Thursday, March 22, 2012
IRA
I've started to realize something about this book, and a lot of books in general. I've read a lot of books, and its amazing just how similar they can be. I mean, you've got whats supposed to be an atypical hero (in this case, a thief) that has to save the day from the evil bad guy from escaping his prison. They have to go on a quest to get some object that can keep him locked up. Now, I don't know about other people, but there are any number of books I've read that have a remarkable similarity to this one. I just decided to rant a little about this. Also, whats with some of these ridiculous names? The Rainbow Horn? I mean, come on! That sounds like such an intimidating artifact (ha!). And the Nameless One? I know he was evil and all, so they didn't want to speak his anymore, but still. It's vaguely Harry Potter-like (which is just ridiculous). Still, I find the characters amusing. With a lot of characters in books, they are rather flat and not really real, you know? I can't really think of much else but I will leave you with my little rants.
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Okay first of all Mollie. What is the title of your book? What is in a hero? I think everyone has their own opinion on that subject. (Perfectly coiffed hair). I wonder how these authors pick out these names.
ReplyDeleteBWAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!! RAINBOW HORN?!! Oh... that's funny! I've noticed that SOME books and movies will have RIDICULOUS names for their characters... some for humorous purposes... others for real...
ReplyDeleteIn Willa Cather's novel O Pioneers! she explores this very idea. The character Carl sees a songbird singing on the prairie of Nebraska and says, "Look at that songbird sing. Like it's some special song that's never been sung before, but birds have been singing that song for thousands of years." And then he goes on to say, "That's like youth. They live life, feel love, feel pain, with an intensity that they feel no one could have ever felt that way before. But really, the same few stories just continue to play themselves out generation after generation." I am paraphrasing badly, but those were the ideas I took from that part. Does this connect to what you were saying? This is how I connected to your blog, anyway.
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