Still on Cassandra Claire...
Sep. 2nd, 2009 11:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieAm still enjoying the ridiculous and addictive City of Bones (seriously - it's shoujo in word form) and that made me remember how I used to love Draco Trilogy in my younger and dumber days. Dooooooon't judge me! Judge away!
I actually even went up and looked up the complete version I dled from the net a long time ago that I never got to reading - by that point I lost interest but I obtained it for sake of completeness. My God - that thing is almost 1700 pages long!
I read the ending 40 pages or so and...I feel old. I used to love this stuff and eat it up with a spoon but now I feel attacked by overzealous adjectives - it's so busy. It makes it feel overheated. One doesn't have to be a follower of uber-terse Mr. Hemingway but it feels as if a thesaurus exploded in there. Moreover, probably because I am a decade older, Draco is not angsty and supercool any more - I just want him to. stop. talking.
Yeah, yeah, your evil abusive father has poisoned you so you are dying, the world is about to be destroyed, and your love life resembles a hexagon or an episode of Passions. But can you stop overemoting all over the place? Stoicism and quiet are admirable traits but I am not even daring to hope for those - I just want a break in the non-stop stream of overwrought emo - doesn't it get tiring to be in constant cosmic anguish?
He is ridiculously high-maintenance and I have low tolerance for that, and my tolerance gets lower and lower as I get older. Either he or CC's Harry make awful boyfriends. I think by the end I only like Ginny, and I think that is mainly because she forced it out of Draco that he lurves her forever and ever as his souuuuuuumate, had sex with him, and then ditched in the morning because they both have way more growing up and therapyand ducttape on Draco's mouth to do before they hook up for good. That is about the only sensible thing anyone ever did in that entire trilogy.
Also, CC is such a Dunnett fan. I don't think she lifted any quotes directly (not that I recognize at least) but she was so going for Lymond/Philippa and the library confession with that last Draco/Ginny scene. Obviously, it's nowhere near the same universe in quality or appeal (Dunnett is a favorite author and CC is a Potter BNF) but it was rather surreal to spot the influenced vibe (and age-inappropriate. Lymond is a 32-yr-old Renaissance nobleman. Draco is a 17-yr-old boy.) Ehhh, one can do worse than try to emulate Dunnett, even if you will never succeed to be near as good.
I actually even went up and looked up the complete version I dled from the net a long time ago that I never got to reading - by that point I lost interest but I obtained it for sake of completeness. My God - that thing is almost 1700 pages long!
I read the ending 40 pages or so and...I feel old. I used to love this stuff and eat it up with a spoon but now I feel attacked by overzealous adjectives - it's so busy. It makes it feel overheated. One doesn't have to be a follower of uber-terse Mr. Hemingway but it feels as if a thesaurus exploded in there. Moreover, probably because I am a decade older, Draco is not angsty and supercool any more - I just want him to. stop. talking.
Yeah, yeah, your evil abusive father has poisoned you so you are dying, the world is about to be destroyed, and your love life resembles a hexagon or an episode of Passions. But can you stop overemoting all over the place? Stoicism and quiet are admirable traits but I am not even daring to hope for those - I just want a break in the non-stop stream of overwrought emo - doesn't it get tiring to be in constant cosmic anguish?
He is ridiculously high-maintenance and I have low tolerance for that, and my tolerance gets lower and lower as I get older. Either he or CC's Harry make awful boyfriends. I think by the end I only like Ginny, and I think that is mainly because she forced it out of Draco that he lurves her forever and ever as his souuuuuuumate, had sex with him, and then ditched in the morning because they both have way more growing up and therapy
Also, CC is such a Dunnett fan. I don't think she lifted any quotes directly (not that I recognize at least) but she was so going for Lymond/Philippa and the library confession with that last Draco/Ginny scene. Obviously, it's nowhere near the same universe in quality or appeal (Dunnett is a favorite author and CC is a Potter BNF) but it was rather surreal to spot the influenced vibe (and age-inappropriate. Lymond is a 32-yr-old Renaissance nobleman. Draco is a 17-yr-old boy.) Ehhh, one can do worse than try to emulate Dunnett, even if you will never succeed to be near as good.
