Chatterbox: Blab About Books

I thought the last version of this thread was pretty interesting, and I've got some new opinions on these things, so here I go.

Twilight, primarily. Ugh. My Twilight story:

 I was at the library, casually walking by the M's. The word 'Twhlight' randomly popped out at me. I was intrigued, because I was in fourth grade, had never heard of the Twilight saga,  and 'twilight' was one of my favorite words at the time. Plus the T wasn't capitalized, which I just found plain weird. 

I picked it up and saw the back first. Instead of a description, it was an excerpt -- a whole paragraph of Bella's soppy whining about Edward's awesomeness. I wrinkled my nose, though a part of me was still telling me that to give it a chance, maybe one of the more romantic parts. When I turned the book over and saw KStew and James Pattinson together, I just shoved the book onto the shelf and went, "Nuh-uh. I'm not reading that thing unless my grade or life depends on it."

Later, I found out more about Twilight, and, well. Ugh. I've nothing against romance, but some authors can make their MC fall in love without them whining about it for half the book.

Not to mention the sparkling.

And the animal blood thing.

And the fangirls' obsession and T-shirts and 'OME' and 'OCD' and you get the point.

And the stalking.

And the vampire baseball.

And the other bad morals.

And did I mention the sparkling?

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Also The Clique series, which I mentioned before.

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And Percy Jackson And The Olympians. Percy's a boring, annoying, predictable character who takes risks that, if they go wrong, would get everyone into a bigger mess that they were in before. But of course they never do go wrong. Gah. (example: he tells Geryon he'll clean the stables and his terms.) And he battles what's-his-face in The Battle of the Labyrinth. And he takes the sky from Artemis or Annabeth, I can't remember which one.

 Anabeth was almost just as annoying, except for the fact that she had interests and a fat ore imaginative and realistic fatal flaw.