Monday, January 11, 2010

Other Girls Would Like This Book

This book is more of a girl's book I think then a guy's book. I think that mostly because it's about relationships, and things like that. Most of the guys I know that read Twilight thought that it was the absolute worst book in the history of man kind. This book isn't nearly as good as Twilight, but it's not a very "masculine" book. Most of the time, it's about Rhiannon, and Gloria, and why they hate each other because of things that happened in the past, and for the most part, guys my age hate each other because of some bad play they made in football, and then they do the man hug thing, and everything is fine after that. It's not big deal. Girls though, we hold grudges for a long time. We can hold them for our entire lives if we want to. So, there's a lot of things that guys just wouldn't get, because they're... GUYS. You know that saying "You wouldn't get it, it's a girl thing"? Well, it completely applies to this book, and everything that happens in it. There's this one part, where Rhiannon is all goo-goo ga-ga over Steve, and then when it shows James' point of view he just doesn't get why she could still like him. He didn't get it, because he's a guy, and he didn't get that Rhiannon thought that she was actually in love with Steve (which she wasn't because Steve is a... let's say jerk, and leave it at that), but at the time, James just didn't get it. Guys don't get a lot of things, because they're all filled up with testosterone, so they probably wouldn't like this guy, but most girls would.

I Am Nothing Like Any Of My Main Characters

The book I read was Take Me There by: Susane Colasanti. There were three different points of view. It started with Rhiannon, she's what you would call daring, and also very outspoken. Her best friends are James who is kind of quiet, and really smart. And the last point of view is Nicole, she's very... controlled I guess would be the thing to call it. She dresses really "in your face", but isn't like that at all. All three have very set views on the world, which I guess is kind of like me, but you never really know, because things change all the time. I am not at all like Rhiannon, she finds making big decisions easy, and I don't. Sometimes, it takes me a week to make a decision that could be life altering. James, I guess, is sort of like me, except he's a science and math nerd, and I'm not at all. He's sort of quiet around people that he doesn't know, and only has a few people that he can tell everything to. I'm a lot like Nicole, except that I don't dress very exotically and when it comes to men she has relationship problems. (Notice that I said MEN not stupid teenage boys) Her dad, abused her, so sometimes, she'll see something that can trigger a panic attack. I'm probably most like James. Especially in the sense that when I grow up, I want a huge house that has more space then anyone could ever need. I like math, but I'm not a genius in it. However, I like science, and want to be a anthropologist. I can be really quiet around people I don't know, and have an annoying brother, so I guess that I'm most like him.