You are very very wise, Miss Tae. *respect* You make many excellent points too often brushed over by the rabid fans/haters. The real thing I always think about Twilight--Meyer found her audience, and wrote to them. Twilight is really nothing more than a perfect teen vampire romance, playing every trope straight and every cliche fully, and consequently, it comes out hideously boring. Every time I read the books, I always feel myself struck by the extraordinary dullness of it all--characters say they're devoted or in love, but I don't feel like they actually care at all. She tries to create tension or an epic battle, but I was really rather bored. As you said, the book can really just be summed up as "meh." I look at Twilight and see one giant cliche. As one other reviewer mentioned, this is purely a review of Twilight, and there ARE other issues in the third and fourth books that make me want to smack Meyer in the face for teaching us that these things are romantic and not creepy, but that is another debate entirely. And now I've gone wholly off-topic. All in all, you wrote a lovely review--and I'm sorry your computer crashed on you, that must've sucked--and your opinions are always, always fun to hear. Thanks, Miss Tae!
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Date: 2010-07-31 11:43 pm (UTC)From:You make many excellent points too often brushed over by the rabid fans/haters. The real thing I always think about Twilight--Meyer found her audience, and wrote to them. Twilight is really nothing more than a perfect teen vampire romance, playing every trope straight and every cliche fully, and consequently, it comes out hideously boring. Every time I read the books, I always feel myself struck by the extraordinary dullness of it all--characters say they're devoted or in love, but I don't feel like they actually care at all. She tries to create tension or an epic battle, but I was really rather bored. As you said, the book can really just be summed up as "meh." I look at Twilight and see one giant cliche.
As one other reviewer mentioned, this is purely a review of Twilight, and there ARE other issues in the third and fourth books that make me want to smack Meyer in the face for teaching us that these things are romantic and not creepy, but that is another debate entirely.
And now I've gone wholly off-topic. All in all, you wrote a lovely review--and I'm sorry your computer crashed on you, that must've sucked--and your opinions are always, always fun to hear. Thanks, Miss Tae!