One of the reasons I chose the task of reading all the Twilight books was because there were only four of them. I thought that was it. I thought it was like Harry Potter and you just know when to say when and that it was over and done and I would never have to revisit that world again. Well, if I am lucky, I won't have to. Probably because I don't really care about these things, but it seems the author responsible for the books, Stephenie Meyer refuses to write anymore of the 5th book in the series which was to be called Midnight Sun. Somehow, someone posted large portions of the unfinished manuscript online and so now she refuses to write another word about Twilight until she gets paid more. No, it wouldn't be that would it? If you want to read it, she has now posted the same material that was leaked, on her own website. I have to warn you it hasn't been edited and so probably has more cheese than a cheese lovers pizza at Pizza Hut.
Meanwhile she is going to write a totally different book that no one will buy because, honestly, she isn't that great of a writer. She should stick to teenage love and vampires. I for one though would be ok if she never wrote anymore books in the series. I have a feeling though she is going to keep churning them out year after year and won't stop. Great if you have teenage girls to buy presents for. Bad for everyone else.
i wish Twilight would just go away...and Harry Potter
ReplyDeleteI have coworkers who are obsessed with these books, and these are women who have to sound out the words to read the lyrics on a Paris Hilton cd.
ReplyDeleteSo I have been avoiding the books for fear of ruining my reputation as a person that thinks--but this is ridiculous! What connection does the leak have to do with the writing? Somebody's confused financial success with--what?---their creative spark? Or is she just as shallow as her books make her seem?
i tried twice to read Twilight, both times i felt like i was reading a high schooler's work.
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Harry Potter on the other hand...i loved.
Oh enty, this is old news. She posted a bitchy little hissy fit letter on her website back in August about hew betrayed she felt. I guess she shouldn't have passed the manuscript out to all of her friends and many Twilight movie people.
ReplyDeleteDidn't this happen months ago? I read the whole series, even the 5th book online. I know they were aimed at teenagers, but I liked the series...nothing like a mindless read every once in awhile.
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ReplyDeleteNo one better say a bad word against HP or I'll...I'll...do sumpthin' alright.
ReplyDelete*pictures enty in parent's basement, eating, reading twilight, eating...*
ReplyDeleteI'm with you Sue Ellen. Love HP.
ReplyDeleteAT LEAST J.K. ROWLING SEEMS LIKE A DECENT PERSON....THE SAME CANNOT BE SAID FOR STEPHENIE MEYER..PLEASE GO AWAY, YES !
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ReplyDeleteSorry = my first comment had a spelling mistake and I'm anal like that.
ReplyDeleteJax - I had the exact same thought! I read the first few chapters of one of them ( i honestly couldn't tell you which one) as my cousin is always going on about it. And my first thought was WTF? How did this crap get published! I totally thought this 'stephanie meyer' was gonna be some 17 year old precocious goth chick.
I started reading Twilight to see what all the fuss is about. It really isn't written well.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad I'm not the only one who doesn't understand the whole Twilight craze however I remember loving Dark Shadows (telling my age) when I was a child. Maybe this is the updated, sexier, teen version of Dark Shadows, Creature Features etc.
ReplyDeleteI read the first book that was more than enough for me. I am even surprise I read the whole thing hehe. Anyway it was too much lovey-dovey for kids. I even boycotted the movie.
ReplyDeletethey are all terribly written but i have to say i read the leaked part of midnight sun and it was actually good...it was eloquent, in fact, because it was written from edward's pov and he is from the early 1900's so his language and thinking is beautiful...i was shocked at how much better it was than her other books...i really hate her though...breaking down made me physically ill
ReplyDeleteOK, full disclaimer: I read all the HP books and loved them.
ReplyDeleteSo i decided to read the Twilight books, too, hoping they were in the same sort of a vein.
Not so much. The writing is juvenile and derivative, and the stories don't go anywhere. But I also love a good pop culture story.
The rumor on the interwebs i that she provided a copy of the new manuscript to RPattz to help him with character study on the movie. Midnight Sun is not new material, it is only rehashed story told from Edwards "perspective". This is the one that is rumored to have been released.
Hey anyone want to brainstorm with me and come up with a crap idea like Twilight? I write, we collaborate on the idea? Female authors are the "big" thing right now and I'm in the mood to fuck over the entire literary world by making millions off of bullshit escapist high school daydreams.
