Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

[nengrelim]

It's really been pissing me off how everyone takes the piss out of Twilight. Okay, okay, you don't like the book. We get it. Now, STFU!

Some of us happened to adore it.

Okay, the writing wasn't incredible. The relationship was clearly kinda fucked up. Vampires that sparkle in sunlight? Yes, okay, it's weird and a bit laughable, but EXCUSE SOMEONE

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[thawed]

The combined forces of the English students on my staircase (all three of us, wow) had this rant at my Classics friend, Hannah--although it was part of a more abstract discussion of "high" and "low" art and how there is no such thing. (Because we're all so uncomfortable with the fact that we're doing English at Oxford that we revert to a postmodernist free-for-all.)

Twilight was the perfect example--Harry Potter would've done just as well--of modern critical trends. Some people like it and some people don't. And some people dislike it because it's fashionable to rip the shit out of it. Just because it has its sights set firmly on its target audience doesn't make it any less valid as "literature" than the monstrous doorstop that is "War and Peace", etc. And I for one enjoyed Meyer's enthusiasm with adjectives, because adjectives are currently out of fashion with modern literary culture (must be difficult to describe things when you're so far up your own arse) and there aren't enough of them to feed a very skinny adjectives monster.

Sooooo, I didn't like "Twilight", but I think it's fascinating and laudable that she managed to tap into an audience so powerfully; but they're good fun, and yeah, at the end of the day, she's the one with enough money to SWIM IN.

[nengrelim]

Thank you. *hugs* You are now the second person (from Challoners - I wonder if this says something) (at or going to Oxford - wonder if this says something else) to offer me something constructive about this book. I don't expect everyone to love it, I just wish so many people wouldn't dismiss it for stupid reasons.

The money isn't the important thing... ¬_¬ But god would I love to write a book that so many people couldn't put down and adored.