mme_hardy | Thank Heaven, it's not just me!

I read the first volume of Divergent --I won't be reading the second, the first was very silly -- and my visceral reaction to the premise was just echoed in Vanity Fair.

Right off the bat, something is wrong with Divergent, the new teen action film based on the popular Y.A. book series. The people of the story, who live in a dystopian future Chicago, have split themselves up into five rigidly maintained factions, each with its own roles and philosophies: Abnegation (the selfless administrators), Dauntless (the protectors), Candor (the truth-tellers), Erudite (the intellectuals), and Amity (the placid farmers). Why are three of those names nouns and two adjectives? Couldn’t the smart faction be called Erudition, and the warrior group be called something like, I dunno, Bravery? It doesn’t make sense!

What he said. Threw me clean out of the book for five minutes or so while I tried to come up with a consistent set of names. Apparently parallelism was beaten into me with a rod of adamantium.