It's meeting the man of my dreams / then meeting his beautiful wife

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I was going through some old boxes that we had kept in storage, and it was like going through a time capsule of my middle and high school years.  The most amusing discovery?  My stash of old CDs, since the late 90s/early 2000s were still the pre-iPod era.  I found:

• Alanis Morisette, Jagged Little Pill
• Foo Fighters, There's Nothing Left to Lose
• Vanessa

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[fbajet]

Oh boy. How can I give a 30 second drive-by account of Twilight?

Twilight is a wildly popular book series among tweens, teens, their moms, and curious scifi/fantasy fans who end up rather offended that the author, Stephenie Meyer, is touted as the next JK Rowling. The first book centers on the impossible love affair between Bella Swan, a hormone-addled 17 year old willing to die for her love, and Edward Cullen, a vampire who is so breathtakingly beautiful that he SPARKLES . (That’s also the kind of writing style Meyer painfully uses-I kid you not.) The next 900 pages of the saga basically go back and forth between his undying love for her and his impulse to devour her; or the life-threatening situations Bella wanders into because the girl is hopeless. Not to make things too boring, though, Meyer does add a juicy love triangle later on, and hot damn, I’d take the third guy any day. However, I digress.

And now this version of Mary Sue fanfiction is making its way into theaters! Legions of RPattz fans are mobilizing as we speak. Any questions?

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None at all! Oh man. That's.... kinda just like Anne Rice ten years ago maybe? Hmm. Certainly not a new idea, one I would have thought was flogged to death by now. I actually saw the preview for the film the other day, looked very tween/teen-oriented. I think I'll give it a miss!
Thanks for the summary!