"I wish I could close my eyes and be blown into dust and nothingness, feel all my thoughts disperse like dandelion fluff drifting on the wind."
~Lauren Oliver
Sunday, December 22, 2013
Quote #303
"Every step is more difficult than the last; the heaviness fills me and turns my limbs to stone. You must hurt or be hurt."
~Lauren Oliver
~Lauren Oliver
Quote #301
"I can feel the hurt. There's something good about it. Mostly, it makes me stop remembering."
~Albert Borris
~Albert Borris
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Quote #300
300th quote! Doing the same thing as always! Here's a quote from my novel, The Girl In Gray!
"I hated those memories. I thought I had forgotten them, but then they'd pop back up, and every resurfacing memory was like a gash to the heart. Waking up in the morning with a new forgotten memory, with the newest realization in a long line of realizations, being reminded of that thing that is gone from your life, your heart, that is the pain that kills. And it is the moment when the killing pain hits, that you realize you will do anything to escape it, to escape the endless loop in your head repeating gone, gone, gone, and that terrible detachment that leaves you free-floating through the empty void of consciousness with no foreseeable end in sight. You hate those memories, but they are the only things that keep you alive."
~Jacquelyn McIlvain, 'The Girl In Gray'
"I hated those memories. I thought I had forgotten them, but then they'd pop back up, and every resurfacing memory was like a gash to the heart. Waking up in the morning with a new forgotten memory, with the newest realization in a long line of realizations, being reminded of that thing that is gone from your life, your heart, that is the pain that kills. And it is the moment when the killing pain hits, that you realize you will do anything to escape it, to escape the endless loop in your head repeating gone, gone, gone, and that terrible detachment that leaves you free-floating through the empty void of consciousness with no foreseeable end in sight. You hate those memories, but they are the only things that keep you alive."
~Jacquelyn McIlvain, 'The Girl In Gray'
Quote #298
"Forgotten? No, we never do forget,
We let the years go,
We let the years go,
Wash them clean with tears,
Leave them to bleach out in the open day,
Or lock them carefully by, like dead friends' clothes,
Till we shall dare unfold them without pain,-
But we do not forget, and never can forget."
~Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Leave them to bleach out in the open day,
Or lock them carefully by, like dead friends' clothes,
Till we shall dare unfold them without pain,-
But we do not forget, and never can forget."
~Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Sunday, December 15, 2013
Quote #297
"Forget the names because names lie but remember me because when you look at me, I remember myself. Remember me because I will never forget you."
~Jordan Weisman
~Jordan Weisman
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Quote #295
"If you take, we will take back. Steal from us, and we will rob you blind. When you squeeze, we will hit. That is the way the world is made now."
~Lauren Oliver
~Lauren Oliver
Quote #294
"This is what hatred is. It will feed you and at the same time turn you to rot. It is hard and deep and angular, a system of blockades. It is everything and total. Hatred is a high tower."
~Lauren Oliver
~Lauren Oliver
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Our Total Insignificance
It has occurred to me a bit ago, that we are totally, completely and pointlessly insignificant. And there are others that have said things on this topic in their novels, and you can see those novels if you are sick of listening to me rant on philosophically depressing topics. Those novels, right off the topic of my head, are Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver and The Fault in Our Stars by John Green(I highly recommend the Green and any other novels written or co-written by him because he is amazing).
On average, 115,338 people die per day worldwide. And your life does not change in the slightest. You get up and you attend your work and school and don't give a second thought that 2 people just died in the second it took you to take the step out your front door. People are dying as I write this rant about people dying. And nothing changes. You still get up and go, the cars still run, candles still burn and people still walk and talk and drink and laugh. But more importantly, the sun still rises and sets and flowers still grow and die, the moon still reflects the light of the sun, and the earth still spins.
The earth does not care that we are here. Neither does the sun. The moon orbits the earth, not us. We do not make the animals breed, instinct does. We did not develop that instinct. We do not water flowers, the rain does. We did not make the rain. We do not make the sun burn, it's own gases do. We did not develop those gases. We are pointless observers to the cycle of life. Watchers. And before the human race was put here, via God, or gods, or microscopic bacteria evolution, the earth still spun, and the sun still shone, and the plants still grew and died. We do not matter.
What do you all think will happen once we are gone? Once the entire human race has been eradicated? Nothing will happen, I am sad to inform you. Plants will still die, the sun might still be shining, depending on when exactly in time we are eradicated, it might be burnt out by then, but you get the point. Planets are still going to be being made and being destroyed and the cosmos are probably going to laugh at our rotting corpses because once upon a time so many of us thought we were so important.
There's gonna be a time after the human race. Eventually, there's going to be a time after animals and weird mutants and stuff, too. There will be a time when all that remains is the earth or the planets or the sun, there will be a time when there is only the universe. There will be a time that no one will remember us or what we did. There will be a time where all of our structures and manuscripts are destroyed, and there will be no evidence, not a piece or a single, fading whisper, that humanity ever inhabited this planet.
In the longest run, looking at the biggest picture, nothing matters. Nothing helps. Nothing will stave off the destruction of humanity. Nothing will remedy our insignificance.
On average, 115,338 people die per day worldwide. And your life does not change in the slightest. You get up and you attend your work and school and don't give a second thought that 2 people just died in the second it took you to take the step out your front door. People are dying as I write this rant about people dying. And nothing changes. You still get up and go, the cars still run, candles still burn and people still walk and talk and drink and laugh. But more importantly, the sun still rises and sets and flowers still grow and die, the moon still reflects the light of the sun, and the earth still spins.
The earth does not care that we are here. Neither does the sun. The moon orbits the earth, not us. We do not make the animals breed, instinct does. We did not develop that instinct. We do not water flowers, the rain does. We did not make the rain. We do not make the sun burn, it's own gases do. We did not develop those gases. We are pointless observers to the cycle of life. Watchers. And before the human race was put here, via God, or gods, or microscopic bacteria evolution, the earth still spun, and the sun still shone, and the plants still grew and died. We do not matter.
What do you all think will happen once we are gone? Once the entire human race has been eradicated? Nothing will happen, I am sad to inform you. Plants will still die, the sun might still be shining, depending on when exactly in time we are eradicated, it might be burnt out by then, but you get the point. Planets are still going to be being made and being destroyed and the cosmos are probably going to laugh at our rotting corpses because once upon a time so many of us thought we were so important.
There's gonna be a time after the human race. Eventually, there's going to be a time after animals and weird mutants and stuff, too. There will be a time when all that remains is the earth or the planets or the sun, there will be a time when there is only the universe. There will be a time that no one will remember us or what we did. There will be a time where all of our structures and manuscripts are destroyed, and there will be no evidence, not a piece or a single, fading whisper, that humanity ever inhabited this planet.
