Regarding the "petition to make young adult authors stop writing about girls who's lives were changed when they met a boy" part, oh please do. I've read so many books like that, and it completely kills the book, even when it's the other way around. Books where the main focus is a relationship between two people who no sub plots are very boring and one sided. See, that is why I didn't like Twilight when I read it. On the other hand I really liked Warm Bodies which may seem a bit strange but I felt that a lot more was at stake in that book rather than a relationship.
The cliche about one persons life being changed by another (in a romantic way) has to stop, it's getting boring.
and I really want that thing about the girl who was going to kill that guy to become a book because I would read the shit out of that
LOL I read the wiki synopsis awhile before I posted that, since you guys talk about it so much but never discuss it in detail. Didn't really tickle my fancy
Aaaaaand let the downthumbs commence.
There are about half a dozen Dexter books out. They tend to run about 300 pages on average which, while I wish they were longer, is probably a plus for most readers.
Might I recommend Tom Clancy and Robert Ludlum, if you haven't read their long list of awesome books already?
I've got and read the Dexter books
Started before I watched the tv series so that was interesting! Have read a couple of Tom Clancy but couldn't quite get into his style. Hmm, Jack Reacher? Not heard of him...
I'm actually about to start the Jack Reacher series, but a couple Covert Ones came out, along with the latest in the Jack Ryan series and a couple others. Anyone else have their fingers crossed that the Jack Ryan movie isn't going to be on par with The Sum of All Fears movie level of suckage and and disregard of source material?
She gathered her confidence knowing this would change everything, she tried to stop herself, but the imiage of him draped so lovingly across the sitting stones in the park, his brown hair and pretty face, frozen forever his letterman jacket ripped, the stabs and cuts that littered his body standing out stark against his white shirt, the dark red of blood spread around him like paint on a canvas....she looked up agian, but....her breath caught " where did he go?! NO!! How is possible? Not when I just found him!" Her heart pounds with dread and pain..."NO!!!!"
The cliche about one persons life being changed by another (in a romantic way) has to stop, it's getting boring.
and I really want that thing about the girl who was going to kill that guy to become a book because I would read the shit out of that
Aaaaaand let the downthumbs commence.
Might I recommend Tom Clancy and Robert Ludlum, if you haven't read their long list of awesome books already?
Started before I watched the tv series so that was interesting! Have read a couple of Tom Clancy but couldn't quite get into his style. Hmm, Jack Reacher? Not heard of him...