Books Journey to TFA: Lost Stars by Claudia Gray (finally coming to paperback Aug 1!)

The implication being that you HAVE read Lost Stars. Am I reading that right?

 

...I dunno if that really sent the message you wanted it to.

 

Ah close enough

 

Daria is appropriate for every occasion.

 

I don't like you anymore, Coop.

 

Daria references >>> my actual opinions

 

Or Anakin & Padme in AoTC

 

ok but tbf aotc kind of did suck because of padmé and anakin tho

 

You are correct.

 

I'm more inclined to think they went with "Romeo & Juliet" in space because of the Shakespeare theme rather than omg yeah those girls are gonna be all over this.

 

AOTC and ROTS is more like Romeo and Juliet than any actual romance. Two emotionally adolescent and broken folk drop all pretense at rational thought and do stupid things to be together and %$#% the system, have a secret marriage, get into fights and angsty stuff, their friends all die, and, oh yeah, the girl dies simply because she has no will to live without the guy.

Don't get me wrong - I think R&J is an amazing work of literature. But it doesn't tell the story many people seem to think it tells.

 

Anybody knows what the third thing is? I assume it's the first moon, while the others are Endor/Tana the gas giant and the third moon aka the Sistermoon. SOMEBODY GIVE IT A NAME. It needs a cool name. I need it for this.


Also, romance can be written as a subplot and not make the story annoying. One is not automatically a right-winger or whatever for enjoying a bit of it. The problem is how pervasive it is.

And not all works of literature one can draw parallels from are Anglophone. I saw a lot of Dante in the PT, it's only the ending that is different. In that way, Polis Masa is the purgatory and Mustafar is the ninth circle of hell.

 

I recently read it again after well over a decade (closer to 2 decade) of having read it in early high school, and realized the wordplay, sarcasm, and satire is bloody hilarious, biting, and pointed. I literally laughed out loud several times in realization of things I never had understood before were meant to be funny, or even biting. If someone hasn't read this since high school, and you've now had more life experience (and increased vocabulary), I highly recommend revisiting it.

 

Yeah but Romeo and Juliet are pubescent children, and Anakin and Padme are grown adults when they start their romance.

 

Its not Endor but more likely supposed to be Halmad.

 

Which is why I said "Two emotionally adolescent".

A&P are fantastic at their day jobs. They are as emotionally as developed and nuanced as tweens, however. Their dialogue is the kind of stuff I can see tweens posting to their baes on twitter DMs. I think it's an interesting dynamic, story-wise, to have two individuals who are fully functional as politicians and warriors but who are absolutely broken, incoherent and immature when it comes to their emotional personal lives. For this reason, I don't consider Anakin and Padme to have a real romance, either. I do consider their relationship very R&J. An absolute tragedy. There's a reason their love-theme is called "Across The Stars".

 

I didn't realize until another thread that people still thought the 560 page count was tentative so I tweeted Claudia Gray and she confirmed it: https://twitter.com/claudiagray/status/631204708124860416
The author of Lost Stars also picked which actors she envisioned for the main characters Ciena Ree and Thane Kyrell. These are the pictures she included.
"A young Gugu Mbatha Raw is my mental casting for Ciena Ree."


"A young Sam Reid is my personal mental image of Thane Kyrell. (Yes, the movie "Belle" played a big part in my envisioning these characters!)"

 

Aristocratic means British, and this is a young readers book, so that's two signs that if there's anything in there, it'll be snogging.

 

Juliet was. Wasn't Romeo almost the same age as Anakin though?

I think TCW gave Padme an ex - Clovis - whom she'd broken it off with.

 

The fact that a show where nobody in the main cast is a WHM is now considered to have "an overwhelming lack of diversity" really says something about how much better the new canon has been about this sort of thing.

 

Just saw Belle this past weekend. Great film.