Good story/bad writer: (Was: What a snob!)

[zanooda2]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" <dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:

> As I mentioned before I would not mind more diverse vocabulary, 
> but again if she makes her point with the vocabulary she uses, 
> if she can show the chemistry, the love (or obsession) come 
> alive on the page, does it even matter that she does not use 
> many different words?


zanooda:

Besides, if an author uses the first-person narrative, like Meyer does, she always has an excuse that it is her character who has a limited vocabulary, not herself, LOL. I suppose we should be grateful that her teenage heroine is an old soul and not your typical teenage girl, otherwise Meyer would be forced to write like this: 

"And then I, like, saw him for the first time, and he was, like, sooo hot... and, like, totally cool... and I was, like, 'whatever'..." :-).



> Alla:
 
> whether we find character likeable or not does not really 
> matter if we are talking about writer's skill, right?


zanooda;

I think so too. For example, I really hate Scarlett O'Hara, but I love the rest of the "Gone with the Wind"... :-).


> Alla:
 
> I could not put the first book down till I finish it, thus I 
> found it pretty compelling. I do not want to reread it, but 
> this has a lot to do with the events in the last book. I just 
> cannot muster any sympathy for the characters anymore.


zanooda:

How did you manage to skip books 2 and 3 and go directly to book 4 :-)? These books don't have isolated plots, IMO, they are all intertwined. They are all one and the same story, and I think that without reading books 2 and 3 I wouldn't have understood what was going on in book 4. Well, it's too late for you now :-), and I totally understand the aversion you feel to the rest of the story. I would have probably felt the same way in your place. As it is, I only feel aversion to the fourth book alone... :-).


> Alla:
 
> Well, no I did not feel it leaves out key elements either, 
> I mean it begins as love from the first sight, which usually 
> I have tremendous trouble buying in the books and she even 
> me on that.


zanooda:

LOL! More than that, the simple fact that I have even read her books to the end should be considered a compliment to the writer, because I don't like love stories much, and I usually simply hate vampire stories, and hers is a little bit of both :-). Still, something is off in her books, even though I can't put my finger on it.