Capn-Rory
Twilight.
Just.... uhg.
To convey my feelings, here is a post from someone I admire:
For me it's more than how the books were written, it's a WHOLE bunch of issues I have with the characters and situations.
To be quick, things like setting Feminism back 300-400 years, glorifying horribly abusive relationships, etc etc. I have a real problem with that.
Also, Purple Prose Doth Not A Good Book Make.
Here's a good comment that I read earlier on it:
Various good links on my opinions:
Twilight Sucks...And Not In A Good Way
Summing Up Twilight(humorous)
Makani's Take #1 (humorous)
Makani's Take #2 (humorous. at least scroll down to the end of her post to see the GIF)
New Moon: the Condensed Version (also humorous)
Edit: Two more things.
Comic #1
Comic #2
TL;DR:
Twilight, in all, is a poorly written book with too many adjectives and not enough detail. I doubt more detail would help it in the least.
If Miss Meyer can make it in the publishing business, we're screwed.
Just.... uhg.
To convey my feelings, here is a post from someone I admire:
Dematrah
For me it's more than how the books were written, it's a WHOLE bunch of issues I have with the characters and situations.
To be quick, things like setting Feminism back 300-400 years, glorifying horribly abusive relationships, etc etc. I have a real problem with that.
Also, Purple Prose Doth Not A Good Book Make.
Here's a good comment that I read earlier on it:
Quote:
Oh please they make plenty of ultra shitty books in to movies. The book sucked a** and anyone with taste would know that. The problem is that there are plenty of ditzy little 13 year old girls who love this kind of story because it allows them to think that "ordinary" girls can find their one true absuive love and that he will take them away from altheir problems.
Here is why I think twilight is awful: I felt that its poor characters, over done plot, hellishly annoying lead character Bella, bad writing, predictable story line, terribly stiff unrealistic dialog all came together to form a very very bad book.
To call this a romance is like calling Great Expectations by Charles Dickens an action story. It has no romance it has light fluffy puppy lust. Real Romance has passion and love conflict and desire. This series has none of that. Look at why they love each other. He thinks she smells yummy and she thinks he is hot. That’s not love or romance that’s just shallow and some what disturbing.
Bella. Dear god where to begin with Bella. She is supporting misogyny one pathetic whiny bitchy action a time. She cannot do anything on her own with out nearly killing herself. She is just plan stupid despite the authors attempts to make her seem intelligent and she is beyond annoying. She lets people walk all over her. She sets feminism back a good 400 years supporting what Male rulers of the 1600s called Feminine weakness. She gives up her entire life for a boy she has known for a month and not had a single deep conversation with. She literally so virtually no point in living with out Edward then she leads Jacob on through almost all of New Moon then dumps him. She made Jacob her rebound and then treated him like trash. She is what most people in real life call a b*tch. She does nothing but treat people badly at least people who are not vampires. I will admit I did like Jacob until Eclipse. I felt like punching Bella for treating the poor boy like that. One of the worst things you can do to some one is lead them on then dump them. Trust me it is one of the most painful things you can do to someone. She has virtually no likable qualities at all. She has no goals no ambitions no dreams nothing except becoming a vampire and loving Edward. That's it. That is all she wants from life. She ditches everything n her life to be with Edward and she knows almost nothing about him. She likes him because he is good looking. Seriously I hate her. She is one of the worst characters I have ever come across in all my years of reading.
Edward is another terrible character. First of all he is portrayed as perfect. What kind of author makes a character perfect then says she wants her characters to be realistic? Secondly he is a vampire THAT FREAKING SPARKLES! Like Tinkerbelle or Glenda the good witch. Vampires should be pale and ugly not glittery bunny eaters. Thirdly there are 165 descriptions of his beauty in twilight alone. Honestly who needs to be told a guy is pretty that many times? I find it funny though because are never actually told what he looks like outside other than very vague things like bronze hair, topaz eyes and pale skin. There is also the little problem with him being abusive that bothers me. He is EMOTIONALLY ABUSIVE he may never hit Bella but he messes with her mind and her emotions so much he might as well. I hate how every one keeps saying he loves her and is just being protective because that’s not true. Being protective is telling someone to be carful and checking up on them from time to time not removing parts from their car so they cant go see their best friend. He is a jerk and Bella can’t see past his god like glittery exterior to see that.
There is also the matter of the completely useless characters in it such as Esme and Emette. They serve no purpose at all except to take up space. They add nothing to the story. You could take them out and it would be the exact same yet they are classifyed as main characters. Even worse are the classmates that are only there to show you how desirible Bella despite her having no likable qualities. The human boys (Eric Tyler and Mike) are the prime examples or this. They do not futher the story at all, they just sort of exist to ogle Bella and dream about her. They have known her for less than a day yet they adore her enough to be fighting over her.
