Vampire Academy: VA all the way discussion
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Twilight or Vampire Academy?
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April
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Jun 30, 2009 09:43AM
i live all of those series
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Ali (Ali is short for Alexandria) wrote: "dus that make sense?? sorry it took me a while to reply!"we missed u!
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Another popular one is the Rachel Morgan Series but it's a tad more adult than YA.
...no... but i know what it is now i'm gonna buy it soon
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About a girl who gets drawn into this world, the fallout from a megalomaniac in the past who tried to pull "The Ultimate Race" card instead of the dutiful protector of all humanity.
Great character development, plot twists, littered with clues, romantic triangles, secrets slowly revealed about the different characters.
Sometimes, the bad guy is so charming you can't help but agree...
And of course Jace is a cocky bad boy while Edward is a pretty boy Emo.
Clary is strong willed compared to Bella who is frantically led by her emotions and her whole identity revolves around her love/obsession for Edward.
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Rachel Morgan is a witch working for the mystical FBI, dealing with a temporary Vampire and Pixie partners, bad luck with men, messed up childhood coming back to haunt her, and on the fast track to hell in a hand basket.
One of my favorite technique this author used is beginning each book with a "here's her life now, normal every day", ending it with a "looking back at what's changed", and she'd take bits of seemingly everyday occurrences from older books and that becomes a driving force in the next book.
Similar to what Rowling did with Potter though she started each book with a view into Voldemort.
Character growth, Rachel's a stubborn, bratty, and cocky agent, with a taste for danger. So she grows for better or worse with each book, character flaws, enlightenment into her own personality, developing personal goals.
You spend a lot of time in her head, what she's thinking, why she's doing what she's doing, good or bad decisions, and of course kicking ass.
I think Vampire Acaemy is way better than Twilight and I'm hoping that they make a Vampire Academy Movie.
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I think that it would be a really bad movie cause they would skip a lot of parts.
ya, theres so much theyd have to cover, they would probly cut down a meeting or two between Rose and Mia or something
yeah like they did in twilight took so much out :{
Arekusu wrote: "Last Olympian: What do you mean where is A?"i nicknamed u A is that OK? o and col me TLO
Arekusu wrote: "And added things..."yea it was horrible!
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I was referring more to the "where is" part
yeah thay added stuff are you wanting things added or where u just saying they added things
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they would have 2 cut a lot of scenes if they made VA into a movie. and if they make SK into a movie, they r gonna have 2 cut some of the stuff @ the royal court and some mason sightings....
how would they do and show mason?
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And the royal court, sounds easy enough.
If magic was involved, it'd make me think of Harry Potter, or maybe Dungeons and Dragon.
The Glass City from Mortal Instruments sounds much more elaborate.
And the Twisted Citadel from The Darkglass Mountain rises from one of the largest mountains in the world, glowing in the darkness like an apparition, it's walls like crystal, gleaming, reflecting the strength of Elcho Falling.
Well i guess then they shouldn't make a movie because then they would ruin the whole book.
pretty mush every movie they make and will make will and has ruined a book
i know and everything is important they can't skip anything or it be confusing
yeah and horrible to everyone who has read it
yes cuz they need to understand the story not drool over the characterscuz thats what i do with twlight i don't understand i just think she's horny for him but idc i just stare at Taylor...
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A book can be a journal into someone's thoughts, following them like a ghost as they go about their adventure. It allows us to feel what the characters are feeling, their joy, their sorrow, surprise, anger, rage, frustration, impotence, determination, love, hate.
Some books walk you through a world like a poet, who paints every minutia in colorful exaggeration, wow you with vocabulary, impress you with vivid images.
Then there are books that lay out like a history book, throwing major events past you to give you a scope of a larger epic.
Hollywood Movies can't do that effectively, they are constrained by time and pander to the lowest denominator of society, that has low attention span, desire sex, blood, and gore, cheesy romance, and cliche so they don't have to think.
If you view books as a storyteller that lets you live another life; but movies, movies are your imagination brought to screen. When you read, you read what happens, you imagine how it happened, how everyone looks. The movies are there to show you how it happened, how everyone looks.
If you accept movies as merely a visual wow, instead of trying to convey a story in 1.5 hours to 3 hours, you won't be as disappointed.
Now you can watch a movie first, get the images in your mind, don't focus too much on the story, and then read the book, to get a more complete view of the world of what happened and be able to create the images more firmly in your mind.
Or you can read the book first, live out their lives, and use the movie as an enhancement, like reminiscing on what once was. Personally I like a few guide pictures with my book.
thats great to say but i do agree Taylor is great looking and i read to escape from reality i always feel like im that person like im them and i feel what they feel
TOO MANY COMMENTS! AHHHH!!!!! MY BRAIN IS MELTING DURING THE SUMMER!!!IVE BEEN LOCKED UP IN MY ROOM WATCHING ANIME ALL DAY!!! I DONT WANNA READ!
Well its true, Im all smart during school, but then during summer my brain melts! It doesnt help when I only watch anime all day and my mom has to drag me out of my room when we go somewhere
April wrote: "thats great to say but i do agree Taylor is great looking and i read to escape from reality i always feel like im that person like im them and i feel what they feel"that is soo true. That why i read.
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I feel the same.
Luna wrote: "TOO MANY COMMENTS! AHHHH!!!!! MY BRAIN IS MELTING DURING THE SUMMER!!!IVE BEEN LOCKED UP IN MY ROOM WATCHING ANIME ALL DAY!!! I DONT WANNA READ!"luna!!! ur gonna kill urself! get out! i mean go out with ur boyfriend or girlfriends!!!! AND HAV FUN!!!
