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Monstrous Books => New Publications & Authors => Topic started by: Raysa on August 10, 2008, 06:22:49 AM
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Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer . . .
Now, before any HQ & self respected readers proceed trolling and whatnot, I assure you that I'm not particularly a fan. Aargh, the damn book is all over the news, it's maddening.
Apparently, it's farking famous. World-wide-famous kind. Oh, the endearing love between a [glittery&flawlessly flawless] vampire and [MarySue a la Ultimatus] human girl.
^^ Let's discuss the books/movie. I'd like to hear your thoughts, comments, complains/etc about it, and for those who are clueless to what it is, google it.
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I have never read the Twilight series and do not plan to. I'd just like to point out that, from what I've heard, the storyline is based on a human-vampire romance. This is a common love that cannot be story, and I personally think that any book that uses it should have some kind of twist to it, but there isn't according to my knowledge. Not that I want to insult anybody or their opinion, but I think that Twilight, like Harry Potter, is a repetitious, unimaginative, falsely advertised, and generally predictable series.
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Not that I want to insult anybody or their opinion, but I think that Twilight, like Harry Potter, is a repetitious, unimaginative, falsely advertised, and generally predictable series.
I have read them and I agree. AND there is FOUR of them, same story in all of them, she gets in trouble and ht gets her out of it. :-P
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Now that I've read this, I doubt that I'll be reading this series.
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The books were terrible. I read all four within 6 days because they were written by, I swear to God, a 15 year old girl with only a 9th grade English Composition class to her previous writing credits. If you start reading them and continue to read all four because you're hoping they will get better (like I did), and mature in character development, story line and action, don't hold your breath.
Eric Carle puts more emotion and thought into his his books...
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I liked the books. I think the thing that makes me like them is the fact that she explains things in detail... I remember a couple of times she would be describing one thing and it would take her about 5 pages to explain it. But the books weren't as good as everyone makes them to be. It's just a typical Vampire and Human puppy-love novel.
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I'm not a huge fan of the books, although I can say that she had a good plot going on. The one thing that really got me was the sparkly vampires. I've never heard of a vampire being discoball like.
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Lol, I think I got my hands on one of her books, but I just couldn't get into it. I am a big Anita Blake fan, just can't get into anything else these days. :laugh:
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My daughter read these novels and she did not like them *<:)
Has to be bad, she likes them puppy love novels
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I have to disagree. I love the series. I have read the 1st book, and I plan to read the other 3. i also plan to watch the movie. ilove how edward saves and cares about Bella. It is so romantic. I would date edwrd if he were real. He is soo my type. :laugh:
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Where's all the killing and draining humans of their tasty, warm blood? I guess a little love is okay, but there's a point where this unreal love thing is going too far.
Agreed
Sparkly vampires......OMG :doh:
Vampires are evil and are killers....thats they way they should be kept...not nicey nicey...oh just thinking about nice loving sweet vampires makes me want to hurl.....who ever heard of a wimpy vampire...never until now :doh: :gun:
Yes .....vampires can be romantic, even then...the one they love, they kill and turn them into a vampire
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Even Lestat, arguably one of the most effeminate vampire characters ever conceived, was a completely and thoroughly ruthless killer at times. In fact, he was, in the Anne Rice books, the epitome of what it meant to be a vampire.
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Even Lestat, arguably one of the most effeminate vampire characters ever conceived, was a completely and thoroughly ruthless killer at times. In fact, he was, in the Anne Rice books, the epitome of what it meant to be a vampire.
That is most true Mo
And he enjoyed it too...being ruthless
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I love these books. She also wrote a book called the host. They are all very good. I would do nearly anything to get my hands on them.
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You know, I do actually find the mere ideas she's come up with offensive. It's one thing to use a new idea, or put a new angle on it, but this is destructive. What Anne Rice did was a logical extension of the vampire mythos. What this moron did was not a logical extension of what Anne Rice did. It is just trash.
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Now Anne Rice has gone the other way and she became a vivid catholic and she's never going to write vampy books again :C
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T'is a shame too, she was very good at it.
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Who is Anne Rice? I've never head of her.
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She is the author of vampiric novels like "Interview With A Vampire" and "Queen of the Damned", but now she threw it all over her shoulder and dedicated her writing to religion.
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Bah, I hate religion.
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Lol, me too.
Ps. Those books suck. They're boring and have no plot or good (major) characters.
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Rices worse books are better than anything by Meyer...thats for sure
Anne Rice was Great IMO[/b]
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My complaints:
First, I doubt it is, but if this topic is just about horror books, then absolutely nothing about Twilight should be here.
Second, in my opinion, vampires should NOT sparkle in the sun.
Third, all those fan-girls who are all like "OMG Edward and Jacob are so HAWWTTT!!!!!!!!" are the most annoying things in the f****** world.
Fourth, Twilight is unoriginal, and all that "forbidden love" crap is very cliche.
Fifth, as for the movie, Robert Pattison is butt-ugly and Kristen Stewart needs to learn how to act. (Oh, and by the way, the only reason I saw the movie is because I was at the theater with all my cousins, they all wanted to see Twilight, and my stupid parents wouldn't allow me to go see a different movie by myself.)
Sixth, how did the terrifying creatures of folklore become these p**** a** vampires of today? They're more human than anything.
I could go on, but I think I'll stop because I've probably enraged about a thousand fan-girls already. :P And I know what all of you are thinking: well, if you hate Twilight so much, why did you take the time to type all this up and put it on a Twilight topic? And the answer to that is one, the person who created this topic asked for our opinions, complaints, etc., two, I usually keep my mouth shut, I had to let it all out sometime, and three, I have nothing better to do. And I'm NOT criticizing anyone who likes Twilight, I'm sure you're all wonderful people, I'm just criticizing the book itself.
