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[ironymaiden]

i read all the damn Twilight books. even though they are awful. i literally threw the latest book across the room while shouting out a reference to the author's religion and a gender-based slur. and then i picked it up several hours later. and finished it. but not without "that's retarded" slipping out a few times. (and OMG "Union Lake" look at a map you stupid bint. shame on you and your editor.)

if you feel any desire to read them, please borrow mine and do not give that vapid woman any more money.

that said:
"...it was the best series starting with a teenage girl in love with a mysterious boy in her class that ended up with a teenage girl defending her growth-accelerated mutant hybrid baby from an ancient clan of evil vampires with her magical psychic shield that I ever read, THE END."-cleolinda

Comments

[raevnos.livejournal.com]

I try to avoid reading books set in Seattle or anywhere else I'm familiar with. Learned the hard way, after a few times throwing books against the wall yelling 'That address can't possibly exist!', or the like. Offenders have included local authors who have no excuse to not know better...

I assume that, say, New Yorkers have the same issue.

[sinthrex.livejournal.com]

Um. No. Thanks.

[scarlettina.livejournal.com]

Your opinion in particular is important to me but I've heard this sort of exasperation with these books from other well-respected friends as well. I'll stay away. I'm reading "Lamb" and having a perfectly wonderful time.

[mimerki.livejournal.com]

Chris Moore is pretty much always a good time. If you haven't read others, feel free to ask to borrow mine.

[thegreymouser.livejournal.com]

You'll be happy to know I am read a book these days. A friend of mine gave me an Iris Johansen (http://www.amazon.com/Face-Deception-Iris-Johansen/dp/0553578022) book and she guilted me into reading it. I can't say I like this author's style of writing. I'm not sure what it is I don't like, but I just don't. However, I'm over half way through and the completist side of me needs to finish it, no matter how bad it is.

[ironymaiden]

and that was the sad thing about the Twilight books. i wanted to get to the end.
(i started to recommend some books i think are good, and then backed off...)

[e-bourne.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for the link. It had me snorting and laughing out loud. Great fun. I can only stand back in disbelief the more I learn about the Twilight phenom. People like that stuff? Really? I guess they do. Looks like crap to me, but each to their own. Most people would run screaming from the room setting their hair on fire rather than read the stuff I swoon over.

[solcita.livejournal.com]

*snork* That is hilarious.

(For the record, I did the same thing when reading "Angels & Demons", more than once)

[craftyasparagus.livejournal.com]

You are much braver than I.

[amheriksha.livejournal.com]

They're a total sick and secret kind of pleasure. I'm not sure why I was addicted, but I was. *ashamed sob*

In all seriousness, yeah, that quote sums things up pretty well. *laughs*

i love my daughter

[coffeedaiv.livejournal.com]

Goddess help her, she loves these books.
Sigh.
So it goes.

Re: i love my daughter

[ironymaiden]

that's the thing: i was somehow able to simultaneously enjoy reading them and hate them for their bad writing and their values.

*do* read the cleolinda summaries. they're a scream, and pretty accurate. if your daughter has the right sense of humor, she might enjoy them too. ('course, i just like to say FURSPLODE.)