[Lemur_Girl]

:confused: don't know what's been happ'nin' 'round here, but I'm going to say why I love Alison's books.

Overall, it's her unique writing style...I think that's what seperates it from other things I've read, she has this ability to be very detailed and not say it like this: and the sky was blue and the grass was green and she looked down and one blade of grass wasn't green it was a strange brown-ish colour and off in the distance were some mountains and then she looked over and some guy was standing 5.6 feet away and... Sorry that's a really bad example :D I just mean that she's good at telling you everything well and with finesse (don't know if that's how you spell it :D) and she just has this really...Idunno...mature way of describing her character's emotions.

I'm just so good at babbling :D :p :D :p

[Silver Serpent]

it's wonderful isn't it?babbling? mst people need a bable fish to translate for them...i don't ...it's my language!lol:D :rolleyes:

[Lemur_Girl]

harharhar:D yes, I only speak limited babble. I've only just started my babble class. My babble teacher is...lyk...soooo evil. :D :D :D

[aedhe]

I'm going to talk now :



GET BACK ON TOPIC!!!!

tehe.

[aedhe]

:p I love these books for too many reasons to count!

For one, the finesse and beauty of Alison's style. I've been perfecting the art of saying way too much in just a few words for three years now [since i was ten years old] Although I think I'm bad, most of my readers think I'm amazing. And yet I can't even explain the great adeptness that Alison can portray through just a couple short phrases, however complicated they might be!
Another reason is that -gasp- they are actually my reading level! Every time I take the reading level test the computer overheats and breaks, before it prints out the little '12.9++++++' symbol. The program doesn't go above high school, which is very stupid of it. I know people who read these books with an accompanying dictionary - literally! They sit on their beds with the book open on one side and a dictionary they flip through on the other!
Also, the language techniques Ali uses are amazing. I don't have a copy with me, so I can't quote at the moment, except for some parts that I'm not talking about, but the metaphors and descriptive language and all those other special tools I obsess over... well, they're simply stunning. When I read these stories, I don't feel like I'm just reading; I feel like I'm really there. I can relate so openly to this, something that doesn't come easlily to me. I critique other's work so overly much, that I get tired of it and slap it down, then start writing my own version, totally different, yet above and beyond. Yet, no matter how hard I try, I just can't 'fix' Ali's work. It's too... too... anything.

And probably the most stupid reason yet the most beloved is.... -blaring trumpets-
SHE'S A POET!
I am a poet. I'm a published poet. I think thats why I can understand these books, not just the writing on the surface, but what lays underneath, so openly. Poets share some sort of mutual understanding, I've realized, no matter how different they are. It's something like a psycic connection, but with billions of people at once.




I wrote a disturbing story the other day. The next night my friend dreamed I had jumped off a cliff.
I don't know what that means, but my few lines of text obviously had some effect.

It was only a few paragraphs. Not even 500 words.





But Alison's work is so much more than that.

[StarLily]

:p I love these books for too many reasons to count!

For one, the finesse and beauty of Alison's style. I've been perfecting the art of saying way too much in just a few words for three years now [since i was ten years old] Although I think I'm bad, most of my readers think I'm amazing. And yet I can't even explain the great adeptness that Alison can portray through just a couple short phrases, however complicated they might be!
Another reason is that -gasp- they are actually my reading level! Every time I take the reading level test the computer overheats and breaks, before it prints out the little '12.9++++++' symbol. The program doesn't go above high school, which is very stupid of it. I know people who read these books with an accompanying dictionary - literally! They sit on their beds with the book open on one side and a dictionary they flip through on the other!
Also, the language techniques Ali uses are amazing. I don't have a copy with me, so I can't quote at the moment, except for some parts that I'm not talking about, but the metaphors and descriptive language and all those other special tools I obsess over... well, they're simply stunning. When I read these stories, I don't feel like I'm just reading; I feel like I'm really there. I can relate so openly to this, something that doesn't come easlily to me. I critique other's work so overly much, that I get tired of it and slap it down, then start writing my own version, totally different, yet above and beyond. Yet, no matter how hard I try, I just can't 'fix' Ali's work. It's too... too... anything.

couldn't have said it better myself!!! :D

[piglover4551]

wow, exactly!

[Rheingold]

Yea, me, too, only also I like them because I feel like I am Maerad when I'm reading from her pov, or that I am Hem when I'm reading from his pov. And I LOVE the stories! :D

[aedhe]

A writer's goal is, essentially, to let the reader feel the character as they do. And Alison does just that, only she expands on it so much!

[StarLily]

not just so much but sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooo*breathe*ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much!! :D