And if you hate this post, either tell me why (educated replies only, please, nothing like "OMGGG you don't like Twilight?!?!!? Go die.") or ignore it, but I'd like to hear other people's opinions. But if you do like this post and completely agree with me, message me. xD
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T'is a shame too, she was very good at it.
I nearly fainted when I found out she was devoting the rest of her life to writing religious books. No offence to anyone that likes those kinds of books, but that's a great writer gone to waste. At least she gave us the great novels that she did. :)
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I will bash these books/movies even more
First of all and I will say it again in a different way
Vampires are NOT sweet cuddly play things, they are killers, pure and simple, someone making them out to be otherwise is simply ridiculus
The can not be exposed to the sun...they DIE
Dracula was a old ancient vampire and in some stories could be in daylight for a very short time, sorry they do not glitter in the daylight like sparklers, to portray them in the way SM does is simply wrong, so much so it makes me want to barf
So my guess is in the 2nd movie the werewolfy people just eat chicken and fish instead of humans, I hope and pray this is another fad like disco and goes away too
And yes to bad Anne Rice turned religious on us, I revered her writings to the likes of Stephen King, to me she was the Queen of horror then
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all the twilight things seem to follow the same pattern. the girl is emotionally confused , ends up becoming bloodied and bruised , meanwhile is constantly trying to get with the closest dominant male.
not to mention its the one book/movie that managed to make me lower my standards signifigantly for me to like hary potter by comparisson. its not that HP is bad or anything , but people flicking wands about in some castle is not to my taste.
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in my opinion the whole series is a young girls choice between pseudo-bestiality and necrophilia. I respect how well its done for itself but i just to think its a very good piece of literature.
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Poppy Z Brite anyone?
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I think it would be pretty cool if vampires actually started farming humans like we farm sheep, pigs and cows. lol! Just imagine a pen of stupid humans raised from birth - they would have little knowledge but instinct and what the vampires cared to teach them. Humans wouldn't know how to communicate effectively or to even fear the vampires... except when it came to slaughtering time! :gun: *<:)
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I think it would be pretty cool if vampires actually started farming humans like we farm sheep, pigs and cows. lol! Just imagine a pen of stupid humans raised from birth - they would have little knowledge but instinct and what the vampires cared to teach them. Humans wouldn't know how to communicate effectively or to even fear the vampires... except when it came to slaughtering time! :gun: *<:)
The perfect food source for this would be all those twilight fans ( I refuse to capitalise the name of that sin).
Just imagine it.
It would be like fast food.
Only they'd want to be used as food for precious Edward and his kin.... of woodland faeries. Tell me, what type of predator sparkles?
To all those this may concern, my entire English Literature class condemned twilight in so many ways,( I refuse to capitalise the name of that stain on literature). The mere suggestion that the book is of the Gothic genre...
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You know, sadly, my Grandmother sent me one of the books for my birthday. I didn't have the heart to tell the poor woman that I hate those books and their 'author'.
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I am sure she meant it as a nice paper weight.
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I am sure she meant it as a nice paper weight.
If only...
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I am sure she meant it as a nice paper weight.
If only...
Perhaps it's for kindling then.
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I am sure she meant it as a nice paper weight.
If only...
Perhaps it's for kindling then.
Not an option. If she comes for a visit she may want to see that he still has it.
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I am sure she meant it as a nice paper weight.
If only...
Perhaps it's for kindling then.
Not an option. If she comes for a visit she may want to see that he still has it.
Yes, but it doesn't take the whole book to get a fire going now does it?
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To Sephenie Meyer! May she ROT IN HELL!!
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To Sephenie Meyer! May she ROT IN HELL!!
Amen ravin
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Huh, so you would have someone rot in hell merely over writing a crappy series of books? That's pretty dramatic. But yeah that whole franchise is s**t.
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Yes, yes I would. Along with her publishers and the moron that made the crap into a movie.
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How dare you consign her to Hell???? What makes you think I want to spend eternity having to look at her? I swear, everyone wants to follow me no matter where I go. :laugh:
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Well I figure she will be somewhere on the planes of eternal damnation, while you and me are drinking warm beer with the dark lord.
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How dare you consign her to Hell???? What makes you think I want to spend eternity having to look at her? I swear, everyone wants to follow me no matter where I go. :laugh:
Would you wish us to go to our eternal reward without our full compensation for a life well lived? I say bring her on. We could always use to entertainment.
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Challenge entertains me, drivel does not.
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Then let's fill her skull with marbles and see if we can break it with a baseball bat without shattering any of the marbles.
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Even Lestat, arguably one of the most effeminate vampire characters ever conceived, was a completely and thoroughly ruthless killer at times. In fact, he was, in the Anne Rice books, the epitome of what it meant to be a vampire.
That is most true Mo
And he enjoyed it too...being ruthless
Exactly. I admit that when I was younger, I read the Twilight "Saga," but I cannot stand them. They're disgusting.
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Ever wonder why The Dark Lord himself, Moloch is my hero? Just look at his last post, not the one quoted, but the one under Muerte's last. Need I say more? Sheer Brilliance!!
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that one was epic xD
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WOOOOOOOW... moloch actually responded in THIS thread :-o :-o
i'm shocked :-o I'm not being sarcastic or rude I'm just truly shocked because its about a book serious that's as gay and glammed up as RuPaul (not trying to sound like a mean homophobe and that is the only way i could describe Twilight)
well my mom made me read the 1st book, i was barely able to because its so damn boring and stupid
this is how much respect i have for twilight -> i have the book as a leveler for my fan getting all dusty and torn up