In need of opinion

[a_clever_one]

So
My little sister wants to read the Twilight series.  I am against this.  Not just because I don't like the plot-line but she is only 10.  She is reading at a higher maturity level.  (I myself was reading Rebecca and Gone with the Wind at her age).  My step-mother is going to let her because her friend of the same age is reading them. 
I have not

Comments

[ladyleo]

I've read the first book. Is she a mature 10? They are young adult/teen fiction.

[a_clever_one]

She is. I suggested to my dad that one of us (him,my step-mom, or me) should read it first so that we have a better idea if its something we don't want her to read. I have gotten two reactions.
"Yeah, they're fine"
and
"Hell no!"

[amadareneko]

They're perfectly appropriate; they're just really epically crappy. The writing is horrible, the characters are horrible, and the plot is pathetically contrived when it bothers to show up. Also, the relationship between the two main characters would be *extremely* unhealthy between two real people.

Just make sure she understands that this is not an example of good writing or of a good relationship, and it should be fine. Stephenie Meyer is a Mormon; there are no drugs or sex or inappropriate language in these books, like, at all. There's a fade-to-black sex scene in the fourth book if you're really hyper-concerned; it runs something like "and he looked at her in the ocean. *scene change*"

[krowface]

"Do you think a 10 year-old should read them?"

i don't think anyone should read them. :P

[a_clever_one]

With this I agree. But I do not think that "They are horribly written, with bad themes and sucky plot" is good enough to not let her read them. I refuse to do so, but I shall subject myself to them for the sake of my sister

[bainen]

Do not encourage her to read them. I have a couple of amusing comics about how bad they are. Apparently at one point, well hell...I'll just send you the links. http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1205820647&ref=profile#/photo.php?pid=30323146&id=1205820647&ref=mf... )

[garr_adept]

the links your trying to reach I assume.
http://shinga.deviantart.com/art/Head-Trip-Twilight-Sucks-85504254
and
http://headtripcomics.comicgenesis.com/d/20080915.html

[amadareneko]

"so much fluffy bunny paganism it's disgusting. (direct quote overheard in barnes and noble: OMG, Twilight is so hot, i totally am gonna be into Wicca and get a guy like Edward)."

Agreed with everything except this; this I'm curious about. I read all the books (don't look at me like that, if you go in expecting them to be awful, they just become hilarious), and I really don't remember anything that could even be construed as paganism, fluffy bunny or otherwise. In fact, Edward is obsessed with musing over whether he has a soul and would go to Heaven if he died. I'm curious about this now.

[bainen]

As I haven't read them, just heard excerpts, I can't tell you about what's in there. I can tell you that kids started flocking to the new age section in bookstores like it's New Mecca and decided based on book covers with pictures of vampires that paganism is for them. I overheard that quote, and honestly, that's what made me hate them before I knew anything about them. I'm sure the writer would be just as horrified as I am at what this movement is spawning. And yeah. I know a lot of people are hyped about this being the new Harry Potter, and I think part of why I dislike Twilight is because I'm seeing kids with Hot Topic brand Twilight shirts everywhere these days. The new emo movement if you will. Also, check out last nights South Park about "vamp kids". It is fucking hilarious.

I understand that my argument against them is ineffective because I haven't read the things, but I'm just not willing to put my brain through that. Reading Kant again is masochistic enough.