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So I keep going back and forth on whether or not I should bother reading Twilight. I keep hearing people talk about it, and the thing is, if everyone either loved or hated it, I would be more likely to read it because I think really good things provoke more extreme emotions (as do really bad things; more on that later). But the responses from people whose opinions I value are just sort of ... mediocre. Like, I've heard the plot is good but the writing isn't that great. And I've heard that Edward is supposed to be basically perfect (physically anyway), which already annoys me because that's so ... fanfic. And not good fanfic.
Anyway, one of my RL!friends has started reading the series, and she loves it, and was like, "OMG, you totally need to read it, it's fantastic!" Of course, I wanted to be like, "What do you know? You've never read Pride and Prejudice. You've never even read Harry Potter!" Not like P&P is the end all, be all, or even like I've read a ton of Jane Austen myself. Okay, so I've only read P&P and Emma. Whatever. I still know more about literature than this girl. More importantly, she's never read HP, which is the same genre (that's right, isn't it?), so I don't really trust her judgment about Fantasy, to be honest.
My main concern with Twilight is that it all sounds too much to me like the new Eragon. Remember how a few years back everyone was calling Eragon "The New Harry Potter", and Christopher Paolini was going around doing a ton of book signings, and everyone was squeeing over the film coming out and stuff? Yeah, that's what Twilight is like now. It's like Twilight is Eragon for girls. And that's really why I can't decide whether or not to read it. Because I read Eragon because everyone was into it, and it turned out to be crap. Utter crap. And granted, Stephenie Meyer isn't sixteen, which is definitely hugely in her favor, but I don't want to waste my time reading her books if they're crap.
Plus, I've heard Twilight is more a romance series, and I don't really care about romance that much. I mean, I'm a shipper as much as the next fan, but I prefer shipping on the side. One of the reasons I love Harry Potter so much is because it managed to be interesting for three books without romance. And then it managed to be interesting for four books more without romance ever playing the central role. In fact, the most romance-centric HP book (HBP) is my least favourite, and a huge reason it's my least favourite is because it's so romance-centric. I don't read Harry Potter for the romance. I don't read anything for the romance. That's why I haven't read a lot of Jane Austen. That's why my favourite book by L. M. Montgomery is A Tangled Web. That's why I read mostly Fantasy and Sci-Fi and Mystery, because those genres generally don't center on romance. I enjoy romance subplots, but if the romance is what makes the story interesting, then I don't care about the story very much. So I don't think I'll care very much about Twilight if it's mostly romance.
*sigh* I guess I should just suck it up and read the first book and decide for myself. That's what I had to do with Eragon in the end, and more importantly, that's what I had to do with Harry Potter, and obviously Harry Potter completely changed my life. Not that expect Twilight to change my life like that, because I think HP is the kind of thing that really only comes once a generation, if that. But you know what I mean.
Anyway, one of my RL!friends has started reading the series, and she loves it, and was like, "OMG, you totally need to read it, it's fantastic!" Of course, I wanted to be like, "What do you know? You've never read Pride and Prejudice. You've never even read Harry Potter!" Not like P&P is the end all, be all, or even like I've read a ton of Jane Austen myself. Okay, so I've only read P&P and Emma. Whatever. I still know more about literature than this girl. More importantly, she's never read HP, which is the same genre (that's right, isn't it?), so I don't really trust her judgment about Fantasy, to be honest.
My main concern with Twilight is that it all sounds too much to me like the new Eragon. Remember how a few years back everyone was calling Eragon "The New Harry Potter", and Christopher Paolini was going around doing a ton of book signings, and everyone was squeeing over the film coming out and stuff? Yeah, that's what Twilight is like now. It's like Twilight is Eragon for girls. And that's really why I can't decide whether or not to read it. Because I read Eragon because everyone was into it, and it turned out to be crap. Utter crap. And granted, Stephenie Meyer isn't sixteen, which is definitely hugely in her favor, but I don't want to waste my time reading her books if they're crap.
Plus, I've heard Twilight is more a romance series, and I don't really care about romance that much. I mean, I'm a shipper as much as the next fan, but I prefer shipping on the side. One of the reasons I love Harry Potter so much is because it managed to be interesting for three books without romance. And then it managed to be interesting for four books more without romance ever playing the central role. In fact, the most romance-centric HP book (HBP) is my least favourite, and a huge reason it's my least favourite is because it's so romance-centric. I don't read Harry Potter for the romance. I don't read anything for the romance. That's why I haven't read a lot of Jane Austen. That's why my favourite book by L. M. Montgomery is A Tangled Web. That's why I read mostly Fantasy and Sci-Fi and Mystery, because those genres generally don't center on romance. I enjoy romance subplots, but if the romance is what makes the story interesting, then I don't care about the story very much. So I don't think I'll care very much about Twilight if it's mostly romance.
*sigh* I guess I should just suck it up and read the first book and decide for myself. That's what I had to do with Eragon in the end, and more importantly, that's what I had to do with Harry Potter, and obviously Harry Potter completely changed my life. Not that expect Twilight to change my life like that, because I think HP is the kind of thing that really only comes once a generation, if that. But you know what I mean.