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turtletime's Reviews (265)
I didn't see that coming omg can't wait to read Odin's Ravens.
DNF 70%, it's poorly written, immature, pointlessly embroidered, and following the pages, I didn't care anymore to know the issue of the plot.
Sad that the last part of the book was too rushed and poorly written like a shopping list. The start of the book was well written, with a lot of details that brought me back to the movie, what I expect from a novelization. It's just the last part, the most important part of the storyline of The Force Awakens, and it was so dull.
I have FINALLY finished this book !!
Not to say it was bad, the memoir itself was pretty interesting, how Clane escaped from the hippie life of her mother and later her father during her youth, and she was pretty brave at her age. But as a not native english speaker, it was kinda hard to read a book without quotation marks. When there was a dialogue I had to read several times the page to understand what's going on in the chapters etc. But that is only my personal opinion, as a non-english speaker.
Not to say it was bad, the memoir itself was pretty interesting, how Clane escaped from the hippie life of her mother and later her father during her youth, and she was pretty brave at her age. But as a not native english speaker, it was kinda hard to read a book without quotation marks. When there was a dialogue I had to read several times the page to understand what's going on in the chapters etc. But that is only my personal opinion, as a non-english speaker.
This is a semi-helpful book. I rated it 3/5 because there are still some good points and for the thought that Elizabeth Gilbert wanted to something well but actually... didn't.
Let's be honest, I think every artist has its way to live its own creativity, and of course it needs a hard work and a minimum of trust. But we can't be trustful everyday in what we're doing, there will always be moments of doubts and in my opinion, that's what make artists who they are. What is the point of this book if it's to say to "follow our dreams" in the first part than to later say "this may never happen to you like it did to me, don't quit your day job blablabla" ? "Big Magic" was more telling about how she lives her own creativity, how she writes her books than to encouraging young artists. And also she thing that she sees creatvity as something magical let the reader think that she's part from a cult (okay i may exaggerate). This is a book full of contradiction, full of selfishness and it is probably not intentional, like I said she wanted to do it well but for me it failed in many points. If it helped young/debutants artists in research of their abilities then that's good for them, as a reader/aspiring writer I closed this book with the thought that it didn't change my idea of art. I expected the book to be neutral.
There are still good points though, first of all what she said about perfectionnism, about the fears, the perseverance and the fact we don't need any permission to do what we want to do. But that are obvious things, we don't work in a single finger snap (well, when i see some published books (not gonna quote them *cough*) it seems like so). The first part of the book was inspiring and interesting if in the second part she wasn't saying the entire opposite, and that was disappointed. There was so much potetial but she lost herself by most of the time quoting her famous author friends and was always boasting her success. That's the opposite of helpful in my opinion.
In conclusion, she wasn't joking when she said "she wrote the book for herself", but anyway in this case the title of the book must be changed.
Let's be honest, I think every artist has its way to live its own creativity, and of course it needs a hard work and a minimum of trust. But we can't be trustful everyday in what we're doing, there will always be moments of doubts and in my opinion, that's what make artists who they are. What is the point of this book if it's to say to "follow our dreams" in the first part than to later say "this may never happen to you like it did to me, don't quit your day job blablabla" ? "Big Magic" was more telling about how she lives her own creativity, how she writes her books than to encouraging young artists. And also she thing that she sees creatvity as something magical let the reader think that she's part from a cult (okay i may exaggerate). This is a book full of contradiction, full of selfishness and it is probably not intentional, like I said she wanted to do it well but for me it failed in many points. If it helped young/debutants artists in research of their abilities then that's good for them, as a reader/aspiring writer I closed this book with the thought that it didn't change my idea of art. I expected the book to be neutral.
There are still good points though, first of all what she said about perfectionnism, about the fears, the perseverance and the fact we don't need any permission to do what we want to do. But that are obvious things, we don't work in a single finger snap (well, when i see some published books (not gonna quote them *cough*) it seems like so). The first part of the book was inspiring and interesting if in the second part she wasn't saying the entire opposite, and that was disappointed. There was so much potetial but she lost herself by most of the time quoting her famous author friends and was always boasting her success. That's the opposite of helpful in my opinion.
In conclusion, she wasn't joking when she said "she wrote the book for herself", but anyway in this case the title of the book must be changed.
What the actual f*ck was that book? I mean... it started so well and the more i go through the story, the more it make no more sense at all. Like i said, when i read the summary, i expected something like The Day After Tomorrow, and it wasn't something like that. Anyway, the message of the story was interested, the fact that humans without needs (type of power like electricity, water etc) return into the state of beast is understandable, but it wasn't well builded, it was a mess of everything and it was like the author didn't know what to write in the end. I put 2 stars because I liked the beginning of the book but that's it, for me it's more like a 1,5.
Not gonna lie i expected better. Tho whole plot was good and action packed but the last 50 pages were boring and predictable so. It was nice to read but this is not going to be one of my favorite series ever.
DNF : 57%
Some short stories are interesting, other are boring. Though the writing of Cassie's still awesome it's been a year i have That book on my "currently Reading" list and i'm very lazy to continue. I'm not on the "Shadowhunters" hype anymore i have to admit it so, maybe i'll read it again another time but for now it will stay on my library. (btw rating: 2,5 precisely)
Some short stories are interesting, other are boring. Though the writing of Cassie's still awesome it's been a year i have That book on my "currently Reading" list and i'm very lazy to continue. I'm not on the "Shadowhunters" hype anymore i have to admit it so, maybe i'll read it again another time but for now it will stay on my library. (btw rating: 2,5 precisely)