Bella is a Weird Marble Fetishist! (Twilight)

[NorthernChaosGod]

These articles pretty much sum up my feelings about those books. The fandom is also pretty crazy, from what I've seen. I think my favorite part was when, in an interview, Stephen King gave Ms. Meyer some (well-meaning and constructive) criticism, and the fandom decided he was jealous of her success.

Let me say that again.

Stephen King, a writer who has consistently been on best seller lists practically since his first book was published in the 70s, is jealous of a writer who has only been popular for the past 3 years or so.

Head, meet desk.

I remember hearing about that, it was pretty ridiculous. King is clearly a much better writer.

[Pheesh]

These articles pretty much sum up my feelings about those books. The fandom is also pretty crazy, from what I've seen. I think my favorite part was when, in an interview, Stephen King gave Ms. Meyer some (well-meaning and constructive) criticism, and the fandom decided he was jealous of her success.

Let me say that again.

Stephen King, a writer who has consistently been on best seller lists practically since his first book was published in the 70s, is jealous of a writer who has only been popular for the past 3 years or so.

Head, meet desk.

I remember hearing about that, it was pretty ridiculous. King is clearly a much better writer.

The two shouldn't even be compared in the same sentence.

[Freya]

He said she can't "Write worth a darn."

[Bastian]

There are two more articles when you're done. I'm in the midst of the third one and . . . now I'm livid at Meyers. What she wrote is so dangerous on so many levels. She tells girls to only fall for guys that treat them poorly and that if they reject said guy, it's their fault for any terrible thing said guy eventually does. Yikes.

This isn't Meyers' doing, it's pretty much any and all mainstream media outlets for years.

To a degree, yes. However, usually it's less blatant. In Twilight we have a story where the main character has nearly no heroic qualities except that it's job to keep a potential serial killer in check by LOVING him . . . a guy who stalks her and sneaks into her room to watch her sleep and treats her terribly . . . and if she doesn't do a good enough job then it's on her head when he goes on a murdering spree. That's beyond smurfed up.

[BG-57]

Whatever qualities she has as a writer (I've only seen the movies, but I'm guessing they are faithful to the books), she does have a genuine knack of tapping into the psyche of codependent personality.

That's nothing new. But although the stories echo Wuthering Heights, Bronte wasn't advocating that Catherine should have run off with Healthcliff. In fact, their relationship destroyed both of them. So it's no so much the subject matter but the author's attitude toward the subject that bothers me the most.

[Freya]

Guess what ladies! A new twilight book is gonna come out!

I have a new book coming out. It's called The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner.

Set in the twilight world!

[Bunny]

I read an article about that new book and how Stephanie Meyer is a horror writer.