• Sludgehammer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Eh, I’m gonna disagree. There were plenty of YA novels at about that time that were popular enough to get movies, were liked by girls and were written by women. The Hunger games, Divergent, heck even Harry Potter caught hardly any flak (well with the exception being when J.K. Rowling decided to take a hard right down Terf street).

    IMO the reason why Twilight and Stephenie get so much hate is A) Stephenie isn’t a very good writer, and B) the central theme of the books is how important it is to have a boyfriend/be horny for a guy who wants to kill and eat you. This the bedrock of the Twilight hate, it’s a bland book with a bland plot which was only successful because tapped into a vein of teenage horny. Like… imagine if the central theme of Harry Potter was how attractive Harry found Voldemort and how much he wanted to bang him and teenagers were going wild for how romantic and inspiring their relationship was. I have a feeling this alternate version of Harry Potter would catch a lot more hate too.

    • spujb@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
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      9 months ago

      your criticism has contemporary validity, but is altogether irrelevant to the attacks which were leveled at the time and are still hanging on in some circles.

      i encourage you to read the article which i believe the greentext is citing and judge for yourself. here’s the concluding remarks from that:

      My conclusion: Twilight fans are cold-blooded harlots, possible pedophiles or 12-year-old girls. How we as a society deal with these parasites is a complicated issue, but pelting them with rocks would be far from the worst option.

      kind of sickening.

  • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I read the first novel because I worked at a bookstore when the 4th was coming out and we were going to do a midnight release.

    It was…okay? Most of the writing was just very boring. Not offensive or bad, just very average.

    I really liked the use of empty chapters to denote the passage of time when she felt empty. Always love it.

    • VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      I got it to read on holiday when everyone was talking about it. I couldn’t make it halfway as I thought it was boring too.

  • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    She’s still making more Twilight novels? It says people still hate on Twilight, but this is honestly the first time I’ve heard anyone even mention the series for a number of years! What’s left to hate on? It’s still sparkly vampires and sensitive werewolves right? Have there been further developments?

  • Xariphon@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    I read Twilight as a pre publication galley.

    Spent three quarters of the book waiting for it to be about something and just gave up.

    I don’t care that it was written by a woman. I care that it’s a fucking awful book with a vapid plot and the rest of the series glorifies abusive relationships like it’s Fifty Shades for teens.

    Go read Ursula LeGuin or Holly Black instead.

    • Iapar@feddit.de
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      9 months ago

      Isnt it fifty shades for Teens? In the sense that fifty shades started as twilight fan fiction?

  • macisr@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    Come on anon even the actors of Bella and Edward roasted the movies lol. The book was pretty mid. I could only force myself to read like 60 or 70 pages when it was popular as fuck, and I Ioved the Harry Potter books and the Hunger Games books. One good thing is that i’m pretty sure it introduced a lot of kids to books, even if only ya books. I have a friend that only reads ya novels. It’s not the most rewarding genre, or the most inspiring or jaw dropping, but it’s certainly miles better than being a fan of the Kardashians or some shit like that.

  • IcedCoffeeBitch@beehaw.org
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    9 months ago

    You hate twilight because it’s popular, I hate twilight because the relationships are toxic at best. We are not the same.