IM conversation from this afternoon - about Twilight of course

[wendyzski]

[13:17] wendyzski: I'm still trying to get around the idea that it's sooooo romantic that he BREAKS INTO HER HOUSE TO WATCH HER SLEEP!!!
[13:17] gaivs_petronivs: it's a teenage thing?
[13:17] gaivs_petronivs: afik
[13:17] wendyzski: If that had happened while I was in HS I would have tried to brain him with my wall-hanger sword
[13:17] wendyzski: of course, this may explain why I'm still single..

(and just finished book 3, in which things even out because I wanted to strangle pretty much EVERY major character at some point)

Comments

[rileybear67.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'm gonna get blasted here... (no offense will be taken)

Am I the only one of my friends who thought that it was an okay book? True, it was incredibly juvinile (it is a YA fiction after all) but I read it for the sake of reading it.

Young girls went bloody nuts over Harry Potter and the whole magic thing and look at how quickly that passed. Teenages will do what teenagers will do and no book or romantic fantasy will alter that much.
Just my double penny though!

[rillaspins.livejournal.com]

I keep saying I enjoyed the series. There were a couple of things that made me go huh? I **liked** the idea of Vampires sparkling...it made me giggle. Sparkling fairy vampires. It sounded like a kids costume. OOOOHHHH, he's all SPAAARLLLYYY!!! I laughed about the sports shop and the schools acceptance of the family camp outs.

I just thought the series was fun. I suspended belief and got through the horror parts of it and went along for the ride.

PS. I also like werewolves.

[wendyzski.livejournal.com]

I personally think the werewolf pack are the most "normal" group of people in this whole bookiverse! And I did laugh a lot at the pissing contest between Edward and Jacob. I'm kind of annoyed that he decided to go all manipulative to try to get his way though. Like there isn't enough of that going around in these books.

And I'm nor scared of the "horror", I'm horrified that there are teenagers out there who will internalize this kind of crap and go all "it doesn't matter what he does because we are meant to be together", which combined with teenage loneliness and a desire to "belong" makes a recipe for disaster.

[wendyzski.livejournal.com]

But Harry Potter's subtext was "anyone can be special with the help of their friends" where as this is "it doesn't matter what he does if you were meant to be together".

She literally has "no life" without her sparklepire - do you remember "I was like a lost moon--my planet destroyed in some cataclysmic, disaster-movie scenario of desolation--that continued, nevertheless, to circle in a tight little orbit around the empty space left behind, ignoring the laws of gravity.

Any hypothetical daughter of mine said that and she'd be in therapy faster than you can say "dazzle"!

[wifeofset.livejournal.com]

I read it. I liked it. I still think the writing is crap :P