In the longest run, looking at the biggest picture, nothing matters. Nothing helps. Nothing will stave off the destruction of humanity. Nothing will remedy our insignificance.
Quote #293
"I'm the girl who is lost in space, the girl who is disappearing always, forever fading and receding farther and farther into the background."
~Elizabeth Wurtzel
~Elizabeth Wurtzel
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Quote #291
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
~Oscar Wilde
~Oscar Wilde
Sunday, December 8, 2013
Quote #290
"It occurs to me, then, that people themselves are are full of tunnels: winding, dark spaces and caverns, impossible to know all the places inside of them. Impossible to even imagine."
~Lauren Oliver
~Lauren Oliver
Quote #289
"Grief is like sinking, like being buried. I am in water the tawny color of kicked-up dirt. Every breath is full of choking. There is nothing to hold onto, no sides, no way to claw myself up. There is nothing to do but let go. Let go. Feel the weight all around you, feel the squeezing of your lungs, the slow, low pressure. Let yourself go deeper. There is nothing but bottom. There is nothing but the taste of metal, and the echoes of old things, and days that look like darkness."
~Lauren Oliver
~Lauren Oliver
Friday, December 6, 2013
Quote #288
"For each person there is a sentence-a series of words-which has the power to destroy them."
~Philip K Dick
~Philip K Dick
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Quote #287
"Yesterday, today, tomorrow, and maybe forever, living and leaving without you."
~MF Moonzajer
~MF Moonzajer
Quote #286
"I want my life to be the greatest story. My very existence will be the greatest poem. Watch me burn."
~Charlotte Eriksson
~Charlotte Eriksson
Quote #284
"Sometimes depression means,
Ignoring every phone call for a month,
Because yes, they have the right number,
But you're not the person they're looking for, not anymore."
~Alexandra Tilton
Ignoring every phone call for a month,
Because yes, they have the right number,
But you're not the person they're looking for, not anymore."
~Alexandra Tilton
Saturday, November 30, 2013
Quote #281
"Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book."
~John Green
~John Green
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Quote #280
"It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so that you can never be controlled. It's not a weakness. It's your best strength."
~Patrick Ness
~Patrick Ness
Quote #279
"I'm falling apart, one part after another. Falling down on the world like snow. Half of me is already on the ground, watching from below."
~Ashly Lorenzana
~Ashly Lorenzana
Quote #278
"Falling in love is not a rational process. It can't be planned or avoided. It happens-for good or bad, it simply happens. I knew he'd eventually leave. I knew we couldn't be together, but I fell anyway."
~Suzanne Selfors
~Suzanne Selfors
Quote #277
"Even the people who once fought for others tend to get weak and eventually "give up" and loose interest in the worth of fighting any longer."
~Osjusn CC
~Osjusn CC
Saturday, November 23, 2013
Windy Town (And Analyze)
Quick introduction to what I am about to do, I have written a poem, which I will now share with you, and then decode. Follow along, now, kiddies, cause this is the only post I'm making. If you don't like poetry, scram, or else you're going to have to endure mine. I will skip a few spaces before I go into the analyze encase you want to take the poem and interpret it yourself. I just know that sometimes I like to know what went on in the author's head when they wrote it, not just how I took it.
Down on the streets of Windy Town,
The girl sat down,
And down on the bench on the streets of Windy Town,
The girl spread out her tattered gown,
And a crow hopped up and crouched down low,
Leaving the girl to exclaim, “why hello!”,
But another crow came with yet another in tow,
Till a murder of crows crowded the girl’s dim glow,
She was swatting them away,
When the first crow cawed, “human, you should play!”,
So the girl stilled her lavish display,
And waited for the game to pass underway,
The birds kept pecking and flapping all day,
Until with a final shriek the girl thrust out of the fray.
And raced off towards the shores of the Windy Bay,
With the streets of Windy Town laughing all the way,
Kicking off her broken heels,
The girl dove into a bay of eels,
And the eels dragged her down to the depths for their meals,
Then from above she heard a distorted, “girl, drag your heels!”
So the girl kicked up with her dress now a rag,
And the girl coughed the water onto the shore with a final gag,
Out of the bay rose a figure as mighty as a stag,
Yet her dress from the water the girl couldn’t drag,
And the wicked eel did the figure embody,
With carved, sweet features as he turned the ground foggy,
Raising a knife he knelt down still a somebody,
And carefully cut the dress from her body,
Now the girl sat up,
Finally not the least bit corrupt,
With no lingering urges to give up,
And now she recognized the stranger close up,
The girl held out her hand to her lost love,
For a stranger thing the girl had never heard of,
And the crows squawked feverishly from above,
As from his pocket the boy drew a dove,
He set it out high,
High to the sky,
And the streets of Windy Town flew on by,
Until the girl sat alone and watched eagles pass on by,
But the girl dismissed her sadness,
She replaced it with gladness,
For her boy had once again helped her escape her madness.
Starting now, guys, so back off if you don't want to hear me break it down and ruin the mystery!
So, as you may notice, there is a lot of symbolism here. Windy Town, Windy Bay, the girl's tattered gown, the crows, the boy, the eels, the dove, the eagles. I'm gonna share all those with you.
Windy Town represents the state of mind the girl is in, depression and despair and hopelessness and turmoil. 'Windy' I chose because of her turmoil of emotions, like windy storms. And 'town' to represent where she was at, as in her state of mind.
Windy Bay is a place that represents deception. It is what she thinks is her savior, but it falls through and just drags her deeper and deeper into her pit of despair. 'Windy' to connect it to Windy Town and that's reasoning (see above). 'Bay' because she thinks that the water will hold safety and liberation, but it does not. I associate water with safety and liberation.
The girl's dress is to represent shattered dreams that get broken more and more as time goes on, and hold her down, see 'yet her dress from the water the girl couldn't drag', as in she could not get out of that mindset and misery.
The crows are to mean all the insults and people and cruelty that put her into the hole of misery she is in. They come under the deception of good and peace and friendliness, see 'human, you should play!', but when the girl opens up, they attack her and belittle her.
The eels are what keep pushing her down and holding her there. They are the people and comments and pain that do not allow her to get out of her pit.
The boy is a savior, a liberator for the girl. He represents the people the girl has lost, and her memory that they would have wanted her to fight, and how much she loves them. See, 'then from above she heard a distorted, "girl drag your heels!", he encourages her to fight out of her haze and away from the 'eels'. He also represents a new being in her life, someone that comes and helps her from the pit, see, 'and carefully cut the dress from her body'. That line symbolizes the boy (the newcomer and savior) helping her to release her broken dreams that set her there in the first place. It shows him helping her and liberating her.
The dove the boy releases is the cleansing the liberator brings to the girl. The crows (the insulters and tormentors) fear it, (the peace) and they are scared off and leave the girl alone.
