WTF Is The Big Deal About Twilight?

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While looking for a few things to blog, I kept running into similar blogs on different movie sites about a film called Twilight. From the little bit I read, it looked as if it was a film based of the first book in a series of teen-lit vampire novels Twilight New Moon Eclipse
Breaking Dawn written by Stephenie Meyer. I have never heard of the books until the last couple of days but noticed that a slashfilm article on the movie had over 1000 comments. After reading the article, I decided to see which of our members new anything about these books.

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[The Diabolical Mr. Lieman]

More teen vampires. Yipee. Thats so incredibly original.

I love how they take emasculate little fucks and turn them into angst ridden vamps, with those...glares. And the bitches just all look so confused.

[swivel]

Dude. It is Emo Sex. The only kids that read these days are the Potter-Children who are borderline Wiccans and virgins. This shit is heroin for their brains.

[The Diabolical Mr. Lieman]

Emo sex. That fucking rocks, lmao......

[CPL CHUD]

YouTube - The Emo Song - The Video

[The Diabolical Mr. Lieman]

Okay, so that was hilarious.

[So Jaded]

Stabby rip stab stab.....love it! Gonna have to start using that one in my daily vocab.

[swivel]

Stabby rip stab stab.....love it! Gonna have to start using that one in my daily vocab.

Great song.

[michelle]

Classic. ;)

[dop]

Day walking vampires are like runing zombies x 2.

[AnalBreeze]

Looks kinda WTF!

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[Lizard]

Someone just sent me the 3-book series that began with Twilight (book 4 isn't out yet). I'm on book 2 (New Moon). It's work, 'cuz this shit is painful. Emo to the nth degree, key plot turns hinged on crazy improbabilities, and like adolescence wasn't bad enough, mediocre writing validating some of the bullshit teens believe. So far, the (ahem) protaganist is pretty much a selfish angsty twit, with the sole unique characteristic being that she's a klutz. Compared to Stephenie Meyer, J.K. Rowling deserves a fucking Pulitzer. No, at least three Pulitzers!

[mmyersisgod]

Twilight Rocks! Meyer Rocks! Rowling Sucks! Potter Swallows!

[Lizard]

Twilight Rocks! Meyer Rocks! Rowling Sucks! Potter Swallows!

If you say so.

I just finished Eclipse, and only because I very much like the person who sent them to me. I have no interest in reading the next book in the series.

Here's a taste:
It was hard to look at his face, knowing that I loved him. It made more of a difference than I would have thought. I wondered if it had always been this hard for him, all this time.

If you want more in that vein--and I mean much, much, much, MUCH more, pick up the books. Otherwise, give your money to authors who do not write sentences like this:
Jane waited by the elevator, one hand holding the doors open for us. Her expression was apathetic.

I'm still giggling over that. A facial expression that quite apart from the human on which it resides is apathetic! Go figure.

[brokenandtwisted]

Looks kinda WTF!

kTiaKvXqOtQ

I lol'd.

Going to watch this movie for comic relief...I just read up on the books and wow...what a travesty to vampiric literature...Anne Rice would be in a coma after watching that.

[mammasweets]

My niece ruvs this series....of course she has taco bell packets stuck to her walls so who the hell knows. She is a WoW fiend though.

[YourFavoriteColor]

I've read all the books. Enjoyed the books but not too thrilled about the movie. I think more then half of the time the movies kill the books. Like James Patterson movies suck something awful. Books were fine.

[maryhaze]

in my neverending quest for more vampire porn, i got sucked into this series. it's not that horrible but i can't imagine watching the movie. i'll probably give the books to one of my friends teen daughters, maybe the born-again, just to piss him off. yeah, i'm like that.

[Raphaelight]

Someone just sent me the 3-book series that began with Twilight (http://buecher.hitmeister.de/twilight-stephenie-meyer-549645/) (book 4 isn't out yet). I'm on book 2 (New Moon (http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/newmoon.html)). It's work, 'cuz this shit is painful. Emo to the nth degree, key plot turns hinged on crazy improbabilities, and like adolescence wasn't bad enough, mediocre writing validating some of the bullshit teens believe. So far, the (ahem) protaganist is pretty much a selfish angsty twit, with the sole unique characteristic being that she's a klutz. Compared to Stephenie Meyer, J.K. Rowling deserves a fucking Pulitzer. No, at least three Pulitzers!

So basically its for the kids that grew up reading happy potter and after the saw the innocent kido in teh buff http://www.the-spine.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/harry_potter_naked.jpg

urrg!! They decided it was time to push boundaries and be more rebellious!

[Lizard]

So, I heard from my friend who loves this series today. He'd read the 4th and wanted to talk about it, even though I had not read (and never had any intention of reading) it. Jesus Christ, the author fucking blew it on this series. Where did we leave off at the end of book 3? The possibility of our two love interests getting married. And having sex. And of the female protagonist (so forgettable I've already forgotten her fucking name) being turned into a vampire. Okay, let's imagine I'm a devoted teen reader. What is my main concern? BooYAH, the sex. So the 2 get married, the sex is glossed over, female protagonist winds up pregnant and delivers a...well, superhuman child...and gets turned into a vampire. All before the book is half over. DULLLLLLLSville. I can't believe this shit and am mega-super-mondo-happy I never considered reading this installment. I could give the author some props if she recognized that every one of these "steps" was mega-bucks in her pocket...but no, she folds them all into one volume that isn't really even that interesting, based on the reviews I've been cruising. Look, I don't want to give Stephanie Meyer a smackdown for a book I haven't read...but when 15-year-old girls are infuriated, someone needs to sit up and listen, ya know? Hey, you teen girls--I'm pissed on your behalf. Dayum.

