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things i've never felt
Jun. 14th, 2010 01:00 amWell let's get this out of the way.
( I saw Wicked on Saturday. Variations on the theme 'OMG' behind the cut. )
I just finished this book The Last Summer of You and Me, and it was all right. It was the same author as the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants books, which I guiltily admit to having liked quite a lot. The Last Summer was basically a "more grownup" version with fewer characters to keep track of. It was pretty predictable and the story was nothing very new, but it was nicely written and it made me happy, and it didn't take much suspension of disbelief for me to believe in the characters as real people with real lives.
That's opposed to The Time Traveler's Wife, which was much less predictable and a more original story, but which I hated completely. It was boring, not compelling in the least, and completely unsatisfying at every turn in the storyline. Last Summer was only an average beach romance, but the author took care to let me fall in love along with the characters, and even knowing from page one that they would end up together I got upset with them when things got in their way. Wife kept me guessing and had higher stakes and was alllll about how "dizzyingly romantic" their story supposedly was, only I never cared. Not even a little bit.
So what do you think, flist? Would you rather read a unique story that's interesting by its nature, or a fairly stereotypical one that has nothing new way to say but has a better way to say it?
( I saw Wicked on Saturday. Variations on the theme 'OMG' behind the cut. )
I just finished this book The Last Summer of You and Me, and it was all right. It was the same author as the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants books, which I guiltily admit to having liked quite a lot. The Last Summer was basically a "more grownup" version with fewer characters to keep track of. It was pretty predictable and the story was nothing very new, but it was nicely written and it made me happy, and it didn't take much suspension of disbelief for me to believe in the characters as real people with real lives.
That's opposed to The Time Traveler's Wife, which was much less predictable and a more original story, but which I hated completely. It was boring, not compelling in the least, and completely unsatisfying at every turn in the storyline. Last Summer was only an average beach romance, but the author took care to let me fall in love along with the characters, and even knowing from page one that they would end up together I got upset with them when things got in their way. Wife kept me guessing and had higher stakes and was alllll about how "dizzyingly romantic" their story supposedly was, only I never cared. Not even a little bit.
So what do you think, flist? Would you rather read a unique story that's interesting by its nature, or a fairly stereotypical one that has nothing new way to say but has a better way to say it?