Eagles represent freedom, the freedom the girl feels after her liberator has left, even though she is sad, she is grateful and happy because she is free of her burden and pain, he has delivered her from Windy Town (if you were able to note the change in setting).
This ultimately a poem about hope, and not giving up. I felt the need to write it, because I'm going through a tough spot, have been for a long time, and I needed the poetry to express what I hoped for.
It's called a narrative poem, and they're really nice to write. (I recommend The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, it's a classic narrative and far better than my own)
Down on the streets of Windy Town,
The girl sat down,
And down on the bench on the streets of Windy Town,
The girl spread out her tattered gown,
And a crow hopped up and crouched down low,
Leaving the girl to exclaim, “why hello!”,
But another crow came with yet another in tow,
Till a murder of crows crowded the girl’s dim glow,
She was swatting them away,
When the first crow cawed, “human, you should play!”,
So the girl stilled her lavish display,
And waited for the game to pass underway,
The birds kept pecking and flapping all day,
Until with a final shriek the girl thrust out of the fray.
And raced off towards the shores of the Windy Bay,
With the streets of Windy Town laughing all the way,
Kicking off her broken heels,
The girl dove into a bay of eels,
And the eels dragged her down to the depths for their meals,
Then from above she heard a distorted, “girl, drag your heels!”
So the girl kicked up with her dress now a rag,
And the girl coughed the water onto the shore with a final gag,
Out of the bay rose a figure as mighty as a stag,
Yet her dress from the water the girl couldn’t drag,
And the wicked eel did the figure embody,
With carved, sweet features as he turned the ground foggy,
Raising a knife he knelt down still a somebody,
And carefully cut the dress from her body,
Now the girl sat up,
Finally not the least bit corrupt,
With no lingering urges to give up,
And now she recognized the stranger close up,
The girl held out her hand to her lost love,
For a stranger thing the girl had never heard of,
And the crows squawked feverishly from above,
As from his pocket the boy drew a dove,
He set it out high,
High to the sky,
And the streets of Windy Town flew on by,
Until the girl sat alone and watched eagles pass on by,
But the girl dismissed her sadness,
She replaced it with gladness,
For her boy had once again helped her escape her madness.
Starting now, guys, so back off if you don't want to hear me break it down and ruin the mystery!
So, as you may notice, there is a lot of symbolism here. Windy Town, Windy Bay, the girl's tattered gown, the crows, the boy, the eels, the dove, the eagles. I'm gonna share all those with you.
Windy Town represents the state of mind the girl is in, depression and despair and hopelessness and turmoil. 'Windy' I chose because of her turmoil of emotions, like windy storms. And 'town' to represent where she was at, as in her state of mind.
Windy Bay is a place that represents deception. It is what she thinks is her savior, but it falls through and just drags her deeper and deeper into her pit of despair. 'Windy' to connect it to Windy Town and that's reasoning (see above). 'Bay' because she thinks that the water will hold safety and liberation, but it does not. I associate water with safety and liberation.
The girl's dress is to represent shattered dreams that get broken more and more as time goes on, and hold her down, see 'yet her dress from the water the girl couldn't drag', as in she could not get out of that mindset and misery.
The crows are to mean all the insults and people and cruelty that put her into the hole of misery she is in. They come under the deception of good and peace and friendliness, see 'human, you should play!', but when the girl opens up, they attack her and belittle her.
The eels are what keep pushing her down and holding her there. They are the people and comments and pain that do not allow her to get out of her pit.
The boy is a savior, a liberator for the girl. He represents the people the girl has lost, and her memory that they would have wanted her to fight, and how much she loves them. See, 'then from above she heard a distorted, "girl drag your heels!", he encourages her to fight out of her haze and away from the 'eels'. He also represents a new being in her life, someone that comes and helps her from the pit, see, 'and carefully cut the dress from her body'. That line symbolizes the boy (the newcomer and savior) helping her to release her broken dreams that set her there in the first place. It shows him helping her and liberating her.
The dove the boy releases is the cleansing the liberator brings to the girl. The crows (the insulters and tormentors) fear it, (the peace) and they are scared off and leave the girl alone.
Eagles represent freedom, the freedom the girl feels after her liberator has left, even though she is sad, she is grateful and happy because she is free of her burden and pain, he has delivered her from Windy Town (if you were able to note the change in setting).
This ultimately a poem about hope, and not giving up. I felt the need to write it, because I'm going through a tough spot, have been for a long time, and I needed the poetry to express what I hoped for.
It's called a narrative poem, and they're really nice to write. (I recommend The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, it's a classic narrative and far better than my own)
Quote #276
"My life has become a dismal sigh fettered by pangs of grief and anguished weeping."
~Richelle E Goodrich
~Richelle E Goodrich
Friday, November 22, 2013
Quote #274
"I had hoped that the rest of the world would stand still while I got myself together, but Chaos and Tragedy had marched into other lives close to mine as well."
~Julie Metz
~Julie Metz
Quote #270
"Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish."
~Chuck Palahniuk
~Chuck Palahniuk
Saturday, November 16, 2013
Quote #269
"Everyone you trust, everyone you think you can count on, will eventually disappoint you. When left to their own devices, people lie and keep secrets and change and disappear."
~Lauren Oliver
~Lauren Oliver
Quote #267
"You have to go forward: It's the only way. You have to go forward no matter what happens. This is the universal law."
~Lauren Oliver
~Lauren Oliver
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Quote #265
"It does not tell you this: that love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself."
~Lauren Oliver
~Lauren Oliver
Quote #264
"The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside you like a stone."
~Lauren Oliver
~Lauren Oliver
Sunday, November 10, 2013
Quote #263
"One of the strangest things about life is that it will chug on, blind and oblivious, even as your private world-your little carved-out sphere-is twisting and morphing, even breaking apart. One day you have parents; the next you're an orphan. One day you have a place and a path. The next day you're lost in the wilderness. And still the sun rises and clouds mass and drift and people shop for groceries and toilets flush and blinds go up and down. That's when you realize that most of it-life, the relentless mechanism of existing-isn't about you. It doesn't include you at all. It will thrust onward even after you've jumped the edge. Even after you're dead."
~Lauren Oliver
~Lauren Oliver
Saturday, November 9, 2013
Quote #261
"Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist."
~Micheal Levine
~Micheal Levine
Quote #259
"Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, we fell them down and turn them into paper, so that we make record our emptiness."
~Kahlil Gibran
~Kahlil Gibran
Sunday, November 3, 2013
Quote #256
"Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die,
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly."
~Langston Hughes
For if dreams die,
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly."
~Langston Hughes
Quote #253
"But I could control these flames. It was an irresistible urge, one that I didn't want to ignore."
~Candace Knoebel
~Candace Knoebel
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Quote #249
"Reading always calmed me down: filling my head with other-made up-people's problems and conflicts made my own seem less terrible, less real."
