Hasn't anyone ever told you? Life isn't fair.

[summer_skin]

I have such a love/hate relationship with Twilight. When I first read the start of the series I was all over it. It was like I was 14 again. And that's who it's aimed at, so you know.

Then the rest of the books came and I was thinking, well, okay. I'll keep going and see what happens. By the last book I was gritting my teeth and saying, OKAY S.MEY. TIME TO MAN UP. DON'T MAKE ME REGRET THE TIME I SPENT READING THE FIRST THREE, MMKAY?

I'll buy the movie because I love to hate it and it has Sparklepires in it. I had an awesome time watching it in the theatre with my bffs. I've already made plans to attend New Moon when it comes out and I'm watching the casting news and prep work for the next two spans of filming because goddamn is the Twifandom fun. pipry32 YOU HAVE TO KEEP WATCH ON WHAT'S GOING DOWN OVER THERE!

The RPF is fun to write, too. RPatzz and Kstew pretty much write it themselves and probably feel deep shame over that. More ammunition!

But finally. FINALLY. Someone has come out and said what a fuckload of people have been waiting for. Thank you, Stephen King.

Comments

[lepapillon.livejournal.com]

So True Stephen King, so true.

[girlfmkitty.livejournal.com]

The man may tend to have diarrhea in his word processor at times, but what he said is totally true. I *abhor* Twilight with a passion best aimed at other things. And that's why I &hearts my icon. *points*

[becassine.livejournal.com]

I saw this earlier and laughed so hard. It's so true, I barely got through Twilight with the sparkles and over-description.

[girlmostlikely.livejournal.com]

I was thinking, well, okay. I'll keep going and see what happens. By the last book I was gritting my teeth and saying, OKAY S.MEY. TIME TO MAN UP. DON'T MAKE ME REGRET THE TIME I SPENT READING THE FIRST THREE, MMKAY?

What is it about vampire series? They usually start out awesome, and then somehow get way too weird/overblown/big for their own boots.

Case in point: Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series, and (of course), Anne freakin' Rice. *SIGH*

[summer-skin.livejournal.com]

ANITA BLAKE. GOOD LORD. I started that series, too. And then when Anita became a super whore spiritual leaders/pard whateverthefuck I punched my card for the end of the shift.

Twilight started out bad but it had enough triggers for me to remember what it was like to be in love with a dreamy guy that I didn't care. Now it's both amazing and frustrating to see everyone else fall in love with it now that the movie's out. Someone in my office started reading the first book and I could barely stop myself from telling her to run. Which I don't want to do because I don't want to ruin it for other people, if they truly like it, but if they do and think it's GOOD... I JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT'S THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS!

I'm like Edward, torn between Bella and being PROPER. *sparkle!emo*

[girlmostlikely.livejournal.com]

I really wish LKH had stuck to the earlier themes in the series; the vampire hunting, and Anita's animator powers. That shit was always way more fascinating to me than vampire/werewolf nookie. Bloody Bones was the best of the series, when she was away from both Jean Claude AND Richard. *SIGH*

[summer-skin.livejournal.com]

I really liked Richard and then LKH broke up with her husband in RL and was like- I KNOW! I'll make Richard a total prick and drag him through that mud! THAT WILL SHOW MY HUSBAND! And then I'll introduce a character just like my new lover who gives me so much sex I have to make Anita share it with everyone ever. BUT. The males can never touch each other in a sexual way because that's wrong.

[girlmostlikely.livejournal.com]

I KNOW. HILARITY! Way to ruin your own book series, sweetheart!!

[quinn222.livejournal.com]

I gave up on the first one. It was so poorly written that I couldn't stand it.

[bitterbird.livejournal.com]

Stephen King so much ftw!

[gwyntastic.livejournal.com]

Man from the screaming over at wank report one might have thought he'd called her a talentless hack. He was pretty nice about how he called her a talentless hack.

[laceandgrace.livejournal.com]

Oh hell yes, Stephen King. Hell yes.

[miss-sarac.livejournal.com]

Twilight is my crack. I am ashamed, but I JUST CAN'T GET ENOUGH! :/

[starweather.livejournal.com]

Ugh, God. I read the first one I was like, hmm, yeah, okay, I have to gift wrap for three hours a day for the entire Christmas period so I might as well read them. And THEN I was like, "Oh God those are 1 hours of my life I'm never going to get back again."

It pisses me off that teenage girls think Twilight is the be-all, end-all. Because they never read stuff by authors like Stephen King or Patricia Cornwell or Terry Pratchett or Neil Gaiman or Tamora Pierce or even JK Rowling.

In short: GO STEPHEN KING.

[ozchique.livejournal.com]

Yay, Stephen King. It really is about time someone said what most people were already thinking.

To be honest though, I really, really enjoyed Twilight. Sure there were moments that I thought WTF? but there was enough to get me through. However, I despise the rest of the series. I wanted to throw the books out of the bus window more times than I can count. I got through, but I will never read them again.

[summerstorm.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed the first book a lot -- I felt the exact same way you mention. I was awfully engrossed -- most people were -- even though I realised how ridiculous it was, from a, you know, rational level, but it was so entertaining. And then the other books happened.

And then, last fall, people at my uni went all crazy over the books, and it is so depressing to see otherwise intelligent people falling over themselves because of these books. All four of them. Including Breaking Dawn. I can't describe how incredibly disappointed in humanity I felt that day. Because on the Internet, you can lie to yourself and think they're trolls, but in real life? D:

I'm not in the fandom, really, but I totally ship KStew/NReed. It's like RPattz has somehow lost his appeal in the midst of all that fangirling. Sigh. I miss Cedric.

[angelicblues.livejournal.com]

your icon is all kinds of awesome. Yes - fourth book does not exist in my eyes. HATED IT. HATE HATE HATE. SMEYER went crazy and decided the fan fiction route was the way to go. I'll buy the movie on dvd and go see NM and Eclipse. I refuse to see BD. I'm staying away from the fandom ATM - they were way out of control there for a while and drove me nuts.

LOVED the Stephen King article. Rock on :D My boss read the books and is like Sare! Kids do NOT talk like that. WTF. I told her to ignore it and its in Smeyer's head. o.O Got to love that I have a 55 yr old reading Twilight. LOL!

[bubl.livejournal.com]

Me too. I love hating it, and hate kind of loving it.

And I just accidentally read the first twelve pages of Midnight Sun. Whoops?

Oh Stephen King, <3

[amused-angel.livejournal.com]

Your icon wins at life. :)