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| wearing your heart on your sleeve........First off, I am absolutely thrilled that their are reviewers out there who feel exactly the same way I did upon reading Eclipse.
While reading it the first time, I was disgusted with Bella's character. The endless whining/selfishness and the "best friend" nonsense she still harbored for Jacob made me sick. I often wondered how in the hell Bella could still regard him as a "best friend??" His character turned into a nasty, relentless annoyance who time and time again pushed her buttons to the extreme. (I finally thought she was seeing the light when she punched him in the face, but of course not.) My other major issue with this book was Bella's lack of regard for Edward. Every time a problem arouse involving Jacob, she had to soothe it over to make sure his "pain" was eased while ending the issue with "love you." AHHHHH....! Where is the love for Edward? Why is her character so keen on making amends and salvaging the friendship with the dog? Why does she keep walking over Edward and easing his pain second to Jacob's? What was the point in painting the beautiful Bella/Edward relationship in Twilight, when you are going to have him trampled on in Eclipse? One can only sympathize with Edward's character. I was secretly wishing Edward (or even Alice) would grow some balls and lay it on the line for Bella.
I made myself read it again to gauge whether I could take on a different perspective. I realized the second time around that there really was never a choice between the two. Her love for Edward has run too deep into her veins to even consider a different life. This does not mean that the way Bella's character went about it was less angering the second time around.
Besides from the twists of the love triangle, I enjoyed the background stories of Jasper and Rose. I love when Meyer gives us more information on her characters and how they came to be. I even enjoyed the werewolves background story. The fight scene with Edward/Victoria was exciting, but I do wish we could have heard about the other battle.
The book is worth the read if you are intent on finishing the series. But be warned, if you do NOT like love triangles and are determined to see the relationship between the star characters untouched, you may want to skip this one.
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| Personally I love a happy endingAfter reading all of the reviews I thought I would break down and write my own. I came into the Twilight world by chance and like almost everyone who has read Twilight, I too fell in love and finshed the whole series in less then two weeks. I laughed, cried and like some cringed. Despite the cringing, I loved Breaking Dawn, I loved the wedding, I loved their honeymoon, and I loved that Bella and Edward were going to have a "little nudger!!" The whole pregnacy and birth was a little crazy but the whole idea of a girl falling in love with a vampire, then marrying one, then becoming one is a little crazy. I'm glad even vampires can learn that one time is all it takes!! As far as the happy ending, it took Bella three previous books to get her happy ending, the fighting, Edward leaving, more fighting I was glad they got to be together in the end. People wanted a big fight to happen, but if Alice or Carlise or someone else were to have died people would of been mad with that too. As for Jacob imprinting on the "little nudger" I have to say I was happy with that too, happy that Jacob was happy and was finally over Bella. Like I said before some of the things were a little crazy but overall I was happy and I WISH Meyer would take us back there again sometime, we all need a happy ending sometimes!!
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| A Very Timely VolumeI very much enjoyed reading Meacham's biography on Andrew Jackson. In the past few years there have been a series of biographies about the men that made America and shaped her ideals - from Chernow's brilliant Hamilton Biography to others on Adams, Jefferson, etc. Hopefully Americans will gain more familiarity with this very interesting and complex man and the times he lived in.
With Jackson, Meacham chose a remarkably good target at the present time with our recent economic troubles. Jackson is the man that killed the Second Bank of the United States, leaving the banking system in the United States in a state of uncontrolled chaos up until the creation of the Federal Reserve System. The US banking system remained in a weakened state leading up the Great Depression with thousands of small, under capitalized banks that were ripe for panic and depression in the 1930s. Jackson left a very long legacy indeed.
Meacham's Jackson will not satisfy history junkies and people wishing to dive deeper into the subject. Meacham is not a life long Jackson biographer and the material at times stops too soon. An example of this occurs during the Eaton affair where the wife of the Secretary of War becomes the centerpiece of scandal and occupies a great number of pages in any Jackson biography. The first time reader would dismiss this episode and wish to get back to the great issues of the day, while missing out on the significance of the whole episode. While Jackson persists at great length in trying to rehabilitate the secretary's wife while doing great damage to his own family, in the end the affair leads to the demise of the presidential prospects for John Calhoun, the fiery state's rights advocate and champion of the nullifiers, whose election may have lead to the break up of the United States.
The rupture between Calhoun's wife and Eaton's wife leads to estrangement between Jackson and Calhoun. Eventually Calhoun appears to regain Jackson's trust and decides to publish a set of papers exchanged with Jackson with the purpose of destroying Martin Van Buren, his rival. Calhoun fully informs Eaton about his intentions thinking Eaton would relay the information to Jackson. Instead, the Eaton whose wife has been savaged by Calhoun's wife and the other high society types refrains from telling Jackson, leading Calhoun to his own demise. When Jackson saw the publication his response was "They have cut their throats." Jackson would face down the nullifiers and John Calhoun would never become president. This episode should have been explored further.
The relation of Jackson and Van Buren, referred to as "the Magician" could be much more fully explored. Whatever Jackson, the rough hewn southerner saw in the artful wire puller from New York is still mysterious. Van Buren's "masterpiece" is his withdrawal from Jackson's cabinet, which conveniently moved Van Buren into a better position to angle for the presidency, while giving Jackson the benefit of the resignation of his poor friend Eaton and the Calhoun supporters in his cabinet - all the while maintaining his standing with Jackson. A complete tour de force!
Another area where the book was lukewarm was Jackson's facedown with the nullifiers. More emphasis should have been placed on the military pressure that Jackson put on the South Carolina with the realization that he planned a lightning fast campaign against them and many of them would soon be hanging from trees. Jacksonian was well known for his brutality in duals, the Florida campaign and elsewhere making everyone acutely aware of what he was capable of. Henry Clay's legislative moves to deprive Jackson of his triumph in reality gave the nullifiers a way out. They would take these lesions to heart when they tried secession 1860.
Jackson is a fascinating character at times capable of ruthless brutality, while at other times being tender loving family man dotting about the children with motherly care. This book will do much to give the reader a feel for the contradictions and virtues in this remarkable man.
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