Quote: "i absolutly adore the books"
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Quote: "are you one of the *iam so macho so i cant watch movies wich is about a guy and a vampire who falls in love becuz its so girly* guys?"
No. I am one of those "I can't stand the fact that read this crap without blowing their brains out" guys.
Honestly, aside from being just generally horrible, Twilight sends a HORRIBLE message to young women. It tells them to be ok with abusive relationships. It tells them that anything a guy wants you to do is ok as long as he's hot and sparkly. If he stalks you, threatens you, treats you like living garbage and any number of other unacceptable things, its ok as long as he's a pretty boy. The twilight series is going to be the cause of so, SO MANY messed up and troubled relationships in the future.
As for the writing, heres just a few arguments I've heard/read, and I can't say I disagree;
Quote: "Stephanie Meyer makes her writing way more complicated than it should be. I guess this was in an attempt to make her sound intelligent or something, but the end result is just pathetic. It's as though she used a thesaurus to replace every. single. word. "Small town" becomes "diminutive municipality", and it just sounds ridiculous. And don't think for a second that this sort of thing is just here-and-there - it's on nearly every single page.
The thing is you shouldn't use these words just for the sake of having a book full of big, pretty words. Big words don't make a book good - especially if the words are used in the wrong context all over the place. This practice is made especially horrible when you have a plot for a book aimed at teenagers, and you're using words that only a college graduate would be able to understand.
Every English teacher I've ever had always told me that good writing is written simply; using as little words as possible to say what needs to be said. Clearly, this is not a concept that Meyer has ever heard of."
Quote: "When it comes to the plot of the book, THERE IS NONE!
One sentence summary of the entire series: A girl falls in love with a vampire, who she winds up with together forever despite a few minor discrepancies.That's it, really. The rest is fluffy, boring filler. The "climax" takes place in the last two chapters of the books and has nothing to do with the preceding 400 pages. The "conflict" is resolved far too easily."
Quote: "Bella Swan is the main character of the series. Somehow, despite being horribly plain and clumsy (and not to mention a new student at her high school in a really small town), she manages to have several guys fawning all over her without any effort at all.
So, okay, she's a completely unrealistic character. How does that make her a poor role model, you ask?
Well, throughout the series, Bella becomes completely dependent on the "love of her life," a vampire. She is insecure and thrives on his attention When she finds out that he had been watching her sleep, she is delighted, rather than being understandably freaked out. By the end of book one, she is more than ready to give up any ambition to go to college or pursue a normal life, and strongly wishes to be a vampire so she can become immortal and spend the rest of her life with a boy she basically just met. And how doesStephanie Meyer continue this sickening teenage codependent affair? By making Bella continually more and more submissive to "her man" throughout the series. By the time she's eighteen, she's a pregnant vampire.
Great, awesome. Thanks for trying to inspire our youth, Stephanie Meyer."
Quote: "please stop comparing Twilight to the Harry Potter series? Really, I mean it. Harry Potter is far better than Twilight on so many levels, and that's not even just personal opinion. Nobody could deny the fact that the plot of theHarry Potter series is just so much more developed, and it's just an enjoyable read for all ages. Harry Potter has lasting impressions on everybody that reads it.. for YEARS! Twilight will be forgotten in the next two years, tops."
