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[swatkat]

"When you read the book," says Pattinson, looking appropriately pallid and interesting even without makeup, "it's like, 'Edward Cullen was so beautiful I creamed myself.' I mean, every line is like that. He's the most ridiculous person who's so amazing at everything. I think a lot of actors tried to play that aspect. I just couldn't do that. And the more I read the script, the more I hated this guy, so that's how I played him, as a manic-depressive who hates himself. Plus, he's a 108-year-old virgin so he's obviously got some issues there."


Hee. Still not watching the Twilight movie.

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[zoepaleologa.livejournal.com]

I'm not either. Or reading the bloody books, even if it does exclude me from the best wank since Snapes on an Astral Plane.

[swatkat24.livejournal.com]

Who needs books when you have online recaps? I just read them. And laugh and laugh.

[evilstorm.livejournal.com]

I've only read the cleolinda recaps, but those were enough. Still, I am sorely tempted to hop down to the bookstore for an afternoon and plough through the books, if only to laugh hysterically every five minutes or so.

[mincot.livejournal.com]

Two very good friends run the Lexicon, and I have *tried* to like these books because I wanted to see what two highly intelligent women saw in it ... I just can't bring myself to care. I didn't like teenage romantic angst when I was a teen, and I think Edward just needs to Get An Unlife, and Bella needs to quit dating and go to college ... the whole thing reads like (as someone on my f-list said) a watered down Anita Blake for Mormon teens.

[mincot.livejournal.com]

Furthermore, the ways in which gender relations are shown in the books ... don't get me started.

I should add, though, that I don't like the way the Lexicon was spammed. Site owners get to run sites any way they want to. If you can have honest and civil disagreement, great. What I find, however, is that people tend to be unable to discuss and disagree rationally and academically, and instead insist that disagreement is tantamount to dismissal. Sigh.

Basically, if you find yourself on a site that says it does something, and you try to argue it into doing something else ... leave. The internet's a big place and people who run sites get to set the rules, period. Learned that the hard way myself. :)

[swatkat24.livejournal.com]

I never quite got this version of romantic wangst, either. The obsession with sex and marriage in Twilight is... disturbing, to say the least.

The hacking was just pointless trolling. I'm all for pointing and laughing from a distance, but actual trolling is a big no-no as far as I'm concerned.

[mincot.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Don't care about Meyer's books? DOn't join that site. Simple.

And yes--the whole sex-and-marriage, early but FOREVER, with college and independence not really valid considerations ... Disturbing. I've taught a lot of Mormon kids, though, and that's really strongly the focus. When I was living in the PNW some of my students got stuck in Utah, and the tow truck driver who gave them a lift to the station lectured the women for the whole trip about their selfishness in not being married yet ...

GAH

[plazmah.livejournal.com]

Words cannot express how much I love RPatz right now. ;D

[jaybee65.livejournal.com]

I decided that I simply *had* to read these books so that I could better enjoy the associated wank. I'm about halfway through the first one at the moment -- I find myself skimming a lot, because most of it so far is just deathly dull, given that Bella has the personality of a doorstop and it's all her POV -- but every so often I stumble across things that are just so hilarious it makes all the effort worthwhile. It's like badfic on steroids.

Pattinson is dead-on in his summary, by the way. That's pretty much all there is to the entire book. What awesome snark! I know nothing about him but love him just for that.

[jaybee65.livejournal.com]

Oh! Just as an example of the things one stumbles upon while reading these books, I offer the following from today's chapter:

Did they know that I knew? Was I supposed to know that they knew that I knew, or not?

[swatkat24.livejournal.com]

Bwahaha! This is beautiful. I still don't have the strength to go through that drivel... maybe someday?

because most of it so far is just deathly dull, given that Bella has the personality of a doorstop and it's all her POV

The new book will be more interesting, I'm sure. Because it's Twilight from Edward's POV, see, and he's just dazzling.

[lyras.livejournal.com]

Poor RPattz! As someone on my flist said yesterday, I hope his career survives the carnage, because he is being 100% awesome :D.

[swatkat24.livejournal.com]

I hope so, too! I wish he hadn't said yes for that role. Yes, it's big exposure and all, but Twilight is just full of crazy and I wish him well in his future!