Stephanie Meyer: The New J.K. Rowling?
I can’t believe that Stephanie Meyer is actually being called The New J.K. Rowling - it blows my mind fragile little mind.
If you don’t know who Stephanie Meyer, she’s the 30-something author of the absolutely horrible, over-romantic, over-dramatic Buffy/Charmed/Interview with a Vampire rip-off piece of crap known as the insanely popular Twilight book series about Bella and some fakey-Angel McLestat gleaming hunk of burning retard vampire that anyone with two nickles and a fart between their ears could have penned.
Now, I’ve got a few friends who love the series - granted, they are few and one of them is a self-proclaimed “OverGrown Tweenie Bopper with No Life”, - but most of the people I associate with who’ve read the books agree that they are complete twaddlequeef with no real structure and a lot of wishful, oversexed daydreaming about vampires who fall in love with humans - tale as old as time. Or, at least as old as Hollywood.
And, not to be one to bitch about something I don’t have the slightest idea about, when my friend Natalie became interested in the series I choked the first book down to see what it was like - Stephanie Meyer, I hate you. Your work reads like bad fanfiction. It’s drivel, and I’m sad that I wasted my time on it - though it’s better than anything I could have written, mostly because when I write I don’t write specifically to sell novels to whiney tweenies with too much money. I didn’t like The O.C., Everwood, One Tree Hill, Charmed, etc, and I don’t like your book.
You may ask yourself why I’m wasting my time writing a blog post about an author I claim to despise - well, truth be told, I don’t despise Stephanie Meyer. I don’t know her, how can you despise someone you don’t know? What I do despise is the retarded notion that somehow Stephanie Meyer is in the same league as J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, who’s richer than Odin and deserves every penny of it.
J.K. Rowling is snarky, sassy and determined. She’s a fabulous writer and a great role model. Stephanie Meyer is a third-aged Mormon with a vampire fetish, who’s a third rate author. And while I wish her all the success in the world, when it comes down to talent it’s really no contest and to imply otherwise is disrespectful and misinformed - shame on you Time.com.
Originally published at Shibuya 109. You can comment here or there.