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 Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 11:35 pm
Laurie Hasle Anderson has written Speak, which won awards and has a movie adaption ^.^, and also Fever 1793 and Twisted.
I'm working on Twisted, which is about guy (not a girl this time) who got into some trouble and at the beginning of the book is doing community service at the school. Fever 1793 was cool. It's about a girl during a yellow fever epidemic in 1793. Speak is about a girl who goes into the ninth grade and called the cops on a high school party during the summer, so she becomes a social outsider and weird and cool ^.^ I love this book. She reminds me of myself.
Evil people populated world! gonk emo
Leavaros and I both agree that this book had a beautiful ending and that it rocked. Lion, go read it so you can argue with him xp
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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 3:43 am
Is speak really that good? I have been debating whether or not to read it.
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 3:25 am
Heck yeah, read it, especially if you're one of those passive, antisocial people. I related a lot to the book ^_^ And there's ART! And a weird Spanish teacher who refuses to speak English the whole year. The book is full of humor and weird little things like that Spanish speaking teacher.
The book has some of symbolism and those hint things authors like to put throughout their book to tye up things at the end (foreshadowing?). Like, the tree means something and this story in school she's reading means something. I forget ^.^ But the book has a little depth to it. It's good.
Also, I finished Twisted. It was good. Maybe not as good as Speak, but good. It's more for mature audiences. It's about a guy...and what are guys known for? Bein' pervy *nod nod*
If that book is just like how a guy thinks, then I know more about guys than I thought mrgreen
Anyways, the guy's family is screwed up with parent problems, his dad reminds me of my controlling freak of a dad, his mom always telling excuses for the dad's behavior, the little sister just goes into high school and is already hanging out with what I think is the whore-ish crowd, the guy is on probation for doing a prank and got big sexy muscles during the summer from doing landscaping all summer, a possibly skanky popular whore girl takes interest in him and her brother's a grade A jerk
^.^ I can't use the name he really deserves. But he should beatened and burned with iron pokers, maybe have his eyes poked and burned out with it too.
Well, it's late. Toodles.
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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 11:58 pm
I finally watched the movie version of Speak mrgreen It was all right, different from the book because they cut out things or changed a couple of things. My biggest complaint is that they used a skinny little pretty actress with NOTHING wrong with her lips and who wore perfectly fine clothes. She wasn't the completely anti-social weirdo like in the book.
Really, the only thing that was wrong with her in the movie was she was kind of depressed and had an awesome pissed/depressed/don't-mess-with-me glare. An awesome, awesome glare...
The movie didn't retain the parental conflict Mel's parents had either. They just seemed slightly distant from each other. Heather didn't have braces. It wasn't snowing all the time. And, and...I forget... But it was an interesting movie. Fairly good too. The rape seen was sad sad
...but...the actor who played Andy Evans was hot. I liked watching him.... *drool*
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Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 9:29 am
I do really like her style have you read catalyst?
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