{+12} Pills enough to make me feel ill
In fact, I was sure there was something different. I vividly remembered the black color of his eyes the last time he'd glared at me - the color was striking against the background of his pale skin and his auburn hair. Today, his eyes were a completely different color: a strange ocher, darker than butterscotch, but with the same golden tone. I didn'
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If the atrocities that are processed food and fast food can become popular, then it's certainly popular for a bad book to become a best seller. This excerpt does not seem particularly familiar to me, though. I just read the classics, after all.
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I'm just reading this because I've seen so many other people reading this book, apparently it's a trend with girls and select boys who will kill you over simply doing critique over the book. So, I'm guessing the fans are more of some sort of cult. Anyway, the book is Twilight. Some girl told me that the book was a modern day Pride & Prejudice, how wrong of me to actually believe her. About all I've really found is bad writing, some girl who falls in love way too fast to be "true" love, and vampires. I really can't see why they enjoy it so much. Though, I suspect that they enjoy it because they can't find anything like this in true life, so they settle for reading it to feed their illusion of the world, or am I taking too much thought on this.
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There's nothing wrong with a little escapism, non? Makes the hardships of life a little bit easier to swallow. Though if the fans are really as touchy and cultish as you say, I would be more wary of voicing dislike over this book if I were you.
You shouldn't believe anyone who compares one thing to another that is extraordinary like Pride and Prejudice. You'd really only be setting yourself up for inevitable disappointment. Though if it's really that bad, you'd be disappointed anyway...
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Escapism huh? Now that you mention it, I'm not all that different by taking pleasure in reading to drown my sorrows. So, when I heard it was "similar" to Pride & Prejudice, I thought maybe this would distract me from my Valentine's Day sorrows. I always did love the book because of the satire and the true-to-life love story, as well as the language and the customs, being British myself. But when I got around to reading Twilight, the characters were so bland and the relationships developed way too fast, it seemed unreal. I'm still yet to finish it, but so far I'm hoping for someone to knock some sense into that pitiful sue-like excuse for a main character, otherwise this may end in tears... Not to mention a lot of drinking games.
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Wooooah, you read that? I didn't think you were into those sort of books, Iggy!
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Some girl fooled me! I knew I shouldn't have trusted her when she said it was like Pride & Prejudice! Whatever, Elizabeth is much smarter than that sue Isabella anyway. D
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Dude, Pride& Prejudice is a girl's book. What about Batman or Superman or even Spiderman? Maaaan, I never knew you British were such pansies. ♪
Oh. And I thought that Bella chick looked cute in the movie previews.
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You've never read Pride & Prejudice have you? Jane Austen's wit, the complexity of her characters, the customs, the language. Have you not any sense? There's more to it than the love story, it's realistic. The situations, the trials and trivials of life. Similar situations were going on in England during that time period.
You Americans and your mediocre movies. If I had a dime for every time someone in America released a mediocre movie, I'd be rich. Breads and circuses is all it really is.
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