Subject: Twilight book review - LINK
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Posted on: 2009-01-07 20:46:00 UTC
My short review of the twilight book.
(My Twilight movie review, from two weeks ago.)
I've tried to be fair, but personal opinion will always shine through.
The Vampire King of Narnia
A Narnia/Twilight/The O.C crossover, in which Peter Pevensie is turned into a vampire by a Mary-Sue vampire named Summer. Terrible, terrible writing.
Cheers to Trojie and Pads for beta reading.
By the way, as there's been so much debate recently over how good or terrible Twilight actually is, I now have the book and will be putting up a review once I'm finished. I want to judge it fairly. Anyway, it'll be on my LJ, but if anyone's interested, I can post it (or a link to it) here. Should I?
My short review of the twilight book.
(My Twilight movie review, from two weeks ago.)
I've tried to be fair, but personal opinion will always shine through.
I think that this con is going to crach and burn horribly...
http://www.twicon.org/home.html
If it were a story, it would be PPC worthy. I found this over in the rant of SomethingPositive, a very good read www.soemthingpositive.net
Leto
You make a good point about the Sue and Stu labels being too widely applied. It doesn't sound like the Twilight books are ones that I'll ever really enjoy, though. I much prefer my romance to be secondary to another plot.
Interestingly enough, I noticed that that other fic by the same author, the Hermione/Eragon one, actually shows vestiges of what would be excellent characterization if it weren't for the fact that the character in question is Hermione. She sounds exactly like your average American teenager, her parents sound like parents, etc. The dad goes over the top, but that's not unheard of in real life. It's like she just took her own experiences and applied Hermione's name and appearance. Also, she clearly uses a spellchecker. She just doesn't know which words she actually wants. Very interesting.
I'm still going to PPC the story at some point, though. The spelling errors are just too funny to pass up.
~Neshomeh
You were talking about PPCing the Hermione/Eragon one, right? I got a little confused there.
And no, I'm quite sure that most people wouldn't enjoy the Twilight books. Honestly, I'm not even sure why I like it, however mildly.
I wouldn't. They sparkle.
Really, I know I've mentioned this in every forum I have at my disposal to contact you. This is because I cannot get over this. They're vampires. So they sparkle in sunlight. On behalf on all Transylvania I am headdesking.
... er, vampire stories, that is. Really, from a biological perspective I like the idea that sunlight doesn't burn them, because that's a REALLY stupid evolutional adaptation to have, and historically I therefore see a need for there to be some other reason why they can't go out into sunlight, for which some sort of obviously inhuman characteristic makes sense... but SPARKLES?
Really, we could've dumped them in a barrel of glitter. Pfft.
Pads? I've an idea. let's figure out some better reason for inhuman immortal creatures (and we can just do away with the word "vampire", if your Transylvanian headdesking is too painful) to have to stay out of sunlight. Some other obvious trait other than SPARKLES. And Trojie can help with the biology.
*coughhackbiologicallyat-least-semi-viablevampirismsneeze* Sorry, pet crusade. But the anathema does give a potential explanation for avoiding sunlight!
Er, let me know if you want me to say what it is. I'm prone to rambling about this book so I won't start of my own accord :)
...Is two people cheering a lot? Or would it take another person? Hm.
The idea that vampires could evolve is definitely right up her alley. (We're talking about the woman that worked out that, cladistically speaking, unicorns are goats, remember.) I think the sunlight thing's in there because notions of vampires draw rather more heavily on supernatural methods of thinking than evolutionary and scientific ones. You might as well question the possible evolutionary benefits to having your innards on fire.
But yes, as soon as Trojie's back from her convention, let's sit down and work this one out properly.
The book made an attempt to explain their venom and such, though there were big logica gaps; I'll get us the raw material to work from. :)
This sounds like FUN. We can totally do this.
The more the merrier and all :D
when I'm back from conferences and tramping, we shall begin!
But aren't you meant to be doing conferences now? Which means no being online? And yet you still answer Board posts but are not, for example, online for me to ramble at you?
Yes. Discussions of vampire biology shall commence as soon as, uh, uni coursework has sodded off.
... this means I only get to be online late at my night or for one brief ten minute period in the morning, which sadly leaves no time for rambling.
Not quite on the subject of vampire biology, I now want to write a story about a vampire boy/girl of *actually* about 17 or so (because when you read about them, they always *look* like they're in their teens/twenties but are actually in their hundreds) falling in love with an older human. Because yay for Doing Things Different.
I'd love to hear the explanation behind that. Are you folks on AIM? MSN? Otherwise, Trojie has my e-mail.
~Neshomeh
She's buggered off to a conference, but I'll see if I can find the email she sent me about it.
*four seconds later*
Aha! Glod bless gmail and its search function. I'm johnny underscore rat at msn dot com, so give me a shout and I'll tell you all about it.
Yeah, that's the one. No one else claimed it, so I did. I might even bump it up the list. It should be a relatively easy mission with lots to poke fun at. I just have to decide whether Hermione is replaced or just thoroughly possessed. Eragon is probably in character except for having no memory of his actual life, but I haven't finished reading the fic yet.
~Neshomeh
I've been meaning to check it out myself, but other books take higher priority on my reading list.
I couldn't even get through the first book. Too much Sue and Stu. Everyone and her Alsatian reccomended it to me just because I'm gothly. Bah.
How OOC would that be? :p
Eep, I was mocking Twilight, because it sucks, and that is a very weak pun. Hehe. Just wanted to get that straight.