Okay, so after recommending that this tasty indulgence be sampled in moderation, I've gone and read 430 pages of it in a day. Too much? Yes.I bought the first book in the Twilight series to read while travelling yesterday. For a book about vampires, there is suprisingly little action. Maybe 70 pages at the end. The rest of the book is dribble with the two main characters stating and re-stating how they feel about eachother. It was a tiresome read, amazingly like a M&B novel. The movie (which I enjoyed) took the best 10 lines of dialogue and scrapped the rest. A shame that Meyer's editors couldn't have done the same before publication.
So, is it a damaging book? Dangerous for women? Girl porn?
Yeah, maybe*. Especially if the bad writing doesn't get on your nerves. For me, the style emptied the romance of its potency. Any love affair expressed like that seems a farce. Less is more.
* more on this in future post
Not sure if you read Karen's blog but she had what she calls word vomit (from Mean Girls) about Twilight when she powered through the entire series in a short space of time. Interesting posts - there are links to the whole series here.
ReplyDeleteI've avoided the books myself, mainly because the sample of writing I read was terrible, but also because I know it would have totally sucked me in as a teenager! (I quite enjoyed the movie too)
wow! thanks. I missed all that.
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