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Stephanie Meyer, Twlight Series
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Colleen
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Dec 04, 2011 08:02PM
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If there's one thing we should all now by now, it is to never try to have a logical discussion with the highly emotional Twilight crowd. :)Those girls will eat you alive.
In my experience, it's actually the anti-Twilight crowd who will eat you alive and get very ugly. I tried to moderate once, and learned my lesson the hard way.
I agree the series was not great. However I wasn't reading any romance let alone PNR at that time. Twilight was what I began with and liked it enough to find more series. At which time it became overwhelmingly obvious how HORRIBLE the writing is. That is the real problem with those books...the author.
I loved Twilight but I'm not one of those over zealous fans who will fight about it. If you like it great. If not that's fine too. I just loved the simplicity of the story, how the characters related to each other. That was the first young adult series I had read and it made me want to read other young adult books.
I liked twilight when I read them. I read the entire series because I liked the story that much, but I wouldn't say they were exceptionally well written.
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I only made it through the first book, and it was a bit of a slog. The writing was awful, and I won't go on about how much I disliked the heroine. My older son had a great time doing an alternate ending for his English class that year. (Bella dies at the hands of the evil vampire, and Edward finally finds a way to kill himself in his grief. Plus it was well written.)I do read some junky stuff, so I'm not going to criticize people who enjoyed the series. It amazes me that it's been so huge though.
I think it's popular because it's mindless. That's why I enjoyed reading it.
