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Chanus
Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster ApocalypseThe Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderator mod
Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster ApocalypseThe Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderator mod
So, I picked up Twilight out of morbid curiosity, and an obligation to understand pop culture... I read the first 300 pages of the book in about three hours today.
I don't know how I feel about this... I'm enjoying it.
How does someone like me, a fella who enjoys cold beer, steak, potatoes, fixing cars, and slapstick comedy, cope with becoming engrossed in a story about a high school girl falling in love with a super-dreamy vampire?
I don't know how I feel about this... I'm enjoying it.
How does someone like me, a fella who enjoys cold beer, steak, potatoes, fixing cars, and slapstick comedy, cope with becoming engrossed in a story about a high school girl falling in love with a super-dreamy vampire?
Allegedly a voice of reason.
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2. Take the book outside
3. Set it on fire
4. Profit!
let out your real feelings
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
Isn't he dead? That might get me arrested. =P
Or really any novel by an author with knowledge of the English language greater than that of a fourth grader.
Yes, yes I do.
Well I was going to take that route, but I figured we should at least try to help the guy.
Seriously, Twilight is the latest toilet paper to pass for faux literature. Plenty of real books to read if you look hard enough.
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
I can rub glitter on my man breasts
it's not surprising regular people sometimes enjoy it
I would sig that if I could be bothered.
Seriously. Angelus and Spike and Darla and Dru carved a bloody patch of destruction through Europe for a century. Edward Cullen mopes about getting all sparkly sometimes.
fuck I hate Twilight.
Do... Re... Mi... So... Fa.... Do... Re.... Do...
Forget it...
I confess I am also somewhat fond of the series, in the sense that it is like a horrible literary accident you just can't look away from. I read the second book because I was curious as to just how there could possibly be enough story material for a sequel and was pleasantly surprised to find a book with a beginning, middle, and end and the most hilarious train wreck of teen angst I've encountered in a long time. The third and fourth were quite shitty, but hey, sometimes when you get eating junk food it's hard to stop.
I find it funny people suggesting alternatives. Twilight is terrible, but does seem to have hit on something in the female psyche. I don't think people reading it are necessarily vampire enthusiasts.
What the fuck is wrong with you dude
I picked it up because I had never heard of it and my sister told me it was like "Harry Potter for girls" and of course I had to find out what that meant because I like Harry Potter and... well, it seemed reasonable at the time.
It turns out all she meant was it was several hundred pages of overwrought prose describing how perfect the physical appearance of a total personality-less douche of a boyfriend was as narrated Mary Sue herself, but hey.
Stephen King actually put it very well. You can tell there's creativity going on (at least in the later books) with some interesting ideas, but they're placed in the hands of a completely incompetent writer.
Seriously, though, Twilight?
:^:
he's also really good at baseball.
Please post you masculinity into a sealed stamp envelope to the centre of the sun and wait 10 to 15 working days for your femininity to arrive.
For shame sir, for shame.
But I picked up and read through all four twilight books of my own accord and have no problem admitting it.
AND I enjoyed them all.
The writing is absolute shit.
As long as you never admit your sin to anyone in real life you should be fine.
Your reputation on these boards is probably irreparably tarnished now though, so you should go ahead and just start a new account.
hohohohohoho. YES. QUITE.
lmAOrofl etc...
Totally didn't happen.
I read urban fantasy popcorn and enjoy it (See Dresden Files, and the Nightside series), but that... book was not what I wanted.
My wife has read them and enjoyed them all but I fully tease her about it all the time, because usually she has (what I see as) better taste in books than that. She he admits they're crappy but it's a chick thing to dig cheap romance sometimes.
If you do continue down this path and everything that goes with it(i.e. movies, fanfics, etc.) I suggest you get a girlfriend then tell everyone she dragged you into this.
My girlfriend goes through a cheap romance novel every week or so. I've flipped through the beginnings of a few, they have all the ridiculous setup of a 70's porno.
I mean, I'd make fun of her and all, but I think I saw that one when I was younger. The chick in the book had probably heard of a razor, too.
But they are candy books just like Harry Potter, which I enjoyed. They just don't contain any intellectually nutritional value, and depending on how far you want to examine of the author's choices it could be down right bad for you.
A valid point, I’d have to put myself in that camp as I’ve only heard what the books/films are like by second hand accounts from friends. The whole sunlight making vampires ‘sparkle’ as apposed to making them burst in flames did make my blood boil for some reason though.
Exactly. It really isn't the same thing. I mean, I've read them all. I'm glad I read them, and I can understand people's issues with the series but seriously, they aren't as horrendous as everyone makes them out to be. Some parts are mind numbingly frustrating, but other parts are actually interesting to read. I've definitely read worse books.
To the above poster, I'd even argue that general fantasy novels are less sociably acceptable. It doesn't make you a better person, it just makes you an idiot for thinking like that.
I wouldn't recommend these to any of my friends, but still, I think people take it way out of proportion just because it's popular. The same thing happened with Harry Potter a few years ago, and those are fun books People just love to have a smug sense of superiority. Especially on the internet. That's pretty much what this comes down to. So OP. You like them. Good for you.