Twilight

Interestingly enough, a rumor went around school today that a certain male of the most impressionable nature had read one of the Twilight books. He was ridiculed all day for it..

Don't pity him, please. He can be a real jerk sometimes (unless you're an attractive female---then he'll drool all over you and stoop down to kiss your feet....I digress :lol:).

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Originally Posted by aBIGsheep

Convetional, violent, boring, vampire-baby-momma-killing, relationship.

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Pretty normal than:lol:

Twilight is a wonderful story to read, i myself enjoyed readin it alot.
And Edward is great.. i loved his character alot.

The movie has been released , and i guess the book is way better though everything has be put in to real .. yet they can't mention all the story .

Anyway,I feel this book is good.

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Twilight is a wonderful story to read, i(I) myself enjoyed readin(g) it alot. (a lot)
And Edward is great.. i(I) loved his character alot. ( a lot)

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However, your grammar certainly doesn't speak well for the type of people who read the book.

I know that isn't fair and doesn't encompass everybody, and I'm sorry, but I can never resist a dig at bad grammar.

I love this novel,It's so wonderful.And I think,For anything else, different people have different ideas, we certainly can not view the same.:yawnb:

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Originally Posted by BeccaT

However, your grammar certainly doesn't speak well for the type of people who read the book.

I know that isn't fair and doesn't encompass everybody, and I'm sorry, but I can never resist a dig at bad grammar.

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Lol don't, it's dangerous to correct grammar here ^^

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Originally Posted by Joreads

Pretty normal than:lol:

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That's all just thrown in to make it seem 'exciting'. And the whole keeping the baby even though it's killing you is just propaganda.

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Originally Posted by kelby_lake

That's all just thrown in to make it seem 'exciting'. And the whole keeping the baby even though it's killing you is just propaganda.

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I'm with you on that - can I get an OK from a moderator though, before we head down this road? I know you guys don't like us talking about controversial subjects, but I think this one is central to the text.

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Originally Posted by JBI

I'm with you on that - can I get an OK from a moderator though, before we head down this road? I know you guys don't like us talking about controversial subjects, but I think this one is central to the text.

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So does that mean you have read it now? I am not quite sure how you would know what was central to the plot otherwise?

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Originally Posted by joreads

so does that mean you have read it now? I am not quite sure how you would know what was central to the plot otherwise?

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hahahahaha

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Originally Posted by Allannah

Classic Charm- I don't know why you're talking about mental capacity; I never referred to it whether directly or indirectly. I would appreciate it if you at least tried to interpret what I said correctly! =] I would certainly not say that. My friend Hannah loves the Twilight series, and yet has an IQ of about a billion ^^ You have doubtless not read my former post on the previous page in which I explained why exactly I felt that you could not enjoy both authors both to the same degree.

Actually, since I was about eight or nine when I started reading books in French, I doubt that I really had the capacity to conciously "apply" myself- which is why I used myself as an example to support my point.

To anyone else that I've inadvertently offended: I'M SORRY! x]

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Try to interpret correctly?? I wouldn't try to interpret anything any other way...:confused: I'm not looking to be insulted, Allannah. If that's not what you meant, my apologies for jumping on you:) As for my comment on mental capacity, I don't quite understand what other type of capacity one uses when reading...I had read your post explaining your view, but it still lead me to believe that a connection to work like Twilight meant that one could not have a thorough understanding of more (for lack of a better term) accomplished work. Really, it was your use of the phrase "because it's so evidently lacking" in reference to Twilight. It simply made me think that if a reader does not "realize" that Twilight is lacking, he or she would not be able to appreciate a classic, more distinguished work. Hopefully that explains my thought process to you. :)

Thank you for your apology, and my own to you for misinterpretation.

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Originally Posted by Joreads

So does that mean you have read it now? I am not quite sure how you would know what was central to the plot otherwise?

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I read what you guys put - I merely wanted an OK from a mod in order to begin looking at that, as abortion, and other topics relate to it are generally hot-button issues.

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Originally Posted by JBI

I read what you guys put - I merely wanted an OK from a mod in order to begin looking at that, as abortion, and other topics relate to it are generally hot-button issues.

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I still don't see how you can argue one way or the other by piggy backing our thoughts on the novel. Don't get me wrong if people have read the book, or at least given it a good go and didn't like it I am fine with that and more than happy to talk about it. But to simply read what a few people think and than deciding what side of the fence you are on from that doesn't seem to have a lot of merit to me. Does that make sense to you?


PS as far as I am concerned the central theme is the love story between Edward and Bella not the baby or the choice that was made in regards to it

Agreeing with Jo on this...as I'm sure you can guess, JBI:D

Unless you have read the book, you can't understand the circumstances behind the pregnancy with respect to the characters and yes, the fact that they're vampires does matter to the discussion of unwanted pregnancy, abortion, etc.

To have heard that the girl gets pregnant by a vampire and the baby is supposed to claw its way out of her is not a good enough background.

I will, of course, also await the go ahead by a moderator before I say anything more.:)

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Originally Posted by Joreads

I still don't see how you can argue one way or the other by piggy backing our thoughts on the novel. Don't get me wrong if people have read the book, or at least given it a good go and didn't like it I am fine with that and more than happy to talk about it. But to simply read what a few people think and than deciding what side of the fence you are on from that doesn't seem to have a lot of merit to me. Does that make sense to you?


PS as far as I am concerned the central theme is the love story between Edward and Bella not the baby or the choice that was made in regards to it

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I gave it three pages, more than it deserved. Just because its popular poorly written cliché doesn't mean I should be forced to read it before commenting.

It's like saying I must read every bad book before being able to say they are bad. As a student of contemporary literature, that puts me in a problem spot - how the hell can one read good books, if they are forced to finish every bad book before they are "allowed to comment". The point is, I saw the thread heading in a direction, and I wanted to approach it from perspective points, but am awaiting a go ahead, as it is rather pushing against some of the forum rules, mainly the no discussing current events, which could or could not include said subjects.

But yeah, I haven't read the book, so I can't comment on said subjects right? I'm not a Twilight authority, so I can't comment on politics.



On another note, how the **** am I supposed to comment on the fourth book of a mediocre series, without reading the whole thing. By that notion, every review of that book is naturally biased, given that the readers had first wanted to continue after the first one, therefore rendering the reading relative to other volumes in the series, rather than to literature in general.

But yeah, sit back and enjoy your thread, because I'm not allowed to comment, right? I haven't read the whole book, so I clearly no nothing about the American tradition, or American politics in novels.