The parents bother me a lot in this book too. Bella’s father is a police chief and yet he cannot even tell that there is a stranger sneaking into his house at night watching his daughter sleep? And Bella’s mom is another annoying parent. She gives up her daughter for a little boy toy. What kind of mother does that? I suppose I should say Bella left because of the boy toy but still it’s a terrible why to portray mothers.
The cluttered writing bothers me too. I am wondering if there was even an editor because this book was so cluttered it was annoying to read. Honestly why can’t Stephanie Meyer cut back on the adjectives and focus on the story rather than telling us about Edwards’s velvet voice 30 times? Is it really so hard to do?
The dialog in this book is just plan sad. “You’re my brand of heroin.” Comparing love to heroin for one thing is a no-no because love is not like heroin. “Bring on the shackles I’m your slave.” Ok that’s wrong on so many levels. The first of which is, no teenager alive talks like that. Also I think Edward is masochist. “Holy Crow.” Ok now I have not uttered anything that stupid since I was 7 and I doubt any 17 talks like this. If they do they are probably teased by every other 17. A normal 17 year old would say something like: Oh god, Oh sh*t, f*ck, Oh Crap, Holy Hell, Oh my god, Whoa. But Holy Crow? Come on now that’s just stupid. Not to mention some of Edward's lines that sound like messages from greeting cards.
I also fail to see any actual plot until the end of the first book. Up until that point its just a bunch of pointless fluff that consist of Edward and Bella making eyes at each other and cuddling. There are no sub plots what so ever. Every little thing reolves entirely the "plot" of Bella and Edwards puppy lust. Thats it.
The Vampires in this book are just plan painful. Glittering vampires that are drop dead gorgeous have super strength, are eternally young, have super speed, mind reading powers, whose eyes change color and they eat animals? That sounds like something from bad fan fiction. Vampires are supposed to be pale corpse like, ugly or some thing like that. They could even be sexy but at least give them an uncontrollable blood lust or something that’s a flaw. She might as well have called the Cullen’s fairies. It would have made more sense that way.
The story is another bothersome thing. How many vampire human love stories have seen? A human girl meets vampire man they fall in love instantly and she is not even bothered by the fact that he wants to eat her. It’s boring. I mean change it up some. Make the girl a vampire for once instead of the guy, have it end with the vampire going crazy and eating the girl, something just not the same stuff we have seen.
All in all I just find this book to be really bad. I know I am being a bit harsh but I think that if something is going to get this much attention and be called the best book ever it should at least live up to a fraction of it.
This book is nothing like the Interveiw with a Vampire series. Frankly its just trash compared to it. I am not a huge Anne Rice fan but still I prefer her books to these any day.
Here is why I think twilight is awful: I felt that its poor characters, over done plot, hellishly annoying lead character Bella, bad writing, predictable story line, terribly stiff unrealistic dialog all came together to form a very very bad book.
To call this a romance is like calling Great Expectations by Charles Dickens an action story. It has no romance it has light fluffy puppy lust. Real Romance has passion and love conflict and desire. This series has none of that. Look at why they love each other. He thinks she smells yummy and she thinks he is hot. That’s not love or romance that’s just shallow and some what disturbing.
Bella. Dear god where to begin with Bella. She is supporting misogyny one pathetic whiny bitchy action a time. She cannot do anything on her own with out nearly killing herself. She is just plan stupid despite the authors attempts to make her seem intelligent and she is beyond annoying. She lets people walk all over her. She sets feminism back a good 400 years supporting what Male rulers of the 1600s called Feminine weakness. She gives up her entire life for a boy she has known for a month and not had a single deep conversation with. She literally so virtually no point in living with out Edward then she leads Jacob on through almost all of New Moon then dumps him. She made Jacob her rebound and then treated him like trash. She is what most people in real life call a b*tch. She does nothing but treat people badly at least people who are not vampires. I will admit I did like Jacob until Eclipse. I felt like punching Bella for treating the poor boy like that. One of the worst things you can do to some one is lead them on then dump them. Trust me it is one of the most painful things you can do to someone. She has virtually no likable qualities at all. She has no goals no ambitions no dreams nothing except becoming a vampire and loving Edward. That's it. That is all she wants from life. She ditches everything n her life to be with Edward and she knows almost nothing about him. She likes him because he is good looking. Seriously I hate her. She is one of the worst characters I have ever come across in all my years of reading.
