Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

[nengrelim]

It's really been pissing me off how everyone takes the piss out of Twilight. Okay, okay, you don't like the book. We get it. Now, STFU!

Some of us happened to adore it.

Okay, the writing wasn't incredible. The relationship was clearly kinda fucked up. Vampires that sparkle in sunlight? Yes, okay, it's weird and a bit laughable, but EXCUSE SOMEONE

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[nengrelim]

I didn't actually mean you, m'dear. XD It was some other people I know who particulaly got up my nose over it.

It's not like I've never vehemenly hated a book (I Am Legend, Hotel World and The Glamour all fling themselves to mind). I just hate he tone some people get when they talk about books they hate. I'm like,"Srsly, thin you could do any better?" and even if they COULD, I'd rather they went and did it instead of just bitching about other people's hard work.

[annyihra]

"To sparkle like a vampire at high noon" is my new catch-phrase. I predict that Twilight will someday have its own Rocky Horror-style cult attached to it, complete with initiation rituals.

. . . and I have to say, the few pages I have read seem about on par with the 140 pages I have read of the seventh Harry Potter book (you know, the series after JKR's editors lost the ability to do their job). Twilight would have been better if Meyers had had a decent editor. Then again, I'm an English major, so most popular fiction now makes me want to stab my eyes out . . . this is what acclimating to eighteenth-century literature does to you . . . maybe I should start a support group . . . . The first popular book I enjoyed in years was Blindsight by Peter Watts, which I read last summer. Amazing fiction. Stuff has to be on par with that or better for me to get through it.

[nengrelim]

Is Blindsight that one you linked me to last term? I still haven't read it, if so. Bad Nadia. But it's still in my bookmarks, so I'll get there one of these days.

[thawed]

The combined forces of the English students on my staircase (all three of us, wow) had this rant at my Classics friend, Hannah--although it was part of a more abstract discussion of "high" and "low" art and how there is no such thing. (Because we're all so uncomfortable with the fact that we're doing English at Oxford that we revert to a postmodernist free-for-all

[nengrelim]

Thank you. *hugs* You are now the second person (from Challoners - I wonder if this says something) (at or going to Oxford - wonder if this says something else) to offer me something constructive about this book. I don't expect everyone to love it, I just wish so many people wouldn't dismiss it for stupid reasons.

The money isn't the important thing... ¬_¬ But god would I love to write a book that so many people couldn't put down and adored.

[distorted_prose]

Well, my sister's read the book and she's not obssessed, but I haven't yet; I have been thinking about it though - I think she has the first two? (One with an apple and one with a flower...)

[thedarkenedhalf]

I don't object to people trying to do new things with a genre, I wholeheartedly encourage people to "break the mould"...However...Vampires' skins that sparkle in the sunlight? Just no. There are some things in a genre that you just can't mess with. That's one of them. I can't say anything bad about the rest of the book as I've not read it and quite possibly never going to get around to reading. If people enjoyed it, that's the main objective of the book acomplished I guess.