The Sparklepire Adventures (part 2 of ?)

[meganbmoore]

In the next few chapters of New Moon (initially had the wrong title last time) things somehow managed to be terribly boring, despite having a theme that was actually fairly interesting. I mean, a “normal” person who experiences the supernatural remains “normal,” and then finds it impossible to relate to or connect with “normal” people is actually

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[nutmeg3]

Hee! Thank you. (I like your cogent points, too, but the giggles are my master now.)

[meganbmoore]

I'll try to keep you supplied.

[keelieinblack]

But, uhm, you know, this book itself is actually kind of dull? Like, really dull. There are plenty of things going on at a metanarrative level that can engage my brain, but it’s like nothing is happening.

I think this is a problem with much of the series as a whole--when I read Twilight the 'plot' and writing style were so gratingly boring that I reached a point where I had to force myself through each page. Like, to the point of digging my fingernails into my arms.

[meganbmoore]

With this one it's a "nothing is happening." I mean, I'm 1/3 through and her boyfriend dumped her, she moped, then she (non-exploitively) got a boy with a crush on her to fix up a couple motorcycles she acquired. THAT IS THE PLOT SO FAR. Oy.

[dawnrune]

Ah. 500+ pages per book of HE'S SO HAWT I CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT HIM INSERT FIFTY POINTLESS DESCRIPTIONS HERE. Good luck trudging through that muck. I couldn't do it.

[archica]

Meyer apparently has issues with female characters. She just doesn't like any of them besides herselfBella. Okay, maybe she likes Alice but that's only because Alice adores Bella. Notice how almost all of Bella's human female friends are portrayed as soooo boring and shallow and beneath Bella (even though I think Bella is tons more boring and shallow than all of them)? Rosaline is bitchy and vain. Renee is a flaky irresponsible parent. Esme is barely there at all, only popping in and out of the background to be sweet and motherly for a few seconds before drifting back behind the more important characters. And oh God don't get me started on Leah, the biggest waste of a potential cool character ever. I just find it irritating that most of the female characters are portrayed negatively.

[meganbmoore]

Unfortunately, most of these haven't shown up enough for me to comment on them. Which can be telling in an of itself. Of the two human friends I've seen, one was weirded out by her and then she was extremely weirded out after the movie, and the other has been nice. I do think the men are getting much more attention, and being portrayed much more positively though.

[archica]

Leah doesn't really come into play much until Eclipse, at which point there's a revelation about her character that seems totally awesome, but... well... if you ever read that far, you'll see exactly why her portrayal pissed me off even more than the gag-inducing relationship between Bella and Edward. I literally wanted to rip the pages out of the book. But it belonged to my sister-in-law so I had to restrain myself.

[southerndave]

Your summary? Is better writing than the short snippet (a few lines of dialogue) that is all I have seen of the actual book.