More Thoughts on Divergent
(Day Thirty-Six)
This is going to be a short post because Michael and I have some Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze to play, and it's already almost 10 pm.
I'm a couple chapters into the third book of the Divergent series, and I'm seeing what Michael is talking about. There was definitely something that happened in the second half of the second book -- the writing got a little distant, like the author was speeding through things and not taking her time to make you feel invested or like you're in the middle of what's happening. It was just plot point after plot point and no effort to pull you in.
It was just off and on in the second book, but so far it's the entire third book. There have been times in my own writing when I've felt like I'm doing that, so I'd like to take some time and see if I can identify what the functional and mechanical differences are between the parts of book 1 that pull you in and the parts of book 3 that fail to do so, but to do that, I need actual real copies of the books, not these ebook things. I don't think anyone could be an English major with just ebooks. It doesn't work. You have to be able to flip between pages quickly and underline and stick post-its on things. I'm not going to lie -- I miss analyzing literature.
DONKEY KONG.
This is going to be a short post because Michael and I have some Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze to play, and it's already almost 10 pm.
I'm a couple chapters into the third book of the Divergent series, and I'm seeing what Michael is talking about. There was definitely something that happened in the second half of the second book -- the writing got a little distant, like the author was speeding through things and not taking her time to make you feel invested or like you're in the middle of what's happening. It was just plot point after plot point and no effort to pull you in.
It was just off and on in the second book, but so far it's the entire third book. There have been times in my own writing when I've felt like I'm doing that, so I'd like to take some time and see if I can identify what the functional and mechanical differences are between the parts of book 1 that pull you in and the parts of book 3 that fail to do so, but to do that, I need actual real copies of the books, not these ebook things. I don't think anyone could be an English major with just ebooks. It doesn't work. You have to be able to flip between pages quickly and underline and stick post-its on things. I'm not going to lie -- I miss analyzing literature.
DONKEY KONG.