Books are pretty cool. A lot of books I read were really cool. Some books… Aren’t so cool. During my 11 year life I can’t stop thinking of how similar all books are, and how their similarities and simplifications made it awfully boring. For instance, here is a little dialogue A LOT of books would put in their pages.
“Thank you so much for letting me stay in your house during the storm! You are so generous, even to strangers like me!” Timmy said.
“Timmy, I got to tell you something…” Bob said.
“What?” Timmy replied as he sucked onto his lollipop.
“You know how we look identical? I am actually,” Bob said. “Your twin… And the one to actually steal the gold. Sorry you got into jail for my crime.”
“I forgive you.” Timmy said with a smile.
I know this is a comic version, but it is quite similar! I mean, seriously? If two characters coincidentally meet each other in a dangerous situation, you know by then that they are dramatically related, because that’s how all stories go. Oh, and people aren’t that generous. You don’t just forgive a person who made you rot in jail! Take our previous novel holes for instance; Oh! Zero and Stanley dramatically meet each other in a dangerous, depressing camp and hit it off; too well for strangers who have a lot of digging to do and a lot to be depressed about. By now we already know that they are somehow gonna go on some big adventure or that the two are secretly related somehow. Oh, and when Zero confesses that it was him who stole the sneakers, Stanley is all cool about that! It’s all done with a I forgive you! Emotions are much more complicated! It is almost impossible to be so generous to a person who made you go to a horrible, tourtreous camp when you were innocent! I know that there isn’t another way to write like that in such obvious ways, but it’d be really appreciated if authors find some new way to write interestingly, as a reader.
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