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Just like any other girl, I loved princesses when I was four. Recently, my friends and I were discussing Disney princesses and their characters. I’ve decided to compile our opinions, along with my opinion on Odette in The Swan Princess (She was too much of a character for me to ignore).NOTE: I AM CONSIDERING MAINLY THE ORIGINAL FILMS. Let’s start:

• Snow White (1937): Snow White isn’t the hottest princess around (I can’t believe the queen actually got jealous of HER; beauty is a matter of opinion). Furthermore, I hate the way she runs off with the prince when she hardly knows who she is. And WHY didn’t she listen to the dwarves? It was almost her way of saying “I’m smarter than you”; in the original Snow White the witch actually ate part of the apple to dupe her. That made some sense, but seriously, Snow White forgot her enemy so quickly. Rating: 1/5
• Cinderella (1950): Let me get this straight. Cinderella can stand up for herself when she wants to go to a ball but not when her family works her to pieces? Very smart. Worst of all, she hardly knew the prince for an HOUR and she wants to stay with him for LIFE. I agree it’s an escape from slavery, but it’s a rash choice. In Cinderella 3, she does stand up for herself and become a character. Nevertheless, she just sits there and moans in self-pity while the mice rescue her again and again. Yeah, I think that’s her fatal flaw: self pity. Oh well, it makes her a character with a personality nevertheless (an annoying one I must add). By the way, the animators deliberately try to make Cinderella pretty; BIG MISTAKE, she looks normal and plain. Rating: 2/5.
• Aurora (1959): This princess barely shows up IN HALF OF THE STORY! Absolutely ridiculous. All she does is meet Prince Philip, dream about him, sing in the forest, prick her finger, and then wake up. BIG DEAL! She’s really pretty (prettiest blond Disney princess in my opinion) but she LACKS character development big time. Well, at least she KNEW her prince before she MARRIED him (they were betrothed anyway). Rating: 1.5/5. Continue reading this entry…

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catching-fire

I want to start off by saying that I LOVE this series. This book didn’t disappoint me the slightest and I KNOW readers will love this book. A short summary: rebellion is brewing and Katniss and Peeta have to pretend they’re desperately in love with eachother. They even go so far as to fake a marriage proposal.I jumped at that part. This book is plently of shocks and twists, though I wish page 174 had been more of an orginal punishment. I was slightly irriated that the plot had to be recycled in that way. One the contrary there’s more of the Peeta/Gale/Katniss love triangle. I’m totally Team Peeta and this book satisfied me (though Team Gale fans will also get a wiff out of it).  This book reminds me of Star Wars in so many ways. What the heck, everything is Star Wars these days: Percy Jackson, the Mortal Instruments, the Inheritance Cycle, and now this!  It all related back to the hero’s journey. Continue reading this entry…

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Finally the RSS feed is up and WORKING! Thank goodness! I spent about one and a half hours downgrading and upgrading only to realize WORDPRESS MADE A MISTAKE in their includes.

Whatever. It’s working now.

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Just like the other posts, I read this book a while back. . Let me get this out. EVERYONE IN THIS BOOK (except Olivia) IS ANNOYING! Chris is head over heels over Cathy. Cathy is in love with Chris, while complaining about everything in her life (I don’t blame her for that!). Carrie and Cory whine all day and drove me up the wall. That being said, I don’t think this classifies as a horror novel. It’s more of a family saga novel. What I DO like about this book is that Cathy has perspective, something all the other characters lack. Put it this way. If I read a paragraph Cathy wrote in any other V.C. Andrews novel, I would be able to tell it was her without anyone telling me.  I could feel the isolation Cathy felt when she was locked up in the attic. I also liked the grandmother in the story. She was really complex and it was unclear whose side she was on. All we really know is this:

She spat at his back: “I hate that particular name!
It was your father’s; out of the kindness of my heart, I pleaded his cause when his mother died, and he didn’t have a home. My husband didn’t want him here, but I felt pity for a young boy without parents, or means, and robbed of so much. So I kept nagging my husband to let his younger half-brother live under our roof. So your father came … brilliant, handsome, and he took advantage of our generosity. Deceived us! We sent him to the best of schools, bought him the best of everything, and he stole our daughter, his own half-niece! She was all we had left then … the only one left … and they eloped in the night, and came back two weeks later, smiling, happy, asking us to forgive them for falling in love. That night, my husband had his first heart attack. Has your mother told you that-that she and that man were the cause of her father’s heart disease? He ordered her out-told her never to come back-and then he fell down on the floor.”