~Heather James
~Heather James
Friday, October 25, 2013
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Quote #247
"Seclusion wasn't wasn't good for anyone; it made you forget how to protect yourself."
~Heather James
~Heather James
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Quote #244
"All people start to
come apart finally
and there it is;
just empty ashtrys in a room
or wisps of air on a comb
in the dissolving moonlight."
~Charles Bukowski
come apart finally
and there it is;
just empty ashtrys in a room
or wisps of air on a comb
in the dissolving moonlight."
~Charles Bukowski
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Quote #243
"I hold with those who favor fire,
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate,
To know that for destruction ice,
Is also great."
~Robert Frost
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate,
To know that for destruction ice,
Is also great."
~Robert Frost
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Monday, October 14, 2013
Friday, October 11, 2013
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Quote #233
"Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster."
~Kohta Hirano
~Kohta Hirano
Monday, October 7, 2013
Quote #229
"Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before-more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle."
~Charles Dickens
~Charles Dickens
Saturday, October 5, 2013
The Government Shutdown
Some is this will probably be a rant, and as I rant I will fill you in on when, who and why we shut down the government.
When:
The government shut down, in my timezone, at nine o'clock at night September thirtieth. However, in Washington DC's timezone, it was twelve o'clock in the morning on October first.
Who:
Congress did not officially shut down the government, but it was their fault. So, I'm calling them the who in this equation. Technically, Obama had to shut down the government, officially.
Why:
Here's the deal, and I'm gonna try and keep this opinion-free so you can all understand it better. Congress has to pay/pass a spending bill every year that funds the government. Congress did not pass the bill by the deadline(October first, midnight), and the consequence was a government shutdown. Why did they not pass the bill? Because Republicans want any new spending bill to either derail or defund Obamacare. They are very set on that, and Democrats are likewise set on that not happening. So, we shut down the government. Yep! We shut down the government because a bunch of idiots couldn't agree! The last government shutdown lasted twenty-one days, guys! How are we set up this time; we're already on day five!
Anyway, there is the simple, when, who and why on our government shutdown. I hope this helped those of you who didn't know, or were confused.
My closing thought: our government is run by monkeys.
When:
The government shut down, in my timezone, at nine o'clock at night September thirtieth. However, in Washington DC's timezone, it was twelve o'clock in the morning on October first.
Who:
Congress did not officially shut down the government, but it was their fault. So, I'm calling them the who in this equation. Technically, Obama had to shut down the government, officially.
Why:
Here's the deal, and I'm gonna try and keep this opinion-free so you can all understand it better. Congress has to pay/pass a spending bill every year that funds the government. Congress did not pass the bill by the deadline(October first, midnight), and the consequence was a government shutdown. Why did they not pass the bill? Because Republicans want any new spending bill to either derail or defund Obamacare. They are very set on that, and Democrats are likewise set on that not happening. So, we shut down the government. Yep! We shut down the government because a bunch of idiots couldn't agree! The last government shutdown lasted twenty-one days, guys! How are we set up this time; we're already on day five!
Anyway, there is the simple, when, who and why on our government shutdown. I hope this helped those of you who didn't know, or were confused.
My closing thought: our government is run by monkeys.
Quote #228
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
~Robert Frost
~Robert Frost
Friday, October 4, 2013
Quote #226
"Mama, Mama, help me get home,
I am out in the woods, I am out on my own,
I found me a werewolf, a nasty old mutt,
It showed me its teeth and went straight for my gut,
Mama, Mama, help me get home,
I am out in the woods, I am out on my own,
I was stopped by a vampire, a rotting old wreck,
It showed me its teeth and went straight for my neck,
Mama, Mama, put me to bed,
I won't make it home, I'm already half-dead,
I met an Invalid and fell for his art,
He showed me his smile and went straight for my heart."
~Lauren Oliver
I am out in the woods, I am out on my own,
I found me a werewolf, a nasty old mutt,
It showed me its teeth and went straight for my gut,
Mama, Mama, help me get home,
I am out in the woods, I am out on my own,
I was stopped by a vampire, a rotting old wreck,
It showed me its teeth and went straight for my neck,
Mama, Mama, put me to bed,
I won't make it home, I'm already half-dead,
I met an Invalid and fell for his art,
He showed me his smile and went straight for my heart."
~Lauren Oliver
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Quote #225
"I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction."
~Tarereh Mafi
~Tarereh Mafi
Monday, September 30, 2013
Quote #224
"Killing time isn't as difficult as it sounds.
I can shoot a hundred numbers in the chest and watch them bleed decimal points in the palm of my hand.
I can rip the numbers off a clock and watch the hour hand tick tick tick its final tock just before I fall asleep. I can suffocate seconds just by holding my breath.
I've been murdering minutes for hours and no one seems to mind."
~Tahereh Mafi
I can shoot a hundred numbers in the chest and watch them bleed decimal points in the palm of my hand.
I can rip the numbers off a clock and watch the hour hand tick tick tick its final tock just before I fall asleep. I can suffocate seconds just by holding my breath.
I've been murdering minutes for hours and no one seems to mind."
~Tahereh Mafi
Sunday, September 29, 2013
Saturday, September 28, 2013
'Evermore' Book Review
So, I read this a bit ago. Not too long, but I've been procrastinating. So, here is the Evermore book review. I will say this, unless I get desperate I will not be reading the rest of this series.
I will not be spoiler-censoring this one. It not worth it to me, so if you do do want to spoiled, don't read on. Though this was such a predictable book, I seriously doubt that you could be actually spoiled. You'd have already seen it coming when you read book. But, if you don't want to be 'spoiled' don't read on.
Let's start with Ever. She was a whiny little girl with no concept of anything outside of her own arse. Drinking yourself into a coma is no good way to cope, I don't care if it makes your powers go away, we all know it was just because Ever wanted to wallow when Damon left her. She is a horrible example to girls in our century. I don't know about you, but if my little sister died, I would be thankful for every visit she gave me, not annoyed by her! She is ungrateful, ignorant, and ridiculous, and I hated her.
I did not like Damon much better. Maybe less. Oh, he is perfect! He is gorgeous! He is rich! He is combustible! (Come ON, Haven! Really?) No, he isn't! He an arrogant, self-serving, pretty-boy. He was constantly lying to Ever, and then he left and ignored her, he was constantly putting her in danger! I was constantly annoyed by Damon, and the best part of the book was when Ever actually had to fight Drina herself! Not that that lasted for long.
HAVEN. Oh, God. I am a Goth myself, we'll start with that. I found Haven personally offensive. Ms. Noel, think before you write! Alyson needs to learn that she can offend people with what she writes, like Haven and Miles were offensive to Goths and gays, and Ever's lack of care hat her family was gone. Ms. Noel wrote Haven so that it seemed that Goths are attention-seeking and shallow. This was character where I was more mad at the author than the character herself. Either way, a horrible portrayal.
