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At first I was hesitant about reading this book. I figured that reading about a traveling circus really wouldn’t appeal to me, and I didn’t understand why it was continually being suggested to me on this website. Eventually, I gave in and bought it. I pushed it aside for months, never bothering to read it, still mostly uninterested. Finally, bored one day, I picked it up and started reading. Two pages in, I didn’t want to put it down.
The opening is clever, leading to a fantastic ending. The writing style is charming, falling in love with the main character is completely inevitable.
This is definitely on my top-ten list of novels. It is so beautifully written, I highly recommend it to anyone. It has all the mystery, love, emotion, and intrigue a novel should.
I only hope the rest of her books are as lovely.
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It’s so easy to tear anything Twilight-related apart at face value. But often, doing so gains one insults of “You’re just pompous!” or “pretentious!” or “heartless!” from fans of the series.
So I gave it a shot, as best I could. I saw the first film and read a dozen pages of excerpts online. All I found was, in said ‘tearing it apart’, I was probably being too tame.
The truth isn’t that it’s a heartfelt-albeit-predictable love story such as e.g. Titanic. Rather, it’s genuinely, just…bad. In all respects of story telling:
The story is indeed predictable (the typical formula of ‘girl falls for boy she shouldn’t; they resist, end up together; struggle, almost fall apart, but ultimately – after some gunfire and dramatics – end up happily ever after’). But further, the characters are flat and unrealistic. The dialogue is contrived and hokey, and has no driving voice within it. The description is unimaginative and littered with the sort of awkward adjectives one expects to find in an entry-level creative writing course. On and on, et cetera.
But I really do understand: I understand why, and it’s OK that 13-yearold girls (or boys…let’s not discriminate) can connect with the story and be entertained. I understand why teenagers can engage with the shallow ‘romance’ therein. And that’s fine – nobody’s saying everything anyone reads has to be dense and literary.
So that’s not what concerns me. What -does- concern me is 25-yearold high school (or god forbid, college) graduates genuinely being moved by these characters; 35-yearold soccer moms finding the gutless emotion of the story to be deep and involving. Because when people allow themselves to be so bogged down with such masturbatory ‘art’, they lose the ability to really appreciate work with true depth. And a society that vacantly drools over the status feed of failed Facebook relationships, the romance of Edward-the-Vamp + Bella-the-melodramatist, yet can’t conjure the ability to appreciate the love stor
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For all of those of us who were influenced by JD Saliger’s capture of the spirit of adolesence in the 1950s, for those of us who truly commited to reading after devouring the pages of CATCHER IN THE RYE many times over, this is a sad day. The guru of adolescents – then and since then and now – is gone. Adding to the aura of genius as a writer is the aura of mystery that surrounded the greater part of his life: will we ever know the etiology of his silence? With his death we can only hope that the manuscripts that were never published in his lifetime will beign to appear and be available to public evaluation and consumption. Until that time, we can only offer appreciation to a very influential writer of our times. Grady Harp, January 10
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“Wow!” says it all. I researched into the various Reading Devices available, and I’ve seen them physically, and I know that I made the right choice. I read quite a lot, and I am very pleased with the selection and price that the Kindle makes available. The e-paper is fantastic–it’s easy to read from, and the graphics are better than I was expecting. I was amazed at how many free and inexpensive books were available, many of which would be hard to find in print. The Web access is beneficial, especially Wikipedia, and the onboard dictionary definitions at the bottom are very helpful. It’s light, thin, and I used it for nearly a month without recharging the battery. The money I will save on new books pays for itself on this device, and honestly, aside from being afraid of the initial investment, I can’t think of a negative thing about a Kindle. My co-worker loves his as well, and everyone who has seen it has been impressed. I’m sure I’m not alone in pointing out that a Kindle owner is also a Kindle salesman–more than once I have demonstrated for interested people.
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