I am sick and tired of people talking about The Twilight series as if it the Jesus Christ of modern fiction. FICTION not Literature. Literature is an earned title, one which a work should receive only when the quality of writing is exceptional and not the quantity of readers.
This book is OK at best. One that I started reading thinking that it was "Anne Rice For Dummies" but once I had finished this horrible excuse for a novel (because it is no way novel in and of itself) I found myself thinking of it more as the "Epitome of Every Thing I Hated About High School". It is a tacky, pseudo-intellectual, poorly edited piece of overrated, underwhelming crap that has managed to obtain a following of desperate to be loved lemmings wanting so badly to believe that the are a "Bella" in hopes that someone someday will love them as much as they hate themselves and take them away into a world of immortal bliss. Guess what kids? IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN! Well not unless you put down the fucking book and go out there and look for it. Sorry to murder your dream that "Edward" may sweep you off your feet but it's not going to happen that way. And honest would you want it to? Think about it seriously for a minute. Would you really want someone who inexplicably loves you and was only even attracted to you because he wanted to eat you in the least sexual or satisfying way? Or would you rather have someone who feels a deep connection to you because of common ground and is sane enough to do what he knows is right and not say one thing and do another over and over again in every goddamn book until any and all promises are meaningless because you are a douche bag who convinces him to laps in his judgement and he is a dumb ass for letting you.
Which brings me to my next point on why this trite story is nowhere near worth the praise it is getting. There is hardly any character development. This series should get an award for managing to have 4 several hundred paged books told in first person and still have little to no character development. Every player in this work is either ridiculously flat or recockulously static. The total an utter inconsistency is more annoying than words can possibly describe. The authors missuse of words makes me think that she sat there with a thesaurus so she wouldn't have to use the same word over and over again making her sound both repetitive and stupid. Her lack of proper grammar in a formal, published work and structural errors pisses me off to no end. And finally, the moment where she tries to talk about what she does not know and fails miserably. Namely, when she brought the genetic question during the forth book- which was completely unnecessary - without doing the proper research to back it up. Her chromosome explanation for the different species is completely nonsensical. And besides the fact that there are several legends of half vampires called dhampires with the situation she provides, there is no way that her half vampires can reproduce which conflicts with the werewolf imprinting theory she presents.
Now I must close off this rant. Just know that there is not enough time and not enough words to adequately states my loath for this mediocre pop culture obsession for which parts of the left brain must either be missing or removed to true appreciate.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
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