How the hell did this get published?

[aebhel]

Okay. Finished Twilight. Well. I finished skimming it, because it became clear about a chapter in that this wasn't a book I really wanted to absorb in any particular depth.

When I heard about the series I thought, you know, give it a chance. Plenty of people hate Stephen King because he's too mainstream, and he's one of my favorite writers. I

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[tailoredshirt]

Yes to all of the above. I got through about 2/3 of the first book and couldn't finish. I didn't think it was that awful (I read a lot of teen fiction, and a lot of it is awful, so this wasn't anything brand new), but when people started going on and on about it I started getting angry. For me, it's mostly just that Stephenie Meyer takes herself so seriously. If it was cheesy and melodramatic, I could handle that. But it's cheesy and melodramatic, and you can tell from the writing that she thinks she's written the world's greatest love story, and that I can't handle

[aebhel]

I don't even know why I bothered finishing it; I pretty much knew one page in that it wasn't going to be worth reading.

I actually do read a lot of teen fiction, but this was even below my standards for that. Most if it's just...not that original or whatever. But I honestly cannot understand how this book got published.

Everyone's obsessed with Edward because he's perfect! And beautiful, and handsome, and powerful, and flawless, and did I mention perfect? Despite having no personality. Seriously, the books I would compare these to are the Mediator series by Meg Cabot, rather than Harry Potter, but even those are better. They're cheesy and over the top, but they have a sense of fun. And the romance works because the characters actually get to know each other before they fall madly in love.