tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1466373656534748162.post3623243555266877958..comments2023-06-07T02:36:59.710-11:00Comments on Tuning Into YA Books: Cliche Much? Haven't We Seen that Before?Tuning Into YA Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16777894112288998595noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1466373656534748162.post-28306354456746905872011-05-22T12:05:04.267-11:002011-05-22T12:05:04.267-11:00Oh yea, I completely understand what you mean. It&...Oh yea, I completely understand what you mean. It's everywhere and generally what will always deduct a star on my rating for the book. x0x<br /><br />Haha, Korean dramas go over the top with the cliches. Which is why I have never finished any Kdrama except for one (You're Beautiful). Though I do like Lee Min Ho. ^^ Not in Boys Before Flowers though. Watch the Japanese version, it's amazing how emotional the actors are.Diana Danghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17903093193311109863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1466373656534748162.post-57422876032349022512011-05-22T10:41:38.955-11:002011-05-22T10:41:38.955-11:00People always say to think outside the box but the...People always say to think outside the box but the notion is impossible. It's just not possible for think of something that's not within their spectrum of thought. Everything is in some way derivative or something else. All made up monsters contain elements that already exist in the real world. We are not capable of attaching truly original elements to these things because they don't exist to us. We have to know of it to write it. Therefore if we know it, it's not really our own. Just the way we use it is.<br /><br />I do blame authors are simply rehashing the same trope over and over and over again. If you're going to write a cliche (love triangles, whatever) then for the love of god do something different with it. Cliches exist for a reason. People love them. The Chosen One Syndrome, love triangles, hot vampires, whatever. It's what's done with those cliches that makes the book good or bad. Should we blame the author that only takes tropes and patches them together without doing anything with them (I Am Number Four, for instance?)? Absolutely. They wrote it and it's obvious when they do that that they were banking on just riding the wave. Quite frankly it's insulting.<br /><br />Throw cliches at me to your hearts content. But dress them up differently. Spice them up. Make them pretty. I don't want raindrops. I want snowflakes (and I'm not talking speshul snowflakes, either).Donna (Bites)https://www.blogger.com/profile/12585421704517898076noreply@blogger.com