the devil wears prada
Jun. 16th, 2006 08:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mimesereSo, during this Week O' Insanity, I've been reading like mad. I finished Kushiel's Scion1, the novelization for Superman Returns2 and The Devil Wears Prada. Today I am going for The Alienist.
And okay, I have these rules about things I read. Only it's not so much rules as it is guidelines. I don't like a) first person narration3, b) couture, c) or um, things based in reality4.
I mostly picked up the book because I like Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci and Anne Hathaway and I want to see the movie. Also, I thought that the boss -- Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep in the movie) -- was actually going to be, you know, the devil.
It turns out...not so much. Just a demanding and insane boss. Which, hello, so disappointing. Not the devil! Woe.
And the hero -- Andrea -- is mostly just kind of selfish and nuts herself. So, whatever. I totally thought there was going to be an actual battle for Andrea's soul! I was looking forward to wacky chick lit shenanigans where she outwitted the devil to keep her soul! Bah. Bah, I say.
It was just everything I don't like in chick lit and none of the things I do like.
1 - I rarely say this about things, but that book could have greatly benefitted from some explicit guy on guy sexin'. More on this later.
2 - If the movie pulls the story off with half the grace implied, it will be an amazing movie.
3 - There are, of course, exceptions. But not many. Raymond Chandler and LKH and and Jacqueline Carey are the only ones I can think of off-hand that don't make me crazy. Meg Cabot only on recommendation from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fox1013.
4 - Unless there's violence.
And okay, I have these rules about things I read. Only it's not so much rules as it is guidelines. I don't like a) first person narration3, b) couture, c) or um, things based in reality4.
I mostly picked up the book because I like Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci and Anne Hathaway and I want to see the movie. Also, I thought that the boss -- Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep in the movie) -- was actually going to be, you know, the devil.
It turns out...not so much. Just a demanding and insane boss. Which, hello, so disappointing. Not the devil! Woe.
And the hero -- Andrea -- is mostly just kind of selfish and nuts herself. So, whatever. I totally thought there was going to be an actual battle for Andrea's soul! I was looking forward to wacky chick lit shenanigans where she outwitted the devil to keep her soul! Bah. Bah, I say.
It was just everything I don't like in chick lit and none of the things I do like.
1 - I rarely say this about things, but that book could have greatly benefitted from some explicit guy on guy sexin'. More on this later.
2 - If the movie pulls the story off with half the grace implied, it will be an amazing movie.
3 - There are, of course, exceptions. But not many. Raymond Chandler and LKH and and Jacqueline Carey are the only ones I can think of off-hand that don't make me crazy. Meg Cabot only on recommendation from
fox1013.4 - Unless there's violence.