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...so, in lieu of reading for my exams (what's WRONG with me?!), I've been trying to clear my head by skimming through a historical novel published about a year ago, simply titled Revolution, by Jennifer Donnelly. First of all, it's technically for "young adults" (the protagonist is a high school senior). Second of all, its perspective on the Revolution is (surprise) very naive and, well, high school. I started reading it last night and I'm almost done now. But, for all its flaws and blatant royalist sympathies, I can't deny that part of me kind of enjoys it. It's kind of like, The Da Vinci Code only with the French Revolution. So, even while I'm groaning over the history and politics, I can't stop reading because it's a page-turner and I'm hooked on the silly plot! Below is the description from Amazon.com:

BROOKLYN: Andi Alpers is on the edge. She’s angry at her father for leaving, angry at her mother for not being able to cope, and heartbroken by the loss of her younger brother, Truman. Rage and grief are destroying her. And she’s about to be expelled from Brooklyn Heights’ most prestigious private school when her father intervenes. Now Andi must accompany him to Paris for winter break.

PARIS: Alexandrine Paradis lived over two centuries ago. She dreamed of making her mark on the Paris stage, but a fateful encounter with a doomed prince of France cast her in a tragic role she didn’t want—and couldn’t escape.

Two girls, two centuries apart. One never knowing the other. But when Andi finds Alexandrine’s diary, she recognizes something in her words and is moved to the point of obsession. There’s comfort and distraction for Andi in the journal’s antique pages—until, on a midnight journey through the catacombs of Paris, Alexandrine’s words transcend paper and time, and the past becomes suddenly, terrifyingly present.

If you have some time to waste (not likely, given that you all seem like intelligent, productive people) and are in the mood for some very lightweight, very not-to-be-taken-seriously fiction, then go for it.

EDIT: Please forget that I ever suggested reading this book (unless you're reading it in order to write a vehement, public rebuttal of its contents).

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Well...For light it seems it's a very light fiction. I don't know if I would waste my time to read it...However, if you did (and you seems bright enough since I've read all your interventions here at LiveJournal) the book must be something appaling.

At least...Did you like it?

I picked up this book, and actually liked some parts of it, but I couldn't put up with the modern-day high school parts. I was only in it for the French Revolution bits, but I desperately want to know how it ends now.

It sounds like it would annoy the hell out of me, but more because I'm really sick of royalist propaganda being put into the hands of teenagers who are unlikely in the vast majority of cases to have any kind of critical distance from it, especially in the absence of any opposing viewpoints (probably because most people who are for the Revolution realize that it's too complex a subject to make into light reading starring moody adolescents - though that said, I'm sure there must be a more intelligent way to write a novel about the Revolution for teenagers, or indeed people of any age, since most novels for adults don't seem to escape those awful clichés either, especially in the English-speaking world). Well, that and the name Alexandrine Paradis is about the worst name for a character I've ever seen, even if she is an aspiring actress.

Thanks for bringing it to our collective attention though; it never hurts to be up to date on what's out there.

It sounds a bit like Neville's The Eight -I hated that book, specially for the part in which Robespierre gave a slap to Charlotte Corday (¿Or It was the protagonist? I don't remember >.>)-. Mmmm, I don't know if I want to read it... If I read it, I know I'll avoid all the High School parts. :\

I glanced at that novel a while ago in Amazon and discarded it (I generally can't stand young-adult fictions) and now I'm glad I did it.
I still can't believe how certain writers are not ashamed to use certain scheme (and don't let me started on the whole mental health issues) >.<.
As for the research part, I'm afraid to say that most of the writers/writers-to-be I know consider enough research looking at wikipedia and the rest is a waste of time (I just had a discussion about it on a literary blog this morning).

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