WELL, guys, as it turns out, my karma catches up to me. This weekend managed to be even more inconvenient than the last one to be typing up a Twilight review
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Bit too late for that, you started looking like one about seven paragraphs back, sweetcheeks. A few paragraphs back? Try the chapter, try the first page. The pot line also made me laugh a lot. I remember when I first read the line that Ed can't go out in the sun, I got excited because the book had been boring for me up till that point. I thought how awesome it would be if the sun made him look like a demon, or something. Kind of like the moonlight deal with the Black Pearl pirates in the first movie. Or my friend in high school had one of her characters in a novel she was writing have a necklace that was like a glamor to make her look human with angel wings, but when she took it off, she looked like a demon with black scaly wings. But when Ed stepped into the sun and sparkled, I thought, "you've got to be kidding me."
Seriously? Sparkly vampires is such a ridiculous, laughable idea that I can't imagine any author, of any level of talent, pulling it off. I consider my favorite fantasy authors too intelligent and creative to even contemplate such a thing. Vampires are creatures of the night. They have fangs, turn into bats, drink blood, can't come out in the sun, and they're basically living corpses. How can living corpses sparkle? Sparkling is for fairies. Tinkerbell sparkles, not vampires!
There is no concept, no matter how ridiculous or laughable, that cannot be pulled off if it's done right. Of course vampires don't sparkle. It doesn't make sense. But a talented author could do it.
It wouldn't have to make sense. It would have to be funny, or HELL, a good enough author? Could even make it scary.
That's the thing about writing. ANYTHING can be done.
A few paragraphs back? Try the chapter, try the first page. The pot line also made me laugh a lot.
I remember when I first read the line that Ed can't go out in the sun, I got excited because the book had been boring for me up till that point. I thought how awesome it would be if the sun made him look like a demon, or something. Kind of like the moonlight deal with the Black Pearl pirates in the first movie. Or my friend in high school had one of her characters in a novel she was writing have a necklace that was like a glamor to make her look human with angel wings, but when she took it off, she looked like a demon with black scaly wings. But when Ed stepped into the sun and sparkled, I thought, "you've got to be kidding me."
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And ahaha yeah, honestly? She could have even pulled off the sparkles if she did it right. But no, she just did it to make her vampires PRETTY.
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Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Joss Whedon...
None of whom are anything less than over 9000 times better than Meyer, of course.
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It wouldn't have to make sense. It would have to be funny, or HELL, a good enough author? Could even make it scary.
That's the thing about writing. ANYTHING can be done.
It just has to be done RIGHT.
Meyer didn't do it right.
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