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Okay, guys. I...
Okay, guys. I know a lot of people love Twilight *rolls eyes* but I am inclined to stay by my descision.
Twilight is probably the worst book that ever hit the earth. I just don't get the fact why anybody would want to read it. I mean, come on! A 108-year-old guy marrying an 18-year-old girl. (Or dating. I really don't care. It's all the same to me!) But if you like it, please give me some very good reasons. Maybe I might concede and agree with you. But you've got to stop going on and on until you give a very good reason!
submitted by Horse Rider
(April 7, 2009 - 10:27 am)
(April 7, 2009 - 10:27 am)
A lot of people on here don't like Twilight, myself included.
(April 8, 2009 - 7:40 am)
Haha! Join the Rebellion!!!
(April 9, 2009 - 6:58 am)
lena, YOU HAVE TO TELL ME THESE THINGS! I HATE TWIGHLIGHT!
(April 17, 2009 - 3:15 pm)
Another one?
I'm inclined to agree with you. And yeah he does marry her in the end. But, then, one has to be lenient with vampire/human romances - see Buffy/Angel or Buffy/Spike in which the vampires were about 200 years old and the human was 16/17.
(April 8, 2009 - 10:02 pm)
The age thing is not really an issue with me- it's vampire fantasy, and I don't think you can really have a young vampire. It's the morals that really get me, and ever since TNO (umlaut!) said on one of the other threads that Smeyer called a van "claustrophobic" I don't think very well of the author either. (I mean, come on! This is a grown-up, educated woman we're talking about here, and she calls a van claustrophobic????!!! Puh-leese!)
(April 9, 2009 - 12:55 pm)
Well, "young" or newly turned vampires traditionally are more bloodthirsty and therefore dangerous than older vampires; hence, vampire/human relationships don't work unless the vampire is old enough to control itself.
Also, smeyer majored in English.
(April 10, 2009 - 8:30 am)
*HYPERVENILATES* *DIES* S. Meyer majored in English and she called a van CLAUSTROPHOBIC!!!???? Where on EARTH did she go to school!!!!!!!!!!????
Sorry...
What does "newly turned" mean?
I need to go get a drink of water... I almost had a heart attack when you said that the woman who wrote that someone's bedrooom "had been belonged" to them majored in English. *passes out*
(April 10, 2009 - 1:35 pm)
BYU, I believe. And yeah, she majored in English and was "very close" to her English teacher. *head-desk* "had been belonged". Nuff said.
"newly turned" = new vamp. "Turned", of course, meaning the transformation from human to vampire through whatever method.
(April 10, 2009 - 7:43 pm)
While I LOVE Twilight, I am inclined to say throughout the entire 4 books I was hoping more people would kick the bucket. It was pretty good and kind of funny, and they're were a small amount of fights, but Warriors is a whole lot better. No contest.
(April 14, 2009 - 3:13 pm)
My problem is that it's BORING. Does she have any idea of a good plot?
(April 10, 2009 - 5:01 pm)
@ Horse Rider: I know that a lot of people will disagree, but I actually thought that the Twilight series was interesting. Bad Maddy. :) I know it's not great literature, but for some reason they were fun to read. And maybe this is because I've never read or watched any other vampire-type books or TV shows, but I thought that the books were pretty original. And they weren't horribly graphic at all (especially the first three), which is always a big plus. :)
@ Mary W: I think that Stephenie Meyer went to BYU. Newly turned means that the vampire has recently been changed from a vamp to a human (right, TNO?).
@ TNO (sorry, unfortunately can't do umlauts on windows!): Did you actually find all those mistakes yourself or just google something like Twilight grammar errors?
(April 10, 2009 - 9:34 pm)
It's okay; we all respect your opinion here. :)
(April 11, 2009 - 8:23 am)
Most of them I dug up myself - Quinn's got copies of all the books - a couple I got from the TS forums, and then looked them up to make sure they were legitimate.
"had been belonged", for example, I knew off the top of my head 'cause it kind of... leaps wildly off the page at you when you read. The van claustrophobia one I got from TS.
Re: Originality - the sparkling thing? Um, Anne Rice's vampires were, well, not glittery but they kind of... glowed? in lamplight. Not sunlight, mind, they died in sunlight, but their fingernails were highly reflective and they glowed, enough that they had to be "powdered down" in order to appear publicly in front of humans.
And sure, Twilight wasn't graphic - but it's a fact of vampire fiction that vampires drink blood. Smeyer herself has said she likes to write about pretty things; why did she decide to write about *vampires*, of all things? Why not... angels? Or unicorns? Though I would weep for the future of angel/unicorn myths if that happened... *shudder*
But, yeah, why would a woman who a)doesn't like vampire books, b)is a member of a religion where vampires = creatures of the devil and almost a taboo subject, and c)likes pretty things, write about vampires is beyond me, sparkling and "vegetarian" diets aside.
Hah! I bet PETA people want to fish-slap her for saying that eating only carnivorous animals and destroying the west-coast ecosystem was akin to vegetarianism.
(April 11, 2009 - 11:20 am)
Yeah, the sparkling could have been left out. I guess she had to make up some reason why the vamps couldn't go out in the sun without them dying. In the movie you could barely tell that Edward was sparkling at all, then it just looked like he was sweaty. But the worst part was the *shimmershimmersparkleshimmer* sound effects in the background. :)
(April 11, 2009 - 5:16 pm)
Sadly, Twilight seems to be taking over the minds of everyone! All these boys at my school would read them and most people will just reread the stories instead of reading anything else. (Way to kill brain cells, people) Smeyer is really bad and so unimaginative. She couldn't do ANYTHING ELSE with her life COULD she??
(April 11, 2009 - 1:55 pm)