[brokenandtwisted]

So, I heard from my friend who loves this series today. He'd read the 4th and wanted to talk about it, even though I had not read (and never had any intention of reading) it. Jesus Christ, the author fucking blew it on this series. Where did we leave off at the end of book 3? The possibility of our two love interests getting married. And having sex. And of the female protagonist (so forgettable I've already forgotten her fucking name) being turned into a vampire. Okay, let's imagine I'm a devoted teen reader. What is my main concern? BooYAH, the sex. So the 2 get married, the sex is glossed over, female protagonist winds up pregnant and delivers a...well, superhuman child...and gets turned into a vampire. All before the book is half over. DULLLLLLLSville. I can't believe this shit and am mega-super-mondo-happy I never considered reading this installment. I could give the author some props if she recognized that every one of these "steps" was mega-bucks in her pocket...but no, she folds them all into one volume that isn't really even that interesting, based on the reviews I've been cruising. Look, I don't want to give Stephanie Meyer a smackdown for a book I haven't read...but when 15-year-old girls are infuriated, someone needs to sit up and listen, ya know? Hey, you teen girls--I'm pissed on your behalf. Dayum.

yeah really...I read the Wiki articles + Amazon and nearly vomited after reading what she did. Typical Mormon bullshit for you in my opinion. Lose virginity after marriage. Pop out a kid. Be subordinate to the perfect husband. Good then prevails. :puke:

I have the first book, "Twilight", bought it the other day. Don't know if I can bear to read it though...

[Aelwynn]

Ugh...my husband tried to get me to read the first book in the series tonight. He just finished the 4th (it's still on hardback out here, so I berrated him for buying it when it wasn't on paperback). Basically, out of the 36 pages (LOL) that I did read, it was like reading a Harry Potter book. Written for teens/kids, and I wound up snickering at the stupidity of it all.

My husband says the main draw is that the first book is about vampires, and the only way they can die is by being ripped completely apart. Not the usual, burns in the sunlight crap. So according to him, "that's super kewl zomgz!!" He said that the 2nd book was about werewolves. I stopped him there and asked him why he wanted me to read it then, since I didn't like any of his books anyways.

He said that it was a realistic turn on the normal Anne Rice novels. That basically, instead of vampires having super powers and all that jumbo...that they go to school (I guessed this part, I'm sooo smart ;P) and they don't die by conventional means.

He said that the glazing over the sex parts was good for him because he wasn't that interested in the sex anyways. But he figured I'd be interested in it, since I read romance novels and skip the sex part. So if I wasn't into the whole random vampire crap or whatever, then I'd be into it for the background love story.

Btw, without reading any of these books...I assumed she became a vampire and bet 5 hours of babysitting our kids she would against my hubby. Guess I win!

Honestly I "might" read the novels just to have a common series of books to talk to him about. (He hates the Wheel of Time or anything lengthy) But honestly, this just screams Harry Potter all over again to me. I'm NOT looking forwards to being forced to see the movie.

Does anyone else think that the 4th book sounds a bit like Underworld 2? Where she is a vampire and her boytoy is like a half werewolf/vampire with incredible super human powers. Kinda seems like the author played on the movie script a bit.

PS. I'm Mormon/LDS and so is my entire family. Lost my virginity before I was married, AND waited 3 years into our marriage before we had kids. Plus, I basically wear the pants in the household...he knows it my way or the highway. I guess that makes me controlling. LOL Oh yeah, and I smoke and drink too. Each Mormon family is different and they adhere to different "guidlines" set by the church. The news story that's out now, they aren't even LDS. They are considered an occult in my opinion.

[Heather]

There is so much hype about these books. I bought the first one, and I read 20 pages or so. I might try to finish reading it, but I doubt it. I just can't get into it. I mean, it's Young Adult, so I know it's juvenile; however, I don't think there's any substance to it. I really, really can't get into vampire shit, either. I used to love that when I was sixteen, and maybe if I were that age again, I'd like it. However, I'm not, and after reading all these posts, I think it might be a good decision to not read it.

[ThreeOnAMeathook]

I work at a library and I cannot keep these books on the shelf. There's a backlog of holds on the first one for months. We just ordered five more copies of it.

I read some of it, but most vampire literature bores me. I don't get the appeal of Twilight, but I guess its just not for me to understand.

[maryhaze]

hey Aelwynn, turn your dh on to "Dark Lover" by JR Ward. it's an adult vampire series with action & fights & sex. i've read all 6 of them & so has my dh. ya gotta start with the first tho, otherwise you'll be lost.

[Aelwynn]

Oooh...good idea. I'll check into it tomorrow. (We go to the bookstore every Thurs) He doesn't like long-winded descriptions and it literally takes him forever to read a page. Hopefully this new series you mentioned is more to his liking than the Harry Potter-type books.

Thought because he read Twilight...he branched out into some RA Salvatore and Dragonlance books. Scared the crap outta me when I saw him reading them. I thought he was sick or something. LOL