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Kennyheart on 26 December 2010
HappySqurriel said:

This seems like a very unusual opinion because most of the women I know who are actually avid readers and interested in reading literature have absolutely hated the Twilight series. Their core complaint seems to be that it is a harlequin romance novel that targets the immature romantic fantasies of teenage girls (and teenage girls at heart) that is wrapped in a facade of the vampire genre; while the author complete ignores all vampire lore, and hundreds of years of literary tradition about vampires.

Very true.



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PullusPardus on 26 December 2010

yeah i know!!!!! hao cn u compr an EPICCCCCCCCC!!!!!!!!!! like Twilight! Edward is soooooooooooooo cute!!!



sapphi_snake on 26 December 2010
HappySqurriel said:

This seems like a very unusual opinion because most of the women I know who are actually avid readers and interested in reading literature have absolutely hated the Twilight series. Their core complaint seems to be that it is a harlequin romance novel that targets the immature romantic fantasies of teenage girls (and teenage girls at heart) that is wrapped in a facade of the vampire genre; while the author complete ignores all vampire lore, and hundreds of years of literary tradition about vampires.

My male cousin's girlfriend is the literature buff. My female cousin likes pop literature, and she was the one who made the comment in my first post.



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Kennyheart on 26 December 2010
PullusPardus said:

yeah i know!!!!! hao cn u compr an EPICCCCCCCCC!!!!!!!!!! like Twilight! Edward is soooooooooooooo cute!!!



Edward is just some pale guy with big caterpiller eyebrows.



PullusPardus on 26 December 2010
Kennyheart said:
PullusPardus said:

yeah i know!!!!! hao cn u compr an EPICCCCCCCCC!!!!!!!!!! like Twilight! Edward is soooooooooooooo cute!!!



Edward is just some pale guy with big caterpiller eyebrows.


Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!! ur just jealous of his faggoty hair



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Kennyheart on 26 December 2010
PullusPardus said:
Kennyheart said:
PullusPardus said:

yeah i know!!!!! hao cn u compr an EPICCCCCCCCC!!!!!!!!!! like Twilight! Edward is soooooooooooooo cute!!!



Edward is just some pale guy with big caterpiller eyebrows.


Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!! ur just jealous of his faggoty hair

If I want to be like him all I got to do is play world of warcraft for 6 monmths in a basement and put body gliter on in the sun.

That's how you know this series suck.Vampires sparkle in the sun......FUCK YOU Stephine Meyer.



gergroy on 26 December 2010
HappySqurriel said:

This seems like a very unusual opinion because most of the women I know who are actually avid readers and interested in reading literature have absolutely hated the Twilight series. Their core complaint seems to be that it is a harlequin romance novel that targets the immature romantic fantasies of teenage girls (and teenage girls at heart) that is wrapped in a facade of the vampire genre; while the author complete ignores all vampire lore, and hundreds of years of literary tradition about vampires.


I know quite a few girls that are avid readers but for some reason can't get enough of the freaking twilight series.  Boggles my mind.  

In their defense though, they recognize that the books have no real literary merit, it's just a fantasy series that they can loose themselves in.  How they can do that, I don't know.  I read the books and absolutely hated them.  The characters are not organic in the least!



gergroy on 26 December 2010
PullusPardus said:
Kennyheart said:
PullusPardus said:

yeah i know!!!!! hao cn u compr an EPICCCCCCCCC!!!!!!!!!! like Twilight! Edward is soooooooooooooo cute!!!



Edward is just some pale guy with big caterpiller eyebrows.


Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!! ur just jealous of his faggoty hair

not cool bro, not cool at all



Kennyheart on 26 December 2010
gergroy said:
HappySqurriel said:

This seems like a very unusual opinion because most of the women I know who are actually avid readers and interested in reading literature have absolutely hated the Twilight series. Their core complaint seems to be that it is a harlequin romance novel that targets the immature romantic fantasies of teenage girls (and teenage girls at heart) that is wrapped in a facade of the vampire genre; while the author complete ignores all vampire lore, and hundreds of years of literary tradition about vampires.


I know quite a few girls that are avid readers but for some reason can't get enough of the freaking twilight series.  Boggles my mind.  

In their defense though, they recognize that the books have no real literary merit, it's just a fantasy series that they can loose themselves in.  How they can do that, I don't know.  I read the books and absolutely hated them.  The characters are not organic in the least!

I hope this series is one of those things that are really popular but in the next 5 years people are ashmed as being fans of it.

I hope twilight ends up like vanilla ice.It dies and we all act like it never happen.



rocketpig on 26 December 2010
HappySqurriel said:

This seems like a very unusual opinion because most of the women I know who are actually avid readers and interested in reading literature have absolutely hated the Twilight series. Their core complaint seems to be that it is a harlequin romance novel that targets the immature romantic fantasies of teenage girls (and teenage girls at heart) that is wrapped in a facade of the vampire genre; while the author complete ignores all vampire lore, and hundreds of years of literary tradition about vampires.

Yep, every woman I know who reads a lot absolutely hates Twilight, including my girlfriend, who reads all sorts of crap sci-fi and fantasy stuff. From what I've seen (read excerpts) and heard from people whose opinions on stuff doesn't suck, the books are all-around BAD. They're poorly written, the characters are ridiculous, and the storylines don't make much sense within the context of the world and characters.




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