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Twilight
Continuing from yesterday....I don't even know how to put into words how heinous this book is. I DON'T EVEN KNOW. I will let it speak for itself. I do not LJ-cut because these aren't really spoilers. AND BECAUSE THE WORLD MUST KNOW.
Is that enough?! Do you believe me now? Let me find a better one!
I SHUDDER WITH DESPAIR FROM THIS AWFUL WRITING.
BUT I STILL CAN'T STOP READING.
Thank God I only have 60 pages left. I'm finding the build-up to the climax shockingly (?) boring.
He turned then, with a mocking smile, and I stifled a gasp. His white shirt was sleeveless, and he wore it unbuttoned, so that the smooth white skin of his throat flowed uninterrupted over the marble countours of his chest, his perfect musculature no longer merely hinted at behind concealing cloths. He was too perfect, I realized with a piercing stab of despair. There was no way this godlike creature could be meant for me.
Is that enough?! Do you believe me now? Let me find a better one!
"I miss you," I whispered.
"I know, Bella. Believe me, I know. It's like you've taken half my self away with you."
"Come and get it, then," I challenged.
"Soon, as soon as I possibly can. I will make you safe first." His voice was hard.
"I love you," I reminded him.
"Could you believe that, despite everything I've put you through, I love you, too?"
"Yes, I can, actually."
I SHUDDER WITH DESPAIR FROM THIS AWFUL WRITING.
BUT I STILL CAN'T STOP READING.
Thank God I only have 60 pages left. I'm finding the build-up to the climax shockingly (?) boring.
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BWAHAHAHAHA!
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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
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Plus, Bella's stupid lack of characterization and any feelings of self-worth. Ugh.
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Ugh indeed! I need to take better notes on the sequels, because in addition to CRAPPY WRITING, I feel that I could write lengthy entries about the anti-feminism in this novel. I can't even count how many times Bella fainted, was carried by Edward (sometimes slung over his shoulder), or did something like "leaning weakly." Also, she only weights 110 pounds?! IMPOSSIBLE, PEOPLE LIKE THAT DO NOT EXIST!
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(Anonymous) 2008-06-19 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)See--
http://seperis.livejournal.com/616640.html
But the antifeminist stuff, shit yeah. >:(
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why? because it's great. I think you have to keep in mind that this was written for a 10 to 14 year-old audience of desperate, looking-for-love-in-all-the-wrong-places emo teens. I LOVED this shit when I was 12. and seeing as how I'm still 12, I still love this shit ;)
I'm really amused that you're still reading it :p
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I had to finish it so that I could rightfully argue with people like you! Bwahahhaaha!
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I doubt that that was precisely what the author meant to say, but I've got to tell you--the summaries I've heard of the novel were enough to dissuade me from reading. Your reviews aren't helping. But the image of the romantic lead guy as a cloth monster covered in spit up and kitchen stains? Really, really not making me inclined to read. (Not that this was a major goal of mine. I just thought you'd also get a kick out of the image, you know?)
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Hahahaha, not really. I thought it was garbage, & I am so shocked at how many people love it (not even in the "this is crap but can't stop reading" sort of way)!!!
The kicker for me, in addition to all the other annoying stuff, was that it was just another tiresome vampire novel in which everyone is so ethereally pretty (& mostly white, too--although I've heard some discussion about her treatment of Native teens in later books, which seems to indicate she does at least something positive). Which... YAWN. Ethereally pretty people? Are boring as shit. In fiction & in real life.
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Okay, I think my heart literally stopped beating when I read that. I was all, "Out of all people, I was sure that she would hate this book, too!"
Yeah, the time spent describing everyone's pale skin was kind of annoying - especially Bella's. She's not even a vampire! I kept thinking she was somehow a vampire's daughter or something, with how much time was spent describing her paleness.
Her friend Jacob Black is an American Indian, I think. He was in the first book, although not very prominently.
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My favorite part was (in the 3rd book) when Bella was trying to go see Jacob and Edward was all, "No, that's dangerous, you can't go see him" and Bella tried to go see him anyway so--
Edward sabotaged her car.
And she was briefly mad in a fiesty sort of way but then she got over it and then I threw the book against the wall except not literally because it's a library book.
(As a librarian I feel some obligation to read all the popular teen books. They paid me enough to start Eclipse, but not enough to finish it...)
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Those comments are SO what I expected: "Twilight is the best book ever! What is the matter with you?!"
I mean, I have stuff that I love, but I'm willing to at least listen to what other people have to say about them.
I didn't know that you had a blog! Is it specifically for YA reviews?
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Okay, after already wanting to write a blog post on squicky gender stuff and then reading the one you already made, I am doubly sure that I should make one!
Because you're right: It is troubling what kind of message these books are sending about gender and "what is romantic?".
(And, unlike you, the quality of the prose IS a huge reason of why I don't like these books as well).
(As a librarian I feel some obligation to read all the popular teen books. They paid me enough to start Eclipse, but not enough to finish it...)
LOL!
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The gender/romance/relationship stuff was particularly troubling to me because I do read manga, and I do read yaoi, and so I don't feel like I'm in any position to condemn a work for having troubling messages relating to those themes, and yet - I just had this visceral reaction to the second and third books (and a much more conflicted reaction to the first, which made me so stupidly defensive about my opinions.)
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