Mrs. Cindy Gill

bristle (in conjunction with cats and moustaches and braidsand shawls and moods and all kinds of things)

cat (both in conjunction with bristle and on its own - the man either loved or hated cats, i can't really tell)

he mentioned bottoms quite a bit as well.

My point was that some people actually read the series and feel that she is a proper role model ...

oh. those people are just wrong. wolfboy is the correct choice. bella's a silly goose.

my personal reaction to bella (that's the twilight girl?) is a microcosm of my reaction to the whole awful thing. i don't read millions of words about her and hate her. i get bella'd against my will by a youngster, and pretty much hate the whole experience, especially as exemplified by the character of bella, who has to be the worst young female role model since the little mermaid. if she was written better i might hate her as i might (but hopefully wouldn't) hate an actual human being. i hate everyone in the movies, and wouldn't willingly subject myself to the books.

except that werewolf boy, cause he's pretty cute. and what the hell is bella thinking going for the pale wasted junkie vampire guy who treats her like crap when she could have that adorable, warm, big shaggy puppy boy with the dopey look on his face.

what was my point? um. . . oh, yeah. my point was, for someone who actually likes reading the series, the apparently genuine hatred of a fictional character within it seems to speak to the depths of immersion in the world that the writing creates. cause i can't think of another good reason for anyone to get so angry about pretend people.

imo. just mine.

i think it says something about how well the characters are written that people respond to them as if they were real.

thumb or wrist thick arm length rod

i admire the way you let negativity roll off your back.

have you read TGS yet? if so, what do you think of the transition between authors? whose style do you prefer?

i was surprised to note that the overhwelming majority cross under. i would have guessed over, but apparently RJ's more observant than me.

 

Or his attention was just focussed differently.

both, i'm sure.

twitch [one's] shawl, sniff, spank, paddle [one's] bottom, loom

(and it would make a good drinking game as well as fridge magnets)

i know the girls aren't very popular around here, but i think they're very well written very young women, as the boys are very well written very young men. with a lot more power and responsibility than most people their age. they all have issues learning to deal with that power and responsibility gracefully, like real people do. i might not want to spend much time with any of them if they were real people, but i do enjoy reading about them most of the time. i like almost every character that's part of the main stories.

oh, and on another note, i think from this thread or one very much like it, i paid extra attention to the duggar show this week (yes, i admit it, i watch really stupid TV shows) to see whether they cross their arms over or under. i was surprised to note that the overhwelming majority cross under. i would have guessed over, but apparently RJ's more observant than me.

granted.

 

I swear, if someone listed all the words in the Wheel of Time in order of the amount of times they've been used, "breast", "bosom", and "bottom" would be in the top 10, along with "sniff" and "wool-headed".

these (and the rest of the top 100 most frequent words) would actually make a decent set of fridge magnets. someone should do this. please, i will buy it. thanks.

I think in the hands of a different author the meat and heart of the series could have been done in about 8 books.

the hands of a different author would have been unable to extricate the "meat and the heart of the series" from the actual author's mind.

this was, is, and G-d willing, always will be, RJ's story, and this is the way he told it. he is the creator of this particular little universe. there are definitely things that frustrate me about it, and there are definitely valid criticisms to be made, as there are of any work - perfection isn't a human quality.

i'm a fairly critical person, so i do get the frustration y'all are expressing, and i've expressed it myself.

but the suggestion that someone else would have done a better job with RJ's story, his life's work, just seems insulting to his memory, to his work, and to those of us who, despite all criticism, love both. imo, anyway.

kramer and reading don't pronounce a lot of the proper nouns correctly. i would know this even if i hadn't heard that it annoyed RJ, because they constantly change some pronunciations, often in the same books, and even more from book to book. since they're made up names, and RJ was not particularly clear in the glossaries, i just pronounce them how i like. no cad-swan-ays for me, thank you.

the names that are derived from more familiar names like guinivere (apologies for my spelling which has nothing to do with audiobook listening), arthur, merlin, etc., i tend to pronounce closer to the source.

going through harry potter again in the car, jane eyre at home and emma at work.

 

Tell me it gets better.

 

Tell me it's all worth it!

it gets better.

but no, it's not worth it to waste one moment of life reading something you're not enjoying. it's not mandatory, there aren't any tests. life is short. maybe some day you'll feel like picking it back up.