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HOW EMBARRASSMENT: A Twilight friending meme here (Piecesof and I are on page four)

Random Twilightishness here

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Hilarious capping of THAT SCENE from Island of the Haunted by Piecesof.

And now: some thoughts on Twilight and New Moon, by Stephenie Meyer

I just finished New Moon, and I have to say that I'm currently finding Bella an incredibly unsympathetic narrator. It took me some time to warm to her when I started Twilight on the weekend, though I'm willing to dismiss that as distraction on my part as I was at the con at the time. By the end of the novel I was eagerly speeding through, desperate to see what happened next, and to see more of Carlisle and Alice, especially, who shortly after my introduction to them became my favourite characters.

As I was reading, I acknowledged that it was just terrible teen vampire fluff, and worse it's in first person, but Piecesof suggests that's perhaps why it's so readable. Regardless, it was quite readable, and I look forward to lending Twilight to my sister.

The general fandom love of Edward Cullen is unfathomable. Well, perhaps not wholly so. When he appears so suddenly in Twilight, his head clear in the crowd or when he glows in the sunlight, then he is beautiful; and when he appears in Port Angeles and growls at Bella to get into his car, my heart leapt in a very unbecoming and embarrassing fashion. But by New Moon's end I cannot see him as anything but selfish, and a moron; I am finding Bella, as previously mentioned, equally unsympathetic. I feel that if she'd only had a sassy friend to shake her and say, for fuck's sake, that perhaps Bella wouldn't be having such a problem right now, trying to decide between her friendship with Jake, the moron, and her relationship with Edward, the selfish arse. Alice could perhaps be such a foil, with her, Honestly, I think it's all gotten beyond ridiculous. I bet Alice and Edward have the best fights.

I think I might love Jane, though, of the Volturi, and her twin. This might possibly be because they're twins.

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LOL FORKS-VERSE.

IAWTP. I love Edward for what he is - a teen fantasy, appealing to the deepest, darkest sixteen year old desires, and the want to have someone so amazing find you and only you special - but I don't get the whole "EDWARD CULLEN!!!!" thing.

CARLISLE CULLEN!!!!

UM HI LJ, TOTES POST MY COMMENT BEFORE I'M FINISHED

As I was saying...

Carlisle obviously has A PAST, and I took the scene in his den where he "convieniently" had to go to the hospital when Edward asked him to tell his story. So deep! So dark! So dreamy...I mean, a wonderfully written character with potential arc?

I'm talking Pretender/Forks-verse crossover. Jarod is a mountie/doctor/policeman in Forks...

Pretender/Forks crossover would be awesome. But first we have to finish THE THING. YOU KNOW OF WHAT I SPEAK.

THAT NOW HAS A TITLE.

LIKE A PROPER...THING.

wait, what is this 'iawtp' thingy?

BUT CARLISLE

I AGREE WITH THIS POST.

AND CARLISLE.

Dear pen, please talk to me about this Twilight thingummy! I had never heard of it until about a week and a half ago and suddenly it is ALL OVER livejournal and now px! What next, I say? What is the deal with these books, and should I read them? PLS ADVISE.

Twilight is about a girl who moves to a small town and falls in love with a vampire. It is a teen vampire romance novel with some adventuring thrown in. It is written in first person. Usually I would hate all of these things, but actually I really enjoyed the first book! Its sequel, not so much, I kept wanting to shake the narrator but the first book was pretty awesome.

SO I GUESS I DON'T KNOW. I think you will like it.

Speaking of friending memes, has anyone ever done a Pretender friending meme? (And if no one ever has, someone should.)

I AM CONSIDERING THIS RIGHT NOW.

I have yet to be able to find decent fanfic for this fandom and it saddens me as I *love* these books. I'm fonder of Twilight than New Moon mostly because I have issues with Bella and Edward in the second book and I truly do love them. But honestly, bella was all too willing to take Edward back, without making him earn it or making him quite aware that he doesn't get to play daddy/protector and decide what's best for her. That just drives me nuts in these books. And I'm hoping it's more a case of her being written this way as she's still a teenager, learning about herself, rather than her just being a push-over for Edward.

But seriously, I love these books. They are addictive. And every single person I've had read them gets addicted too.

Oh, and if you find good fic, let me know!

That is totally my problem with New Moon, that she was so pathetic and took him back just like that. And I know their connection is supposed to be like a drug, addictive and all-encompasing but SERIOUSLY.

This is also why I think it's supposed to be a metaphor for teen love.

This is also why I think it's supposed to be a metaphor for teen love.</I. Yeah, that would make it more understandable because really, I think in the first book Bella is stronger in certain ways until she falls for Edward and it just got so annoying in book two...like when she was doing all the dangerous stuff.

except now the downside is, the warehouse keep sending replacements and now there's about 50 copies each of Twilight and New Moon in the back room. Which is a tad excessive. I mean, by now, all the YA population in Southern California would have read it or borrowed it from their best girl friends. I wonder if they will make them into movies.

I have not yet read them, because I am tired of vampires (how is this possible?), and really, someone needs to write a story with a unicorn in it, and not make it all twee and virgin-hunting.

I can't even imagine a unicorn book that is awesome. I wish there could be one, but I can't even believe in its possible existence.

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