Name the last three books you have read...

"The Greatest Show on Earth" by Richard Dawkins

"Why Black Men Love White Women?" by Rajen Persaud

"The Bible" by Miscellaneous Men
 
Bookworm616 said:
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What is Stephenie Meyer teaching young girls? :smt076

Well, I'm about halfway through the last book now. I was so mad by the end of book 3 that I was thisclose to not reading the 4th book because at that point I didn't care how it ended. LOL.

The 4th book has calmed me down and I'm learning to be "okay" with what happens. But this series is seriously one of the most contrived pieces of garbage I've read. LOL. And I hate myself for getting sucked into this stupid story anyway. :smt043
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Stephanie Meyer is teaching young girls (and boys) how to be good Mormons.
 
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Bookworm616 said:
LOL! Very true.

But, jeez, Bella is so spineless and I've taken to calling Edward Dickward instead. LOL.
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I know, it's ridiculous. There's nothing attractive about Bella at all, no reason why the two hottest guys in town would be fighting over her, she's totally plain and uninteresting...

But I think that's a very clever marketing ploy on Stephanie Meyer's part... make it appeal to the "every girl", so that every quiet, plain, uninteresting teenage girl believes that maybe one day a ridiculously hot vampire or werewolf (or both!) will fall in love with her!
 
whikle said:
I know, it's ridiculous. There's nothing attractive about Bella at all, no reason why the two hottest guys in town would be fighting over her, she's totally plain and uninteresting...

But I think that's a very clever marketing ploy on Stephanie Meyer's part... make it appeal to the "every girl", so that every quiet, plain, uninteresting teenage girl believes that maybe one day a ridiculously hot vampire or werewolf (or both!) will fall in love with her!
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Agree with everything!

satyr said:
Women, so predictable.
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Ah, if only Bella had an interesting personality, then maybe I'd buy the relationships in the books. To me, it's just completely contrived rubbish.

In fact, after the 3rd book, I was utterly surprised that I never heard that Paul (King of Contrived Screenplays) Haggis didn't actually ghostwrite this series.
 
I just got 2 books as a b-day pwesent with Swedish po-ems (Britty-ism).
I think I may translate some and post:-D
 
Room = Emma Donoghue

Saving Max = Antoinette Van Huegten

Servant of the Bones = Anne Rice
 
Bug said:
Lol I read it when I was 14 and couldn't be in a room alone for weeks after, scared the shit out of 14 yr old me.

William Peter Blatty is sick.
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i remember back then in 98 or 99 when the film was being re released some guy in my class gave me a copy of the film on tape because i wanted too see what the fuss was about, it def shook me up a bit haha
 
Currently reading 'Preincarnate' by Shaun Micallef. I just LOVE his humour and his writing is amazing. So intelligent, pompous and funny. I've only read a few chapters and it's already one of my favourite books ever. :smt023 :D
 
Sin Mari said:
Currently reading 'Preincarnate' by Shaun Micallef. I just LOVE his humour and his writing is amazing. So intelligent, pompous and funny. I've only read a few chapters and it's already one of my favourite books ever. :smt023 :D
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haha! I didn't know he'd written a book. I love Shaun Micallef :)
 
I think that is the most important part of the fantasy. I haven't read the books nor seen the films, and have no intention of doing either in the near future, so I will assume that your description of Bella is accurate.

If Bella is, as you state, "uninteresting" then she services the fantasy of sustaining an interest to men who are not only impossibly handsome, but immortal as well. Edward and Jacob are Greek gods with fangs and fur, who are competing for a woman who is apparently unremarkable.

Are most women remarkable or unremarkable?

whikle said:
yeah yeah, women are jealous and bitter, blah blah... If you'd read the books you'd know what I mean.
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satyr said:
I think that is the most important part of the fantasy. I haven't read the books nor seen the films, and have no intention of doing either in the near future, so I will assume that your description of Bella is accurate.

If Bella is, as you state, "uninteresting" then she services the fantasy of sustaining an interest to men who are not only impossibly handsome, but immortal as well. Edward and Jacob are Greek gods with fangs and fur, who are competing for a woman who is apparently unremarkable.

Are most women remarkable or unremarkable?
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Yes, exactly, which is the point I was trying to make in my earlier post (only far less eloquently)...
 
I finished it! I finished it!! I finished the Twilight Series.

All in all, I'd give it 2.5 out of 4 stars. Bella got cool in the last half of the last book (finally). I also found myself not only liking her, but also liking Edward. I'm not sure how that happened, since I despised both at the end of book 3. LOL.

That being said, the series was a letdown. A friend of mine who read the books before me, told me that the story finally picks up in the 4th book and it's a shame you have to read so much drivel to get to the crux of the story.

I have to admit that it felt great reading the 4th book because it seemed like it was finally leading somewhere. Anywhere. LOL.

She even did a fairly decent job of building up some tension right before the big showdown (that never happened) at the end. Then it all just ends abruptly and neatly in a nicely contrived little bow. What a huge letdown.

I hate to compare this series to the Harry Potter series, mainly because they aren't in the same ballpark, but given that they're marketed to the same group of people, have multiple books, and deal with fantasy I think a cursory comparison is fair.

Stephenie Meyer is a wimp compared to JK Rowling. Meyer didn't kill any of the major characters. In fact, they weren't ever in any real danger. WHAT?? Oh yeah, because there was no epic showdown. Boring. Rowling, on the other hand, didn't hold any punches. She killed beloved and main characters and her story (while fantasy) had more of a real feel to it, then the drivel that Meyer wrote. It just felt like Meyer was trying to please all of her fans instead of writing a realistic story based in fantasy.

The series as a whole was just okay. I'm glad I read it and I'm glad I'm finished with it.
 
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