Showing posts with label grammar police. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grammar police. Show all posts

Friday, January 23, 2009

Twilight Watch, Part 5: The Final Chapter

I give up.

I tried, I really did.  

I can't read any more.

I just can't face it.

Sigh.

I'm on page 51, and the thought of opening it and reading fills me with dread.  I can't stand the thought of talking about it any more.

I list all the books I own that I haven't read yet in the back of my current notebook.  I've been doing this since high school.  The same list has been carrying over since then.  I cross off the books as I read them and then transfer the list to the next notebook.

The list is now crazily out of hand.  There are lots of books on it I can't wait to read.  

Life is short, life is hard.

I really can't waste any more of it reading something I can't stand.  I just can't bear to think about it any more.  I'd rather write about books I like.

Sorry.

There are stories about girls who date vampires that are great.  This isn't one of them.




Saturday, January 10, 2009

Twilight Watch, Part 3: Page One

I opened the book to begin reading and the first thing I read is:

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
thou shalt not eat of it;
for in the day that thou eatest therof
thou shalt surely die.

Genesis 2:17

Yikes.  

At least I now know why there is a large apple on the cover.  It's all about the sex.  Maybe I should read at least a page.

There's a grammar mistake in the first sentence of the preface.  She needs a little help with her comma usage.  This is why I never read The Da Vinci Code.  The syntax in the first paragraph was so awful I couldn't read any further.  I'm having the same problem here.  

Where's my red pen?!