8/08/2008

Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

YA Alert! Check out Boodledoo's TOAD HILL review of Twilight by Stephanie Meyer. Interesting fact: Twilight's 498 pages were written in only about three month's time.
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Anonymous said...

I would never be able to manage that. It took me about a year (not of solid work though, I had other projects + school + whatever) to write a 50,000 word novel, and that's only *just* about 250 or so pages.
Even NaNo amazes me...even though I'm trying for real this year...

August 8, 2008 at 11:26 PM
Anonymous said...

Okay . . . I think the reason Twilight is such "lite" reading is BECAUSE it took only 3 months to write.

August 9, 2008 at 12:26 AM
Medeia said...

No, I don't think that's necessarily true. It's more the fact that the protagonist is a blank canvas. Easy to paint on, but pretty boring to look at.

August 9, 2008 at 2:04 AM
Anonymous said...

It's the thoughtful buildup of layers on the canvas, though, that makes a painting a masterpiece instead of something just to "match your couch." Being thoughtful takes time. I don't think Meyer particularly cared to deepen her characters . . . and maybe she found such success with this series BECAUSE readers could project themselves onto the blank-canvas protagonist and fill in the colors. It certainly seems to appeal to 10 year olds as well as adults my age -- and yes, she deserves kudos for finding the golden ticket.

But to me, Twilight is to writing, as Thomas Kinkade is to painting.

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/photoshop-phriday/paintings-light-ii.php?page=1

Can you tell I'm not a big fan of Twilight? On the other hand, I loved The Host.

August 9, 2008 at 2:25 AM
Anonymous said...

I don't look at the Twilight series like that. I mean with the metaphorical paintings and such. It is what it is: an exciting teen romance novel with little depth.

That doesn't mean it isn't a great book-Twilight had me hanging on Edward's every word. But the point being it's a book to read when your bored, not something to inspire ponderings of life's greater questions and mysteries.

August 11, 2008 at 7:42 AM
Anonymous said...

It doesn't surprise me in the slightest that Twilight was only written in 3 months. It's mediocre quality seeps from its pages.

September 3, 2008 at 5:42 AM

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