I'd say YA, but I never really read many YA novels and I don't know to what extent they are allowed to have sex in them.
Yeah. Haig writes for both adults and children, and says that his adult books will always have a 17-year-old feel to them because that's where part of his mind sits.
Hmm. I don't think it is fair to compare it to Dracula. Suburbia will never measure up to epic treks to Transylvania 
Certainly not. But at least the vampires are proper vampires, not icky sparkly things.
Yes, the characters were mostly good. I liked Will and I liked how he started out dangerous and following the cliché, and then it took a turn for the worse and he became just unsympathetic.
True.
But the way they were written didn't appeal to me. I don't agree that "show, don't tell" should be a fixed maxim, but there is rather too much telling here for my tastes.
Fair enough. I think Haig's style is to tell a story, not write a perfect book.
It does flow very well. I found the language a little too rudimentary, however. You told me it was originally a screen play, and I think it would work very well as that. While I found the book very easy to read and not annoying, it felt a little uneven to me. I mean, there were moments of brilliance, and then there were moments that were really too flat. And sometimes he took a good thing too far.
Agreed with all of that. I would definitely watch a film of it. I think it would work VERY well.
Yes, I liked the ending. I was a little worried they would all go back to abstaining, which would have been ridiculous. It was solved in the sensible way. A happy middle way between repression and indulgence? Aristotle would be proud.
So was I. That kind of an ending would probably fit with a YA book.
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Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
The Radleys by Matt Haig: secrets and lies in suburbia.
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It was a very quick read, indeed. *spoilers*
- 11/07/2010 11:36:13 AM
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Re: It was a very quick read, indeed. *spoilers*
- 11/07/2010 01:22:24 PM
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