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XVI (XVI, #1)
by Julia Karr (Goodreads Author)
by Julia Karr (Goodreads Author)
I get that this is 140 years in the future, but why did this feel so dumb? For one thing, we never found out what happened to create this very superficial, tiered society. And I still find it hard to accept. It was basically government/media fear-mongering.
Where did the 16/sex-teen thing come from? Do you honestly expect us to believe that you were able to unite most of the world into large, controlled chunks? If space travel is a common thing now, how does shooting coffins into the sky *not* contribute to damaging space junk?
If Nina's grandparents (who MUST have been born no earlier that 2050, and that's really stretching it--2080 is more likely) grew up after *now* when I am used to computers and technology, why do they act like stereotypical inept grandparents from now? (EDIT: According to the second book [my review] her grandparents are 87 and 85, meaning they were born in 2063 and 2065. If a toddler in 2012 can use an iphone...) How the heck did you convince millions of people to abandon all religion?
Why don't women have rights anymore? WTF is "reassimilation" and how does it work when you are not a robot? Why did the author think that "trannies" and "trans" were good things to call taxis? DOES SHE NOT KNOW WHAT THAT IS TO A MODERN AUDIENCE? Why the heck haven't people gotten suspicious of a giant government-sponsored sex slave trade every year?
IT MAKES NO SENSE.
I am not even going to touch on the dominant XVI/six=sex thing. It's dumb, and there are probably other reviewers who rant on it if you are feeling similarly.
But can I just point out that Nina is FIFTEEN and SIXTEEN and TEENAGERS IT IS NOT LOVE. STOP IT. YOU ARE YOUNG AND DUMB.
Where did the 16/sex-teen thing come from? Do you honestly expect us to believe that you were able to unite most of the world into large, controlled chunks? If space travel is a common thing now, how does shooting coffins into the sky *not* contribute to damaging space junk?
If Nina's grandparents (who MUST have been born no earlier that 2050, and that's really stretching it--2080 is more likely) grew up after *now* when I am used to computers and technology, why do they act like stereotypical inept grandparents from now? (EDIT: According to the second book [my review] her grandparents are 87 and 85, meaning they were born in 2063 and 2065. If a toddler in 2012 can use an iphone...) How the heck did you convince millions of people to abandon all religion?
Why don't women have rights anymore? WTF is "reassimilation" and how does it work when you are not a robot? Why did the author think that "trannies" and "trans" were good things to call taxis? DOES SHE NOT KNOW WHAT THAT IS TO A MODERN AUDIENCE? Why the heck haven't people gotten suspicious of a giant government-sponsored sex slave trade every year?
IT MAKES NO SENSE.
I am not even going to touch on the dominant XVI/six=sex thing. It's dumb, and there are probably other reviewers who rant on it if you are feeling similarly.
But can I just point out that Nina is FIFTEEN and SIXTEEN and TEENAGERS IT IS NOT LOVE. STOP IT. YOU ARE YOUNG AND DUMB.
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Reading Progress
| 01/18/2012 | page 10 |
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3.0% | "GAH!" |
| 01/18/2012 | page 25 |
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8.0% | "For as much as this author is using acronyms and made-up words, they need to be EXPLAINED. Also: holographic statues are a really stupid idea." |
| 01/18/2012 | page 82 |
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25.0% | "I hate the phrase "one of the only." IF IT IS THE ONLY IT CANNOT HAVE MULTIPLES." |
| 01/18/2012 | page 120 |
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37.0% | "Sal has no use." |
| 01/18/2012 | page 121 |
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37.0% | "This world doesn't feel very well-thought-out. Even 140 years in the future, this feels like it's just so fake plastic plot-device-y." |
| 01/19/2012 | page 194 |
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60.0% | "The grandparents in this story would have to have been born at least 50 years from now. How the HECK are they portrayed as the same old, technologically-inept grandparents of today born in the 1940s? THIS MAKES NO SENSE." |
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Jan 19, 2012 12:23pm
I hated this bloody book so much. >:(
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Merle wrote: "I hated this bloody book so much. >:("You know, I remembered that you did and the reasons for it, but I was still hoping that maybe there was something worthwhile or interesting. BUT THERE WAS NOT.
