Even though my classmates have spoken about what a good book
Stardust is and all the subtle
meanings behind it, (as with any book) I find myself having trouble getting
into the book, as in I still haven’t read past the first chapter. It is eerily similar
to a classic novel, though not fantasy, opening from The Scarlet Letter. For those of you who haven’t read the book the
whole first chapter is about one thousand words describing a door, how red it
is, the vines coming off of it and things of the like. Keep in mind I haven’t
picked up the book in seven years and I still remember the grueling detail in
which this door was described. I see this similarity with describing the grey
wall with the opening to the other side. Some may not think this is bad but
when I first started to read The Scarlet
Letter it was not of my own choice and I was 13. So basically tortured
through that chapter and gave up. My question is why do some writers go through
that much detail on some inanimate object that probably won’t make it past
chapter three?
What is the point of making a reader envision something with
such detail only to forget about it later? As an avid reader I am frustrated
with an author’s willingness to drag out a story like that. Why can’t the door
be old and red? Why can’t the wall just be grey and have a hole in it? I would
just like to understand how relevant the life story of a wall is or anything
similar.
This is not to say that the scarlet letter is a bad book,
nor do I mean that about Stardust, but why push such significance on something
that doesn't matter?
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