Monday, January 05, 2009
Twilight
Stephenie Meyer
2005
This is an adolescent novel about vampires.
This book bothers me because it targets deep thinking pre-teen girls but it is very poorly written. Anne Rice could construct a brilliant sentence and understood the proper use of adjectives. I'm not sure if Meyer is a poor writer, or she has dumbed down her writing trying to appeal to adolescents. Either way, her writing is inexcusable. I read it because I wanted to talk about it wit my students. The story wasn't horrible. The story is basically My So Called Life if Jared Leto was a vampire. She falls in love with him, evil vampires come to fight, and love triumphs. Worse than the writing is Meyer seems to make up her own rules for vampire behaviour, which is sort of over the line for fantasy writers, especially ones that are so widely read. They should respect the tradition.
Stephenie Meyer
2005
This is an adolescent novel about vampires.
This book bothers me because it targets deep thinking pre-teen girls but it is very poorly written. Anne Rice could construct a brilliant sentence and understood the proper use of adjectives. I'm not sure if Meyer is a poor writer, or she has dumbed down her writing trying to appeal to adolescents. Either way, her writing is inexcusable. I read it because I wanted to talk about it wit my students. The story wasn't horrible. The story is basically My So Called Life if Jared Leto was a vampire. She falls in love with him, evil vampires come to fight, and love triumphs. Worse than the writing is Meyer seems to make up her own rules for vampire behaviour, which is sort of over the line for fantasy writers, especially ones that are so widely read. They should respect the tradition.
# posted by mz @ 6:31 PM 
