Explain?

[hils]

What is this Twilight thing people keep talking about on my flist? All I've been able to determine is that the latest book is crap and that there is going to be a TV show (which also looks crap)

What's all the fuss about?

Comments

[tyffi]

Have you read the Potter books? Remember the Harry/Ginny angsty romance?
Replace Harry with a sparkling vampire, and Ginny with a normal girl, cut off Voldemort and anything that looks like plot and decorate everything with sparkles.

That basically is the Twilight series. And, I only read the first book... well, parts of it... I had to giggle all the time (in the way you giggle about bad fanfic) and when I didn't giggle I skipped a few chapters, becasue they were so boring and so crappy - if I've had read further, I likely would have killed myself by laughing.

[hils]

Hee! Yeah, someone else mentioned sparkles. I'm puzzled

It sounds bad though and I will be avoiding it methinks

[tyffi]

It's what I remember the most; sparkling vampires.

It sounds bad though and I will be avoiding it methinks
Yeah, why not. I mean, that series most likely will never make it one the "Books you have to have read"-list.

[hils]

Hehe! It certainly sounds that way

[tyffi]

It's funny however to see people all over the internet defending that book.
Truly, everyone's allowed to have a guilty pleasure (mine's currently the Tudor series of Phillipa Gregory - no Pulitzer contender either, and definitely no historian) but it always cracks me up when someone's trying to convince me those Twilight books are actually good and fine written, and killmewhateverelse!

[hils]

Hee! I'm still amused that I've been defriended over this post

[tyffi]

See, that's what I'm talking about. I haven't been defirended in LJ-land - yet, but I've got some really nasty response elsewhere...

Weird people that are who admire sparkling vampires. *nods*

[hils]

Hee! Yes, very weird