LostintheCycle
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Is there anything more fun than dumping on things you don't like online?
Seven Types of Ambiguity - Eliot Perlman
I was drawn to the name and cover of this book in an op shop and decided on a whim I will buy and read this totally random book. The usual praise is plastered on the front and back, some thing about an award is mentioned. it is an Australian author too, so I am excited to get my mind changed about our native writers, who in my experience have usually been shit.
I start to read and I am initially interested in it, some of the plot was lost on me but I held on. The first part of seven ended on a weird note, which left me wondering "Where could this go from here?" Then I moved to the second part and it was in the perspective of a different character. It's one of those books. This structure trend apparently picked up in the 90s, and has really sunk its teeth into Australian fiction, so these sorts of books plague our high school booklists. I am tired of the gimmick and have no patience for books that use this anymore. I tried to read through it, but I lost steam, and decided I didn't want to read it anymore.
Hunger Games Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
I read the first Hunger Games book four times when I was younger, but the last one I only read once. I didn't like it because I didn't really get what was going on, it drooped somewhere in the middle into tedium until the end, but some parts of it I was kinda iffy on. This was the criticism I had with a series I adored as a twelve year old, I haven't read the Hunger Games in a few years so I can't speak for whether I think it holds up but obviously Mockingjay didn't hit the mark.
Seven Types of Ambiguity - Eliot Perlman
I was drawn to the name and cover of this book in an op shop and decided on a whim I will buy and read this totally random book. The usual praise is plastered on the front and back, some thing about an award is mentioned. it is an Australian author too, so I am excited to get my mind changed about our native writers, who in my experience have usually been shit.
I start to read and I am initially interested in it, some of the plot was lost on me but I held on. The first part of seven ended on a weird note, which left me wondering "Where could this go from here?" Then I moved to the second part and it was in the perspective of a different character. It's one of those books. This structure trend apparently picked up in the 90s, and has really sunk its teeth into Australian fiction, so these sorts of books plague our high school booklists. I am tired of the gimmick and have no patience for books that use this anymore. I tried to read through it, but I lost steam, and decided I didn't want to read it anymore.
Hunger Games Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
I read the first Hunger Games book four times when I was younger, but the last one I only read once. I didn't like it because I didn't really get what was going on, it drooped somewhere in the middle into tedium until the end, but some parts of it I was kinda iffy on. This was the criticism I had with a series I adored as a twelve year old, I haven't read the Hunger Games in a few years so I can't speak for whether I think it holds up but obviously Mockingjay didn't hit the mark.
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