darkslayer13;223353 said:
but it is still worth reading at least once.
the hype says the book is whould rank 50 in a rating system that only goes up to 10. i whould give it a 7 out of 10.
Personally I have to disagree with the first statement. I wish I'd never read Twilight, it was
that disappointing, aside from the fact that it read like a watered down rip-off of Vampire Diaries (I'm sure anybody big into the literary world would have heard about those disputes - and BOY, were those ugly disputes)but I won't go into that because...well, I was like one of the ****ed off generals at the front of the Twilight/VD copycat war. It still gets me worked up. As you can see.
Going on the rating scale...well, let's see.
10 - deduct a point for bland prose
9 - deduct a point for revealing sources
8 - deduct a point for too many idling scenes
7 - deduct a point for low moral standards
6 - deduct a point for shallow characters
5 - deduct a point for predictability
4 - deduct a point for unoriginal plot idea
3 - deduct a point for questionable vampires (she never did say exactly WHY they sparkle)
2 - deduct a point for bad first impressions concerning her characters
1 - deduct a point for lack of creativity
So... I could go on, but we're only working on a scale of 10. The only good thing that came out of Twilight is that werewolves (literally the underdog) are made to look better than is portrayed in just about every werewolf story out there. Meyer put more depth into Jacob and his attraction to Bella than she did into anything else. He's the only character that stepped out of the books and greeted me with a wolfish smile. Maybe it's just me, but if the characters aren't three dimensional, then they're not real and all I'm doing is reading words and wasting my time... I could just as well be picking my nose while watching infomercials on TV. Not a pretty visual, but that's how I feel about reading Bella and Edward. There's potential for Carlisle and Emmett, too, but the rest...Mary-Sues, stereotypes. Flat and lifeless. BORING!
Anyway...back on topic, I'm reading The Divine Comedy (and watching it too) and The Langoliers by Stephen King.