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    Vampyres and Robots and Jane Austen, oh MY!

    Time for Tuesday’s book review! This is either going to be really short or really long, because I’m tired and I have two books to review this week. Book One: The Stepford Wives, by Ira Levin The Review: So I was pretty excited to read this book, because I’ve seen both movies (and am going to watch the newer one when I’m done with this review) and I LOVE the older movie version with Katharine Ross. Amazing. Overall, though I was a little disappointed in the book. Which… doesn’t surprise me. I’m a very critical reader. First thing that bothered me was the crude manner in which sex and desire…

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    Book Review: Twilight

    So here it is, the first book review of the year. Exciting, right? I’ve literally just finished reading Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer. If I were editing it, or reading it on Fiction Press, my review would begin something like this: “Prologue is nice, but the last sentence could be reworked to add a bit more suspense and make it more of a cliffhanger. Perhaps “He sauntered forward to kill me,  and his friendly smile drilled fear into my chest.” Throughout the story, you begin many of your sentences with the same word or phrase in succession, and it’s repetitive. (“it was” is one of them.) Also, we should know what…

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    One of them was breathtaking. The other one was mind-numbingly stupid.

    I should probably preface this by saying that I do not read a lot of books, contrary to what a lot of people seem to think. This doesn’t mean I don’t love reading- I do. I would much rather get lost in a really good book than get lost in a movie. I just don’t find many books that have a good plot, well developed characters, and an entertaining enough narrative to keep me reading until the end. This would be the reason why I have started a great number of books in the past few months and only actually finished one or two. It’s also why I am usually…