Ok, I know I will offend all you die-hard Twilight fans out there, but I just finished my "sentence" of reading New Moon and that was hands-down the worst book I've ever read! Stephenie Meyer is a CRAPPY writer. Her writing lacks depth, she uses trite metaphors and Bella's utterly undying love for Edward is just cheesy and unbelievable. I give this one NO stars and a big, fat BLAH! Not to mention she uses up 500 pages to tell you what could have been told in 200 (but fills the space with lots of junior high-esque descriptions of Bella's "hole" and how she "can't breathe" and all her clairvoyant thoughts). Just bad, bad writing. I do not understand the hype over this whole Twilight series, and I'm afraid I can't waste another precious minute of my already insufficient reading time slogging through the rest of the books. Similar to the Harry Potter hysteria, I only read the first two books, didn't get the hype and didn't waste my time reading the others. I think Meyer was just damn lucky. Must have been a LOT of bored teenagers out there when she hit a chord with her vampire love story and she's having her 15 minutes of fame. But it saddens me that our young people are delving into this substandard "literature". Hopefully they will still find time to read some of the great books and this whole Twilight fad will die down. I'm glad to see them read, but this stuff is really crap.
On another note, I am only up to ten books so far this year! I am definitely spending too much time on the icky stuff. Our book club chose to read classics this year and some of them have been duds. I'm sorry to say (or not!) that I did not read "Tale of Two Cities" for this week's book club (using the excuse that Arlie has a musical that night and I would not be able to attend the discussion). Hayley is currently reading it for English class and hates it. I've actually never read it but have no desire to. I'm on to another book, hopefully a little bit mindless to entertain my mind after being catatonic during "New Moon"!!!
3 comments:
Being the Twihard that I am, it pains me to say I didn't like New Moon either. Eclipse was my favorite, but I just like them because it's nice to get lost in the feeling of overexaggerated teenage love (and the not-quite-realistic feelings that go along with it) that we all experienced. I'm looking forward to the movie though because I think it could be more fun visually, but I'm holding out for Eclipse. :)
As far as the books being bad for kids, I'll have you know that it is BECAUSE of Twilight and Bella's obsession with the classics that has me reading Wuthering Heights right now. :) And I downloaded Sense and Sensibility after refusing to read it when my Mom suggested it back when I was 14 (I swore to never read anything labelled as a "classic" after I BARELY made it through The Invisible Man. GAG ME!) So, maybe it will encourage kids to use a better vocabulary (she does use a lot of good words) and then maybe delve into the Classic-s world like I am. :)
You should try reading another "Tale of Two Cities"....it's about the mormons and Christians in Salt Lake City!! hahaha Seriously...I read it years ago, but can't remember too much about it. I think I might dig it out and give it another try. It was written by a priest friend of mine from SLC, but who died several years ago when I was working at the Pastoral Center. He wrote several books about his travels, etc., and seemed to be a pretty good author. Any interest?? hahahaha I know...hell no!!
I loved "A Tale of Two Cities"! I also read and plan to re-read this summer, "War and Peace". You may want to try "Pride and Prejudice" that was a really good one (and the one I think I told Sydney about because I don't think I have read "Sense and Sensibility" ...oops!) Good Luck with the books!
Love, M2
Post a Comment