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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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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.)