Pretty nice kids to have, huh? Here’s another hint. Continue reading this entry…

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Every since the rising popularity of the Internet, software/music/books piracy has become a hudge problem for companies.  People have been able to share files online, and companies lose revenue as a result. This is what I find outrageous.

Websites that share torrents or provide search engines (isohunt) are being continually harrassed by the RIAA/MPAA/whatever for providing torrents when a person can just google “X Men Wolverine Torrent” and get hundreds of results.  The companies go as far as to bribe people working for the websites, just for information.  Shouldn’t the companies themselves gather proof, rather than bribing people?  When will these agencies realize that in order to stop software piracy, they will have to shut down the internet?

Also, the fines for software piracy are ridiculous. For pirating 24 songs (about a $30 value), a woman has to pay $1.92 million to the RIAA. Millions of people pirate music, and a few have to pay the harsh penalty. Not to mention, the RIAA sues KIDS for pirating music. Now here’s the catch. Look what Gizmodo has to say about the fines:

•Child abduction: Fine of $25,000 and up to three years in prison, which can be accounted as $50,233 per year (that was the median household income in 2007, probably down because of the economic crisis). Total: $175,699.

• Steal the CDs: A total of $275,000, $52,500 fine for the CDs.

• Steal a lawnmower from your neighbour: A total of $375,000.

• Burn someone’s house while playing The Doors: Another $375,000.

• Stalk a Gizmodo editor (yes, you know who you are): A Class 4 felony that will result in just $175,000.

• Start a dogfighting ring: $50,000.

• Murder someone on the second degree, a Class 1 felony: $778,495, which accounts for a $25,000 fine and four to 15 years in prison.

Heck, you can do all these crimes, and the total amount will be only $2.2 million

What does this have to say about justice? I suppose child abduction is better than pirating music? Jaycee Lee Dugard’s parents would certainly agree, won’t they?

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I read this book months ago, but I’m getting into the blog posting now. . Anyways, first things first. There are going to be spoilers coming up so watch out. This book contains one of my favorite VCA characters ever. And guess what? It’s NOT any of the protagonists! Here it is (drum roll)…Gisselle! What I like about her is that she’s not physically evil (unlike Clara Sue in the Cutler series). She just plots and plots and plots. Gisselle just likes to throw tantrums, whine, and demand….somehow I like all that. Anyway, let me get this out before I scream…Ruby is so….urgh!!!!!! (i.e. I’m frustrated with her character). Let’s start off, ok? She barges into her sister’s life and steals her boyfriend. Pretty mean, huh? Ignoring the fact that Gisselle is promiscuous, I’d be pretty mad if I were her. Instead, Ruby keeps on telling the reader what a bad person Gisselle is and how she could be better and blah, blah, blah. So annoying. Daphne, like a good mother should, objects to Ruby acting in her..err.. ”we’re in love way” should, and Ruby just objects to Daphne. She barely knew this guy for a month!!! I’m not necessarily agreeing with Daphne locking Ruby up in the mental hospital. Ruby should just admit she made mistakes and move on with life. She had it pretty easy compared to some other V.C. Andrew heroines. Still, I loved the story. Though some of the characters baffled and annoyed me, the plot was gripping from the start. I couldn’t put the book down; it didn’t drag like Flowers in the Attic did. The setting was also pretty cool (Louisiana) and interacted with the story. Pierre Dumas seemed two-dimensional though. He just keeps on praising Daphne when she’s been rotten to him for a long time (even before Ruby was born). For example:

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For those who don’t know, Caius is an antagonist in Twilight. After reading V.C. Andrews, I wondered what made antagonists so evil. I decided to write a story about Caius’s life.

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