Miles, I hated, too. Not because I am prejudiced against gays, which I am not, but for the opposite reason. I feel like it was a horrible portrayal of gays. (Is 'gay' even socially acceptable anymore?) Alyson Noel made gays seem like sluts; Miles had a new boyfriend literally every other week! It was ridiculous, offensive, and it did NOT make me like Ms. Noel anymore more. (I've already read her Riley Bloom series, which was a waste of my life.)
Drina: NO. Enough said.
The setting was...just...guys. You spent the night in a freaking CAVE and no one noticed? I'm calling unethical BS on this author. How about this: we'll ditch the set format for this review, and I'll tell you all about unethical, crappy writing of Alyson Noel. Sound good? Okay, kids, settle in. Lynnie's gonna fill you in.
I'll say it again! I AM CALLING UNETHICAL, OFFENSIVE BS ON THIS AUTHOR!
NO school, I mean NO school would let a child have her hood up, sunglasses on, and ear buds in while in class of the hallways! This was ridiculous to the point of laughable! Was this kind of crap ever allowed, or did Noel just make this up? Did she forget how public schooling works???
Miles and Haven for offensive BS, as covered above! STOP WRITING ABOUT CRAP YOU DO NOT KNOW ABOUT! It was really things like this that pissed me off, because I am a Goth, and we are not needy and attention-seeking like she made us out to be! This writer is offensive, and I do not know why she continues to get published.
Ever's powers! Guys, speaking from personal experience, this was a disgrace. Physic powers do not work like that, and I would bet my buttons that Noel did NO research on this topic, because even if you just scrape the surface of the physic community, you would no that Ever's powers are all wrong! Ever's powers were whatever they wanted to be when they were convenient. Some powers were mentioned one time, and NEVER BROUGHT UP AGAIN. Some were introduced half-way through the novel, and Ever told us she had always had them. Really, Noel? You think we're stupid enough to buy that she just forgot to tell us about that power? Or this power, or that power? OFFENSIVE BS, right there ladies and gentlemen.
The plot did not start until like, half-way through the book. Guys, please, DO NOT READ THIS BOOK. It is a waste of time, and a pointless collection of useful money.
No one can be as perfect as Damon claimed to be. He paints better than Picasso? Are you kidding me? BS! Oh my God, he got on my nerves so much, I literally had to put the book down so I wouldn't start screaming in the middle of class. Yeah, Noel, I'm sure he does. God.
I recommend this book for no one. No one should be subjected to this torture. Ever was self-absorbed and bratty, Damon was arrogant, Miles and Haven were stereotypical and offensive, Drina was a...yeah. NO. Zero stars for this novel.
Quote #222
"There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book, or simply close it."
~Shannon L Alder
~Shannon L Alder
Friday, September 27, 2013
Quote #221
"I know you've forgotten me, but I'll remember you as long as I live."
~Julio-Alexi Genao
~Julio-Alexi Genao
Quote #220
"Suddenly you're ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my God, you're alive and it's spectacular."
~Joseph Campbell
~Joseph Campbell
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Quote #219
"The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs."
~Thornton Wilder
~Thornton Wilder
Quote #218
"She hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years."
~Julia Quinn
~Julia Quinn
Quote #217
"Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another: why can't you see who I truly am?"
~Shannon L Alder
~Shannon L Alder
Quote #216
"Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving someone, without being loved back...then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else."
~Sarah Cross
~Sarah Cross
Saturday, September 21, 2013
Quote #215
"It will never rain roses; if we want more roses, when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses."
~George Eliot
~George Eliot
Friday, September 20, 2013
Quote #214
"If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also."
~Robert Louis Stevenson
~Robert Louis Stevenson
Thursday, September 19, 2013
Quote #213
"I think there were times when I was so afraid of losing you that I forgot I even had you at all."
~Ashly Lorenzana
~Ashly Lorenzana
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Monday, September 16, 2013
Quote #210
"Despite the weight of the world on my shoulders, the temptation to stop and smell the supernatural roses pulled on my sleeves a time of two."
~John Corwin
~John Corwin
Quote #209
"Roses and thorns are part of the same plant. Somehow though, some people are concerned mainly about the roses. The rose is not on the plant for more than a week, but the thorns are there forever. Roses are teaching that the beauty of life will bloom, once you have taught yourself the lessons given by living with the thorns."
~Grigoris Deoudis
~Grigoris Deoudis
Saturday, September 14, 2013
Quote #208
"Why are roses kept for their blossoms rather than shunned for their thorns?"
~J Aleksandr Wootton
~J Aleksandr Wootton
Quote #207
"There were crimson roses on the bench; they looked like slashes of blood."
~Dorothy L Sayers
~Dorothy L Sayers
Quote #206
"Beauty and love pass, I know...Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses."
~ F Scott Fitzgerald
~ F Scott Fitzgerald
Quote #204
"The rose has told, in one simplicity, that never life, relinquishes a bloom, but to bestow, an ancient confidence."
~Nathalia Crane
~Nathalia Crane
Monday, September 9, 2013
'Looking For Alaska' Book Review
Actually, I read this book a little while ago, but I've been on hyper-overload lately, so I haven't gotten a review up until now. If you eagerly anticipate my next reviews, then, sorry, and if you don't...well, then. Put up with another. This was my first John Green book, by the way. So glad I started with this one.
I wanna start with Alaska. I loved her. Completely adored her, and I really related to her. She was fun and light, but also self-destructive, and dark, so I just completely contradicted myself. But I really related to her.
*SPOILERS AHOY!*
I knew she had to die. It was just a matter of how and where. I got my how and where soon enough. I was not expecting to be so upset because I was expecting it, but when the crash finally came, and Pudge was throwing up and everyone was crying...well, I'm a wreck anyway. I was crying, too.
You're cool, now.
Pudge was...amusing. I loved the last words obsession. I've got a few weird quirks like that, too. Obituaries and roses. And graveyards. Not that you were wondering. He was a very realistic character, and John wrote him really well. All these characters were well written, who am I kidding?
I'll just finish with the Colonel. He was weird, honestly. But I liked him. He was a good sort of weird, you know? I really liked his close relationship with Alaska. I thought they were really sweet, in a platonic way.
I loved the Strawberry Hill scene, where they dug up Alaska's wine. I really loved so much of the dialogue between her and Miles, I wish they had called him Miles more often, I hate the nickname Pudge. So..ungraceful.
I hated how Miles and the Colonel fought after
Spoilers!
Alaska died.
*NEXT!*
I just really wanted them to bind, not split apart. But they did reconcile after a while. But those moments were torture.
And I personally was expecting a lot more romance between Alaska and Pudge. He was so sad, and I understand him losing her as a friend, I just felt like...they needed more. I wanted them to date, to kiss and cuddle and be together. I really did ship them hard, and I felt really let down.
