Good story/bad writer: (Was: What a snob!)/SPOILER for Twilight and Dawn

[dumbledore11214]

> 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. 

Alla:

Oh I have not read Dracula or Interview with the Vampires either. I think I will definitely read the story where vampires are SOME of the characters, but do not like much the stories ONLY about vampires if that makes sense, too often they are of horror genre which I do not read.

However, I adore Thomas for example from Jim Butcher's Dresden files and some other vampires, but again they are usually tend to be just some of the characters in the multilayered fantasy world.


Sherry:
<SNIP>
>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! <SNIP>

Alla:

That's a good point, maybe the whole point was to show indeed how much teenager can obsess and of course they can, but see the thing is book four to me was saying that this is what true love is  and I am not sure about that.

I mean, I understand everything Bella went through (as applied to RL of course, lol, not exactly what she went through about vampires) emotions wise in Twilight up till that last request and then it went all downhill for me. I guess there is a degree of selfishness and obsession over which I cannot sympathise even with love stricken teenager, which I was too of course at one point.


> Sherry:
<SNIP>
> 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.

Alla:

Sure.