Dear Caroline B Cooney,
Mar. 2nd, 2005 09:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lissa_quonWhat the bloody hell were you thinking with your fourth Time book? For All time was a stupid piece of shit, it was a waste of paper, I would have been better wiping my ass with that paper instead of trying to read what you printed on it.
All the subplots in that book, they go nowhere, absolutely nowhere. nowhere
Subplot #1:The Tall Polish Girl posing as a man posing as a woman? Was she totally necessary? She falls in love with some tall guy who doesn't seem to care that shes lied through out the whole book, has been posing as a man, or the fact that shes half the age she claimed to be. He didn't even know her real name until the last ten pages and he still proposes to her after knowing her fake persona for what? two days? WHAT THE BLOODY HELL?
If you were trying to prove feminism in 1890's suck, you've established that in books one, two and three of this damn series. Sadly I liked the character, but she didn't really have a place in this book.
Plot Point #1 The totally weird random 'Annie gets sucked through Time & SPACE plot.
Of. Course. Makes. Absolute. Bloody. Sense.
I love how thats the first time thats happened in the books. Shes in New York modern era and look hey look she gets sucked back into Egypt back when the pyramids are being built! In the earlier books at least she ust got sucked back through time, not space, and I could believe that. But this? urgh, damn you woman.
Subplot # 2 The Egyption Girl who discovers all her famliy members are graverobbers. Total and utter crap. Making this story take a detour into Ancient Egypt when there was already plenty of stuff going on in modern day and 1890-whathave you, was pointless. It didn't really add anything at all to the story's events just more repressed women and the males with superiority complexes who want them. Sweet Jesus, was that whole human sacrifice thing good for ANYTHING plotwise?
Plot Point #2 The Other Strat, that was not Strat but a descendant of Strat. What the shit was up with that? Annie doesn't get with the guy shes been in love with for three books? Instead, he gets all left behind in 1890 something unable to get over her while she so totally chases after his great-great-grand nephew's ass in the present? Why the hell would she do that? That boy isn't Strat, she knows he isn't Strat, the boy knows he isn't Strat, he clearly has memories of the modern day and his life in such. So why the bloodyhell would Annie give up the chance that she'll fall back in time again and go after nephew!Strat's ass? All I can think of is the poor guy back in 1890 she's two timing.
Honestly, I wouldn't have read this book if I hadn't started reading the series in my younger, somewhat girlier, junior high years.
The first two books (Prisoner of Time and Both Sides of Time were good dammit, but Caroline B Cooney has a habit of streching story ideas a bit too far, to the point she has no clue where shes going and is just padding the book to cover her ass.
In other news, I saw some new Hitchhiker Guide trailers. I can't wait till April.
All the subplots in that book, they go nowhere, absolutely nowhere. nowhere
Subplot #1:The Tall Polish Girl posing as a man posing as a woman? Was she totally necessary? She falls in love with some tall guy who doesn't seem to care that shes lied through out the whole book, has been posing as a man, or the fact that shes half the age she claimed to be. He didn't even know her real name until the last ten pages and he still proposes to her after knowing her fake persona for what? two days? WHAT THE BLOODY HELL?
If you were trying to prove feminism in 1890's suck, you've established that in books one, two and three of this damn series. Sadly I liked the character, but she didn't really have a place in this book.
Plot Point #1 The totally weird random 'Annie gets sucked through Time & SPACE plot.
Of. Course. Makes. Absolute. Bloody. Sense.
I love how thats the first time thats happened in the books. Shes in New York modern era and look hey look she gets sucked back into Egypt back when the pyramids are being built! In the earlier books at least she ust got sucked back through time, not space, and I could believe that. But this? urgh, damn you woman.
Subplot # 2 The Egyption Girl who discovers all her famliy members are graverobbers. Total and utter crap. Making this story take a detour into Ancient Egypt when there was already plenty of stuff going on in modern day and 1890-whathave you, was pointless. It didn't really add anything at all to the story's events just more repressed women and the males with superiority complexes who want them. Sweet Jesus, was that whole human sacrifice thing good for ANYTHING plotwise?
Plot Point #2 The Other Strat, that was not Strat but a descendant of Strat. What the shit was up with that? Annie doesn't get with the guy shes been in love with for three books? Instead, he gets all left behind in 1890 something unable to get over her while she so totally chases after his great-great-grand nephew's ass in the present? Why the hell would she do that? That boy isn't Strat, she knows he isn't Strat, the boy knows he isn't Strat, he clearly has memories of the modern day and his life in such. So why the bloodyhell would Annie give up the chance that she'll fall back in time again and go after nephew!Strat's ass? All I can think of is the poor guy back in 1890 she's two timing.
Honestly, I wouldn't have read this book if I hadn't started reading the series in my younger, somewhat girlier, junior high years.
The first two books (Prisoner of Time and Both Sides of Time were good dammit, but Caroline B Cooney has a habit of streching story ideas a bit too far, to the point she has no clue where shes going and is just padding the book to cover her ass.
In other news, I saw some new Hitchhiker Guide trailers. I can't wait till April.
