Just be glad you stopped at the boring part. You are not seeing the suicidal-it's-totally-not-suicide-psychpathy that Bella exhibits in the second one, with its pointlessly stupid 'climax'. You missed the derailing of the ONLY good character in the series (Charlie) and a boring 'war' with another vampire, where the villain is apparently so scary that Bella faints at her mere name, yet seems to conveniently forget she exists three seconds after the name has been mentioned. And the entire pile of baloney that was the last one, with all its lovely rapey, pedophil-y, boring, look-at-what-*I*-could-have-been whining on Meyer's side about how she thinks her life sucks.
I've read das_mervin's sporkings of the books, and I'm glad I stopped when I did. Some of that stuff is outright sick, and it seems like the fans don't even register it. Gross.
@TheFuzzinator: My only two hopes are that the fans who actually thought Twilight was good, and I mean as in actually good and not what some people call a guilty pleasure, will very soon grow out of this mindset very fast and realize that the world does not and will not work that way and how horrible Twilight actually is.
When I feel not so generous, I want all those girls who swoon and 'want an Edward' in their life to get stuck in an emotionally and verbally abusive relationship, just the way Edward is in the books and for them to learn that it's NOT a desireable relationship, after all.
@catmuto The sad thing is, a lot of them probably just graduated upward to Fifty Shades of Grey. I\'m just praying that that piece of trash doesn\'t spawn its own fan fiction franchise. Sooner or later this kind of garbage has to fall out of style, or so I hope.
@TheFuzzinator: Honestly, if they did, I hope they went online and just looked at porn. That shit, despite being super unrealistic, is at least kinkier than anything in 50 Shades. (Heck, I had an EEG yesterday and when the woman was putting the straps around my wrists, that was kinkier than anything in 50 Shades) And then they will realize what contrite shit they've been reading and hopefully go read good books. Like Harry Potter. Or Ballet Shoes.
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Bleh
Though I had heard Twilight was bad, I tried to read it anyway, because I didn't want to be one of those people who ragged on something without having read it first. I didn't even reach the infamous Meadow Scene.
Why not? It was boring. I'd read all these excerpts of hilariously bad writing, but I couldn't stick with it long enough to find them. It was just completely dull, and every terrible thing I'd heard about Edward and Bella was borne out. I don't think I've ever run across a blander, whinier protagonist than Bella, ever. Edward gets a lot of (deserved) flak for being a sociopath, but she's just as bad, and a raging narcissist to boot. I don't think I've ever found a character whose reality was so at odds with what the creator not doubt intended.
The writing itself is amateurish; I would have thought it written by a teenage girl. And the thing is, I've read The Host — Meyer is actually capable of being a competent writer, so I don't know what the hell her excuse is with Twilight.
How did this get so popular? How? Paranormal YA romance is nothing new, and the only thing that sets Twilight apart is the god damn sparkling (and the sociopathy). Who got bribed, and with what? Now, admittedly, I was never into paranormal romance YA even when I was in the age bracket (which I haven't been in longer than I care to think about), but the things I did read were infinitely better than this garbage. I was too bored to stick around even for the Bile Fascination.