Subject: Anyone here who dislikes 'Twilight'
Posted by: funnybuni
Date: Feb 25 09
I feel as if I'm the only one who thinks that a 108 yr. old falling in love with a 17 yr. old is wrong and perverted. Just because you don't look 108 doesn't mean you don't have 108 years of experience in life.
Title edited by RMG
Posted by: funnybuni
Date: Feb 25 09
I feel as if I'm the only one who thinks that a 108 yr. old falling in love with a 17 yr. old is wrong and perverted. Just because you don't look 108 doesn't mean you don't have 108 years of experience in life.
Title edited by RMG
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Cymruambyth 
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Agony and HO, maybe I'm a snob but there is a ton of books out there that people rave about on this thread, and writers that are considered good....and 100 years from now the writers will be dust and the books will be forgotten. I divide books into two groups. Those I will read and re-read - the keepers, and those which are okay for diversion on a long plane trip - the brain candy - but once I've finished them they go into the book box that gets taken to the nearest thrift shop. Look at the thread on 'Favourite Authors' and count the number of times Stephen King's name crops up. There's no way on this earth that he qualifies as anything more than brain candy. His books add nothing to the human experience. Most of the popular books/authors of today fall into the brain candy category, and the Twilight series would seem to be part of that. Reply #41. Oct 13 10, 2:25 PM |
Anton
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I'd listen to Cym on this subject. She knows everything there is to know about literature and the human mind. Reply #42. Oct 13 10, 2:35 PM |
| Cymruambyth
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Hey, Anton, I can have an opinion too! Reply #43. Oct 13 10, 9:39 PM |
tezza1551
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Agreeing with Cym here. There's a lot of books out there.. but not all of them rate as literature ! Reply #44. Oct 13 10, 11:11 PM |
mjws1968
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Thats right, some authors survive whilst some fade from the consciousness and their books gather dust on bookshelves. I mean look at Gladys Mitchell and Agatha Christie, both contemporaries, both writing the same thing, crime fiction with a strong female lead, and yet Christie is still a big part of many peoples reading experience and is constantly adapted for TV whilst you can't find a Mitchell for love nor money and the one attempt at TV adaptation failed despite the excellent casting of Diana Rigg as Mrs Bradley. Bought the first two of the Twilight series, read number one, was distinctly underwhelmed, so they are both now used as doorstops, as it is all they are fit for. Her works will never be literary greats, and she will go the way of Gladys Mitchell rather than Agatha Christie, I fervently hope. Reply #45. Oct 15 10, 11:48 AM |
REDVIKING57
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My 12-year-old daughter loves the Twilight books - don't get it myself. Or this current fixation with vampires,either. 'Done to Death' - IMO. :)) Only one 'Vampire' book worth reading - also IMO! Reply #46. Oct 15 10, 1:53 PM |
| Cymruambyth
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RV, I take it that you are referring to 'Dracula'. I read Bram Stoker's classic when I was 13, and had to sleep with the light on for a couple of years after that! Reply #47. Oct 15 10, 3:53 PM |
H0lyAerith
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It's definitely true that there are many "filler" books that come out. Some of the more prolific authors seem to be publishing just for the sake of it. After do many novels, they've just run out of ideas. Reply #48. Oct 16 10, 8:19 AM |
| REDVIKING57
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Cym,yes. It is indeed Stoker's classic I'm refering to. We visited Whitby in August,and I bought my daughter a nice little leather bound copy of 'Dracula' from the Whitby Abbey souvenir shop. So far,I'm very disappointed she hasn't read it yet. :(( Hopefully,as she grows up,she will start choosing classics over pulp. Reply #49. Oct 16 10, 8:47 AM |
| Cymruambyth
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Don't panic, RV. I think we've all read our share of brain candy books, along with better writers, and maybe that's how we learn to distinguish the good writing from the bad. Reply #50. Oct 16 10, 10:23 AM |
Hineboxing
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I can't speak for others here, but I myself could never write a book, so I have to admire those who can, whether it's "real" literature or not. Reply #51. Oct 17 10, 7:53 AM |
supersal1
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Sometimes 'literature' is a tad boring to read though. Much as I dislike Twilight, I'd sooner re-read that than Stoker's 'Dracula'. Reply #52. Oct 17 10, 9:32 AM |
| H0lyAerith
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This is a series that panders to a specific demographic. Whenever the next movie comes out there will be a surge of renewed interest in it and then it will fade into the background. I hope that we will only have to endure one more Twilight tsunami before everything settles down. Reply #53. Nov 23 10, 4:25 PM |
ozfei
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If you don't like something, you don't have to read it. Never read a Twilight book or watched a Twilight movie. Vampires do NOT go out in the daylight LOL Reply #54. Nov 24 10, 5:18 AM |
| H0lyAerith
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Exactly, you have the choice of not reading and/or watching anything you don't want to. It's just that with the easy way informtion can be spread and the intrusiveness of ads sometimes you have these things you don't like or care about shoved in your face. Reply #55. Nov 25 10, 12:41 PM |
| ozfei
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On the other hand, sometimes ads/reviews let you know about something that would be of interest. It is really up to the individual to filter out what doesn't interest them. Each to their own :) Reply #56. Nov 26 10, 5:29 AM |
squidgybop
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I used to but not anymore Reply #57. May 24 11, 1:34 PM |
Jazmee27
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I liked the series OK-until I finished it. Now, I don't have any of the books, and only part of that's due to how much room they take up. My opinion: apart from the second, which is more annoying than anything else, they're not bad, but as far as re-reading, forget it. Reply #58. Aug 16 11, 3:55 PM |
honeybee4
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I feel like OZFEI, to each his own. I have read some classics with passion and others, to me, are a waste of time. I do like Steven King, but not the Twilight Series. I don't care if a book is well known or something off the shelf, if it doesn't catch my attention right away, I will abandon it. Reply #59. Aug 16 11, 4:34 PM |
bloodandsand
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I didn't mind the series. Not classic literature, true, but anything that encourages the "younger" generation to read is fine by me. I hope that doesn't sound condescending, it isn't meant to be - it's just that, as a teacher, I am aware of how few young people I teach read for pleasure. Reply #60. Aug 17 11, 10:17 AM |
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