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Greeper
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The books by Stephanie Meyer:
Twilight
New Moon
Eclipse
Breaking Dawn
As Yet Unpublished Midnight Sun has been put on hold indefinitely while Stephanie Meyer works through some of her feelings over a portion of it being published illegally online. It's the first book retold from Edward's perspective.
Movies have been made of the first two. Eclipse is getting a movie next year.
Many people hate it. Many love it. Some with a burning passionate intensity. This thread is for discussing it, discussing its fans, and its related sub-media.
Twilight
New Moon
Eclipse
Breaking Dawn
As Yet Unpublished Midnight Sun has been put on hold indefinitely while Stephanie Meyer works through some of her feelings over a portion of it being published illegally online. It's the first book retold from Edward's perspective.
Movies have been made of the first two. Eclipse is getting a movie next year.
Many people hate it. Many love it. Some with a burning passionate intensity. This thread is for discussing it, discussing its fans, and its related sub-media.
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I suppose I should get around to reading Twilight at some point.
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Are there parts in the first book where he's off somewhere and Bella doesn't know what/why he's doing things?
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because she likes money
Yes.
Also, throughout the first book he's struggling with his overwhelming desire to literally kill her and feast on her blood vs. his desire to get to know her more because he can't read her mind. So this is basically his side of their budding romance.
So how is this different from the Southern Vampire series?
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My gf is reading it. She's been reading it for a long while. Why? According to her, she can only take so much brain death at a time.
whenever I thought of a new one, I had to lean over in the theater and whisper it to her.
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
It is the reverse
in the Stackhouse books, Sookie can't read vampire Bill's mind, and there is a reason for this. In Twilight, the vampire Edward can't read Bella's mind because of some latent ability that apparently some humans have that doesn't really mean a damn until they're turned into a vampire, at which point it becomes a super power. For example, one member of the Cullen's coven has like super charisma because he had some charisma before he was turned or something. I dunno. Myer brings it up at one point and then just drops it completely.
edit: and it's explained that Edward can read minds possibly because as a human he was extremely intuitive.
I've tried reading the first book a couple of times, but I've never made it past the first 100 pages or so. I may make a concentrated effort sometime, if only to try and understand what is fast becoming a full-fledged cultural phenomenon (even with out every media outlet harping it as one).
But perhaps I simply have the wrong plumbing, as I've yet to meet even a single male fan of the series. At least none of my friends will admit to it, if they are.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
One of my good friends from Canada wen't to the theatre once to see a movie, but he wasn't sure what movie to see. He saw that Twilight was playing so he and his friend decided to see it because he had heard a little about it. Since then he has become completely obsessed with it.
I never miss a chance to ridicule him for it.
Arch,
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Sookie can't read Bill's mind so she wants to like him.
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The only time a human should ever be near a vampire and not running for their life is when that vampire is asleep.... and they're about to destroy it's heart and remove it's head....maybe light the corpse on fire just to be sure.
That's why I said it's the reverse. This time the guy wants to get to know the girl, whereas with True Blood the girl wants to get to know the guy over telepathic blockage.
Where does he live? I need to go and remove whatever testicles he has left.
And the only difference between the two is what kind of supernatural ability is getting in the way?
So there is actually no difference?
I'm sort of trying to make a joke and clarify my own knowledge at the same time here.
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Good luck with that, he clearly already left them at the theater.
No man should have that kind of power.(Twitter)
I was bike shopping, and I had narrowed it down to two bike. One a city bike; silver, and slender and the other a brown, mountain bike made for the outdoors. I suddenly made the connection between the bikes and twilght! I couldn't decide which bike to get until I remembered Bella always chose Edward
Which doesn't really make any sense, especially given that my girlfriend tells me that there are even more potent powers featured and intuitiveness is supposed to be the basis of the character who can maybe see the future (the most powerful female vampire, followed by the chick whose power is being really hot). What kind of personal features give Pyrokinesis? Who knows. I just want to know what kinds of powers Ladd Russo and Vino/The Rail Tracer/ The Crazy Son-of-a-Bitch Formerly Known as Clair would get.
