Writer's Block: Twilight becomes you
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And I thought the whole Harry Potter insanity was annoying. Those, at least, are palatable compared to the tripe that Stephanie Meyer turned out and the Twi-hards are even worse in terms of fangirling. Death threats because people are criticising a series of books? Seriously?
And yes, I attempted to read at least the first one. I got half-way through the first chapter before my spine leapt up my neck and strangled my brain in an attempt to preserve my sanity. Not only is the concept horrible, the characters cardboard cut outs with stereotyped personalities, but Meyers is a hack writer who is in sad need of an editor with the balls to tell her she can't write for crap. J. K. Rowling was derivitive but at least she had a decent vocabulary and didn't have to pause to thump us over the head with how sparkly the main characters are.
(also, I quite like the Harry Potter movies - they cut out the extraneous description and get into the meat of things, as it were, which was actually a good story)
It'll be funny when they try and film the last book. The whole "vampire baby breaks her mother's spine and daddy has to perform a Ceasarian with his teeth" ought to make a wonderful trailer.
I think this sums things up nicely. :)
And I thought the whole Harry Potter insanity was annoying. Those, at least, are palatable compared to the tripe that Stephanie Meyer turned out and the Twi-hards are even worse in terms of fangirling. Death threats because people are criticising a series of books? Seriously?
And yes, I attempted to read at least the first one. I got half-way through the first chapter before my spine leapt up my neck and strangled my brain in an attempt to preserve my sanity. Not only is the concept horrible, the characters cardboard cut outs with stereotyped personalities, but Meyers is a hack writer who is in sad need of an editor with the balls to tell her she can't write for crap. J. K. Rowling was derivitive but at least she had a decent vocabulary and didn't have to pause to thump us over the head with how sparkly the main characters are.
(also, I quite like the Harry Potter movies - they cut out the extraneous description and get into the meat of things, as it were, which was actually a good story)
It'll be funny when they try and film the last book. The whole "vampire baby breaks her mother's spine and daddy has to perform a Ceasarian with his teeth" ought to make a wonderful trailer.
I think this sums things up nicely. :)
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Date: 2009-11-23 12:27 am (UTC)As to the Twi-ness, I never understood it. I read some really hilarious reviews when Book 4 came out, but that was literally the closest I ever came to "reading" the books. The fact that they took the raw sexuality out of a VAMPIRE tale just baffled me. It still does. Is that the kind of world we live in?
Srsly, I live in a town where people are too SCARED to celebrate Halloween. Do I also have to live in a world where people have to dumb down the vampire mythos to a bunch of stunted, politically correct, half-assed abstaining-from-sex teenagers?
I miss Buffy. So fucking much.
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Date: 2009-11-23 12:41 am (UTC)That baffles me too, over the last couple of years I've read dozens of urban/fantasy romance vampire stories, and while they all differ on how good vampires are (from totally evil to just like humans more or less), they all have them as very sexual, and that sex appeal is used as a predator's arsenal.
I think Meyers misses the whole point. But the lack of sex also makes me wonder how anyone could see it as escapist. If Bella got it on with Edward, even suggestively (for the teens), no matter how badly it was written I'd get the appeal.
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Date: 2009-11-23 02:03 am (UTC)C'mon with the TENSION. Everybody is doing it. Hop on the freakin' wagon.