SMeyer's epic and comparative fail...

[dangermousie]

I will never believe SMeyer didn't read L.J. Smith (an author of teen vamp/witch/etc books who wrote decade+ ago) and steal things from her. I am currently reading L.J. Smith's Vampire Diaries and the similarities are uncanny, and I am not just talking about the fact that both are 4-volume series. Let's see: we have a narrator girl in a small town

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[ladyaeryn]

*uses icon from another retelling of angsty high school vampire cliche that actually works*

*does the same* :)

I found the Twilight movie pretty thoroughly dull. (Didn't pay for it, thank goodness.) If it's as close to the book as people claim it is? Sure doesn't encourage me to spend my time on the series.

[dangermousie]

It's very close and slightly better than the book. It is all pretty dreadful!

[plazmah]

*uses icon from another retelling of angsty high school vampire cliche that actually works*

Me three.

[dangermousie]

Oh, VK and your emo twistedness!

[bzoppa]

I really liked LJ Smith in high school. I reread the witch and psychic series a few years ago since they were the only complete ones I had. I loved the Forbidden Game series too, but I lost one of the books. (Makes note to re-buy.)

I didn't like the vampire series as much as I liked the others, but at least I read them and didn't run screaming from the books.

[bzoppa]

Huh. Looks like she's capitalizing on the resurge in vampire literature: The Vampire Dairies: Return: Nightfall. I'm not necessarily suggesting you read them, just thought it was interesting that she's following up the series, 17 or so years later.

I keep amazon'ing the Forbidden Game series omnibus. I'm so craving a re-read right now.

[dangermousie]

Hmmmm...I might seek out more of her books, they seem fun in a popcorny kind of way.

[bzoppa]

I'll give you the lowdown.

The Forbidden Game is really fun, she jumps off some cool mythology to get her story.

I liked The Secret Circle in high school but was less impressed when I re-read it. It's about witches and the main character is kind of a Mary Sue.

The Dark Power or something is okay, psychics at a school.

I didn't like Nightworld at all, and that's when I stopped reading her books. I found them way too predictable.

She also has two modern fantasy deals which were kind of fun.

[ginger001]

Edited to mean what I really wanted to:

I thought there weren't more people who thought more or less the same about Meyer's books. I read the first one and left it before I reached the end. I found them too obvious and there are things that simply are too much for me to find them interesting.

When somebody told me what happened in the last one I was really glad I decided not to give the books a chance.

I enjoyed the movie, though, mainly because I find Robert Pattinson hot and also because I rather watch the movie than read the books... and as it seems the movies are really close to the books, why do I need to read them?

[dangermousie]

Yeah, the books are awful. I didn't care for the movie but at least it was pretty :)

[dangermousie]

SMeyer: ripping people off since 1639.