Comments on: Twilighttwilighttwilight. http://empty-cage.net/twilighttwilighttwilight/ the bird flew away Thu, 10 Mar 2011 19:31:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Mia http://empty-cage.net/twilighttwilighttwilight/comment-page-1/#comment-1827 Mia Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:40:47 +0000 http://empty-cage.net/?p=356#comment-1827 Oh, Twilight. I have this massive love/hate relationship with it. It moved more towards "hate" last semester when I was student teaching & met Junior High kids who worshiped Stephanie Meyer. See, I think that adults can read it and see it the way I do- as intellectual cotton candy wrapped in escapism and unintentional humor. Kids don't have that filter, and see it as "a blueprint on how relationships should work." THAT scares me. Oh, Twilight. I have this massive love/hate relationship with it. It moved more towards “hate” last semester when I was student teaching & met Junior High kids who worshiped Stephanie Meyer. See, I think that adults can read it and see it the way I do- as intellectual cotton candy wrapped in escapism and unintentional humor. Kids don’t have that filter, and see it as “a blueprint on how relationships should work.” THAT scares me.

]]> By: Mom http://empty-cage.net/twilighttwilighttwilight/comment-page-1/#comment-1472 Mom Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:43:33 +0000 http://empty-cage.net/?p=356#comment-1472 OK, OK, I agree on the big huge target on the back thing -- the machine springs into action. BUT, and this is a huge BUT. Let's face it. At it's heart Twilight is a romance -- heart-throbbing unrequited and then fulfilled love. Love. Since time immemorial at the heart of, dare I say, all great stories? (alright I can think of some exceptions...) Whether you're Shakespeare or Stephenie (who, by the way can't seem to spell Stephanie) Meyer love is a very entertaining topic. Dumb it down or dumb it up (dumb it up??!!) it makes that plot line sing. I felt the same way about The Da Vinci Code. And there it sat in hardcover on the bestseller list for 2 years. TWO YEARS in HARDCOVER!! A publisher's dream. Not too bad for a bookseller either! I guess I'll end there. Well maybe not, because I just thought of one more thing I want to say in response to your blog and that is this: I think I do get some satisfaction out of people who don't normally read being excited about books. It makes me happy. It was like that with Harry Potter. But the fanaticism I don't get. I don't get it with TV shows either. Maybe I'm just not a fangirl by nature.... OK, OK, I agree on the big huge target on the back thing — the machine springs into action. BUT, and this is a huge BUT. Let’s face it. At it’s heart Twilight is a romance — heart-throbbing unrequited and then fulfilled love. Love. Since time immemorial at the heart of, dare I say, all great stories? (alright I can think of some exceptions…) Whether you’re Shakespeare or Stephenie (who, by the way can’t seem to spell Stephanie) Meyer love is a very entertaining topic. Dumb it down or dumb it up (dumb it up??!!) it makes that plot line sing.

I felt the same way about The Da Vinci Code. And there it sat in hardcover on the bestseller list for 2 years. TWO YEARS in HARDCOVER!! A publisher’s dream. Not too bad for a bookseller either! I guess I’ll end there.

Well maybe not, because I just thought of one more thing I want to say in response to your blog and that is this: I think I do get some satisfaction out of people who don’t normally read being excited about books. It makes me happy. It was like that with Harry Potter. But the fanaticism I don’t get. I don’t get it with TV shows either. Maybe I’m just not a fangirl by nature….

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