very lame ways of describing things (see following two examples):
- brown hair= BRONZE hair
- the air was full of swirling bits of white....= SNOW. I'm so serious. What was she trying to do? Give snow a mysterious entrance? Surprise surprise, she hates snow.
- she says that Dr. Cullen is..."handsomer" than any man blahblahblah...
...really?
Fast fowarding a little...
Was it totally necessary to drag the story out into four books, each on being longer than that last? NO IT WAS NOT.
You know what, I'm too irritated at Meyer to carry on :S
GOOD NIGHT
Netbooks and Nineteenth century Novels
This blog post is brought to you from my brand new netbook - Dell inspiron 1018 in Red! I'm a very VERY happy bunny. My mummy-dearest is going to make me the most adorable laptop cover, complete with owl and my name :)
In less materialistic news...
I'm dragging my way through Wuthering Heights. The amount of time I'm taking to read this novel is DISGUSTING! If Healthcliff is such a scoundrel, how is it that no one just kills him in his sleep or something? Very depressing stuff too. But we soldier on :O
I'll try and write a decent 'review' of it later on to sharpen my writing skills, seeing as I have 3 assignments to write.
So...semester one exams start soon. I've only got two- one on the 27th and another on the 28th- but I'm nervous anyway. I like studying in the University's library, but WOW is it difficult to get a locker after 8:30am! Everyone is freaking OUT.
I should go do something productive now, huh?
Peace out x
In less materialistic news...
I'm dragging my way through Wuthering Heights. The amount of time I'm taking to read this novel is DISGUSTING! If Healthcliff is such a scoundrel, how is it that no one just kills him in his sleep or something? Very depressing stuff too. But we soldier on :O
I'll try and write a decent 'review' of it later on to sharpen my writing skills, seeing as I have 3 assignments to write.
So...semester one exams start soon. I've only got two- one on the 27th and another on the 28th- but I'm nervous anyway. I like studying in the University's library, but WOW is it difficult to get a locker after 8:30am! Everyone is freaking OUT.
I should go do something productive now, huh?
Peace out x
