Twilight

[geogal]

It reminds me of the South Park episode where Kyle started hanging out with the Goth kids. 

Butters:  'I'd rather be a crying little p$$y than a f@ggy little goth.'

[Spooky]

I've been getting a hard time for reading the Twilight series from several friends and have had a hard time explaining why took the time to read the whole series if I didn't think it was a really good, well written and so on. Well, I like it a little more than this guy does, but I like the way he explains why he read the whole series. 

I'm not a fan of the Twilight books. In fact, I curse the demented determination to pursue a storyline to the bitter end which made me plough on, reading through yawns, to the end of Breaking Dawn. But the wretched things do generate a dreary, low-level addiction, like a toothache. Eventually the nagging throb drives you to Waterstone's – or preferably to a similarly afflicted friend's to borrow their copy, grudging the engorgement of Ms Meyer's coffers – for another dose of lo-cal piffle. Still suffering, I'll almost certainly go and see the film, my head bemused and at war with itself. But I won't enjoy it.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/booksblog/2009/jan/08/twilight-vampire

[Pearl@32]

Speaking of week minded, or rather, impressionable individuals...

My mom is a health tech at a local elementary school and there is this one young girl (5th or 6th grade?) who considers herself and emo girl, anyway, she came into the health room last week and she had glitter all over her exposed skin and my mom asked why and she said she was a vampire like in Twilight. The girl went on to explain the whole Twilight series to her, in great detail, while waiting for her mom to come pick her up. 

Unfortunately, you are impressionable in school. Crazy that it's down to elementary. The punk clique was quite small back in my high school in the late 80's, like about 10-15 of them. Now it's more mainstream with the advent of Hot Topic to outfit a teenager from head to toe. But I can relate.

I knew a guy who was a year older than me, part of the punk crowd and wore a leather jacket, dyed his hair white blond, worshipped Anne Rice and Bauhaus, and would occasionally come to school with a mohawk and powdered/white makeup on his face. I was interested in a friend of his, who was interested in me until he knew I wouldn't put out, but the white blond guy and I became friends. It was hard to be friends with him because of the way he dressed. The crowd he ran with was pretty exclusive and into drugs. Still, he came over to my house once with another mutual punk friend (this guy was my age and in some of my classes) — when my parents were there — to watch "Sid and Nancy" and eat pizza. (I really don't know how we got away with that!) I crushed on him but we never got together and he never sucked my blood. Oh darn.

I'm leaving the whole Twilight thing alone. Harry Potter and Lego Batman is enough for me.

[Spooky]

I'm leaving the whole Twilight thing alone. Harry Potter and Lego Batman is enough for me.

That may be a good choice. It is like crack, I've head that said many times from peeps I know who've read it. I have also read a lot of very bad reviews that not only bash the books, but bash the people who read them. I can't understand why people do that? If you don't like something, fine, write about it all you want, but don't be a petty idiot and bash the people who like it.

[Saxon]

I'm beginning to think they might have tinged the pages of the darn Twilight books with real CRACK! Gingi has managed to read all FOUR of the books since Christmas...even carrying the lastest with her at DISNEYLAND to read whenever she could! Now, if you know my kid and Disneyland, you can get an understanding as to just how scary that is.

She's sort of regretting reading them all so fast...she just realized that she will have nothing to read on the 'road trip' that Survivors is going on back to D.C. and then back across the Country for their 'tour'.

[Consigliere5]

even carrying the lastest with her at DISNEYLAND to read whenever she could!

[Saxon]

even carrying the lastest with her at DISNEYLAND to read whenever she could!

I know!!

[Spooky]

Harry Potter beats out Twilight as the book of the decade

http://scifiwire.com/2009/11/harry-potter-beats-out-tw.php

Sorry, Stephenie Meyer! A movie made from your books may have won the weekend at the box office, but your novel Twilight only came in at #32 on a list of 100 books that defined a decade....

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I am sure Stephanie is crying her eyes out while lounging in her HUGE pile of money... Poor thing.