I wish people would stop being so darn scathing of Twilight.

[mz_bstone]

Is it great lit

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[tingler]

I'm not thrilled with some of the messages the book seems to perpetrate, but my thirteen-year-old daughter, who would often take weeks to finish a smallish paperback, tore through the entire available body of "Twilight" books in an astonishingly short time *and* has been reading noticeably more ever since. And she had something to talk about with all her friends. Also, the fifteen-year-old son read 'em, too, and *he* has been reading more, since as well, and he wasn't much of one for pleasure reading before. So I'm not fussing.

[ratcreature]

I really find the anti-reaction OTT. I mean, I have read all four books, and okay, I can see the criticisms, but otoh despite that they hooked me enough that I kept reading, which is more than plenty other books can say. This squee-harshing just to feel superior or whatever is kind of petty.

[cathexys]

Thank you. I had a long rant but deleted it where I connected it to our Mary Sue OTT dislike.

I mean, it's kinda bland--much too uninteresting to warrant such excessive derision and superior ridicule...

[raincitygirl]

Good point.

I rather suspect that it may also have to do with internalised discomfort over their own fannish pursuits. Sort of a, "Yeah, everybody thinks fans are nuts, but look at THOSE fans over there. They're way, way more nuts than us respectable, only semi-nuts fans."

[ratcreature]

Yeah, Twilight fans are like the new furries or something.

[rednikki]

I'm not scathing of Twilight at all.

I am a little dismayed that, currently, about 50% of the books in the Romance section are vampire romances. Not even joking. Vampires + romance are a THING right now, for some reason. (More of a THING than they've been in decades.)