Comments on: Romancing the Undead

By: Cultural Snobbism « XUP

Cultural Snobbism « XUP — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:50:15 +0000

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By: XUP

XUP — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:41:33 +0000

Maggie – Thank you. Someone should really do something before it’s too late

By: Maggie, dammit

Maggie, dammit — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:50:36 +0000

I could not agree more.

By: XUP

XUP — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 11:13:14 +0000

CP – This vampire doesn’t even do any of the usual vampire stuff — he’s fine outdoors in the sun, he doesn’t cringe at crosses or garlic, he shows up in mirrors and photos, he has no fangs, he lives in a dazzling glass house at the top of a mountain — not in a coffin in the basement and he doesn’t even suck human blood. The whole vampire thing was just a sloppy metaphor for abstinence. I can’t believe grown women you know are swooning over this. I get it, to some extent, that it would appeal to teenage girls, but adults should be disgusted by this piece of insulting crap.

By: Momma, The Casual Perfectionist

Momma, The Casual Perfectionist — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 02:05:23 +0000

I am embarrassingly late to the comment party…so I apologize! It’s refreshing to hear your opinion on this, because so many people have tried to get me to read the books “because they’re so GOOD!” (quote, end quote), and I just can’t. I don’t like Vampires. I never did, and I doubt I ever will.

Poor Vampires.

But, they wouldn’t like me much either…we eat way too much garlic around here.

By: XUP

XUP — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:21:51 +0000

Dp – Hey – long time no see … well, except on your blog. Yes, Edward does have a certain broody appeal. But that quickly waned for me after the first 3 seconds.

Aziza – Good for you for resisting the lure of pop culture icons. There are sooooooooooo many more wonderful books to read

By: Aziza

Aziza — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:46:53 +0000

Yes…I am so tired of people talking about Twilight. I refused to read it out of fear that the writing would suck so horribly and yet the teenage girl part of me would want to continue as all the others seem to love it so much. For all these people my age to like it so much, I assumed it could not be written well or complexly or wittily, the things what I look for in a novel.

Submission? I suppose to some extent. This novel may have appealed to me as a 6th grader, now? no.

I heard the reason it avoids sex is because it is written by a Morman. Plus it could not be considered a children’s/ young novel were it including risky behavior.

I liked Barbies =P The proportions are more realistic nowadays and there are more brunettes =)

By: dailypiglet

dailypiglet — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:00:07 +0000

OMG! i actually gasped in the theatre when edward pulled up in his car, the first time he saved her from the bad men in the alley way.

i’ve bought into it, hook line and sinker (my daughter pulled me in). i agree the writing takes some getting used to. it’s not upward mobility-type literature but it’s a nice fantasy thing.

i do fear the girls that want to be bitten by vampires now, that can’t lead to anything good.

By: XUP

XUP — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:14:50 +0000

James – Very droll. Teenage girls love it though — it reflects exactly the confused, hormonal, pseudo-romantic, naive, non-sexually sexual thoughts and fantasies teen girls have. Like someone else said – Meyer’s character’s only conversation is how much in love they are with each other — they never talk about anything significant; they never get to actually know each other — it’s all superficial claptrap.

By: James Bow

James Bow — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:33:42 +0000

I share your pain re: the Twilight series. I read the first book to see what the hype was about, liked some of it, but was disturbed by the rest. You can read my full review here:

http://bowjamesbow.ca/2008/08/15/bite-me-stephan.shtml