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Ladataan... Legally Blonde (vuoden 2003 painos)Tekijä: Amanda Brown (Tekijä)
TeostiedotLegally Blonde (tekijä: Amanda Brown)
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Easy read, but makes me feel like I am capable and strong. ( ) Recommended: not really? Thoughts: I finally found it. I finally found a book whose movie is better. It's pretty much impossible for me to consider this book in its own context without the movie as well, because I've seen the movie so many times I know it very very well and have a really hard time separating it as I read this book. Discovering that it was based on a book was a joy, but the book itself let me down a little bit. Or perhaps more fairly, it sort of confused me. The broad strokes of the story are the same, with Elle getting dumped by Warner and deciding to follow him to law school, joining an active case on a murder trial with a socialite that she has ties with, all that kind of stuff. But a lot of the characters and the pacing were so different that it was hard to reconcile them. My expectations were definitely set coming into this, but even when I consider it just as a book there were definitely some weak points. Elle is not as likable as I expected her to be. She skips a lot of classes, and she's actually quite shallow in a lot of ways, and she doesn't seem to actually try very hard. It's a bit of a spoiler so I'll tag it, but in the book the only reason she passes any classes is because Her relationship with her friends was also very different. Warner is still a total ass, maybe even more so than the movie. Her friends from her sorority, though, are kind of crappy and don't really stick by her. She does make a new friend or two at her law school, and acknowledges the way that she's changed and who she wants to be, but it was a bit poignant and sad. There's also zero romance in this book, which is fine but it's weird that it's considered a romance. Just be aware that there are zero scenes that are romantic at all and honestly her trying to win back Warner is only one thread of the overall narration. A lot of it focuses on her growth and her challenges at law school. That said, it was also a little bit boring. There was a lot of talk about legal stuff, and it was not thrilling. Time in class was tediously narrated, which I suppose is maybe an accurate feeling to having been there but wasn't the most exciting thing to read several times. A lot of the side characters felt very two-dimensional and cliche, like they were serving a stereotyped purpose and that was it. Overall I ended up feeling a bit bemused that this book was somehow noticed by somebody enough to be made into an amazing movie. Kudos to that person for seeing the potential, because the book itself is a bit lackluster. Not a super likable character, no romance, not that funny... If I hadn't seen movie I would have just felt blah about the story. Okay, usually the book is almost always better than the movie (in my opinion), but not this time. I don’t actually think this book was bad necessarily, it was honestly pretty okay, but compared to the movie, it’s just not as good. In the movie, Elle’s character was much better and the overall energy of the movie was just better. It was more enjoyable. Compared to that, the book is pretty bland. So, if you’re planning to read this instead of watching the movie, don’t bother. The movie is better. ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
Mukaelmia:Legally Blonde [2001 film] (tekijä: Robert Luketic)
Elle Wood, University of Southern California sorority president and sociopolitical jewelry design major, is blonde, spoiled, creative and desperately in love with her college sweetheart, Warner Huntingdon III. But when Warner announces he's off to Stanford Law School, and that while there he aims to find a girl 'more serious' than Elle to be his wife, Elle and Underdog, her pet Bichon Frise, hatch a plan to follow him so that he will marry her like he's supposed to do. Elle's Stanford misadventures are distinctly unpromising from the outset, and it seems that the one place where blondes definitely don't have more fun is law school. But then she's made an intern on the Murder of Malibu case, defending one-time fitness queen and apricot blonde Brooke Vandermark from the charge of murdering her billionaire husband. In a courtroom triumph, Elle vindicates Brooke and all who are blonde at heart with a tip any Cosmo girl should know. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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