Well, there are a few books she explicitly references and cites as inspiration.
Legolas Send a noteboard - 14/02/2010 07:15:36 PM
But the thing about harry potter is that it gradually got darker, deeper and in a lot of ways better. It carried kids through a simple fun story and matured with them.
I've seen much the opposite with Twilight. IMO, it has a dumbing effect. I'm not saying people who don't read and then read Twilight will not go and read some more...but their tastes and opinions of books will forever be tarnished. I could easily see someone who started reading with Twilight scoff at reading LotR or even (maybe particularly) Harry Potter. Furthermore, what's a step up from Twilight? If you're some young unthinking mob-member of the Twilight Fan Club, the only place you're going to find book you enjoy is trashy romance novels. Not that trashy romance novels don't have their place, but they're hardly examples of outstanding literature. An actual fantasy or sci-fi novel might prompt one of these fangirls to think (Meyer forbid
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I'm not saying that's ALL Twilight readers...just the kind I hate
Heh. It just occurred to me Meyer is also a type of lemon. ha ha.
I've seen much the opposite with Twilight. IMO, it has a dumbing effect. I'm not saying people who don't read and then read Twilight will not go and read some more...but their tastes and opinions of books will forever be tarnished. I could easily see someone who started reading with Twilight scoff at reading LotR or even (maybe particularly) Harry Potter. Furthermore, what's a step up from Twilight? If you're some young unthinking mob-member of the Twilight Fan Club, the only place you're going to find book you enjoy is trashy romance novels. Not that trashy romance novels don't have their place, but they're hardly examples of outstanding literature. An actual fantasy or sci-fi novel might prompt one of these fangirls to think (Meyer forbid
).I'm not saying that's ALL Twilight readers...just the kind I hate
Heh. It just occurred to me Meyer is also a type of lemon. ha ha.
Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Romeo & Juliet (no, really?), a few other Shakespeares. If you're some Twilight reader who looks down on LotR and HP (though one really wonders why; it's very hard to argue Twilight is even remotely as good as either of those, let alone better), you could still go read those books Meyer names as inspiration, and those books aren't a bad start for other literature.
But yeah, Twilight is ultimately more a romance novel (in the bad meaning of the word) than it is a fantasy one, so makes sense that its readers would gravitate more towards trashy romance novels.
As I don't believe we've actually had a review of this yet... Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series.
- 14/02/2010 04:08:51 PM
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I think the series is codswallop...and that it DID have potential
- 14/02/2010 04:59:56 PM
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As I said, the second book is better in some regards thanks to that.
- 14/02/2010 05:06:29 PM
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I normally would agree with you
- 14/02/2010 06:05:36 PM
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Well, there are a few books she explicitly references and cites as inspiration.
- 14/02/2010 07:15:36 PM
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Re: I'm going to be very unkind and possibly factually wrong here, since it has been a while.
- 14/02/2010 05:52:52 PM
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Yeah, absolutely true (spoilers).
- 14/02/2010 06:14:58 PM
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Re: I think it gets labelled antifeminist because, well, it's Bella, the heroine, and she's so young
- 14/02/2010 06:26:37 PM
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I love your point about the other "Strong women"
- 14/02/2010 06:43:05 PM
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Re: What is LDS? *NM*
- 14/02/2010 06:44:36 PM
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Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints (i.e. Mormons). *NM*
- 14/02/2010 06:46:15 PM
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They lost me with twinkly vampires *NM*
- 14/02/2010 09:22:01 PM
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I think it could have been sold better
- 14/02/2010 09:35:07 PM
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Vampires should be tragic at best monsters at worst
- 15/02/2010 04:58:15 PM
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I thought that was strange too
- 15/02/2010 09:19:26 PM
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I think I would rather just eat people then be stuck in high school forever
- 16/02/2010 09:22:07 PM
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You just had to do it, didn't you? *possible spoiler*
- 15/02/2010 01:57:29 AM
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*possible spoiler*
- 15/02/2010 01:57:29 AM
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yes *spoilers*
- 15/02/2010 02:02:27 AM
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Yeah. It's one of those things that sound worse out of context than they are in the book itself...
- 15/02/2010 10:57:47 AM
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Great way to label this series...
- 26/02/2010 07:40:47 PM
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Yes, it's amazing how shocking stuff she can get away with while still making it fluff. *NM*
- 26/02/2010 08:22:13 PM
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I read a lot of PNR (paranormal romance for you book snobs out there) and thus have read these too.
- 15/02/2010 09:55:54 PM
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Mormon fantasy...haha
- 15/02/2010 10:06:58 PM
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