LOLing @ Twilight

[childdoll]

Okay after reading some hysterically scathing reviews about Twilight online, I am soooooo friggin happy I never got into that series or watched the movie. It sounds like it was even more ridiculous than I thought. LOL!
Reason # 11 why 15 year old girls should not be allowed to publish books about vampires.

Comments

[batlev]

Ahhh Crystal, you have stepped into the waters of Twilight Scorn. Welcome, the water's fine. But watch out, the fangirls/boys bite!

Speaking as someone who bit the bullet to read it -before- casting scorn (not saying you should, you're safer not dipping your brain in the drivel), I'm still amazed at the vehemence people choose to defend the series with. There are those who will defend it based on any sort of basis they can come up with. Me, I'm comfortable with my scorn and laughter at the series on many levels. It really is the most ridiculous book series I ever read and I feel that, like Emily mentioned on this thread, it is indicative of a trend of book series like Gossip Girls and all the rest of those 'relationship' fiction for teenage girls which is... essentially, trash. These books don't teach anything, aren't well-written, and instead emulate incredibly... frightening views of what girls should be looking for or expecting to be considered 'romantic' and such. That's if people take it seriously and looking at the fandom... they do, oh they do.

People's taste can be what it is, really, but it is perfectly fine to laugh at the Sparkleypoof vampire brigade, hun :) Personally, I have tons of reasons why I laugh my butt off about it. And I can't complain that I never got anything out of it - reading the book has made me intensely aware of the better writer I want to be. But meanwhile, laugh all you want. The whole thing is a funny, funny mess of overly emotional drivel and the reviews online make it even better! Scorn is a good defense against the rabid fandom too. It keeps the Sparkleypoof's away.

[childdoll]

Yeah, from alot of what I heard it seems to send a horrible message to young girls. From the excerpts and reviews alone, I already want to shoot the main character. She seems bland, obnoxious, completely immature, and without many redemable values. But I guess that's many teenage girls these days, isn't it.
Oh yes! That's why I stopped going to anime cons, I remember now.