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David Levithan, you shall be my new god. TELL EVERYONE, GUYS. WE'RE CONVERTING THE WORLD INTO LEVITHISM.

Ah, there's the plot. I couldn't find it anywhere.

I can't imagine reading this as it was orignally written. It's good,don't get me wrong, but this doesn't seem like the kind of thing that would keep followers when you had to wait a whole week for the next chapter. Not enough is happening for that - or, at least, not enough is happening for it to survive with that format in the present day.

God, I hate Kendall so much. She's like Nudge from Maximum Ride; nothing more than a caricature of a girly girl.

I've just made an account with BookLikes, since that's where a lot of GR's reviewers have been going. The site is far less user-friendly, it lacks the vast majority of the features that make GoodReads cool, and it uses (bad) graphics to distract from the fact that it kind of sucks. But, you're allowed to call authors assholes there, so it's automatically better!

Goddamnit, Charles Dickens is such a good writer. And Pip is such a well-realized character. This is easily the best classic I've read for this class - I was worried that they'd all suck.

Why do all fantasy books I've read lately have infodumps? Seriously, it's such an annoying and pointless trope - not good worldbuilding at all.

Holy shit. This is really, really good already. David Levithan has such a unique writing style, and he captured A's voice so well.

Alright, I promised I would just write my opinion in the piece of writing I wrote and stay out of everything else, so I'll keep this quick. But you wanna know something cool? Any time anybody blocks any information is censorship. So when you say you're opposed to all of GR's censorship, you're saying you're opposed to it taking down nude pictures and spam. I'm just saying...

This book has no plot. For all its faults, at least The Good Earth was somewhere this point in the story - here, we're basically in the same position we were at the start of the story.

I don't like the way that Rourke kind of made fun of the idea of moral complexity, and not wanting to kill people. Not a good sign.

This is... alright, I guess. The writing is pretty good, and the characters have personalities, but they don't act much like real people. And the plot hasn't really kicked off yet. Meh.

These characters don't really act like real people, more like cartoon characters. There's a lot of kicking people in annoyance and nervous stammering and suchlike.

I actually met Rourke at DragonCon, and she signed the book for me! Yay! Anyway, I've been told that it's similar to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I should be skeptical, because the last time an author got me to read her book because it was similar to something else I liked, it turned out to be horrible, but I'm pretty excited.

This makes NO SENSE WHATSOEVER. I know Klein wanted to throw in a big twist, but that was just nonsensical.

I don't like judging writing from before the 1900's, because I know so little about how people talked back then. But this is really well written.

We appear to be reaching no dramatic climax, although I suppose it might be too soon to tell. Or maybe I'm just being cynical because the rest of this book was so bad.

Very little of interest is happening. I'm not quite ready to go down the 'fuck required reading' road, but this book could certainly be better.

Why does every other line of dialogue end with an ellipsis? And why do some of the ellipses have four periods?

Angst, angst.
We're falling apart to half-time.
Angst, angst.
Yeah, these are the lives you'd love to lead.
Angst.
This is the way they'd love if they knew how misery loved me.

This is a very angsty book, is what I'm trying to say.

And now, Robyn has used the word 'retarded' casually, without anyone pointing out how fucked up that is. *sighs*

Recently, it was announced that a TV studio has acquired the rights to make Gone into a TV show, and that it has a good chance of being green lit. Now, I don't want to get my hopes up, because the last time one of Grant's books got adapted into a TV show, it was a horrific disgrace to the series. But I'm really, really excited about this.

Much as I like this, I do wish that Jamie was fleshed out better. Nikki and Angel aren't that bad, but Jamie is a huge caricature.

That action scene wasn't actually that bad; not well-written, but at least suspenseful.

ANGST, ANGST, ANGST! Not that that's a bad thing, mind you.

This worldbuilding is ridiculously complex, to the point that I can't keep track of it. Harry Potter and Den of Shadows and The Mortal Instruments built their worlds gradually; Klein drops all of it on us at once, making it far harder to comprehend it all.

This isn't nearly as wordy as I expected. I mean, yeah, Dickens uses more words than he needs to, but it's no worse than anyone else from the era.

Alright, so I've been trying to express my opinion in this whole controversy, but I just tend to piss people off. So, I'll stop. Here's my opinion: http://www.goodreads.com/story/show/3... I'll just leave it at that and stop intruding on your private threads with my objectively wrong opinion.

Remember back when I could get sixty pages done on a typical school day? Those were the days...

I gotta say, the characters aren't really interesting. They're universally one-note, and nobody has a real character arc. I feel like Robyn is supposed to come across as quirky and fun, but she's just a cliche.