Twilight (SPOILERS) v Harry Potter WAS: Re: Torrents

[jkoney65]

jkoney:
Kemper don't do it.

A friend's wife told me she had a good series of books to read and 
they were about vampires. I agreed because I like fantasy, sci-fi, 
etc.

It took me all day to read 200 pages of the book. You end up in the 
mind of an insecure teenage girl. 

It's interesting in the way a car wreck is as you pass it by.

I know the book(s) are popular, but to me the writing was almost as 
bad as the plot. I would not recommend it to any guy.

This is not vampires as in Dracula but more of a vampire lite.

jkoney, who hopes he didn't offend anyone, but whose new version of 
hell not only has him getting up early to go jogging, but also 
reading this book at the same time. ;-)


--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "kempermentor" 
<kempermentor at ...> wrote:
>
> > SSSusan:
> > FWIW, I do think the movie did a decent job of showing Edward 
> > struggling against his blood lust when Bella was attacked by 
James.
> 
> Kemper now:
> I have not read the books, but the wife is hoping I start so we can
> talk about it.  Gotta love a fangirl!
> She told me of a scene where Bella gets a paper cut at the vampire
> house and everybody goes ape dooky.  I asked why the vampires didn't
> lose it at a high school where there would be more than a few girls
> menstruating in every class.  She said "yeah... it's not well 
thought
> out, but it's fun!"   Vampires are my first love in unreal fiction,
> and I fear to read a watered down version.  The wife said I should
> start with the first 200+ pages of Midnight Sun which is from 
Edward's
> perspective.  (It was the book that was leaked online, but you can
> find a pdf at SM's website; she took back the night.)  I liked what
> she's told me about that which is very little, just Edward's first
> response to her walking into class.  Has anyone read this?  I would
> like other opinions.  She tried to get me to read that Diary book
> awhile back (not Anne Frank, the not quite funnier one).  I couldn't
> get past the first couple of chapters.
> 
> My wife likes the Twilight series because she liked the horrible
> girl-books growing up.  An example of one is twin girls in high
> school.  One good, one bad.  The bad one sneaks out in the middle of
> the night to meet and make out with the bad guy.  And the guy tries 
to
> go for a little under the shirt action, and the
> bad-but-apparently-not-naughty twin runs back home crying that he
> would do such a thing.
> wtf.  What kind of message that send?!?  The wife knows they sucked
> now, but she liked them growing up.  
> 
> I wonder if my wife's reaction is similar to others who've read and
> liked the books.  And if so, perhaps it is cultural (America
> born/reared)... or did these types of series/stories pop up in other
> English speaking cultures?  Did/do they exist in non-English 
speaking
> cultures? 
> 
> Kemper
>