An online acquaintance linked to these recently - Wordles of the language in Twilight and New Moon.
And the acting was a hell of a lot better.
And her one “flaw”-being a klutz-even THAT’s overdown. Jesus, even though I’m a klutz, even I’m not THAT bad.
(I’m more like Tonks, from the Harry Potter books.)
Okay no wait wait you mean that comic was real real, as in, Edward really sparkles? As in honest to og SPARKLES? It’s not satire? SPARKLES?
Oh og. Og help us all.
No, sorry.
This is.
I’ll say this - the book covers look pretty cool.
Edward clearly read “The Game” and is just following Game theory. This is classic negging. Quit spreading the secrets!
Don’t they? They’re very stylish and understated, proving the adage true, I guess. Except that “you can’t judge a book by its cover” usually refers to good books with bad covers.
It would be a pretty good joke to make in satirizing the series. Sparkly vampires, hearts floating in the air, a meadow full of pretty flowers (and perhaps even a unicorn!)…but no, in the actual book Meyers writes that the vampires sparkle. Only in direct sunlight though, which is why they tend to avoid it*.
My friend and I didn’t get far enough into the book for Bella to notice Edward’s sparkletude, but there’s a description of him that’s quoted frequently on the Web (someone may have posted it in this thread already, but I’m too lazy to check):
“Incandescent” and “scintillating” are meant literally there. No, really.
Oh, I agree with those above saying that the books do have great covers. They’d caught my eye before I’d even heard of the series. Fortunately the description of the book was enough to put me off before I wasted any money.
*This may be the single stupidest thing in the entire history of vampire fiction.
It sounds like a version of beauty and the beast, only this Edward fellow is both the beauty and the beast, and the beast part was written out.
Since no one else posted it here is the same artists take on the end of the series, and no it is not satire either: Breaking Dawn - Breaking Minds
A co-worker of mine actually said to me, “I wish my husband were more like Edward,” so no, sadly, it’s not satire. I don’t think people have really thought it through when they wish for an Edward in their lives (Meyer included).
She goes on for eight minutes like that?
I can’t be worse than Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake novels, can it?
Leave Outraged Fan alone! Leave her alone, okay!
Having just gotten halfway through the first Anita Blake novel last night, let me assure you that whatever happens in the rest of the series the first half of the first book shows more wit, ingenuity, conflict, and humor than the whole of the Twilight series.
I flipped through this series in the bookstore…seemed like it was basically porn masquerading as fantasy novels so you could read 'em on the plane.
OTOH, I would not be caught dead with Twilight on the train. Though I see plenty of 20somethings reading them on the way in to downtown LA.
I only made it through the first 45 seconds. Time is brain (and money)–a terrible thing to waste.
All that is true? He really breaks her bones while they are having sex and the baby really breaks her spine? This is a kid’s book?
I don’t think he breaks her bones, but he bruises her quite badly. The baby breaks her ribs while kicking and breaks her spine on the way out. This is what happens when you fall for the perfect man!
It’s young adult, I think.
[spoiler]And yes, that all happens. Bella wakes up from her first coital night with Edward covered in bruises, and their bed is destroyed.
Bella’s baby breaks her ribs while in the womb, and her birth is horrific. Her spine indeed breaks, and Edward has to deliver the baby by tearing through Bella’s uterus with his teeth. He then injects vampire venom directly into her heart, which turns Bella into the Bestest of all Possible Vampires and repairs the damage.[/spoiler]