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poparena.livejournal.comFinally! The book we've all been waiting for! The book where Ax eats a lot of cotton candy and crashes a Hork-Bajir card game!
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Lyric analysis: "Iris" by Goo Goo Dolls
Sep. 30th, 2012 07:42 pmtobiahawk.livejournal.comSo, some months ago, some brilliant LJer (unfortunately, I can't remember who--if it was you, come and take credit!) figured out that "Iris" was probably the slow, popular Goo Goo Dolls song that Rachel and Tobias were dancing to at the school dance in 33. After listening to the lyrics, I think it actually fits wonderfully with the scene and the characters. Accordingly, I wrote up a Rachel-centric lyric analysis for it.
( Lyrics and intepretation )
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Thoughts?
( Lyrics and intepretation )
( Video with lyrics )
Thoughts?
Series Re-Read #33 The Illusion
Feb. 28th, 2010 11:12 pmbuffyangellvr23.livejournal.comThe anti-morphing ray is still in development, and still has to be stopped. So the group comes up with a plan. Tobias will morph Ax and get himself captured. When he demorphs to hawk, the Yeerks will hit him with the ray and think it doesn't work.
I have a hard time re-reading this one because of all the angst.
Do you think they did adequate follow-up with this book, handled Tobias's aftermath well enough? I'm not sure what I think.
Taylor's an interesting character, the whole Yeerk/host merging thingy that we find out about her. And of course she comes back in The Test.
Also interesting that Tobias didn't want to kill her in the end...I suppose he didn't want Rachel to kill her if she wasn't a direct threat anymore...if they weren't defending themselves or something like that.
I have a hard time re-reading this one because of all the angst.
Do you think they did adequate follow-up with this book, handled Tobias's aftermath well enough? I'm not sure what I think.
Taylor's an interesting character, the whole Yeerk/host merging thingy that we find out about her. And of course she comes back in The Test.
Also interesting that Tobias didn't want to kill her in the end...I suppose he didn't want Rachel to kill her if she wasn't a direct threat anymore...if they weren't defending themselves or something like that.
Series Re-read # 33 The Illusion
Dec. 21st, 2008 10:29 pmbuffyangellvr23.livejournal.com(I don't have the book with me to transcribe the back cover info)
The anti-morphing ray is still a threat and the group comes up with a plan to deal with it. Tobias will let himself get caught as an Andalite, and then demorph to hawk, making the yeerks think the ray is powerless. But the plan goes wrong when a controller girl named Taylor gets him and tortures him.
I love the aspect of Tobias getting in touch with his Andalite heritage despite not sharing actual DNA, and the utzum thing. Taylor will prove a interesting character between now and when we meet her again.
Was the plan thought out well enough? Things go wrong easily in any war plan, but I wonder if the torture could have been avoided or no.
Follow up: Not much. Should there have been more follow up on Tobias's effects from this. He's got to have some PTSD later on. I actually wrote a short R/T piece set after the end of the book but not sure what happened to it.
This is another book I can't bring myself to read again 'cause it's painful lol
hmm Prompt...pain and pleasure
You should all know the rules by now, I hope
Next week: The Prophecy
Oh and Visser is advertised for the first time in this book. So we're sure, it's Prophecy, Proposal, Vissser, right?
The anti-morphing ray is still a threat and the group comes up with a plan to deal with it. Tobias will let himself get caught as an Andalite, and then demorph to hawk, making the yeerks think the ray is powerless. But the plan goes wrong when a controller girl named Taylor gets him and tortures him.
I love the aspect of Tobias getting in touch with his Andalite heritage despite not sharing actual DNA, and the utzum thing. Taylor will prove a interesting character between now and when we meet her again.
Was the plan thought out well enough? Things go wrong easily in any war plan, but I wonder if the torture could have been avoided or no.
Follow up: Not much. Should there have been more follow up on Tobias's effects from this. He's got to have some PTSD later on. I actually wrote a short R/T piece set after the end of the book but not sure what happened to it.
This is another book I can't bring myself to read again 'cause it's painful lol
hmm Prompt...pain and pleasure
You should all know the rules by now, I hope
Next week: The Prophecy
Oh and Visser is advertised for the first time in this book. So we're sure, it's Prophecy, Proposal, Vissser, right?
#33 - The Illusion
Jul. 12th, 2006 02:08 amchicafrom3.livejournal.comSorry, I just couldn't get this thought out of my head.
I quite like #33. It's possibly one of my favorites of the series. Tobias, torture, Taylor's pretty cool, blurs the lines even more...
But from a literary standpoint, #33 would be much better if it could make up its mind whether Taylor is meant to be a dramatic foil for Tobias or Rachel.
Discuss.
(It would also be much better if it would make the point it wants to make about Tobias's sanity, instead of going for the cop-out ending of "Rachel's love will make it all better". But that would probably be way too much of a downer for a book aimed at 11-year-olds.)
...*resumes lurking*
I quite like #33. It's possibly one of my favorites of the series. Tobias, torture, Taylor's pretty cool, blurs the lines even more...
But from a literary standpoint, #33 would be much better if it could make up its mind whether Taylor is meant to be a dramatic foil for Tobias or Rachel.
Discuss.
(It would also be much better if it would make the point it wants to make about Tobias's sanity, instead of going for the cop-out ending of "Rachel's love will make it all better". But that would probably be way too much of a downer for a book aimed at 11-year-olds.)
...*resumes lurking*
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