周 烨 từ Chanchai, Bangladesh

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04/27/2024

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周 烨 Sách lại (10)

2019-03-29 20:31

Nhà Nông Kinh Doanh Và Quản Lý Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả

Simply put, don't read this book. I know I promised myself I was going to stop reading so much Young Adult Fiction, but how could I resist this book after seeing that gorgeous preview for the film with Amanda Seyfried gliding across the snow with that bright red, velvet cloak trailing behind her in the billowing wind? I only wish the book lived up to that scene. I actually purchased the book first for a friend as a gift, not realizing that the book itself was not an original novel but a novelized adaptation of the original screenplay responsible for that beautiful movie scene I just described above. My friend loved the book, so she lent it to me to give it a try. The story itself is engaging, a fact which we can hardly credit novice writer Blakely-Cartwright for since she was using someone else's plot to support her messy web of cringe-inducing similes (at one point she compared a shared history between two romantically linked characters as being a smooth, polished egg. I'm still chewing that one over.) and dizzying jumps in points of view. It was a very bold thing of Blakely-Cartwright to choose omniscient third person, and it made it completely impossible for me to keep up with who was an important character and who was not. Several scenes in the book were no more than two sentences long and from a character's point of view we'd never heard before - an unnecessary and distracting addition that kept breaking my attention away from several of the truly great and well-described scenes in the book. As if the poor writing weren't criminal enough, this book is actually - TRULY - incomplete! The last sentence of the book is a cliffhanger - is the person she suspects of being the Wolf truly a monster? Or has she guessed wrong? Unfortunately, as the book's website jauntily informs me, the final (so-called "bonus") chapter will be released ONLINE a few days after the movie is released in theaters. Perhaps I missed some trend in popular culture wherein it is ACCEPTABLE to sell a book to an audience without informing them that it is unfinished? Nowhere on the cover of the book is any warning that the book you are about to spend actual, hard currency on is incomplete and therefore completely worthless in terms of re-read value. What do they expect their customers to do? Print out the bonus chapter, fold it into a neat little square, and then Scotch tape it into the back of their book?! It's a cheap, infuriating scam to get people to go see the movie so they can find out the ending - a laughable premise since I can almost guarantee you every person who bought the book did so with every intention of seeing the movie afterwards. I seriously doubt someone weighed the options over in their head and decided they'd rather spend $10 on the book version rather than $7 on a movie ticket. I certainly wish I'd done it the other way around.

Người đọc 周 烨 từ Chanchai, Bangladesh

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.