I mean no disrespect...

[denorios]

Please, those of you who have read and/or watched Twilight and enjoyed it, I truly mean no disrespect. That's your thing and that's cool, sparkling vampires aside. But I'm just curious.

Poll twilight

Comments

[apocalypsos]

I enjoy laughing at how absolutely terrible it is, so I can't decide which one to pick. ;)

[denorios]

I laugh too. And then I go away and die a little inside. Most shameful moment of my professional career was when I bought those books for our library and then saw them go out more than all the other fiction books combined. I hated myself.

[possibly_thrice]

Oh, Twilight.

I'm in an age bracket where it is v. v. popular. Which is... shall we say... painful. On the bright side, it's kind of ubiquitous, so if I can avoid that first awkward conversation they just assume and move on to pleasanter subjects.

Could be worse, right? Could be Eragon that's really prevalent.

[hibernate]

I'm with apocalypsos; I'm mostly just laughing at it. I haven't actually read it or seen the movie, but it sounds utterly hilarious. It took me so long to realise that the vampires actually sparkle for REALZ. I used to think people were just talking metaphorically. I giggled for days when I found out.

[spicedrum]

You're blessed for not having read it. I tried, just to be fair and not judge something I hadn't read. It is some of the most poorly written crap I have ever witnessed committed to a page. I couldn't finish the book, and I've read some seriously suspect stories in my life. It's absolute rubbish, and not just for the subject matter. The "style" of writing is horrible.

[apocalypsos]

Oh, I started trying to read the first book and could not make it more than, say, eighty pages into it. And I put it aside and didn't touch it again until Breaking Dawn was about to come out and the leaks made it sound like an absolute trainwreck, so I figured I'd try again. I'll give the first book enough leeway to say that with a more stubborn and determined editor with a sharpened red pencil it had the slim potential to be the start of a good book series (I mean, "girl falls for boy with supernatural secret" is not exactly an unheard-of plot), but unfortunately Stephenie Meyer's a terrible writer with a lazy editor and a fawning fandom aaaaand that's how you get the Twilight series.

[suzie_shooter]

I've not read it. But I kind've want to, to see what all the fuss is about, heh.

[inkblot_fiend]

I started reading it when I spent a couple of nights in my cousin's room, because she had it on her bedside table, and WOW, hello incredibly shallow female heroine! I put it down after about ten pages of hearing her whinge about not having a good enough car. I never made it to, you know, the vampires. :P