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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

[storydivagirl.livejournal.com]

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!

[bantha-fodder.livejournal.com]

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.

[storydivagirl.livejournal.com]

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.