Tuesday, September 30, 2014

So, I Read 'Divergent'

And boy was it bad.  I was lobbied, and I put it off as long as I could but finally had to do it.  Sucky.  Hella sucky.  And really dumb.  Dumb in the same way The Hunger Games was dumb.  It wasn't that this book was too mature for a eight or nine year old; it was too stupid for anyone of any age.  There wasn't anything my daughter couldn't handle, but given the subject matter, by all rights there should have been.  16-20 year old kids--hell, even the 13-15 kids, too--put into the Dauntless faction would be fucking each other up one side and down the other.  The boys with the girls.  The boys with the boys.  The girls with the girls.  It would have been just like high school with absolutely no rules.  Kids raging with hormones put into life and death struggles left to their own devices would be non-stop.  Fucking, fucking, fucking.  The first stop for the Dauntless kids would have been to get the birth control shot.  Then shoot guns and punch and shit.  It wouldn't have been crying keeping Tris awake; it would have been the sound of beds squeaking and much worse.  But then, the book would have been a little realistic but would not have been for the kids, and the money would have gone bye-bye.  And Jesus would not have been happy for children who had a bit of fun with each other because what the fuck else are they supposed to do?  Jesus hates children.  This shit, like The Hunger Games and Twilight, is really an insult not only to literature but also to humanity.

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