If I was a vampire with psychic powers and found somebody immune, my bloodthirsty instincts and my scientific instincts would team up to beat my humanity and make my lock her up and run experiments.
I also want this.
Just saying the genders are switched is all. With True Blood she can't read any vamps mind, though, while in Twilight is only Bella whose mind he can't read. Then later we find out the reason for that is (I doubt anyone here cares about spoilers for this, but you never know, so):
When she turns into a vampire, not only is she still immune, she can also expand her ability within a controlled field, which renders everyone within that field invulnerable to those same attacks. She can also nullify the field entirely, making herself vulnerable. Other vampires can train/upgrade their abilities as well.
New Brunswick, trust me, you don't want to go there.
Arch,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_goGR39m2k
I'll see about grabbing Twilight after I finish my current book load.
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She's Matt Couthon, except a whiny little bitch, then?
for diehard fans they don't even know when the movie comes out?
..Geeze the way you describe it like that you kinda make it look appealing.
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I have to anyways, but that's another story, for another thread.
The ability thing is the only cool thing. The only cool thing. And it only goes in-depth about abilities in the last book which is all-around batshit crazy.
or, its probably the only good thing about the book, and it was probably taken from something else entirely
Ehn, I'll still give it a chance. I've got such eclectic tastes that I might actually like it. Won't know until I read it.
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What? That's not true. It's what gives him a vague passing interest in her, and for a long time after that it's him wanting to kill her. When they first meet in class, it's explained in Midnight Sun that he barely controls himself from doing so, figuring that he'll have to kill the class first before he gets to her, snapping four or five necks a second. But then he thinks someone might reach the door, so he'd have to kill them and whoever in the corridor saw them... and for the rest of the class he spends his time planning how to kill everyone in the school. His family have a meeting about it - Jasper, Emmett and Rosalie want to kill her. Jasper offers to kill her several times just because she is bothering Edward.
Yeah, I'm a fan, I don't care what you think :P
Mostly I'm a fan of the world she's created. It's vampires crossed with Xmen. Of course, she's a crappy enough writer to screw up the potential awesomeness - the fantastic stand-off in Breaking Dawn ends in everyone talking for a while, and then that's it. When she describes Jasper as a lightning whirlwind of death on the battlefield, it's just pouring salt into the wound. I hope we get to see the fighting between the Cullens, wolves and newborn in Eclipse, instead of having Edward explain from the pack's perspective.
They're in talks to get the fourth book turned into a film (they only had a three film contract). I'm interested to see how this goes, considering how disgusting the book gets.
What the fuck.
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No man should have that kind of power.(Twitter)
Yeah, the fans make it such an easy target. Goddamn, they are so annoying. Older women screaming at half-naked teenage boys on the screen? Ffs.
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Hey, relax. I haven't read the books so, as I already mentioned, I'm not going to judge.
I remember when people were ragging on the Harry Potter series. I thought that was funny until I read it and loved it.
Like I said, I'll at least read Twilight. I might even like it, I don't know.
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The "Im a predator, everything about me blah blah glitter" speech was just beautiful. The fact the actor would make it through it without a terminal case of the giggles is an accomplishment. I mean who the fuck could take that seriously. There were just so many moments in the thing that were so absurd. The sad part is people do take this shit seriously.
I mean if I walked up to a girl and said "You make me want to encase me hair in gel, douse myself in glitter, and break into your house and watch you sleep." I would probably be arrested. However if i was a vampire I would get the horny jailbait to follow me around begging me to kill her for the rest of time. Or until i showered, shedding my glittery exterior.
Hell I loved the fact that everyone in town KNEW they were vampires. The tribe knew it, the sheriff knew it, pretty much every character knew the score, and yet the daughter has to run away because no one would believe her. The scene with the dad cleaning the shotgun was gold. I mean fuck had anyone taken 10s to tell the dad what was going on he would have just dumped her on the reservation. Problem solved.
I doubt I would watch the movie more than twice, and I would certainly not kick anyones ass for hating it. However once I stopped taking it seriously I rather enjoyed it.
Well Harry Potter had somewhat decent writing, with decent characters. Stephen King likes Harry Potter. Stephen King hates Twilight.
I wasn't talking to anyone here, just to anyone who knows me and might see my post
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