Edward is another terrible character. First of all he is portrayed as perfect. What kind of author makes a character perfect then says she wants her characters to be realistic? Secondly he is a vampire THAT FREAKING SPARKLES! Like Tinkerbelle or Glenda the good witch. Vampires should be pale and ugly not glittery bunny eaters. Thirdly there are 165 descriptions of his beauty in twilight alone. Honestly who needs to be told a guy is pretty that many times? I find it funny though because are never actually told what he looks like outside other than very vague things like bronze hair, topaz eyes and pale skin. There is also the little problem with him being abusive that bothers me. He is EMOTIONALLY ABUSIVE he may never hit Bella but he messes with her mind and her emotions so much he might as well. I hate how every one keeps saying he loves her and is just being protective because that’s not true. Being protective is telling someone to be carful and checking up on them from time to time not removing parts from their car so they cant go see their best friend. He is a jerk and Bella can’t see past his god like glittery exterior to see that.
There is also the matter of the completely useless characters in it such as Esme and Emette. They serve no purpose at all except to take up space. They add nothing to the story. You could take them out and it would be the exact same yet they are classifyed as main characters. Even worse are the classmates that are only there to show you how desirible Bella despite her having no likable qualities. The human boys (Eric Tyler and Mike) are the prime examples or this. They do not futher the story at all, they just sort of exist to ogle Bella and dream about her. They have known her for less than a day yet they adore her enough to be fighting over her.
The parents bother me a lot in this book too. Bella’s father is a police chief and yet he cannot even tell that there is a stranger sneaking into his house at night watching his daughter sleep? And Bella’s mom is another annoying parent. She gives up her daughter for a little boy toy. What kind of mother does that? I suppose I should say Bella left because of the boy toy but still it’s a terrible why to portray mothers.
The cluttered writing bothers me too. I am wondering if there was even an editor because this book was so cluttered it was annoying to read. Honestly why can’t Stephanie Meyer cut back on the adjectives and focus on the story rather than telling us about Edwards’s velvet voice 30 times? Is it really so hard to do?
The dialog in this book is just plan sad. “You’re my brand of heroin.” Comparing love to heroin for one thing is a no-no because love is not like heroin. “Bring on the shackles I’m your slave.” Ok that’s wrong on so many levels. The first of which is, no teenager alive talks like that. Also I think Edward is masochist. “Holy Crow.” Ok now I have not uttered anything that stupid since I was 7 and I doubt any 17 talks like this. If they do they are probably teased by every other 17. A normal 17 year old would say something like: Oh god, Oh sh*t, f*ck, Oh Crap, Holy Hell, Oh my god, Whoa. But Holy Crow? Come on now that’s just stupid. Not to mention some of Edward's lines that sound like messages from greeting cards.
I also fail to see any actual plot until the end of the first book. Up until that point its just a bunch of pointless fluff that consist of Edward and Bella making eyes at each other and cuddling. There are no sub plots what so ever. Every little thing reolves entirely the "plot" of Bella and Edwards puppy lust. Thats it.
The Vampires in this book are just plan painful. Glittering vampires that are drop dead gorgeous have super strength, are eternally young, have super speed, mind reading powers, whose eyes change color and they eat animals? That sounds like something from bad fan fiction. Vampires are supposed to be pale corpse like, ugly or some thing like that. They could even be sexy but at least give them an uncontrollable blood lust or something that’s a flaw. She might as well have called the Cullen’s fairies. It would have made more sense that way.
The story is another bothersome thing. How many vampire human love stories have seen? A human girl meets vampire man they fall in love instantly and she is not even bothered by the fact that he wants to eat her. It’s boring. I mean change it up some. Make the girl a vampire for once instead of the guy, have it end with the vampire going crazy and eating the girl, something just not the same stuff we have seen.
All in all I just find this book to be really bad. I know I am being a bit harsh but I think that if something is going to get this much attention and be called the best book ever it should at least live up to a fraction of it.
This book is nothing like the Interveiw with a Vampire series. Frankly its just trash compared to it. I am not a huge Anne Rice fan but still I prefer her books to these any day.
Various good links on my opinions:
Twilight Sucks...And Not In A Good Way
Summing Up Twilight(humorous)
Makani's Take #1 (humorous)
Makani's Take #2 (humorous. at least scroll down to the end of her post to see the GIF)
New Moon: the Condensed Version (also humorous)
Edit: Two more things.
Comic #1
Comic #2
TL;DR:
Twilight, in all, is a poorly written book with too many adjectives and not enough detail. I doubt more detail would help it in the least.
If Miss Meyer can make it in the publishing business, we're screwed.
