@Jaffa
With regards to Twilight, I too think it is merely average. What I imagine bothers most people about it is that such mediocrity is adored.
I do understand that. And for what it's worth, the Twilight phenomenon got on my nerves in ways, too - for a while there, the teen section of every bookstore was dominated by vampire stories, and it seemed like pop culture in general was drowning in vampires. That trend pretty much started with Twilight, and it was extremely annoying.
So when people say that they're sick of Twilight, I get it. What I don't get is when people act like Twilight is an insult to fiction and Stephenie Meyer should be crucified for being so terribly awful at writing.
I've read all of the Twilight books and seen all of the movies-
I didn't want to get sucked in but at the time I was managing tanning salons and all of the girls who worked for us were obsessed, and I wanted to know what the hype was about. And you know me...if I read one book in a series, I have to read all of them on principle.
My main issue with Twilight is that it's actually a really good idea, just really poorly executed. I can live with the teeny bopper element- the main characters are all in high school, so that's to be expected. But the way the books are written really are poor- there are a ton of grammatical errors in the books, and there's a lot of redundancy. I can't believe the final drafts got past a team of professional editors. And in the fourth book, as the series is wrapping up, it's all very anti-climatic. All of these "ruling" vampires show up and they're all gearing up for this big epic battle that winds up never actually happening. Throughout the series, some vampires have "abilities" that don't work on Bella (for example, Edward can hear everyone's thoughts except hers)...and it turns out that she's actually got a special "ability" too in that she's able to shield everyone else from harm. So again it's one of those...."cool idea, but damn that's boring" endings. Sorry for the lack of a spoiler alert but I figured no one on this board is actually going to read these books anyway
My main problem with the entire series is the movies- the absolute, god awful atrociousness of the movies. Horrible script, horrible direction, horrible acting. And I won't even hate on Kristen Stewart that much because for as arguably bad as her acting is, I think she actually nailed the character pretty well. But it's just pure cheese all around (and not the good kind). But everything else about the movies is just laughably bad. The first movie for the last book was so bad- I really thought I was watching the blooper outtakes the first (and only) time I saw it. (And WHY they felt the need to make the last book into two movies I'll never know, seeing as how nothing actually happened).
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