I keep seeing people suggesting this book's okay really and maybe I should read it! but GOOD GRIEF.
I'd say I don't understand how people can actually like this but I think that the attitude that it's okay to judge people on the grounds of how hawt they are is prevalent enough that Bella's enormous bitchitude here is forgivable in the eyes of more people than I'm really comfortable with. :C
(.. this is Squeaky, by the way, too lazy to log out of an RP account >>)
Ahaha. It kinda is ain't it! Roxas wouldn't thank you for the compliment, though 8D <3
And yeah, I saw that comment on dA. SIGH. I didn't want to say this, because, you know, different strokes for different folks and all that, but I really can't understand why people defend this book! I mean, reading it and enjoying it is one thing (I think anyone who says they don't enjoy reading/watching rubbish every now and then is either lying or incredibly pretentious), but I don't get why anyone tries to maintain it has the slightest bit of literary worth.
- And man did it bug me when that commenter said it didn't matter if it was that good because it was teen romance. WTF! Surely it's especially important, with a romance, to have well-developed characters you can relate to? And when it's aimed at teenagers surely the last thing you want to do is write a character who spends the entire first chapter bitching about a situation that a lot of teenagers would be grateful for? Given its enormous success, though, apparently not. @__@
OH ROXAS, YOU SHOULD BE MORE APPRECIATIVE. IN MY DAY, WE HAD TO WALK TWO MILES IN SNOWSTORMS TO GET PRETTY USERNAMES.
Yeah, to be honest, I'm open-minded. I know not everybody will like things that I like, just like I won't always like what they like. Heck, I even have my own guilty weaknesses when it comes to certain things that I know suck but love anyway.
And jesus, yeah, that bugged the hell out of me. I wanted to say everything you just mentioned. In the end I probably should have just said "I'm not saying whether it's a romance book or not, I'm saying whether it's a GOOD book or not."
I wasn't complaining about how boring it was or "MAN WTF THIS BOOK SUCKS, THERE'S NO ACTION." I was complaining about the lack of character development and the bad writing, things that are UNIVERSAL in fiction, regardless of genre.
'Forks'? 'Forks'? Damn, small towns in America have some really weird names.
Also, 'Isabella Swan' is not that unusual a name. 'Swan' is a normal enough surname, and my grandma is called Isabella. So she's got no right to be commenting on folk having names that grandparents have.
Yeah, I figured the 'part albino' thing was a joke. But still, you can't be 'part albino'. You can be 'partially albino', but it's still a genetic condition. If your mum or dad is albino, then you're either albino or you're not.
(black isn't that weird an eye colour. I've met plenty of people with black eyes. Not just dark brown - actual black. Half of them were Chinese, though.)
Yeah, actually, I'm fairly sure there is a town called Forks in Washington. We DO have some weird names over here. XD
But yeah, the part-albino thing was probably a joke, but that doesn't change the fact that it wasn't very funny. I'm sure Meyer intended us to think that the nerd didn't get the joke, but I got the impression that he was just staring at her because the joke was so unfunny that he thought she was serious.
{Oh yeah, I've met them, too. But when so much attention is drawn to it "OMG I NOTICED HIS EYES WERE COAL-BLACK", it's very much a Sue trait.)
Yeah, Forks is a real place here. X3 Apparently there's also a "Fruitville" here, but I don't know where it's at. Then there's Sequim (pronounced "Squim") somewhere near Seattle. *snorts* I remember seeing all sorts of funky names on Washington maps...
Followed the link from twilight_sucks! Bravo, dahling. *offers you a sparkly internet* I only got through chapter one before I flipped through it, checking for Sue-ness. Brave soul, you are.
Awwh! *accepts the sparkly internet, will name it Edward*
Yeah, thanks to years of reading hideously-bad fanfiction (and cringing all the while), I've built up a pretty good tolerance for bad writing. So, on I go!
Oh man, I know what you mean by coming to a new school. When I came to a new one, everyone WAS just bitchy to me and I didn't have people trying to help me. The people that later started being NICE to me were a God-send. Truly. Yet, Bella has people being nice to her from the START, and she replies with hostility. My God, I would KILL to be in her position--sun or no sun.
