<p>didn’t read the book, my sis is obsessed with it.</p>
<p>My junior daughter would love to read this thread; she seems to be the only girl in her school that does not worship Stephanie Meyer. Even her 34 year old step-sister loves all 3 books! Yuck.</p>
<p>^What other authors has he said that about? Just out of curiousity.</p>
<p>I’m just going to start writing trash for mindless teenage girls to make a few bucks. I don’t even understand how people would assert that she is superior to Stephen King. That makes me puke in my mouth a little. Have you read his books? Jesus Christ.</p>
<p>I read the article too and Im a big Twilight fan, but in the end, I have to agree with Stephen.</p>
<p>I’m offended when fangirls say that Twilight is “like, soooooooooooo much better than gross, nerdy Harry Potter… Ewwwww!” </p>
<p>Ugh, Twilight doesn’t hold a candle to Harry Potter. They are ok, I read them but all of this fandom has put me off from them. I read the books that were out at the time two years ago way before it became so big and now I don’t really care for them because of all the media speculation around it. Harry Potter on the other hand, is a masterpiece!</p>
<p>But I also think Stephen King was out of line as well. Yes, Meyer’s writing style doesn’t compare to his or JK Rowling, but you also have to keep in mind the audience she is catering too. The language has to be simple and easily keep attention. If it wasn’t such a light read, I don’t think it would be so big. No offense to teenage girls or anything, I am one myself, but lots of non-CC/honors/ambitious girls need things to be simple because they are too wrapped up in petty and materialistic things.</p>
<p>As a former Twitlighter, those books bug the heck out of me because Stephenie Meyer breaks so many laws she established. In the last book, she deviates drastically from her own canon! Improper use of grammar and poor syntax aside, that’s purely the mark of a bad author.</p>
<p>They aren’t the worst books. I like them, but they are what they are–entertainment/fluff. I didn’t read them with the expectation of them being a masterpiece. However it is nice to have some mindless reading where I can read 400 pages in a few hours, when my life is dominated by reading Confederate manucscripts and secondary sources about Cherokee Indians who served the Confederacy.</p>
<p>Stephen King has done another service to society.</p>
<p>Meyer IS a terrible writer - but as the poster above me said, she writes fluffy teen romances for 14-year-old girls and moms with the fantasies of 14-year-old girls. It’s a bit like criticizing R. L. Stine for writing the Goosebumps series at a 4th-grade reading level for - oh yeah, 4th graders.</p>
<p>Stephen King writes absolutely brilliant horror novels; I own at least 12 of them. That aside, Stephen King is also a condescending narcissist who was an alcoholic and drug addict for the better part of his career (he got to the point where he drank so much during the creation of one novel - Cujo - that to this day he can’t remember writing a word of it). Half of his protagonists are thinly-veiled self-inserts (let’s have someone call YOU out for it, King), his novels are unnecessarily long and repetitive, and he often becomes so enthralled in describing minute details about irrelevant characters that he takes until the final third of a novel to actually get around to moving the plot forward. </p>
<p>Stephen King is a good writer and a jerk. In this case, he is a correct jerk.</p>
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<p>Seconded. </p>
<p>And Stephenie Meyer wasn’t writing to a teenage audience, she was writing to an audience of young stay at home mothers in their twenties-- since she wrote the first book for her own enjoyment, and that’s what she was. </p>
<p>I don’t think the books are any more fluffy than Stephen King’s, actually. I’ve read a couple of his books, and there’s nothing there that keeps me thinking about them after I put them down. Good temporary entertainment is all. As is Twilight, but I enjoyed it more.</p>
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Lol, you read for fun? Well…</p>
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Because like you have an opinion, so do others…and it just happens to be a not-so-great one. Simply because it’s popular or “sells well” does not give any preconceived barrier to forming any negative opinions about it.</p>
<p>Oh and those comparing the Potters and this book, I’ve read a lil bit of both, and even I have to say that the Potter books are a bit better (it’s still boring bs IMO).</p>
<p>Invoyable: </p>
<p>Maybe fantasy is just not your genre.</p>
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Keshira:</p>
<p>Maybe reading books just isn’t my thing.</p>
<p>Hence, I’ve read a total of like 3 books in the past 3 years combined. But you’re right, I think most of fantasy is pretty garbage anyways.</p>
<p>I have to say im a big harry potter and stephen king fan and I totally agree with his comment. I hate how no one even bothered reading the books until the movie came out. then i saw people even reading them during lunch!!
people that don’t read for fun mind you
kind of pathetic if you ask me
maybe if you have something like candide or atleast something original in your hands i might think highly of you
otherwise im like “look at that wanna be reader wasting their lunch time”</p>
<p>Intellectual elitism is no fun.</p>
<p>Also, Stephen King is basically Twilight for men. </p>
<p>Or maybe football is Twilight for men. </p>
<p>Things that young women like always seem to be looked down upon. Example: Action movies vs. Chick flicks… they aren’t that different in depth, but in respect given? (And this is from a lover of action movies who never watches chick flicks).</p>
<p>Alsoooo… intellectual elitism is no fun.</p>
<p>It’s not intellectual elitism.</p>
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<p>Twilight, doesn’t sound like a novel I would find very sweet…</p>
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How do you not? Reading is one of the best pastimes a person can have. </p>
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Not-so-great opinion? Says the person who doesn’t like to read? :P</p>
<p>I never said anything about protecting it from negative opinions. Some people won’t like it at all; others will heavily relate to it. That doesn’t make them childish, shallow, or any of the other stereotypes associated with Twilight lovers. Simply looking for a book to enjoy and nothing more isn’t a sin.</p>