rahvin said:
well i think it does. you see, a lot of books, especially sagas, have a tendency to get better when the author gets a feeling for his/her audience and starts getting accustomed to his/her own characters and so on. so far i've read only book 1, but i must say that - in my opinion - it has its brilliant moments when it comes to writing style. there are funny british jokes; a simple but not over-simplified way of describing situations; and no repetitions or clumsy, boring chapters where the events are explained at length or moral preachings get in the way. much like xtokalon, i'm also not a fan and i'm pretty much convinced there's a lot better stuff around to read for adults. still i kinda enjoyed it because i think most of all it's witty.
however, their parents do. it's them buying the books for their children to read. if products tailor-made for children didn't make it to the newspapers' frontpage, how would you expect ppl to get to know about them?
things like the technical skills of a writer are not - to my knowledge - merely opinions. i think it can be debated, but there are guidelines to judge if someone can write. so far you only "quoted" a short passage which is nowhere to be found on the first book (i read it yesterday) and you also admitted to having read just a part of number one. it does seem to me that you have not presented enough substance to back up your opinion.
rahvin.
the 'extract' was only a mock quote to show what i meant.
so far i have read bits of all of the books and have been forced to sit through the film TWICE, which sucked.
i understand that books for children should be aimed at the adults who will buy them but this should be more widespread and less over emphasised. headlines arent the traditional method of selling a new book, there is such thing as marketing for that. and yes while this is very succesful marketing i feel it is unethical to say the least.
to my knowledge it had at least 4 headlines with many more page 2+3's.
this is my point, the trivialisation of our news means that a new book gets the headlines over REAL news.
i think its poorly written and i dont like it, fine its SUPER popular but that doesnt necesitate headline news.
where is the news? what can you learn by reading 2 pages about how a new book is out?
the news should be about news not the release of a new product, the new HP book should at least be in the business sections, not on the front page, papal visits,putins controversial state visit, gm, hamas.
THEY are news, not a new book.
but i take your point rahvin, i havent read enough of them to properly judge them as a series but i know that ive not been impressed with any of what ive read so far, which has discouraged me from reading any further.
lustbader and clavel are the kings of saga so im well aware of the nature of the content but i feel her STYLE is poor, as ive explained, its written for children but uses adult words which SHOULD work well, as wellas boosted the little kiddies' vocab but i feel it is clumsy and awkward.
