04-06-2015, 10:54 AM
Was it better than The Mortal Instruments? That was a classic shitty YA film...
ED - thanks for mentioning The Phantom Tollbooth. I haven't thought of that in a long time. I didn't read that until I was an adult. It's a great book.
DM - there was a copy of The Fault in Our Stars in the house we rented in Palm Springs. I picked it up but only read a page or two. I think teens would like it because the writing style - first person from the main character - would probably seem real to them, but I found it mannered and off-putting, and didn't think I could take a whole book of it. Plus he seemed to be pulling out the tired trope of the teen being wiser than the adults, who don't understand anything.
ED - thanks for mentioning The Phantom Tollbooth. I haven't thought of that in a long time. I didn't read that until I was an adult. It's a great book.
DM - there was a copy of The Fault in Our Stars in the house we rented in Palm Springs. I picked it up but only read a page or two. I think teens would like it because the writing style - first person from the main character - would probably seem real to them, but I found it mannered and off-putting, and didn't think I could take a whole book of it. Plus he seemed to be pulling out the tired trope of the teen being wiser than the adults, who don't understand anything.
the hands that guide me are invisible