Bella is a Weird Marble Fetishist! (Twilight)

[Bastian]

A hilarious and well written critique of Twilight by two friends chatting back and forth on NPR's site in three parts (so far).

The first part can be found at:
The Writing Style Of 'Twilight': We Kick Off The 'I Will If You Will' Book Club - Monkey See Blog : NPR

My favorite bit:

Marc: Right. And as for the little mocking I did there of Meyer's previously-discussed tendency to pick the bluntest, least-interesting analogy, allow me to quote the following, from page 190:

"I quickly rubbed my hand across my cheek, and sure enough, traitor tears were there, betraying me."

That's like saying, "I took a bite, taking some of the food in my mouth." Who writes like that? Who edits and leaves that in?

Linda: TRAITOR TEARS! You know what traitors do? They betray you.
Marc: Right. That's why you call them traitor tears. YOU DON'T HAVE TO EXPLAIN THAT THAT THEREFORE MEANS THEY BETRAY YOU. Somebody's stupid here, and I think she thinks it's me. (Also: "traitor tears" is walking the line as it is.)

What do you think? Apt? Or did they insult your favorite book that you've re-read 27 times?

EDIT:
Here are the four articles:

Article One
Article Two
Article Three
Article Four