ReplyDeleteok, maybe i was to hard on JK Rowling and Harry Potter, accept my apologies =) they were very well written and interesting books. i am just ashamed that i enjoyed "kids" books so much...hahaha. but the Twilight stuff is still crap. i live about 70 miles from where the books are based and i don't get the romantic appeal of a smelly little dead logging town. the woods are gorgeous, though
ReplyDeleteOK NOT ALL TEENAGE GIRLS LOVE TWILIGHT.
ReplyDeleteHARRY POTTER FOREVER.
i read couldn't even get through the 2nd one. it is such a bad series. i think that woman is pathetic, its obvious she wants to be bella.
There is no actual sex in any of the books.....She's a Morman, and the characters are chaste...
ReplyDeleteWhich lets you know right there that this is a fantasy.....
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ReplyDeleteShazz...there is head-board breaking sex in the 4th book...of course you don't get all the details...but that's how she ends up having a baby. I'm not worried about ruining it for any of you cuz I know ya'll aren't reading the books! lol
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ReplyDeleteUgh, Twilight. Let me tell you, if you want to read a *GOOD* vampire series that's actually intelligent and well-written, try Jemiah Jefferson's Voice of the Blood and its sequels. It makes me sick that she's still relatively unknown, while crap like this takes off.
ReplyDeleteShazzzba really no sex? Then why are all of the teens so enthusiastic about the Twilight series?
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ReplyDeleteMyrlin - another Vampire series that is REALLY good is the Black Dagger Brotherhood series by J.R. Ward. Will make an effort now to check out Jemiah Jefferson - thanks for the tip!
Wow, that photo of Stephenie Meyer is retouched within inches of its life. I haven't seen that much Gaussian blur since the last Madonna promo pic.
ReplyDeletei wonder if enty uses bacon as bookmarks?
ReplyDeleteokay, i read somewhere that these stupid "vampires" are supposed to be vegetarian. WTF? could somebody confirm this?
harry potter was a great series, i even enjoyed the movies. DD went to a midnight release party at barnes & noble for the last book and had a blast! one of the books was a bit of a drag because harry was a real bitch through the whole thing (puberty, i think), but the story was still good.
anyway, i'd never even heard of this twilight crap until i found out it was opening the same weekend as "bolt". so i'm boycotting, too.
so since i seem to be the only twilight reader to post...i'll fill you in bunny. they are "vegetarians" in the sense that they don't drink human blood...only animals. it's like a joke to them, but they don't want to be monsters, they try to blend in with humans. the father figure is a doctor at a hospital and he's the one that has instilled these morals (if vampires can have morals) on their family.
ReplyDeletesorry...i'll go back to my lonesome corner now =)
Well then the first "vegetarian" vampire is the one I love the most - Louis, from Interview with the Vampire. Love that character. Really resonated with me somehow.
ReplyDeletei read twilight too, i felt that everyone was kind of waiting around for another harry potter to fawn over and this piece of shit (twilight) fell into our laps. first one was okay. all the other ones were flimsy and lacked any backround on vampire lore/myth. i have read better vampire books in the junior high sections, at least some of those have some vamp facts in them. thanks for the info on the better vamp books, i'll check em out.
ReplyDeleteShakey - you are exactly on point! I read Twilight and I kept thinking that Edward (the main character in Twilight) was the teenage version of Louis (from Interview with a Vampire). SO many similarities.
ReplyDeleteI don't see anything wrong with Meyer. She was writing a book, disclosed it to Summit with the strictest confidence, and then was betrayed. I would be pissed off, too.
I also don't think that there is anything wrong with Meyer forcing Summit to hold the movie true to the book, and not letting Summit muck it up with their Hollywood garbage. I totally respect that. You may remember that Anne Rice did the same thing with Interview.
Speaking of Anne Rice, the vampires in her series couldn't have sex at all. They were impotent. At least in Meyer's series, the vampires can have sex, it is just a matter of the lead vampire character not wanting to break/hurt/kill the main human character by doing it.
muccimooch, I always thought the act of sucking was sex for them, that's why they didn't need the actual mechanics of sex.
ReplyDeletethank you, mexi.
ReplyDeleteand shakey, you are right. although, as for the sucking, the victim DOES get more out of it than the vampire, but you are also right on that point.
"interview" was such a fabulous book...