Laughing my ass off
rolling on the floor
biting the carpet
scaring the cat
nearly dying
by falling out of the window
in front of a guy who looks like Bill Gates
who then horrified
runs out on the street
and is accidentally killed
by a yellow bulldozer
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Entry Description: The Book about Swiss Cheese Makers began as an editorial project for a journalist friend. ” I expected this to be an agricultural trip, meeting people who make a living through the production of cheese in a more or less industrial way, ” Scheffold confesses.”But fare from it: I met unorthodox lateral thinkers, visionary fellows, modest canny and successful people living and working in some of the most spectacular landscapes of Switzerland. Some sell their products abroad, inventing a new cheese every other month, some work exactly as they have learned from their fathers, now sometimes just selling to hikers visiting their remote location by chance. But all of them seemed to follow an individual vision they are not willing to betray for growth and money.”
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rating: didn’t like it)
bookshelves: read, fantasy, fiction, young-adult
status: Read in August, 2009
review: ** spoiler alert **
I have to start by articulating that I do not hate Stephanie Meyer or the first twilight book.
I have to start by additionally articulating that Stephanie Meyer is not a particularly extraordinarily skilled author, and I hate the last three twilight books.
This book, however, was the worst of them all. Why?
1. No conflict resolution
Throughout these last three books, Bella has been in love with two boys who are both in love with her: Jacob and Edward. Edward makes her happy, but he was gone and Jacob is like a house. How will she choose? Of course, in real life, Bella would have to make a very difficult decision. Not in happy rainy-town! Here, she just picks the one she really loves, while still unsure about her feelings for the other.
Which I could have lived with, if someone had actually dealt with it. But of course, no one actually solved a problem. No, the other guy just fell in love with Bella’s baby. See! Problem solved!
2. Absurd situations (even for vampires)
Of course, Bella falls pregnant with a mutant vampire-human child. The child grows oddly fast, ends up sucking Bella’s blood, and breaking every bone in her body as it grows too fast.
Edward is finally forced to turn Bella into a vampire… Without Dr. Cullen. (Of course Edward turns Bella into a vampire. How could he be a hero if he doesn’t conquer his need to EAT HIS TRUE LOVE.)
Bella endures the pain of vampire transformation silently (an unheard of thing) to keep Edward stress-free. Then, once she’s silently transformed, she is perfect. She doesn’t need practice not devouring humans, she can jump and leap and run, and she’s blemish free. Our dear clumsy, pathetic, self-absorbed, depressed outcast is suddenly agile, graceful… pathetically perfect, absorbed by said perfection, and depressed.
3. No character development or realistic characters
See above. Suddenly, as if to wrap up the character threads, the poor socially alone heroine is perfect and surrounded by a family. But she’s only that way cause some animal bit her. Wow. What stunning development on a really realistic character.
4. No redeeming writing skill
There is nothing to say besides ‘read the book’. Mrs. Meyer’s writing skills aren’t horrendous, but nor are they stupendous. With an excellently thought out plot line (or a character that stayed un-stupendous) her writing could pass as acceptable (or purposeful).
But, the plot line is full of holes, absurd, and character driven by characters that no longer fit the writing ‘technique’.
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