Erm... no.

[spicysaurus]

You know... I've heard a lot of Twilight fans styling themselves "nerds". I take issue with this. Twilight is one of those lowest common denominator sorts of things. I skimmed through one at the bookstore recently, and it's about the same quality as Ann Rice fanfic written by an eighth-grader. I'm not convinced it's not actually Ann Rice fanfic

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[miss_a_achoo]

You speak very true words.

I haven't bothered trying to read any of Twilight, and maybe I should just so my argument is based off a proper exploration of the topic performed by myself and not based on impressions of the book and its fandom, or the valued opinions of my friends. But I know know, man. This looks like it's Dan Brown bad, and I can't justify exposing myself to something that terrible again.

[spicysaurus]

Ugh, don't do it.

Think of it like this: there's this new, cheap, filthy beer that people are talking about. Some people really love it, but everyone you know who has good taste says it's terrible. Would you drink it?

That's pretty much what Twilight is. The only people I know who like it are people who don't have very good taste about books in general. And no men I know of like it at all. From what I can tell, it's a Harlequin novel dressed up with fangs. Maybe even worse, because Harlequin novels are usually mostly about the sex. Twilight is like the sort of things you thought were true about relationships when you were 13.

I mean, this series makes J.K. Rowling look like a fantastic writer. It's pretty pathetic.

[miss_a_achoo]

Ok. You've convinced me to spare myself the vampire drivel. I feel I know enough about it to be able to tell that it sucks immensely. And what I know is 1) the whole frenzied teen girl craze 2) that the author keeps the physical love in the series to a minimum as her way of advocating no sex before marriage (or so I heard..) 3) that the majority of Twilight fans are even more idiotic than most hardcore Potter fans (and that's saying something, and 4) Hot Topic = Twilight explosion = teens who wish they were born 15 years earlier so they could have participated in the goth and rave scenes back when it was 'edgy.'

I think there's actually this large overlap in the Harry Potter fandom and the Twilight fandom, actually. A very scary, more obsessed and accepting of crap kind of overlap...

Speaking of which, I'm off to see if there are any Twilight craft groups on the internets at which to balk....

[megatexas]

Kids these days. Goddamn little punks. When I was their age if you wanted to be a nerd you had painted lead miniatures (notdolls) and make them fight! And what is it with knowing what manga is? You're only allowed to know what manga is if nobody else knows what manga is! If everybody knows what manga is it's meaningless!

Also, seriously, why do kids these days still listen to Led Zepplin. Are you telling me that there really haven't been any more rockin' albums produced in the last thirty-six years? WTF?