[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Good story/bad writer: (Was: What a snob!)/SPOILER for Twilight and Dawn

[Sherry Gomes]

zanooda:

I kind of meant they are too different from us, that's why it creeps me out
:-). But yes, they are different from other literary vampires, and honestly,
I liked that. If they were sleeping in coffins and running away from garlic,
I'm not sure I could have gotten to the end of the story :-).

Sherry:
I like the Twilight series a lot.  But I'd never willingly read any vampire
fiction or watched vampire movies before.  I think I read Interview with a
vampire years ago and was unimpressed.  I've never even read Dracula.  When
Twilight came out, I scoffed.  It took two very good friends, friends who
were not teenage girls, to convince me to give the first book a try.  I was
sure they were just Teenage vampire love stories.  By the time I finally
read Twilight, the first three books were out and fans were waiting
breathlessly for the fourth.  I was blown away by Twilight.  I found the
characters very likable and believable.  Maybe it was the whole thing of the
Cullens trying so hard to go against their nature, that constant internal
struggle of theirs.  I found the Cullens far more interesting even than
Bella, most of the time, loved Charlie, hated Jacob, till the last book.  I
know many adults have said that they didn't find Bella's over the top
reactions very believable, but I was a teenage girl once, and I remember how
I felt and thought when I fell in love.  Hell, I still tend to react and
feel that way; I just know to keep it to myself!  Yeah, Meyer repeats
phrases too much.  Have you noticed how often Edward chuckles?  But overall,
I felt she created compelling, conflicted and interesting characters, gave
them a sort of mythical world and ran with it.  I didn't like everything
about them, but through the last few months since I lost my job and have
been worried all the time, they've been good mind candy for me to read over
again.

No, to me they will never come up to the Harry Potter standard, but they are
completely different.  They make me feel comforted and happy in the end,
because they live happily ever after.  LOL.

Sherry