Comments | jubibean: Do I dazzle you? (Spoilers for Twilght, if you care)

jubibean

Do I dazzle you? (Spoilers for Twilght, if you care)

Jan 02, 2009 07:33

Oh man, you guys, I started reading Twilight last August, because everyone was googly eyed over it and basically saying "YOU MUST READ THIS - IT'S A WONDERFUL LOVE STORY ( Read more... )

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danni_monster January 4 2009, 00:44:25 UTC

I walked into the bookstore one day and a horde of somthing-teen girls started yelling at me for not having read Twilight. So I bought the first book. Even the cashier started praising me for my choice.

Did you get the feeling that the whole thing is a fan fiction? Like the person that wrote it, is just writing out her fantasy?

The second book was a little irritating, but you can tell she got an editor.

jubibean January 4 2009, 03:15:52 UTC

OMG, YES.

I think that's what bothers me most about this, it feels like it was written by a teen who sniffed liquid paper. Teen books are my guilty pleasure, I mean I've read books geared to teens from other authors who were better writers.

I must ask, have you read Midnight Sun? It's told by Edwards P.O.V., I could only read a few paragraphs before I started pecking at my eyes.

kshaw January 4 2009, 16:28:58 UTC

I was warned at how teenage angsty it'd be. Personally, while I love occult fiction (and still write my own) I've grown out of the vampire genre because it always boils down to "Oh boo hoo, monsters we are, lest monsters we become". Makes me always want to gank on of them. The new vamp stuff isn't even near anything of the classics like Anne Rice or Bram Stoker. It's just emo (a.k.a kindergoth) fluff.

BTW... if a vamp can go out in sunlight, and *not* poof into ash... how is it still a vampire?

jubibean January 4 2009, 19:34:16 UTC

Ooh, you write? I'd like to see, please :)

I know, I read Interview With The Vampire when I was 12 and LOVED IT, shoot even Angel, the brooding vampire of Sunnydale and LA can kick Edward Cullen around with no effort.

To me, Twilight is the equivalence of brain candy...No, it's getting to the point where I can't even compare it to that. Bella's gone from whiny and redundant to just plain redundant, and I'm REALLY not looking forward to reading the rest of the series.

He's not a vampire, but a bi-polar Christmas ornament with fangs :)