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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[threnody.livejournal.com]

I made it through two books and about two chapters into the third before I called it quits. I kept waiting for it to start being good, and it never did. I still don't know how I managed to make it that far without killing myself or anyone else.

[hopeness.livejournal.com]

But sometimes, you just have to eat the candy, even if you know it's bad for you.

[ms-maree.livejournal.com]

The worst part for me (well apart from the fact that everyone at work is reading it, although I'm making inroads with reccing them Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse series. Is that it is so very popular, despite it being so crap.

I think I'm naive, I thought generally the masses had better taste, but I should have known, just look at how successful Dan Brown and Matthew Reilly have been, and those books are horrendous.

[fixeight.livejournal.com]

So here's my thoughts.

before I ever heard of twilight, I found THE HOST (and for some odd reason, I am really behind the times in what is popular). While everyone was raving about the twilight series, ignorant me had never heard of stephanie Meyer and yet, she was sitting comfortably on my bedside table, unable to put down the host which I found was well written and enjoyable.

Then I heard about twilight, bought the first book and read through the first chapter (then died a thousand deaths). So the first book sucked. I didn't read it and sorry I ever bought it. First movie sucked too (I blame the director on this cours because Eragon was an awesome book and the movie blew which blew the whole thing out of the water, so eragon had a similar bad movie taste).

I watched new moon. It was awesome. Okay, it was geared towards teens but it was a good pace (though I could have done without the updates of the month in one scene in particular) and then ending was fab.

I bought the third book because I had this idea that she must have picked up better in writing style after two books. I was right. the book is good, it moves along and Im half way through it in four hours (okay, I peeled through this book) and it explains everything in that book that was previous to the other two movies.

So that's my suggestion. Although I have to say, bella is pathetic. Edward is a little posessive but I really like the rest and it explores a lot of the other character's backgrounds and why things are the way they are. :D

Though I do agree with you. The first boook SUCKS.

[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. ;)