[BlackKusanagi]

Stephanie Meyer needs something like this in her life.

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[Holiday]

One good thing came out of this. After a few years nobody remembers the name of…

:laugh: LESTAT! :laugh:

[BlackKusanagi]

Oh god. Sad thing is, I could stomach that movie more than this stuff.

[CDR]

Bram Stoker is spinning at supersonic speeds on his grave…

[FlakBait]

Well at least now I know I’m not the only one fed up 😛
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[BlackKusanagi]

Lmfao, I had put that up on my facebook months ago XD.

[zenta]

Ah yes. Twilight. It’s terrible(y awesome), a great thing to like ironically. I’ve read all the books apart from the new one (should really get round to torrenting it) and have seen both films so far. Unless of course third film is already out…

Either way, the series really is pretty crap. The fact that I have read them gives me a moral highground with a lot of ‘Twihards’ or however they wish to call themselves, it’s great to tell them how and why the books are just not good and see them lost for words.

Here are some key points to remember:

* Bella does not love Edward, she lusts over him, everytime she talks about him she mentions how sexy he is and then is constantly annoyed by him. In the fourth book she does actually at one point near the end give actual reasons why she might love him.

* Edward is a stalker and a textbook abusive boyfriend. His attraction lies in the fact he wants to eat her. He leaves her to protect her, manipulates her with the promise of sex, and controls who she sees (in one case taking the engine out of her truck so she can’t go see werewolf boy).

* Stephenie Meyer tries to get away in the books saying that a character is such a way, and then have them act differently. Even if this started out as some clever way to show that Bella isn’t as smart as she thinks she is (the books are from her perspective), that has been long since abandoned to cater for the masses. Also I really doubt she’s that clever.

* Lol hyperbole

* Lol sparkly vampires

The book is pretty sexist really. Edward has to empower her, her whole pregnancy deal, etc etc.

My favourite bit by far has to be the bit where there is an ‘epic’ battle between Vampires and other Vampires teamed up with Werewolves that has been built up over the past book and a half. It’s loosely described by Edward to Bella as he mind melds with a young werewolf and says things like ‘good move’ and ‘ah thats clever’ etc.

You know why I read them? Hoping there was female strength stuff in there, of which there is a very poorly described scene where Bella is ‘karate chopping’ a rock.

Am I happy? Maybe. Priceless to watch Twilight fans have their world crumble around them without any defence.

[AlexG]

Holiday wrote:

One good thing came out of this. After a few years nobody remembers the name of…

:laugh: LESTAT! :laugh:

That’s only because Anne Rice had a religious epiphany, became a born again Catholic and doesn’t write vampire stories anymore.

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[Holiday]

AlexG wrote:

Holiday wrote:

One good thing came out of this. After a few years nobody remembers the name of…

:laugh: LESTAT! :laugh:

That’s only because Anne Rice had a religious epiphany, became a born again Catholic and doesn’t write vampire stories anymore.

So she lost fans because she doesn’t believe in it anymore? Or did her work just go out of style? I honestly don’t appreciate it so much. It was too emo for my tastes. I certainly didn’t bother finishing the Lasher books.

“Let the Right One In” is the only decent child vampire book I’ve read. That’s only because it keeps it very simple. Meyer and Ann Rice could learn something from it. If you’re going to make it so complicated, stick to Stephen King’s convoluted approach. Vampires are actually creatures called the “Grandfathers”? Sheesh.

[AlexG]

Holiday wrote:

AlexG wrote:

Holiday wrote:

One good thing came out of this. After a few years nobody remembers the name of…

:laugh: LESTAT! :laugh:

That’s only because Anne Rice had a religious epiphany, became a born again Catholic and doesn’t write vampire stories anymore.

So she lost fans because she doesn’t believe in it anymore? Or did her work just go out of style? I honestly don’t appreciate it so much. It was too emo for my tastes. I certainly didn’t bother finishing the Lasher books.

For the details, read her bio. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Rice

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

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