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Because Twilight is Awesome

In Musings on April 3, 2009 at 4:37 pm
I love Twilight, or at least the books, and I certainly am the first to admit they are not works of great fiction. They are not Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, but I am also the first to admit that I love the books as well. So in that spirit, please enjoy this hilarious parody!
 (thank for sharing Lisa!)

*spoilers* and spoilsports

In Musings on July 31, 2008 at 4:16 pm

So I have found chapters 1-14, Of course I have not read pages 274-275 as they were glued together by the dolt who scanned the pages. Do I think it’s all an elaborate hoax? No, not at all. Really, people have a ton of time on their hands, but no one has THAT much time. And these books aren’t THAT important to society.  I guess I have to wait till Saturday to pick up my book to get the rest– but I did pass along the first 14 chapters as any dutiful friend would :) what those people did with the links, I can only assume.

So at the risk of spoiling anyone who plans on reading the book here I go:

It’s EXACTLY what I expected. Ok to be fair, I didn’t expect it to be this CHEESY, but yes I did expect it to be cheesy. It has officially gone to the land of girly porn as my hubby loves to call it. It’s not really girly porn, but MAN does it get close. I’m not really into the whole mushy, hold me and look into my eyes forever stuff… ugh.. gag. This book is SOOO full of the lovey dovey stuff it sickens me.  I am kind of surprised at the adultness of it all, being that these books are supposed to be for teenage girls (what I never said I wasn’t immature enough to read this stuff).

Overall, I thought it was a bit amateurish to be honest. Yes I laughed at certain scenes – Jake seriously cracks me up. I rolled my eyes at other silly inserts by Stephanie. I could just see her sitting at her desk laughing to herself smugly at what a funny writer she thinks she is.  She quoted the Simpsons! And she snuck in a blonde joke. And she mentioned Idaho!  I kinda feel like while writing this book she had a list of “fan requests” that she tried to sneak into the book, you know, ”peep call outs.”  Like fit ”chain link fence” into your talk in church on Sunday, kind of stuff.

My bro calls it mass marketed fan fiction, and that is really what it is. I think this book, more so than the others, really begins to clearly mark itself as such.   Overall, I guess I’m still picking up the book, but I am a bit dissapointed that Stephanie wasn’t able to really show herself to be an outstanding author, but has, as most LDS authors before her in my book, gone the way to cheesy overwritten girl crap.  Oh well, maybe this is all fake and none of what is on the net is true. . . thought I REALLY believed that Stephanie was going to try and get Bella pregnant by SOMEONE.. ANYONE in this book, and well from what’s out there, she played right into my prediction, like the hack writer that she is.

sneek peek. . . yes I’m almost 30!

In Musings on May 31, 2008 at 10:15 am

Oh joyous day. More midnight reading under the covers to soon arrive.

Here’s a sneek peak at the first chapter of Stephanie Meyer’s new book.

*edit* the link doesn’t work anymore due to copyright.  Good thing I have it now on my own :)