tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739096170783821093.post6206732270724799796..comments2023-05-16T02:16:30.726-07:00Comments on On writing, living and loving: Twilight: why even literary snobs are in the author's debtTwinsmomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07009305623601049437noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739096170783821093.post-87214629819628249932009-12-03T07:51:25.566-08:002009-12-03T07:51:25.566-08:00Oh by the way, Stephenie Meyer has some fans that ...Oh by the way, Stephenie Meyer has some fans that write better than her and took her work and wrote it through the eyes of Edward and I found it to be FAR more appealing. If only it were on audio...<br /><br />So much better than New Moon:<br /><br />http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4273193/1/Dark_Side_of_the_Moon<br /><br />Vampiric transformation thru the end of Breaking Dawn:<br /><br />http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4551648/1/Metamorphosis<br /><br />I'd be curious to know what you think of those. Are your books available anywhere to read?Michellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10842303810492407614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739096170783821093.post-88001344240657142802009-12-03T07:47:57.900-08:002009-12-03T07:47:57.900-08:00I mainly agree with you, though I admit I loved th...I mainly agree with you, though I admit I loved the book in spite of it's literary pitfalls. While I wouldn't consider myself a non-reader (voracious reader in fact, but all non-fiction) I do say for myself that I have a vivid and complex imagination...and I don't need a writer to spell it all out for me to be able to read between the lines and feel what they want me to feel or see what they want me to see. I can get there on my own. And I don't consider myself to be impatient either. Not well read in fiction, I'll give you that. In the past year I've listened to (iPod) the Poison Study Series, Pride & Prejudice, Twilight Series, and I'm in on Drums of Autumn in the Outlander series. Are those excellent works of fictional literary accomplishments? I don't know. I'm not a critic. I'm a fan of writing and I love it all. Like movies. There is room for both Napoleon Dynamite and The Last Samuri or American Beauty in my heart.Michellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10842303810492407614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739096170783821093.post-33711093698412350502009-07-28T07:34:11.746-07:002009-07-28T07:34:11.746-07:00This is a very insightful post, Lori. Your writing...This is a very insightful post, Lori. Your writing is excellent! I loved / hated Twilight. I read all four books, because I HAD to know what happened, but what torture, reading them! The writing is awful. I suspect that the person who works the hardest is the reader, not the writer. Meyers has a good story idea, but it's the reader who makes the idea come alive, by forgiving or forgetting or ignoring the crimes against writing Meyers commits. For instance, 90 year olds choosing to repeat high school year after year? I don't think so. And the dialogue is just painful. But the desire is overwhelming, isn't it?! <br /><br />I grew up reading Barbara Cartland novels. In fact, that's how I learned most of my vocabulary words and European history! But gawd what terrible bodice rippers she wrote. And I couldn't get enough. :) See you in two weeks!Deirdrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09091280910145046755noreply@blogger.com