Travesty

[drakkenknight]

So I figure after another 10 week downtime I'm due or another post or so.

Some of you may have noticed my belligerent attitude towards Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series.  I have not read this series, but based on word of mouth as well as extensive synopsis reading, I have determined that this series is a steaming pile of shit.  It appears to be

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[mar_madness]

Okay, so I come downstairs and the first question out of mom's mouth is "So does that book you're reading inspire you to have pre-marital sex, or share a bed with a boy?" To which my reaction was to look at her as if she were crazy. She then explained to me that you had written an entire blog about the Twilight series, as I'm ironically reading the fourth book. Alright look, I know a lot of educated, high standard readers dislike Twilight because it's incredibly cheesy, unreal, and I'll admit in this current book, sometimes stupid. But not everything a person reads is for them to live out, or be like the characters. Not everything has to be influential and life changing. Yes, yes I know, the average tweenie is going to want an Edward of their own...but I should hope for their sake and the world's that they know it'll never happen. [For the obvious reason that Edward is a vampire, and also, no one is this world could possibly be perfect]. As someone who's actually read the books, I don't feel the need to lie to my parents and share a bed with a boy at night. What most people, that I know of, take from reading it, is that they want the love Edward and Bella have. Personally, though, at this point I don't really believe their kind of love is truly possible. But that's just me.
I will agree with you, that by TIME's standards, she probably shouldn't have been on the list...but she sure as hell knows how to cater to a tweenie audience and get millions of people to read her books.

P.S. Mom wanted me to mention that she happens to like Ann Rice...and vampires...and even in her time, TIME magazine wasn't a reputable source for historical or meaningful fact... >_>

[drakkenknight]

So they want unreal, impossible love? Isn't cultivating unrealistic expectations a stupid behavior to begin with? Isn't desiring that kind of love a sort o ridiculous escapism?