However.
Ouch.
I kinda laughed at the review in a few places, but...ouch.
Quotes of note:
"Educators, readers and parents have all made much of the fact that the Twilight series promotes a wholesome version of teen love for its dreamy, predominantly female readership, citing how the books' protagonists practice abstinence (as opposed to, say, the lewd excesses of Harry Potter's cohort, or those out-of-control Pevensie kids)."
Um.
Lewd excess? I hope I'm right in reading that as hyperbole for effect. 'Cause I kinda remember Ginny having a couple of romances, and some talk about...Dean? Seamus? And, of course, there was some snogging, but none of the descriptions went past, well, snogging, which is what 16ish year olds do.
I student taught at a high school.
Trust me.
However, this cracked me up. Possibly because it's late and I'm tired and yet trying to get myself to write a little.
"It gets worse: Breaking Dawn has a childbirth sequence that may promote lifelong abstinence in sensitive types."
However, this cracked me up. Possibly because it's late and I'm tired and yet trying to get myself to write a little.
"It gets worse: Breaking Dawn has a childbirth sequence that may promote lifelong abstinence in sensitive types."
I feel kinda bad for the author, except that I've read some examples of the prose in the stories, and it reminds me of stories I wrote in high school that -- for a reason -- are no longer available on the Internet for your reading pleasure.
Which is not to say that I have the talent to become a published author, so I probably should shut up where I'm ahead.
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I can't read all of this post for some reason, parts of sentences on the right hand side have run away!
But, I've read the Twilight Series and I will say that Breaking Dawn sucked in my opinion. There was a totally different vibe to it, like Stephenie Meyers had vanished after the third book and someone else took over for the fourth. I didn't enjoy it.
Let's see if a copy and paste helps...though the formatting will be gone.
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Note: I have not read Twilight, nor any of its sequels. Yes, I did read the whole Harry Potter series.
However.
Ouch.
I kinda laughed at the review in a few places, but...ouch.
Quotes of note:
"Educators, readers and parents have all made much of the fact that the Twilight series promotes a wholesome version of teen love for its dreamy, predominantly female readership, citing how the books' protagonists practice abstinence (as opposed to, say, the lewd excesses of Harry Potter's cohort, or those out-of-control Pevensie kids)."
Um.
Lewd excess? I hope I'm right in reading that as hyperbole for effect. 'Cause I kinda remember Ginny having a couple of romances, and some talk about...Dean? Seamus? And, of course, there was some snogging, but none of the descriptions went past, well, snogging, which is what 16ish year olds do.
I student taught at a high school.
Trust me.
However, this cracked me up. Possibly because it's late and I'm tired and yet trying to get myself to write a little.
"It gets worse: Breaking Dawn has a childbirth sequence that may promote lifelong abstinence in sensitive types."
I feel kinda bad for the author, except that I've read some examples of the prose in the stories, and it reminds me of stories I wrote in high school that -- for a reason -- are no longer available on the Internet for your reading pleasure.
Which is not to say that I have the talent to become a published author, so I probably should shut up where I'm ahead.
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As for the different vibe...it wouldn't be the first time something like that happened.
Having read HP, I had some thoughts of reading it, but after hearing about the birth. Yuck. No.
I feel bad for Stephenie Meyers too. The general review is less than favorable and this was such an anticipated book. But she sold a gazillion copies already so I guess I don't feel THAT bad for her!
Um, you totally have the talent to become a published author so you should shut up.
But please don't write a series of books that make me get all connected to the characters and in the very last one change everything up on me.
And this should probably be a comment on another post but in my opinion The Memory Keepers Daughter wasn't even about a girl with Down Syndrome but more story about choices and how one event can change the course of your entire life. Although the little girl does have Downs and it's a major factor when she's born it doesn't really play a role in the story after that.
Thats just my opinion. If you ever do read it I'd be interested to see what you think. You undoubtedly have a different perspective than I do. Mine being somewhat naive!
This is a really long comment.
Well, I tend to be my own worst critic, but in my opinion I still tend to information-dump (that is, get too expository), and although my dialogue has improved to the point that it sounds like people speaking and not all super-formal, I'm-giving-a-speech...ish....
Um.
Let me try that again.
My dialogue has improved. People sound like they're speaking instead of giving a formal speech. Problem is, everyone sounds the same.
(And about Memory Keeper's Daughter -- I didn't realize that. I'll probably get to it at some point. Lengthy post on disability fiction coming soon, still, though.)
From the quotes I've read, it sounds like what happened to Stephanie Meyer was similar to what happened once when I was writing a fairly long story (60ish pages in Word).
I had the beginning, I had the end, and in the middle, I kid you not, I had, typed in bold and centered so I wouldn't forget, "Stuff."
Stephanie Meyer had the beginning (boy...uh...vampire meets girl) and the end (vampire marries girl), and had "stuff" in the middle. ;-)
Though where "werewolf is demon baby's soulmate" came from is anybody's guess.
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