Oslowe vs. Twilight. An Epilogue? Or… a prologue?
I should just read those damn books so I can have a really in-depth emal conversation bordering on the Miller/Durrell Corespondeces with Courtney. Because can you imagine how awesome that conversation could be? We might even cure- or at least find a balance- of her werewolf loathing and my uncontrolable laughter at the thought of sparkling vampires.
I’m actually totally serious- I’ve read excerpts on-line, I’ve read OTHER peoples criticisms, it is time I girded my loins and dove into the belly of the beast. I am willing to do this. Until I read those books my opinion isn’t fully informed.
Anybody have copies they’ll loan me? You can just email me if you don’t want to comment, no one has to know that you own the Twilight Saga
I challenge myself, the gauntlet has been tossed down. AVAUNT!
A postscript: My wife, below, points out that she would charge $$ to read them- something we have agreed on in the past. My original post was going to be “loan me the books and buy me the beer/wine I need to get through them” but the fact is, I am willing to buy the mental lubrication myself, in order to be able to have a fully informed convo w/ Courtney (or you, dear reader) about the Twilight phenom.
June 30th, 2010 at 8:09 am
You’re crazy. I won’t read them for less than $25 (per book).
June 30th, 2010 at 8:14 am
I’ve been gathering up the courage to tell you that I have the books, at least the first three, I have to check. And if you would be willing to vanquish them from my apartment, I will send them to you… if I can find where they are shamefully hidden.
You have to read them though. I won’t send them unless you read them so we can properly talk about them. Sorry, I’m not paying $25.
June 30th, 2010 at 9:08 am
p.s. Courtney, thank you for inspiring this exciting event.
June 30th, 2010 at 9:36 am
I have decided that in honor of your self-torture, I will re-read Anne Rice’s novel Belinda, about a 44 year old painter who falls in love with a 16 year old actress and has a lot of sex with her while painting her picture and trying to find out why she ran away from home.
I guarantee it will be better than Twilight. Though it does not have any werewolves, so maybe I am wrong.
June 30th, 2010 at 9:49 am
Annika, you are a brave woman. I love Anne Rice and I wouldn’t dare.
June 30th, 2010 at 10:07 am
Oh, I am SO looking forward to this conversation.
For the record, I read the first one and that’s enough. It was okay, but I don’t fall either in the love or hate categories.
*popcorn*
June 30th, 2010 at 1:33 pm
Maybe I will read Belinda! Annika, will I hate it?
June 30th, 2010 at 6:38 pm
I have all four books that I will gladly loan you. and I’m local and will see you this week.
July 1st, 2010 at 1:40 pm
Nova, I am not sure you will HATE it, but it definitely isn’t very good.
July 2nd, 2010 at 2:13 pm
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July 2nd, 2010 at 5:38 pm
I read Belinda years ago, and all I could think was “This is like Lolita, without the self-aware narrator and the rapiness.” Only I didn’t use the word “rapiness,” because I hadn’t yet seen Banana, Bag & Bodice’s The Sewers, in which the line “Was that rapy? That didn’t seem very rapy” forever changed my vocabulary.
It’s possible that Novy’s daughter still has at least some of the books - she read two or three of them as part of her quest to keep any of her friends from falling for them. (And then wrote a brilliant blog post about them in which she said that if a much older man ever tells you that your relationship is so special that you can’t tell anyone about it - you need to tell someone about it. Right away.)
July 3rd, 2010 at 3:46 am
I didn’t read them for money (oh, hey! it was this weekend last year!), but I read them so that someone else would read all the Harry Potter books, so I feel I did some good for society with my sacrifice. As terribly written as they are, they are strangely engrossing and I couldn’t put them down.
And then I got fired from my job. I know someone else who had a bad breakup just after reading them, so, you know… reader beware. They might be cursed.
July 7th, 2010 at 10:44 am
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July 7th, 2010 at 10:03 pm
i couldn’t make it thru 3 pages of twilight before handing it over to my niece. the lack of characterization and first person voice of bella made me cringe as well as totally disinterested me quickly. kudos for taking this on, will. i would much rather read belinda w/ annika than attempt to pick up that series again.
at the same time you have sparked a discussion btwn shelby and me about my love for the romance novel and my favorite author kathleen e. woodiwiss. he is inspired to read some comparable to meyer’s saga of abusive assholes becoming white knights for the female leads as well as my favorite which breaks that stereotype.
July 9th, 2010 at 12:04 pm
Oh shit, Annika, I read that book!
July 12th, 2010 at 7:57 am
Look, another guy who read Twilight: (he was actually happy that he did)
http://blogs.wsj.com/developments/2010/07/09/bella-and-edward-who-a-real-estate-tycoon-deconstructs-twilight/
July 12th, 2010 at 9:00 pm
THIS ENDEAVOR NEEDS ITS OWN THEME SONG.
JUST SAYIN.