I really loved the boarding school. I thought it was well done, because John Green doesn't do badly done. I could picture it well, along with the lake scene, that I hated. Literally, jeez. Our main character could have died. Dropping like flies, these main characters are.
Anyway, this book is great. Realistic readers, dark readers, YA readers, John Green fans, guys, go pick up this book. It is very similar to Gregory Galloway's As Simple As Snow, which is why I think I was drawn to it. So, Gregory Galloway fans as well.
You all were probably expecting a lot more. I just am too beat to give that 'more' now. I already put up that speaking roses lecture anyway. But, I loved this book. Truly.
What The Roses Say
In reference to Quote #203.
The quote says that the roses say you do not have to choose. I think McKinley is wrong. I think that if roses could speak, they would say you must choose. That is crucial for you to choose. Roses stand for silence, not love, dear. I think the roses would say 'choose. Choose, before you can't. Choose before it is too late to.'. I think that the roses would say, 'do not make the mistake we did. Choose, before you can no longer speak. Because when you cannot choose, your silence is filled with your regrets'.
In my religion, roses were all formed white. But if grief, my love goddess, Aphrodite, cut her heel on a thorn, and her blood dripped onto the rose, staining it red. She was rushing to the aid of her dying lover, Adonis. She was grieving, not loving. They may have become her sacred flower for that, but make no mistake, it was not for her love. It was for the haste of her feet in grief. Sacred to her for her grief. Not her love. Roses should not stand for love. They should stand for grief, for the ugly emotions in life that make up mortality.
But before there was Adonis, there was the god of silence, Harpocrates. Very hard to dig the dirt on, but I've got it. The rose was given to Harpocrates by Eros, as a bribe for not tattling on his mother. A symbol of dirty secrets.
The roses would say, 'choose. Do not stand in silence'.
The quote says that the roses say you do not have to choose. I think McKinley is wrong. I think that if roses could speak, they would say you must choose. That is crucial for you to choose. Roses stand for silence, not love, dear. I think the roses would say 'choose. Choose, before you can't. Choose before it is too late to.'. I think that the roses would say, 'do not make the mistake we did. Choose, before you can no longer speak. Because when you cannot choose, your silence is filled with your regrets'.
In my religion, roses were all formed white. But if grief, my love goddess, Aphrodite, cut her heel on a thorn, and her blood dripped onto the rose, staining it red. She was rushing to the aid of her dying lover, Adonis. She was grieving, not loving. They may have become her sacred flower for that, but make no mistake, it was not for her love. It was for the haste of her feet in grief. Sacred to her for her grief. Not her love. Roses should not stand for love. They should stand for grief, for the ugly emotions in life that make up mortality.
But before there was Adonis, there was the god of silence, Harpocrates. Very hard to dig the dirt on, but I've got it. The rose was given to Harpocrates by Eros, as a bribe for not tattling on his mother. A symbol of dirty secrets.
The roses would say, 'choose. Do not stand in silence'.
Quote #203
"The rose shadows said that they loved the sun, but that they also loved the dark, where their roots grew through the lightless mystery of the earth. The roses said: you do not have to choose."
~Robin McKinley
~Robin McKinley
Sunday, September 8, 2013
Friday, September 6, 2013
Quote #200
The exciting 200th quote! Just like last time, I'll give you guys a quote from The Girl In Gray. Hope you guys enjoy it, and are happy that we've had this blog for a full two hundred days!
"Tears streamed down my face, my entire body quivering. I sat there, shaking, and remembered. I remembered as only someone who cannot forget can."
~Jacquelyn McIlvain, 'The Girl In Gray'
"Tears streamed down my face, my entire body quivering. I sat there, shaking, and remembered. I remembered as only someone who cannot forget can."
~Jacquelyn McIlvain, 'The Girl In Gray'
Quote #199
"There is a graceless human tendency to wish upon others ills visited upon oneself."
~Michela Wrong
~Michela Wrong
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Quote #196
"Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower in a putrid marsh."
~Henryk Sienkiewicz
~Henryk Sienkiewicz
Sunday, September 1, 2013
Saturday, August 31, 2013
Quote #194
"He grew away from old associations, and saw something new in life and humanity. Secondarily, he made close acquaintance with phenomena which he had before known but darkly-the seasons in their moods, morning and evening, night and noon, winds in their different tempers, trees, waters, and mists, shades and silences, and the voices of inanimate things."
~Thomas Hardy
~Thomas Hardy
Quote #193
"Duty of a citizen to the defective state is to betray it. Because the defective state has already betrayed its citizens."
~Ilkin Santak
~Ilkin Santak
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Quote #192
"You think you've accepted that someone is out of your life, that you've grieved and it's over, and then bam. One little thing, and you feel like you've lost that person all over again."
~Rachel Hawkins
~Rachel Hawkins
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Quote #190
"That voice was a part of who she was-warrior to her core, beautiful disaster...unintentional nightmare."
~Gena Showalter
~Gena Showalter
Monday, August 26, 2013
Quote #189
"I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skill is in their capacity to escalate."
~Markus Zusak
~Markus Zusak
Quote #188
"Because normal human activity is is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history."
~Martin Cruz Smith
~Martin Cruz Smith
Saturday, August 24, 2013
Quote #187
"We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding."
~Rudyard Kipling
~Rudyard Kipling
Friday, August 23, 2013
Quote #185
"They are so frail, humans. So easily crumpled and broken, like flower petals underfoot."
~Jennifer Hudock
~Jennifer Hudock
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Quote #184
"We stumble on, bring a little noise into the silence, find in others the ongoing of ourselves. It is almost enough."
~Colum McCann
~Colum McCann
'City of Bones' Film Review
Hey, guys, I am doing another film review! I couldn't not do one for this movie, though! I'm a Shadowhunter, so it would be borderline disgraceful. Anyway, to the review we get.
GUYS! THERE WILL BE SPOILERS! I'm not going to sensor spoilers! If you have not read the book, or are at least not okay with being spoiled, then you need to LEAVE! Go read the book, see the movie, then come back and read, okay? If you have viewed and read, or are okay with being spoiled, then read on!
The novel City of Bones in the Mortal Instruments series came out as a movie today, and I of course, had to go see it! It was directed by Harald Zwart, Lily Collins played our main character, Clary, and Jamie Campbell Bower played Jace! Simon was played by Robert Sheehan!
This was an amazing movie! I had my issues with Kevin and Jemima before seeing the movie, but the film completely erased all of my doubts! Kevin and Jemima, along with Lily, Jamie, Robbie, Lena, Aidan, and Jonathan, were spectacular! I was just a tad worried about Godfrey being a model and all, but he delivered his lines and character very well. We truly have a wonderful cast.
They didn't say the characters names as often as I would have liked them to. Sometimes I would be sitting there going, when was the last time they called Alec by his name? Simon did a good job of calling Isabelle by her name, though, so that was good.
