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House of Hades
i've already had a mini break-down about it at one of my trash tumblr sideblogs and am mostly over it by now, but there's still a sort of lingering ghost of resentment, i guess?
it's nuts, but i do think i *resent* riordan for getting me attached to nico. and it was CLEARLY an accident on his part, because i've never gotten attached - as in really fucking emotionally invested - to a single character he obviously wanted me to latch on to. i resent it because it ruins everything.
sure, i've read all of the books of his pjo/hoo series. i've also seen every step up movie ever released. because they're fun. but not the sort of fun that i take with me for hours, let alone days and months, after i shut the book closed or the credits roll.
but i won't be able to have this sort of non-emotionally compromising fun with blood of olympus though because now I CARE. i care about what happens to nico. but nico alone, no other character. i don't care about the happiness of riordan's faves and i'm terrified he'll botch nico's POV and do to him what he did to leo/calypso and N O. please, let us not.
so yeah, i'm mad that rick riordan has created a compelling character when i didn't ask for it. this was suppposed to be an action-focused series with forgettable and mostly inoffensive/bland characters! how dare you make me give a crap?!!?!
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four days ago i met elif batuman at an event held by livraria cultura and she was as likable as i expected reading her book (and her twitter). tangentially, i just realized i don't know what's the best translation for the word simpática - nice and pleasant don't really cut it. not even likable, not really.
on yet another completely different note, i'm very happy that petra is now a two-times wimbledon champ and the whole "even bartoli made it to two finals~" shit is finally over. :)
i've already had a mini break-down about it at one of my trash tumblr sideblogs and am mostly over it by now, but there's still a sort of lingering ghost of resentment, i guess?
it's nuts, but i do think i *resent* riordan for getting me attached to nico. and it was CLEARLY an accident on his part, because i've never gotten attached - as in really fucking emotionally invested - to a single character he obviously wanted me to latch on to. i resent it because it ruins everything.
sure, i've read all of the books of his pjo/hoo series. i've also seen every step up movie ever released. because they're fun. but not the sort of fun that i take with me for hours, let alone days and months, after i shut the book closed or the credits roll.
but i won't be able to have this sort of non-emotionally compromising fun with blood of olympus though because now I CARE. i care about what happens to nico. but nico alone, no other character. i don't care about the happiness of riordan's faves and i'm terrified he'll botch nico's POV and do to him what he did to leo/calypso and N O. please, let us not.
so yeah, i'm mad that rick riordan has created a compelling character when i didn't ask for it. this was suppposed to be an action-focused series with forgettable and mostly inoffensive/bland characters! how dare you make me give a crap?!!?!
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four days ago i met elif batuman at an event held by livraria cultura and she was as likable as i expected reading her book (and her twitter). tangentially, i just realized i don't know what's the best translation for the word simpática - nice and pleasant don't really cut it. not even likable, not really.
on yet another completely different note, i'm very happy that petra is now a two-times wimbledon champ and the whole "even bartoli made it to two finals~" shit is finally over. :)