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middlegirl) wrote2010-06-03 02:27 am
middlegirl) wrote2010-06-03 02:27 am
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This is me, suffering for my art.
I thought I could get through it, then reward myself by cutting it to shreds in a review for my blog. I thought I was untouchable. I mean, I've survived Manos: The Hands of Fate, Monster A-Go-Go, and Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band: The Movie, as well as all manner of badly-written fanfiction. Surely I could survive this.
I was wrong. Oh so very wrong.
And yet completely right, all at the same time.
I thought it would be clever to attempt to read the Twilight series, and do a review of it where I made it clear I tried to have an open mind and see where it went, simultaneously getting a crowd of junior high girls off my back (they declare that I am crazy for hating Twilight and Justin Bieber). But I decided to start with the Amazon.com preview. The book lost me with a flat, awkward conversation about a vintage truck 7 pages in, but then the preview skipped to the epilogue, where Bella, our heroine, utters, "Would I ever get used to his perfection?" I wanted to stop, but I kept reading, which is when she said, "Mostly I dream about being with you forever."
*headDESK*
That's it. I tried, but this book is complete drivel, which means I was right all along: Twilight sucks.
My apologies to any people on my friends list who may like these books, but in my opinion (informed by years of college-level study in literature), you are so much better off reading something else*.
I'll just sit over here with my Shakespeare and my Quirk Classics mashups** and try to forget what I've read. (Actually, I may still do the video, if only because I need more material for my blog.)
*Just not anything by Samuel Beckett. He's full of crap.
**Yes, they are also stupid, but they aren't meant to be taken seriously.
I seriously need to go to bed. My baby sister graduates from high school tomorrow (OMG), and I need to clean my room for the inevitable grandparental invasion.
I was wrong. Oh so very wrong.
And yet completely right, all at the same time.
I thought it would be clever to attempt to read the Twilight series, and do a review of it where I made it clear I tried to have an open mind and see where it went, simultaneously getting a crowd of junior high girls off my back (they declare that I am crazy for hating Twilight and Justin Bieber). But I decided to start with the Amazon.com preview. The book lost me with a flat, awkward conversation about a vintage truck 7 pages in, but then the preview skipped to the epilogue, where Bella, our heroine, utters, "Would I ever get used to his perfection?" I wanted to stop, but I kept reading, which is when she said, "Mostly I dream about being with you forever."
*headDESK*
That's it. I tried, but this book is complete drivel, which means I was right all along: Twilight sucks.
My apologies to any people on my friends list who may like these books, but in my opinion (informed by years of college-level study in literature), you are so much better off reading something else*.
I'll just sit over here with my Shakespeare and my Quirk Classics mashups** and try to forget what I've read. (Actually, I may still do the video, if only because I need more material for my blog.)
*Just not anything by Samuel Beckett. He's full of crap.
**Yes, they are also stupid, but they aren't meant to be taken seriously.
I seriously need to go to bed. My baby sister graduates from high school tomorrow (OMG), and I need to clean my room for the inevitable grandparental invasion.
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