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[which_chick]

Reading, today. Book reviews!



(Appalachian University is Hot Hot Hot! Google it.)

Book 1: Uglies, by Scott Westerfeld. I liked it. Nice dystopia, had a bit of a The Giver feel to it, but a lovely take on things. I'm a big, fat sucker for dystopian worlds in YA novels. It's a thing. They're as tasty as asparagus for me.

Book 2: Pretties, by the same guy. Book 2 in the trilogy. (I really should have ordered the third. I should have. I'm a dork.) More of the same, but with unravelling around the edges, where the construct falls apart for our protagonist. The world-building is pretty darned tasty and I'm having a good time with it. Ends with a cliffhanger for the third book, which is okay by me.

Book 3: Haven't read this one yet, but it's Peeps, novel on novel vampires, by the same guy. (Amazon kept making me offers I couldn't refuse. Buy this book with this other book here and they're cheaper! Plus they're like peanut butter and chocolate. Get 'em both! You know you want to! Free SuperSaver Shipping. First one's free! All the cool kids 'R' doing it! I am powerless before peer pressure like that.) Anyway, I should have it done before bedtime. That's the hidden downside of YA novels. They go by about as fast as fucking a seventeen year old boy. Blink and you might miss 'em. Uglies was four hundred and some pages, Pretties was three hundred seventy more, both have fallen like wheat to my scythe, and it's not yet bedtime. Peeps will probably fall before lights out.

For tomorrow, the absolutely delightful (and So Pretty!) first four volumes of Death Note, a manga by the person who drew the Hikaru no Go manga. I'm amazed that nobody (fooliv) shared that factoid with me. I liked the visual cleanliness of HnG manga. Anyway, I peeked at that and it's going to be fun, fun, fun. Seriously.

Comments

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

Those dump trucks of money sound like fun -- wish I could get one.

On the YA front -- I'm not so proud that I can't read YA novels. A good novel is a good novel and the good YA stuff isn't the literary equivalent of PlaySkool Primary Colors despite being written for Young Adults who aren't old enough to drink, drive, or dally. My main problem with them is that they go by too fast... but then, they always did, even back when I was a yoot.

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

My main problem with them is that they go by too fast... but then, they always did, even back when I was a yoot.

And this would be, of course, because nothing gold can stay. :P

[ksleet.livejournal.com]

Oh yes -- I'd recommend Daniel Pinkwater on that score. (There's two giant-sized compilations of his best YA stuff, called 5 Novels and something similar.) I just wouldn't complain if Westerfeld would do a bit more space opera, is all!

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

I'll have to check 'em out -- amazon.com is currently getting a bit more of my money than I'm happy about, but what the heck. It's disposable income. I'm disposing. :)