Honestly. ><
And being a Twilight fangirl (BEFORE... obviously I haven't been for months now), I never noticed how much she had been staring at Edward. She thinks that everyone's being rude to her, yet SHE'S the one being incredibly rude. And the kids in California learning absolutely EVERYTHING before the kids in Forks? Yeah, I highly doubt that. =/
Yeah, I won't deny, coming to a new school is hard. There might be a few curious gawkers, especially in a small town, but frankly, unless she was an alien or had some sort of visible mutation, the idea that so many people would be raptly paying attention to her (I'm not talking about the kids who just plain old try to befriend her, mainly the ones who are just BOGGLING at her all the time), is just far-fetched
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I keep seeing people suggesting this book's okay really and maybe I should read it! but GOOD GRIEF.
I'd say I don't understand how people can actually like this but I think that the attitude that it's okay to judge people on the grounds of how hawt they are is prevalent enough that Bella's enormous bitchitude here is forgivable in the eyes of more people than I'm really comfortable with. :C
(.. this is Squeaky, by the way, too lazy to log out of an RP account >>)
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And yeah, I saw that comment on dA. SIGH. I didn't want to say this, because, you know, different strokes for different folks and all that, but I really can't understand why people defend this book! I mean, reading it and enjoying it is one thing (I think anyone who says they don't enjoy reading/watching rubbish every now and then is either lying or incredibly pretentious), but I don't get why anyone tries to maintain it has the slightest bit of literary worth.
- And man did it bug me when that commenter said it didn't matter if it was that good because it was teen romance. WTF! Surely it's especially important, with a romance, to have well-developed characters you can relate to? And when it's aimed at teenagers surely the last thing you want to do is write a character who spends the entire first chapter bitching about a situation that a lot of teenagers would be grateful for? Given its enormous success, though, apparently not. @__@
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Yeah, to be honest, I'm open-minded. I know not everybody will like things that I like, just like I won't always like what they like. Heck, I even have my own guilty weaknesses when it comes to certain things that I know suck but love anyway.
And jesus, yeah, that bugged the hell out of me. I wanted to say everything you just mentioned.
In the end I probably should have just said "I'm not saying whether it's a romance book or not, I'm saying whether it's a GOOD book or not."
I wasn't complaining about how boring it was or "MAN WTF THIS BOOK SUCKS, THERE'S NO ACTION." I was complaining about the lack of character development and the bad writing, things that are UNIVERSAL in fiction, regardless of genre.
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Also, 'Isabella Swan' is not that unusual a name. 'Swan' is a normal enough surname, and my grandma is called Isabella. So she's got no right to be commenting on folk having names that grandparents have.
Yeah, I figured the 'part albino' thing was a joke. But still, you can't be 'part albino'. You can be 'partially albino', but it's still a genetic condition. If your mum or dad is albino, then you're either albino or you're not.
(black isn't that weird an eye colour. I've met plenty of people with black eyes. Not just dark brown - actual black. Half of them were Chinese, though.)
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But yeah, the part-albino thing was probably a joke, but that doesn't change the fact that it wasn't very funny. I'm sure Meyer intended us to think that the nerd didn't get the joke, but I got the impression that he was just staring at her because the joke was so unfunny that he thought she was serious.
{Oh yeah, I've met them, too. But when so much attention is drawn to it "OMG I NOTICED HIS EYES WERE COAL-BLACK", it's very much a Sue trait.)
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Yeah, thanks to years of reading hideously-bad fanfiction (and cringing all the while), I've built up a pretty good tolerance for bad writing. So, on I go!
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More talk from me on DA.
~Cat
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Yet, Bella has people being nice to her from the START, and she replies with hostility. My God, I would KILL to be in her position--sun or no sun.
Honestly. ><
And being a Twilight fangirl (BEFORE... obviously I haven't been for months now), I never noticed how much she had been staring at Edward. She thinks that everyone's being rude to her, yet SHE'S the one being incredibly rude.
And the kids in California learning absolutely EVERYTHING before the kids in Forks? Yeah, I highly doubt that. =/
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