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[altariel]

altariel: [reading Jacob's Room]
mraltariel [walking past; bitterly]: I bet there's three pages about Jacob and then it's all about some fucking girls.
altariel: That's Peter's Room.
mraltariel: The point still stands.

Comments

[azalaisdep.livejournal.com]

But Peter's Room is just about my favourite book ever ever! (Doesn't the fact that the fucking girls in question are the Bronte sisters count as a redeeming feature?...)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Mr A. feels he was a victim of false advertising.

[azalaisdep.livejournal.com]

Ah - do I detect a long-held childhood grudge? ;-)...

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Worse than that, I handed it to him and gushed about how much he'd love it.

[azalaisdep.livejournal.com]

Oops.

[executrix.livejournal.com]

These days, we're lucky that Jacob's Room isn't a sequel to To the Wolfhouse by Virginia TwiLight.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

:-D

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

Awww, that's very sweetsad. Even his walk was bitter? Doesn't it count that the girls are mostly pretending to be boys? Except for the love bits, and of course you need a pretend girl and a real girl for those.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

It was definitely a bitter walk. Like when a funny walk has seen too much of life. Nothing could save the book for him once other people turned up and stopped letting Peter poke around the room. It is felt strongly that if that was always the intention, a different title was in order.


Except for the love bits, and of course you need a pretend girl and a real girl for those.

You owe me a new monitor!

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

Like when a funny walk has seen too much of life.

Ah, that walk.

Nothing could save the book for him once other people turned up and stopped letting Peter poke around the room. It is felt strongly that if that was always the intention, a different title was in order.

I'd feel more sympathetic if I hadn't had to spend a lot of my life desperately searching for books that weren't ALL ABOUT TEH MENZ regardless of their titles.

Besides most of the book takes place in Peter's room.

You owe me a new monitor!

Add it to the list of what I owe you. :-)

[mraltariel.livejournal.com]

It isn't Peter's room. It is the room that was *stolen* from Peter for *otherpeople* to use for their own ends. And they are silly people, not sufficiently interested in poking about in the cool stuff in the room. Peter could've been a girl. I'm not saying it had to be about a boy or whatever, you know. Just *a great book about poking about in the magical things of the room* like was promised in the first 10 pages. Not the grotty people we ended having to watch piddle about with their stupid needs, wants and desires. And especially not the tawdry other chap.

mutter

stomp

grumpfle.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Aw, I'll find you a book about poking about in the magical things of the room. Dammit, I'll write you a book about poking about in the magical things of the room. So long as I can have a kickass sociologist too.

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

I see now. Every single word of this, including the definite and indefinite articles is just oozing with bitterness.

Patrick gets tawdrier and ends up shagging the au pair and Ginty runs off with her best friend from school, Monica. At least that's how I read the last book.

The Marlows and the Traitor does include an actual traitor. I don't know if that helps. And they do play cricket, quite a lot, in the The Cricket Term.

[mraltariel.livejournal.com]

:-D Somehow, that makes me feel better.