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| MrJiveBoJingles |
Has anyone here actually read any of the Twilight books or seen the movies? I've heard that they're all horrendously bad, but never taken a look at them myself. Any firsthand accounts you can give of their awfulness? Have friends or younger siblings or other acquaintances who are into them?
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| Meat187 |
It can't possibly be a coincidence that this thread turns up right after I posted this in another thread:
On topic, I once sat down in the bookshop and read like 10 pages of the first book. It was laughable. I mean, I'm not into Harry Potter, but reading a chapter of that clearly shows that Rowling is a good narrator. Meyer can't write for , it was ten pages of emo bitching and moaning mixed with Edward is so hot and godlike and awesome. REPEATED OVER AND OVER IN THE SAME ING WORDS. I don't think the book has any plot, cause nothing happened, then I looked 100 pages ahead and it was still the same . Its all bitching, moaning and adoring, something that 13 year old girls and their intellectual equivalents enjoy, just like 13 year old boys go crazy over an issue of Playboy that their older brother bought them. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by Meat187
It can possibly be a coincidence that this thread turns up right after I posted this in another thread: |
Nope, not a coincidence, heh.
| quote: | | On topic, I once sat down in the bookshop and read like 10 pages of the first book. It was laughable. I mean, I'm not into Harry Potter, but reading a chapter of that clearly shows that Rowling is a good narrator. Meyer can't write for , it was ten pages of emo bitching and moaning mixes with Edward is so hot and godlike and awesome. REPEATED OVER AND OVER IN THE SAME ING WORDS. I don't think the book has any plot, cause nothing happened, then I looked 100 pages ahead and it was still the same . |
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| mezzir |
I got 100 pages into the first one.
Two years ago I managed my town's public pool and like 2/3 of the lifeguards are 17/18 y/o girls so naturally there were several copies going around. My sister (who is awesome) and I mercilessly made fun of them and finally one day in the middle of a terribly slow 13 hour shift I realized I'd read through the entirety of that day's New York Times as well as all my books, several others, and several issues of Cosmo laying around and I would be forced to either stare at already completed crosswords or read Twilight to pass the time. I swallowed my pride and started into it, prepared to secretly accept it as an okay book while maintaining my tough outer shell of mockery and contempt. I made it about 100 pages in before I decided that literally staring at already completed crosswords was more entertaining. It is some of the most god-awful writing I've ever read in my entire life, and that's just to start. The whole book is basically a mormonized glorification of an abusive relationship, and aside from being a poor, poor excuse for literature, this book has gotten to the point where women identify with and look up to the main character. She is a whiny ****. She sits and mopes when she's not with her gorgeous, perfect man (literally every time that dude's mentioned there are no less than two adjectives before his name), she sits and mopes and is depressed.
And now, two years later, I work at a bookstore. 13 year-old girls have an excuse for reading Twilight, because it basically reads like horrible fan-fiction, and thats who writes horrible fan-fiction. 40 year old fat women, however, should ing know better. We have an entire romance section for people like you, go ing use it. This stuff is not the epic romance of the 21st century, its some whiny **** pining for several hundred pages. And at least in the romance novels there's sex and sexual tension, not some creepy stalker dude involved in a relationship where they can't cause they're not married. The next person to ask 'if I liked Twilight, what else should I read' will get a proper response: link |
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| Marcus Summers |
| I'll never date another girl that reads or is interested in the twilight series. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by Marcus Summers
I'll never date another girl that reads or is interested in the twilight series. |
Bad experience? |
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| Chris Crossland |
Never read the books. I did see the first movie. Twilight completely destroyed the vampires image.
Ever since I could remember I've always wanted to be a vampire. I gotta keep my mouth shut nowadays cause they'll think I'm talking about Edward bull.
No little kid, not like Edward, like Spike from Buffy now piss off!:whip: |
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| Marcus Summers |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Bad experience? |
Yeah. Now I pretty much assume girls that read it are all like her. I think this is a good strategy. But I'm basically limited to black girls, now. |
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| leph555 |
| Never read it, was "forced" to watch the first movie in spanish |
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| mezzir |
| oh fwiw though the rifftrax on twilight is ing hilarious |
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| Moongoose |
how it could have been much better.
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