'ello from across the Atlantic!
Aug. 6th, 2008 10:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
salienneSo here I am, safe and sound with 16 hours of sleep under my belt (and really annoying vertigo, but I get that often and that's beside the point) in my cousin's apartment. In Moscow. Which is, um, yeah, badass, though the most I've seen of Russia thus far is the airport, tiny elevators that close on you, billboards that are partially in English (there's a really bizarre amount of English everywhere), lots and lots of rain, and Russian TV. See, I haven't actually left the apartment today. First sleeping, now babysitting my grandmother. So, um, yay?
But the plug converter (the one my uncle gave me; the one my dad gave me failed) works, my compy is working, and the wireless works on my laptop. w007.
I am, however, far too lazy to post anything too detailed right now, so instead, here are Breaking Dawn thoughts:
So, yeah, this will probably make you all lose respect, but I enjoyed it. No, it's not the best book ever; I mean, it's a big bundle of really lazy writing that gets rid of any tension beyond, "Bad Guys vs. Our Main Characters," but it does keep you gripped once you get there.
But the point of the book is to make everyone happy and to end up with Daddy Vamp!Edward and Mommy Vamp!Bella having hot sex before getting themselves together and cuddling with their family and baby, and while there is a sadly large amount of "Fade to Sparkly Black", that's what we got. And I'm a sucker for happy endings right now, no matter how easy. And damn it but her vampire world, even if badly used, is pretty damn cool. And Bella actually didn't annoy me this book, and Jacob was (most of the time, anyway) the voice of sanity, and he was fun. And Meyer didn't spend her time worrying about whether parts were too squicky, though what was squicky was acknowledged. As an author, that does take guts.
So as long as I limit myself to giggling at the really easy resolutions to love triangles, Jacob's angst, newborn!Bella, Charlie, and almost anything that did not have to do with the Renesmee plot, I'm good. Because the book made me smile, and I refuse to become invested in this series in any other way. :D
Also, Tennyson was mentioned, and this made me think of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rosa_acicularis and giggle.
ETA: My grandmother has textbook GAD. I wonder if there is any way to treat 86-year-old women who can't speak English.
But the plug converter (the one my uncle gave me; the one my dad gave me failed) works, my compy is working, and the wireless works on my laptop. w007.
I am, however, far too lazy to post anything too detailed right now, so instead, here are Breaking Dawn thoughts:
So, yeah, this will probably make you all lose respect, but I enjoyed it. No, it's not the best book ever; I mean, it's a big bundle of really lazy writing that gets rid of any tension beyond, "Bad Guys vs. Our Main Characters," but it does keep you gripped once you get there.
But the point of the book is to make everyone happy and to end up with Daddy Vamp!Edward and Mommy Vamp!Bella having hot sex before getting themselves together and cuddling with their family and baby, and while there is a sadly large amount of "Fade to Sparkly Black", that's what we got. And I'm a sucker for happy endings right now, no matter how easy. And damn it but her vampire world, even if badly used, is pretty damn cool. And Bella actually didn't annoy me this book, and Jacob was (most of the time, anyway) the voice of sanity, and he was fun. And Meyer didn't spend her time worrying about whether parts were too squicky, though what was squicky was acknowledged. As an author, that does take guts.
So as long as I limit myself to giggling at the really easy resolutions to love triangles, Jacob's angst, newborn!Bella, Charlie, and almost anything that did not have to do with the Renesmee plot, I'm good. Because the book made me smile, and I refuse to become invested in this series in any other way. :D
Also, Tennyson was mentioned, and this made me think of
rosa_acicularis and giggle.ETA: My grandmother has textbook GAD. I wonder if there is any way to treat 86-year-old women who can't speak English.