Ok, to start, I'd just like to say I KNEW IT! I had a feeling you were a guy. Usually I can tell by reading someone's stories, whether they are a girl or a guy, and you have a masculine feel to your writing (don't ask me how I can tell, I just do).
Second: Thank you. Even I (a girl) could not find anything to like about Twilight. Sorry, but the book bored me to tears. I bought it when it first came out, because I usually like supernatural young adult books. I was in one of those Vampire-genre phases, but the book itself was just...
I couldn't finish it. I still haven't finished it. I even went back after the first movie came out to see if I could TRY and like it. I didn't even know there was a plot until someone told me it was towards the end of the book. I thought, "I am not going to sit and read about some angst-ridden girl who is being stalked by a vampire-boy."
Oh! And the stalking thing really drives me up the wall. I mean, who watches people while they sleep? Murderers do. People looking for trouble. In Jacobs' "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl," the main female protagonist would sometimes wake up in the middle of the night to find the jealous lady of the house standing over her bedside, staring at her. Even my coworker, who had a friend that later began to stalk her because he was in love with her, was creep-ed out by the guy. REAL guys who stare and stalk the girls they like get restraining orders.
And yeah, I've heard people say that JKR doesn't have the great writing capabilities so many people claim she has. But I feel INSPIRED after reading a Harry Potter novel. I never liked reading before I found out when I was a little girl: OH! it wasn't Snape--it was Quirrell whose after Harry's life!
I read a lot of those historical romance novels you see on the bargain shelves in stores. I've run into male protagonists with similar aspects that Edward has--not necessarily the stalker-syndrome, but the whole "I'll take care of my woman" personality. However, usually the female protagonists don't want to be taken care of (and there's actually good plots in the ones I've read).
Anyway, my girlfriends and end up seeing the Twilight movies whenever they come out. We're the girls in the back who are making snarky comments about the plot, Bella's angst, and all the other losers in the story. (On another note, I actually like Jacob, the werewolf. His only flaw seems to be that he likes Bella.)
Late for class--Thanks for this entry! You made my day. ~J.Luna
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Date: 2009-12-09 07:14 pm (UTC)Second: Thank you. Even I (a girl) could not find anything to like about Twilight. Sorry, but the book bored me to tears. I bought it when it first came out, because I usually like supernatural young adult books. I was in one of those Vampire-genre phases, but the book itself was just...
I couldn't finish it. I still haven't finished it. I even went back after the first movie came out to see if I could TRY and like it. I didn't even know there was a plot until someone told me it was towards the end of the book. I thought, "I am not going to sit and read about some angst-ridden girl who is being stalked by a vampire-boy."
Oh! And the stalking thing really drives me up the wall. I mean, who watches people while they sleep? Murderers do. People looking for trouble. In Jacobs' "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl," the main female protagonist would sometimes wake up in the middle of the night to find the jealous lady of the house standing over her bedside, staring at her. Even my coworker, who had a friend that later began to stalk her because he was in love with her, was creep-ed out by the guy. REAL guys who stare and stalk the girls they like get restraining orders.
And yeah, I've heard people say that JKR doesn't have the great writing capabilities so many people claim she has. But I feel INSPIRED after reading a Harry Potter novel. I never liked reading before I found out when I was a little girl: OH! it wasn't Snape--it was Quirrell whose after Harry's life!
I read a lot of those historical romance novels you see on the bargain shelves in stores. I've run into male protagonists with similar aspects that Edward has--not necessarily the stalker-syndrome, but the whole "I'll take care of my woman" personality. However, usually the female protagonists don't want to be taken care of (and there's actually good plots in the ones I've read).
Anyway, my girlfriends and end up seeing the Twilight movies whenever they come out. We're the girls in the back who are making snarky comments about the plot, Bella's angst, and all the other losers in the story. (On another note, I actually like Jacob, the werewolf. His only flaw seems to be that he likes Bella.)
Late for class--Thanks for this entry! You made my day.
~J.Luna