Writer's Block: Twilight becomes you

[deathpixie]

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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. :)

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[deathpixie]

*grins* Yeah, I'm kind of wondering what all those Edward-obsessed teenies would think if they realised just how much of Meyer's stuff in Twilight is based on Mormon ideology? I seriously went through all four articles that were written and was floored at how much there was (in between the macros and illustrations done with Paint, that is). It actually helped the books make some kind of sense, too.

And like you, the person who wrote those like the vampire backgrounds best. ;)

I remember Richard Dawkins from my days of my ex - he was a philosophy major and rather a fan. I know I enjoyed what I heard/read of him myself - I ought to pick up something more recent than 20 years ago. ;)

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haha thats cool. Yeah, wow, see, enlightenment is awesome. I knew there was a reason I babbled in here so long. Im going through a bit of pain so if all my posts seem choppy is because im stopping and going when it lifts.

Yeah its really good. Stephen Hawking (theoretical physicist) is another one we've been listening to too. So im inundated with alot of science. maybe thats why I find the no brainer novels interesting, because it drifts me away for a moment into imagination and not science (Although I love it that Ryan plays these things, so interesting). Except hte part about americans convinced they can time travel and used seven year olds to do it. I had a hard time wrapping my head around that one. (no offense to the americans, its just something I heard in an interview!)