blog entry no.8^_^

Chick lit…The first time I read “Getting Better” I thought that its target readers are women. It’s more on women’s issue for me because in the story, we saw three different women with three different features and characteristics. Based on I’ve read about chick lit, it features hip, stylish female protagonists, usually in their twenties and thirties, in urban settings [wikipedia]. The common setting of a chick lit is on industry that usually women are into, like advertising and fashion industry. In Getting Better, Sex and the City were mentioned. I think it is relevant because some of the characters on that show was slightly similar with the female characters in Getting Better especially Samantha of Sex and the City…she’s like Janice. For me the story catches the idea of the genre but I think Filipino writers must add some twist that is unusual that would show a real Pinoy stuff.

Info you may wanna read: The term was introduced by Cris Mazza and Jeffrey DeShell as an ironic title for their edited anthology Chick Lit: Post-feminist Fiction, published in 1995. The genre was defined as a type of post-feminist or second-wave feminism that went beyond female-as-victim to include fiction that covered the breadth of female experiences, including love, courtship and gender. The collection emphasized experimental work, including violent, perverse and sexual themes. [wikipedia]

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Crime Fiction…At first I was impressed because we have writers who writes such literary works. But after some chapters, my interest falls down… It’s like the author was spoon-feed the readers so much… That’s why it gets boring for me… It’s like some chapters became irrelevant because we already know what will happened. But the first 10 chapters catches the idea of a crime fiction… the elements are there…(should I call it elements???) like there’s a crime, of course the criminal who has a past that pushed him to do the crime and the investigator/tion. I like how the murderer kills the children (kaka-amaze lang…) because it is very unusual. For me it’s something interesting. The author catches the attention of the readers o read more because of that. At first I thought Arcinas was the killer because of what he did to Carding. The scene in the dental clinic was somehow a bit of give away because the readers already know that the suspect was from there. All in all for me, the novel, from trying to reach the genre of crime fiction suddenly fall down to i-don’t-know genre because of too much information and trying hard too much in making the novel interesting… but I didn’t work for some of us.