Writer's Block: Twilight becomes you
Nov. 22nd, 2009 02:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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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: 2009-11-24 02:40 am (UTC)That review I linked to? It's by a former Mormon who actually has a lot of interesting insights into the Mormon imagery and themes that appear in Twilight. It actually was interesting to read in that light, since it became an anthropological exercise. She also does funny pictures with bad MS Paint. ;)
And yeah, I scare myself when I go all L33T speak. I think I'll stick to my habit of dropping the pronouns off the start of my sentences when I'm in a hurry and that's it. ;)
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Date: 2009-11-24 02:44 am (UTC)He was here a few weeks ago and we missed it. I would have liked to go to it but shut all the religious questions up because he seems to be really more interested in talkinga bout evolution rather than why he doesn't believe in god. (seriously, it comes up in EVERY interview and really, evolution is so fascinating - ryan has rubbed off on me. blame him).
You know what. I really need to change my icons. I have nothing that goes with this.