GOD SERIOUSLY like for one animorphs isn't really grossly sexist, which is a zillion points right there, for another it acknowledges that sometimes there are no easy answers and sometimes good people do bad things and I COULD GO ON BASICALLY FOREVER.
i also would generally agree i guess that HP is better-written, but i also think that writers who write in a very conversational first-person style, especially in children's/YA lit, don't get enough credit for what they do. it's a lot harder than it looks to write books that simultaneously feel like an adolescent is talking to you (and i've definitely read YA books where it feels more like an adult TRYING to sound like an adolescent) and also manage to be intelligent and convey really powerful emotions. it's hard to do that in really simple language. it definitely goes up and down a lot, and some of the ghostwritten books are just awful, but i also feel like there are some really great moments, writing-wise, that most people wouldn't think to consider "good writing" because they don't take into account how hard it is to achieve that effect.
also i mean nothing but nothing in HP hits me as hard as this book does, or as 22 does, or the ending of 10 when erek goes back to his original programming, or even the very first book when it turns out tom is a controller, and tobias gets stuck in morph. or hell, 30, i mean no one in HP spends 100 pages trying to kill their own mother.
haha AS YOU CAN SEE I HAVE SOME VERY STRONG FEELINGS ON THE SUBJECT.
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Date: 2010-03-02 12:15 pm (UTC)i also would generally agree i guess that HP is better-written, but i also think that writers who write in a very conversational first-person style, especially in children's/YA lit, don't get enough credit for what they do. it's a lot harder than it looks to write books that simultaneously feel like an adolescent is talking to you (and i've definitely read YA books where it feels more like an adult TRYING to sound like an adolescent) and also manage to be intelligent and convey really powerful emotions. it's hard to do that in really simple language. it definitely goes up and down a lot, and some of the ghostwritten books are just awful, but i also feel like there are some really great moments, writing-wise, that most people wouldn't think to consider "good writing" because they don't take into account how hard it is to achieve that effect.
also i mean nothing but nothing in HP hits me as hard as this book does, or as 22 does, or the ending of 10 when erek goes back to his original programming, or even the very first book when it turns out tom is a controller, and tobias gets stuck in morph. or hell, 30, i mean no one in HP spends 100 pages trying to kill their own mother.
haha AS YOU CAN SEE I HAVE SOME VERY STRONG FEELINGS ON THE SUBJECT.