Should this go on my Murtaugh List?
Oct. 20th, 2009 11:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
charliesmumMy BFF's daughter lent me her copy of New Moon, and I figured since I'll probably go see the movie, if only to mock, I may as well read the book.
Let me just say,nothing makes me feel so old as reading a book in the Twilight series, because I just cannot see how five thousand pages of a teenaged girl wangsting on about the pain in her life because of the loss of her boyfriend, whom she'd known for less than a year, is in any way romantic.
Well, I'll give SM a couple of points for at least attempting some sort of conflict with the evil vampires, or whatever, but once again it is just pages of nothing actually happening, overblown descriptions of what boys look like, and Bella whining.
There is this one section where, appropos to nothing, Bella starts thinking about Romeo and Juliet (possibly because Stephanie Meyers remembered that Bella is supposed to be smart, or something) and that just made me laugh because the whole point, I think, of Romeo and Juliet is that they were idiots who took infatuation way too seriously with disasterous consequences. That's the point, Joss, it's compelling.
Anyway...I do apologise, because I know there are people on my Flist who really do like these books, but I am just so far removed from understanding the pathos that it is hard to take seriously.
Maybe I've just never been that in love.
Let me just say,nothing makes me feel so old as reading a book in the Twilight series, because I just cannot see how five thousand pages of a teenaged girl wangsting on about the pain in her life because of the loss of her boyfriend, whom she'd known for less than a year, is in any way romantic.
Well, I'll give SM a couple of points for at least attempting some sort of conflict with the evil vampires, or whatever, but once again it is just pages of nothing actually happening, overblown descriptions of what boys look like, and Bella whining.
There is this one section where, appropos to nothing, Bella starts thinking about Romeo and Juliet (possibly because Stephanie Meyers remembered that Bella is supposed to be smart, or something) and that just made me laugh because the whole point, I think, of Romeo and Juliet is that they were idiots who took infatuation way too seriously with disasterous consequences. That's the point, Joss, it's compelling.
Anyway...I do apologise, because I know there are people on my Flist who really do like these books, but I am just so far removed from understanding the pathos that it is hard to take seriously.
Maybe I've just never been that in love.