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 Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 10:21 am
As one of the few mods who reads these actual novel threads (makes note to chastise Shadowdragon and the rest of the crew), I'm going to voice something that should've been taken care of a few posts back.
Hate the novel, that's fine, cool, its your choice to hate something you don't like. However, some of you are a little misguided seeing as you only hate it because its cliche and is this past years flavour of choice. Might I give a bit of ethical advice: You can't dislike or hate something if you've never experienced it.
Feel free to disagree, but you'll still be wrong, you aren't actually hating the book, your hating its popularity, you're hating Meyer because she found an abundantly large niche that wanted something (Twilight) to read. You don't hate the book because as most of you have claimed, you haven't read it. Its profoundly ignorant of the members of a "book" guild to not like a book they haven't even picked up.
My main point is, and I'm putting my outrageously large Moderator foot down here, stop bashing the fan base. Hate the book, fine, hate Meyer, fine, but don't knock the fan base. Its gone on long enough and I'm tired of it, why do you hate the fan base anyway? Because they actively read popular books? Because they don't read the books you all like? How do you even know they haven't read them? What are you so mad about when it comes to the fans? Without fans, there's no one to write for. Like Rowlings, Meyer found a niche, get over it. The next person who flames on the fan base of the Twilight series is getting a temporary ban on their guild membership.
I'd also like to point out how arrogant some of you sound by claiming that you don't read popular books. So what? Everyone chooses what they want to read, that doesn't make any of you special, nor does it put any of you on a pedestal because you read more or less forgotten or unknown authors.
Anyway, continue harping.
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Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 11:42 pm
... Thank you, Great Lion. Thank you.
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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 1:18 pm
I really liked the first book and I haven't read the other books yet. My sister though, thought that the first book was ok, she liked the fantasy/vampiric elements of the story. She couldn't astand the contradiction that the author did in the second book and said it was the only reason that Stephanie Meyer was able to continue the series. I just hope theat it won't dissapoint me as much as it did her.
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