Harald really stuck to how the book went, for the most part, but every film adaptation has to be a bit different.
The greenhouse scene was amazing. It looked great in the trailers, but it was even better in the real film. Lily and Jamie really do have a wonderful chemistry together, and it is so easy for me to really imagine them as the characters. It was really how I pictured it from the book. It was so SURREAL to see all this that I had been dreaming of coming to life in front of me!
The Madame Dorothea scene was really the only major problem I had, and it was only major compared to my other problems with the movie. It just wasn’t like from the book, and I really wanted it to be more like the scene from the book. I wanted Simon to shoot the skylight,because that was really clever and really how he gained sort of the “trust” of the other Shadowhunters. I wanted Dorothea to change to Abbadon, because that would just have been so amazing to see on the big screen. And, there was no Portal in her apartment, but that wasn’t a big thing for me.
I kind of think that in the beginning to the film, when Jace says that demons can take possession of any living thing, and that you can’t trust anyone, that might have been a bit of a warning to the fans like, ‘hey, we’re not going to put Abbadon in here, we’re just going to make Dorothea herself a demon’.
I loved the whole concept of Bach’s notes! First, you must understand what a big classical music fan I am. I naturally loved that they included Bach in the movie. :P I just really thought that was something really clever of them to include, because it wasn’t in the book. I loved that the double-crossing notes is almost poisonous to demons, and used to detect them! And then Jace, I totally saw him catching onto Dorothea when she told him to leave all of his weapons outside. And then him doing the thing with the piano notes was just so cool to watch! They really did do that scene well, it was just that I really think it would have been very beneficial to have it more like from the novel.
The Simon/Jace/Clary scene broke my heart! And it really was very easy to tell the Shadowhunters from the mundanes in my theater because whenever an important scene came up, or a comment from the book was used, they would ooh and ahh and scream along with me, my sister, Steven, and EG. And me, my sister, and EG dressed up, so I was in black jeans, a black tank, black boots, and all runed up, and when we came into the theater, from the cluster of Shadowhunters I could hear ‘look, they dressed up!’! It was really nice to be around other people from the fandom, though there weren’t as many as I had hoped, and I really did feel very comfortable to be noisy and friendly, because it felt like I was just in my own living room watching a movie with people who didn’t expect me to quiet. I mean, of course I was still respectful, I didn’t scream or anything, I just was noisier than I normally was.
They really didn't give a lot of attention to Alec and Jace being parabatai. The focus seemed to really be on Alec being in love with Jace, which I'm glad that they didn't shy away from Alec being gay, I'm not complaining, but I think it would have added way more depth to both their characters to spend like five minutes explaining parabatai and that bound that they have.
They never mentioned that Magnus’s party was for his cat. Just a minor thing.
When the Portal in the Institute shattered, i really wish there had been a piece left for Jace to pick up, like he did in the book. I would have been fine with it being an ice shard, rather than a glass shard, as long as he had a shard to look at, because that really helps along some of the events in City of Ashes. I mean, after this movie I have lots of faith in the directing crew to think of a way to make those events happen, but I hope that it is still like the book way.
Simon was not turned into a rat. That really was a key type thing, because it added humor to the Hotel Dumort scene. They're about to die fighting, and then the one vampire is like 'what this evil rat? Oh, he's bit like a bijillion times, gosh, just take him!'. Instead, the scene was very, deadly. Which I liked, mind you! I just really liked the scene when Isabelle comes up, 'and is like 'he's rat', and then that whole exchange with Alec and Jace! i wouldn't have minded if we'd seen him turned into a rat, then the vampires had taken him, and he'd changed back at the hotel and they'd tied him up. I just wanted rat-Simon.
I really liked, however, that we saw the bite marks on Simon's shoulder. It was a nice building step to his transformation in City of Ashes, that way they will save some time in explaining all that then. It was really quick, and simple, but it saved time later. That part when Simon was putting his glasses on and off was hilarious! i loved that little bit of humor, then they explained why he didn't need them anymore to the non-readers using the bite-mark as a hint. Very clever.
I know a lot of people have a problem that they told the audience that Jace and Clary are not brother and sister, but I understand it. Incest is a HUGE risk to take, and I don't think people get that. If we want the rest of these movies, this one needs to do well. It was a very subtle way of sneaking it in there, it wasn't like Valentine said, 'I know that the kids aren't related but, Hodge, I'm gonna tell them they are anyway!'. Hodge very sneakily said, 'if you lie to them and say that they are, it will break their hearts'. I understand and agree with their decision to expose the incest plot-line.
This was over-all a great movie. Like a nine-star movie. It was wonderful to Shadowhunters and to non-readers. I love this movie, and highly recommend it.
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Quote #183
"Everybody is talented because everyone who is human has something to express."
~Brenda Ueland
~Brenda Ueland
Quote #182
"I'll measure your words against your actions, and from that I'll prove your worth."
~Jackie Kessler
~Jackie Kessler
Sunday, August 18, 2013
Quote #181
"Though we longed not to be lonely, we also feared the pain it would take us to be brought out of our lonely states. And after that fear, could we be guaranteed that we would never be returned to a state of loneliness again? We could not."
~Edward Carey
~Edward Carey
Saturday, August 17, 2013
Quote #180
"It is of men, and of them only, that one should always be frightened."
~Louis-Ferdinand Celine
~Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Friday, August 16, 2013
Quote #179
"A broken soul is not the absence of beauty, but a cracked and torn soul reeks of the sweet incense it contains."
~C JoyBell C
~C JoyBell C
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Quote #178
"If citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us."
~Carl Sagan
~Carl Sagan
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Quote #176
"Because inside me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains toward freedom...and as hard as I can try, I cannot kill it."
~Veronica Roth
~Veronica Roth
Sunday, August 11, 2013
Quote #174
"It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously."
~Bill Bryson
~Bill Bryson
Saturday, August 10, 2013
Quote #173
"'They didn't understand what they were doing'. I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race."
~Micheal Crichton
~Micheal Crichton
Friday, August 9, 2013
Quote #172
"It is so painfully easy to define human beings. They are beings who, for no good reason at all, create their own unnecessary suffering."
~Soseki Natsume
~Soseki Natsume
Thursday, August 8, 2013
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
'Sea of Monsters' Film Review
This is new, huh? Normally these things come before a book review, but today, I saw the movie, and I am going to right a review! Let's hope this goes well...
There will be spoilers! I'm sorry, but there are just going to be so many, that I'm not going to sensor them. So, if you haven't read the book, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
The novel Sea of Monsters in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series was released as a film today on the big screen! Directed by Thor Fruedenthal, Logan Lerman returned to play Percy, our main character! Alexandra Daddario also came back to play Annabeth(Thank GOD they dyed her hair!), and Brandon T Jackson played Grover again.
