Hello there internet! I hope we're all good today!
Today i thought that i would take on The Book Sacrifice TAG created by the very wonderful Ariel Bissett and i thought it looked like a really fun tag to do! HERE WE GO!
Scenario One: An Over-Hyped Book - Let's start this off with a zombie apocalypse! Let's say you're in a book store, just browsing, when BAM! ZOMBIE ATTACK! An announcement comes over the PA system saying that the military has discovered that the Zombies' only weakness is over-hyped books. What book that everyone else says is amazing but you really hated do you start chucking at the zombies knowing that it will count as an over-hyped book and successfully wipe them out?
Okay, what book is too over-hyped? I'm going to go for Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman . Everyone i have heard talk about this book has said how amazing it is, and how the series is the best thing ever, and honestly? I cannot stand it! I tried so hard to get into it, i read the first two books and i really wish i had just given up during the first one. So those zombies have got hoards of noughts and crosses being aimed their way.
Scenario Two: A Sequel - Let's say you've just left the salon with a SMASHING new haircut and BOOM! Torrential downpour. What sequel are you willing to use as an umbrella to protect yourself?
New Moon. New Moon. New Moon. I actually really like the Twilight series...no judging! But is there any need for New Moon? Really? It's just a terrible book, and going from the first book in a series to the third should feel like you've missed something, but jumping from Twilight to Eclipse doesn't feel like that. So sorry New Moon you're getting wet.
Scenario Three: A Classic - Let's say that you're in a lecture and your English teacher is going on and on about how this classic changed the world, how is revolutionized literature, and you get so sick of it that you throw the classic right at his face because you know what? This classic is stupid and it's worth detention just to show everyone how you feel! What classic did you throw?
Romeo and Juliet. You can use plays for this question right? Either way i have to throw Romeo and Juliet, mainly because that's all i wanted to do when we studied it at school. I love Shakespeare, but i have a special piece of hatred reserved for Romeo and Juliet. I don't think it's anywhere near Shakespeare's best play, nor can i really find any redeeming feature in it. I think a big part of me hating R&J so much is the way it's taught as this amazing love story and how it's THE love story you know? It's not. Two teenagers fancy each other and everyone ends up dead because they're idiots. Ugh yeah i'm throwing this book so hard.
Scenario Four: Your least favourite book of life - Let's say that you're hanging out in a library when BAM global warming explodes and the world outside becomes a frozen wasteland. You're trapped and your only chance for survival is to burn a book. What is the book you run to first, your least favourite book of all life. What book do you not fully regret lighting?
*Don't hate me* My least favourite book of life is...The Great Gatsby. I have read this thing like 4 times? (i'm not sure i finished it the fourth time) and i still can't get myself to like any part of it. I don't know what it is, but i just really cannot enjoy this book. And i know that everyone else loves it, but if i'm stuck in a freezing library, this sucker is being burnt!
Meghan x
