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Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 11:09 pm
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Okay, is it just me, or is the Twilight fandom getting slightly out of hand and out of touch with reality? I see they've FINALLY got it under control in the GD. It's been a good 2 days since I've seen a Twilight thread in there. Hell, I even made a thread about the lack of Twilight threads, and a link that I found to an excerpt from the book which I didn't think was real, and I got flamed! xd
Btw, the link was real. It read like bad fan-fic (almost worst than My Immortal), but it was real.
Discuss: Twilight the book Bad fan fictions (like My Immortal. If you haven't read it, I'm sure there's a link on the Encyclopedia Dramatica page) Over-zealous Twilight fangirls/boys
Also, to any fangirls who may come in to defend Twilight: please make your arguments legitimate and don't cite that Edward is teh sex as your reason for it being awesome, or how Meyer's bastardization of the vampire genre is a unique and fresh take on the boring traditional lore.
(Oh dear, I start spending time in the GD, and already I start bringing in their memes. Just watch - soon tl;dr will invade our somewhat still literate guild. gonk .)
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Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 3:20 pm
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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 5:41 pm
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Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 10:25 am
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Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 8:39 pm
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Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 7:55 am
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Post Coital Cookie Captain
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Edward-Bella-NessieCullen
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Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 8:27 pm
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Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 12:55 pm
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Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 12:07 pm
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Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 6:07 pm
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Auroraladyofdragons I loved ALL the books, I didn't get crazy about the movie cause some of the sences could of been ALOT better but what do I know right lol..... I know what you mean Edward-Bella-Nessiecullen, for all the one's who say "it's stupid" or whatever else about it. They have told me nothing to why it's bad. And I agree with you about the feeling part, I cryed in New Moon when Edward, Alice and the hole family left, but then got excited to see how Jacob helped out. There's feeling in the whole saga, and I don't think the one's that read it and say it's bad know what feeling is. Why Twilight sucks: 1. The books have no literary value whatsoever. The novels are mostly dialogue, and they don't make a significant statement on anything. (I know: not all books make statements about society/life/etc. However, the greatest ones do.) The novel reads like fan-fiction... BAD fan-fiction. 2. The characters are vapid, ignorant, annoying, stupid, one-dimensional Mary-Sues and Gary-Stus. 3. The plot lacks substance. Some may argue against this, and will then quote the rather long plot summary found on Wikipedia, but a long plot summary=/=substantial plot. 4. Meyer has stated that these novels came from a dream she had about a gorgeous guy (who presumably became Edward). Enough said. 5. Bella is a self-insert of Meyer. So, what we're reading is some Mormon housewife's wet dream. 6. This is totally unrelated to why Twilight sucks, but I think it is interesting that Meyer pitched a fit when Midnight Sun leaked. As I recall, a few chapters of one of the Harry Potter books were leaked, and Rowling continued to write the book. 7. The fangirls. 8. The fanboys. 9. They made a movie out of the book.
Is that convincing enough for you?
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Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 10:43 am
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Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 1:19 pm
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RedWhiteBlack Why Twilight sucks: 1. The books have no literary value whatsoever. The novels are mostly dialogue, and they don't make a significant statement on anything. (I know: not all books make statements about society/life/etc. However, the greatest ones do.) The novel reads like fan-fiction... BAD fan-fiction. 2. The characters are vapid, ignorant, annoying, stupid, one-dimensional Mary-Sues and Gary-Stus. 3. The plot lacks substance. Some may argue against this, and will then quote the rather long plot summary found on Wikipedia, but a long plot summary=/=substantial plot. 4. Meyer has stated that these novels came from a dream she had about a gorgeous guy (who presumably became Edward). Enough said. 5. Bella is a self-insert of Meyer. So, what we're reading is some Mormon housewife's wet dream. 6. This is totally unrelated to why Twilight sucks, but I think it is interesting that Meyer pitched a fit when Midnight Sun leaked. As I recall, a few chapters of one of the Harry Potter books were leaked, and Rowling continued to write the book. 7. The fangirls. 8. The fanboys. 9. They made a movie out of the book. Is that convincing enough for you?
I agree. Well aside from #4-9, that really has nothing to do with why the book sucks. That's more... your personal dislikings towards it/the author. But back on topic, the books have nothing substantial about the story. They are written like a bad teen soap opera. A love story with tons of drama and vampires thrown in, and that leads most of its teen fans (psh, more like religous followers) with its "forbidden love" and what not, to fantasize and swoon over the book. You can argue all you want and come up with something about how it has a "deeper meaning" or whatever... but the way I see it, Meyer wrote this cause she had nothing better to do and it lucked into becoming some cult classic. Any "deeper meaning" you come up with to why its a great book is just that, a deeper meaning you came up with.
Until I am truly convinced otherwise that's how I stand on the whole Twilight craze (which I'm glad to say looks to be subsiding finally).
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