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[bantha_fodder]

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

Random Twilightishness here

Plotbunny Dogpile, hosted by trollprincess

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.

Comments

[hobviously.livejournal.com]

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.

[bantha-fodder.livejournal.com]

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.