This movie was definitely different from the book, as to be expected. However, I am pleased to say it was much better than The Lightning Thief adaptation! So, we open with a voice-over from our beloved Percy, giving us a recap from The Lightning Thief, because, guys, it's been three years and, uh, WE NEED IT. We leave the voice-over, only after a Twilight-worthy tree line shot, and jump right into a prologue of Luke, Annabeth, and Thalia's Grover-guided journey to Camp Half-Blood, and Thalia's sacrifice. (Another recap that we needed, as it was completely cut from the last movie.) We then head straight in to this bizarre, spinning, poking, giant-helmet-topped, what I think was an obstacle course scene.
Grover did not start out captured as he did in the novel, but he was eventually captured, so for the most part I am satisfied with that plot thread. It was key, we got it in some way or another. I loved that they included the coordinates given by the Gray Sisters to Percy. I wish Luke and Hermes looked a bit more like each other, but, that's a really small detail. I did like the actor who played Hermes. We got George and Martha! Oh, they were so wonderful! Not how I pictured them, but they were there! They were in the movie, how can I complain?
A note on the manticore, though, what was it's purpose? They snuck past it once, and then it stabbed Annabeth. I really think we could have achieved the Fleece-healing-Annabeth plot thread differently without adding a weird manticore into the film. Kronus could have threw her, one of Luke's thugs could have stabbed her, we just really could have done something much better. The manticore just felt unneeded and extra. However, the CGI was very well done. That was a definite plus; a lot of the mystical elements looked very real.
What was with this 'Mist in a bottle' thing? Couldn't Tyson have just wore his sunglasses all the time? But, there's a lens over where his right eye should be, and one where his left eye should be, but his one eye is in the middle of his head, so I feel like that would be blinding him.
Uhm, they got swallowed??? What? That never happened, and again, really what was that purpose? We met up with Clarisse. That's it. They could have easily done that differently, but I am glad we got at least one monster in the journey to Polyphemus's island, because we got no other monsters! I was really looking forward to getting my guinea pig scene with Circe, and the Siren scene, where Annabeth has that flashback-type-thingy. I did not get my fatal flaw talk, as I wanted and that I feel was very important to Percy, and Annabeth's, character.
I don't remember Kronus reforming in the Sea of Monsters novel, did he? I did not like Kronus ate Luke! I think that might kind of break some trust when Kronus wants Luke to host him, right? That's not just me? I wouldn't be doing anyone who ate me any favors!
Tyson didn't "die" like he was supposed to, but he did die and come back, so that plot thread was just achieved in a different way, so I'm not going to complain. I still got Grover in a wedding dress, but, did Clarisse pull out a PHONE? Seriously? I'm surprised that Polyphemus wasn't picking up those signals and knew they were there immediately! And before that, Annabeth looked up a cure for Thalia's tree of a TABLET! Electronics, I do not think should have been in the movie at all.
Annabeth was blonde, and I like Alexandra as Annabeth. Logan Lerman was good, don't like that Grover was black only because he wasn't in the book, and they really did modify his character.
It was a much better adaptation than The Lightning Thief, and for that I am very grateful. Good CGI, semi-correct plot, good small details; I am very glad it did not turn out like The Lightning Thief.
There will be spoilers! I'm sorry, but there are just going to be so many, that I'm not going to sensor them. So, if you haven't read the book, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
The novel Sea of Monsters in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series was released as a film today on the big screen! Directed by Thor Fruedenthal, Logan Lerman returned to play Percy, our main character! Alexandra Daddario also came back to play Annabeth(Thank GOD they dyed her hair!), and Brandon T Jackson played Grover again.
This movie was definitely different from the book, as to be expected. However, I am pleased to say it was much better than The Lightning Thief adaptation! So, we open with a voice-over from our beloved Percy, giving us a recap from The Lightning Thief, because, guys, it's been three years and, uh, WE NEED IT. We leave the voice-over, only after a Twilight-worthy tree line shot, and jump right into a prologue of Luke, Annabeth, and Thalia's Grover-guided journey to Camp Half-Blood, and Thalia's sacrifice. (Another recap that we needed, as it was completely cut from the last movie.) We then head straight in to this bizarre, spinning, poking, giant-helmet-topped, what I think was an obstacle course scene.
Grover did not start out captured as he did in the novel, but he was eventually captured, so for the most part I am satisfied with that plot thread. It was key, we got it in some way or another. I loved that they included the coordinates given by the Gray Sisters to Percy. I wish Luke and Hermes looked a bit more like each other, but, that's a really small detail. I did like the actor who played Hermes. We got George and Martha! Oh, they were so wonderful! Not how I pictured them, but they were there! They were in the movie, how can I complain?
A note on the manticore, though, what was it's purpose? They snuck past it once, and then it stabbed Annabeth. I really think we could have achieved the Fleece-healing-Annabeth plot thread differently without adding a weird manticore into the film. Kronus could have threw her, one of Luke's thugs could have stabbed her, we just really could have done something much better. The manticore just felt unneeded and extra. However, the CGI was very well done. That was a definite plus; a lot of the mystical elements looked very real.
What was with this 'Mist in a bottle' thing? Couldn't Tyson have just wore his sunglasses all the time? But, there's a lens over where his right eye should be, and one where his left eye should be, but his one eye is in the middle of his head, so I feel like that would be blinding him.
Uhm, they got swallowed??? What? That never happened, and again, really what was that purpose? We met up with Clarisse. That's it. They could have easily done that differently, but I am glad we got at least one monster in the journey to Polyphemus's island, because we got no other monsters! I was really looking forward to getting my guinea pig scene with Circe, and the Siren scene, where Annabeth has that flashback-type-thingy. I did not get my fatal flaw talk, as I wanted and that I feel was very important to Percy, and Annabeth's, character.
I don't remember Kronus reforming in the Sea of Monsters novel, did he? I did not like Kronus ate Luke! I think that might kind of break some trust when Kronus wants Luke to host him, right? That's not just me? I wouldn't be doing anyone who ate me any favors!
Tyson didn't "die" like he was supposed to, but he did die and come back, so that plot thread was just achieved in a different way, so I'm not going to complain. I still got Grover in a wedding dress, but, did Clarisse pull out a PHONE? Seriously? I'm surprised that Polyphemus wasn't picking up those signals and knew they were there immediately! And before that, Annabeth looked up a cure for Thalia's tree of a TABLET! Electronics, I do not think should have been in the movie at all.
Annabeth was blonde, and I like Alexandra as Annabeth. Logan Lerman was good, don't like that Grover was black only because he wasn't in the book, and they really did modify his character.
It was a much better adaptation than The Lightning Thief, and for that I am very grateful. Good CGI, semi-correct plot, good small details; I am very glad it did not turn out like The Lightning Thief.
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