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I still don't get this. When Twilight came out, a relative gave it to my daughter and I read it. While adolescent-ish, it wasn't as bad as all that. It was meh. The woman did get a four-movie deal out of it. (And "Host", too, which was "not bad" but still not "legendarily bad".) I think a lot of it is envy, to be honest. Which of us has a film deal?Cambo wrote:I especially like the blunt "Dogshit" by Stephanie Meyer.
The list creator overextended his irony/sarcasm muscles, trying to layer in another level of pun by including in the countdown some that are fantasy classics...and some that are classics only in some folks fantasies.deer of the dawn wrote: It did make me chuckle, but panning Twilight is kind of meh anyway. It s too easy. (AND, what's it doing in a list of "Fantasy Classics"?????)
A lot of my personal beef with Twilight- and I know I am not alone in this- is not that it's just poorly written, but that it's flat out disturbing. For a while it had hordes of adolescents and middle aged women idolising a relationship that was unhealthy and borderline abusive in many ways.deer of the dawn wrote:I still don't get this. When Twilight came out, a relative gave it to my daughter and I read it. While adolescent-ish, it wasn't as bad as all that. It was meh. The woman did get a four-movie deal out of it. (And "Host", too, which was "not bad" but still not "legendarily bad".) I think a lot of it is envy, to be honest. Which of us has a film deal?Cambo wrote:I especially like the blunt "Dogshit" by Stephanie Meyer.
It did make me chuckle, but panning Twilight is kind of meh anyway. It s too easy. (AND, what's it doing in a list of "Fantasy Classics"?????)
Now I will truly never read Twilight.Cambo wrote:A lot of my personal beef with Twilight- and I know I am not alone in this- is not that it's just poorly written, but that it's flat out disturbing. For a while it had hordes of adolescents and middle aged women idolising a relationship that was unhealthy and borderline abusive in many ways.deer of the dawn wrote:I still don't get this. When Twilight came out, a relative gave it to my daughter and I read it. While adolescent-ish, it wasn't as bad as all that. It was meh. The woman did get a four-movie deal out of it. (And "Host", too, which was "not bad" but still not "legendarily bad".) I think a lot of it is envy, to be honest. Which of us has a film deal?Cambo wrote:I especially like the blunt "Dogshit" by Stephanie Meyer.
It did make me chuckle, but panning Twilight is kind of meh anyway. It s too easy. (AND, what's it doing in a list of "Fantasy Classics"?????)
As for the wider meme-like Twilight hate, it's similar to why people love to hate on Nickelback: it's a hugely popular and inescapable phenomenon with no justification in terms of quality.
Good one.Cambo wrote:Malazan Book of Who's This Guy Again?
I've got to read this series someday, just for the challenge of trying to figure out what the h#ll is going on.I did this a few years ago, and I seriously regretted it.deer of the dawn wrote:I re-read the first three or four Dragonriders of Pern a few years ago.
