Cheers!
impressionable people are sheep.
They see AVATAR and come away hating the military. As if it were real or something.
Sheep are ridiculous.
Other than the fact that it's mental porn for chicks?
Its pure fantasy and not a very exciting one.
yawn. i’m tired of these bogus “controversies” the media loves to manufacture.
write something better or hush up.
It’s a freaking work of fiction! Good grief! If these books pried some kids’ hands away from the computer keyboard and made them crack open a book, it’s nothing but a good thing.
lol...last thanksgiving a friends 6 yr old daughter was asked to list what she was most thankful for..she listed being a vampire and having plenty of blood...hehhehe
My problem with Twilight is different.
I think a young girl obsessed with Twilight is at risk for an unhealthy romantic relationship.
Edward give emotional whiplash and physical pain to everyone involved with him, yet he is represented as being the only possible love of this girl’s life. She actually throws herself into the sea out of desperation to be near him.
He’s a classic abusive partner.
Today, teen girls are obsessed with the Twilight Series....next year they will be obsessed with some new boy band that seems to come along every couple of years while their Twilight paraphernalia gathers dust.
Here is some more from around the web:
...The books run the risk of desensitizing a generation of readers to abuse. Bella, the book’s heroine, is subjected to a litany of abuses and not only accepts it, but finds it romantic. Her love interest, Edward, stalks her, watches her sleep and controls every moment of her life...
Here are 20 things women learn from Twilight (from wired.com):
•If a boy is aloof, stand-offish, ignores you or is just plain rude, it is because he is secretly in love with you — and you are the point of his existence.
•Secrets are good — especially life-threatening ones.
•It’s OK for a potential romantic interest to be dimwitted, violent and vengeful — as long as he has great abs.
•If a boy tells you to stay away from him because he is dangerous and may even kill you, he must be the love of your life. You should stay with him since he will keep you safe forever.
•If a boy leaves you, especially suddenly (while telling you he will never see you again), it is because he loves you so much he will suffer just to keep you safe.
•When a boy leaves you, going into shock, losing all your friends and enduring night terrors are completely acceptable occurrences — as long as you keep your grades up.
•It is extremely romantic to put yourself in dangerous situations in order to see your ex-boyfriend again. It’s even more romantic to remember the sound of his voice when he yelled at you.
•Boys who leave you always come back.
•Because they come back, you should hold out, waiting for them for months, even when completely acceptable and less-abusive alternative males present themselves.
•Even though you have no intention of dating an alternative male who expresses interest in you, it is fine to string the young man along for months. Also, you should use him to fix things for you. Maybe he’ll even buy you something.
•You should use said male to fix things because girls are incapable of anything mechanical or technical.
•Lying to your parents is fine. Lying to your parents while you run away to save your suicidal boyfriend is an extremely good idea that shows your strength and maturity. Also, it is what you must do.
•Car theft in the service of love is acceptable.
•If the boy you are in love with causes you (even indirectly) to be so badly beaten you end up in the hospital, you should tell the doctors and your family that you “fell down the steps” because you are such a silly, clumsy girl. That false explanation always works well for abused women.
•Men can be changed for the better if you sacrifice everything you are and devote yourself to their need for change.
•Young women should make no effort to improve their social skills or emotional state. Instead, they should seek out potential mates that share their morose deficiencies and emotional illnesses.
•Girls shouldn’t always read a book series just because everyone else has.
•When writing a book series, it’s acceptable to lift seminal source material and bastardize it with tired, overwrought teenage angst.
•When making or watching a major feature film, you should gleefully embrace the 20 minutes of plot it provides in between extended segments of vacant-eyed silence and self-indulgent, moaning banter.
•Vampires — once among the great villains of literature and motion pictures — are no longer scary. In fact, they’re every bit as whiny, self-absorbed and impotent as any human being.
I've seen lots of weird things in my lifetime, but this whole vampire fad has to be the weirdest.
Until the next thing, which I really don't want to know about.
Edward is constantly stalking and threatening Bella’s life.
I don’t get it either.
REAL vampirism??? If Wohlberg thinks there's such a thing as real vampirism, he's a *lot* more unhinged than the silly teenagers who are going through a phase of pretending to be vampires.
Where is your ‘barf alert’?
From Steve Wohlberg’s web site:
“I woke up (on that June 2nd) from a very vivid dream. In my dream, two people were having an intense conversation in a meadow in the woods. One of these people was just your average girl. The other person was fantastically beautiful, sparkly, and a vampire. They were discussing the difficulties inherent in the facts that A) they were falling in love with each other while B) the vampire was particularly attracted to the scent of her blood, and was having a difficult time restraining himself from killing her immediately.” —Stephenie Meyer, her first dream that launched the Twilight saga.
“I actually did have a dream after Twilight was finished of Edward coming to visit me — only I had gotten it wrong and he did drink blood like every other vampire and you couldn’t live on animals the way I’d written it. We had this conversation and he was terrifying.” —Stephenie Meyer, her second dream after her first Twilight book was finished.
“Now in this day and age it seems impossible that anyone can believe in this nonsense [real vampirism], but in pop culture vampires are making a comeback in a big way. The blockbuster movie, Twilight is setting box office records on the big screen, while HBO’s True Blood is heating up the small screen… But vampires aren’t just tinsel town moneymakers, there’s actually a vampire subculture that exists in the United States right now and spreads into almost every community in this country.” —Sean Hannity, Fox News Report, Night Neighbors.
“We have clearly defined goals, projects, and activities that we both strive for and follow to completion. In addition to working with an assortment of members from our own community, we also consult with members of the media, law enforcement, clergy, and academia along with paranormalists, metaphysists, and those in related fields of interest to clarify the beliefs and viewpoints held by the majority of those who identify themselves as “real vampires.” —The Atlanta Vampire Alliance, quoted on their website (Mission and FAQ section).
“You shall not eat anything with the blood, nor shall you practice divination or soothsaying” (The Holy Bible, Leviticus 19:26, NKJV, emphasis added)
I am glad that I am not the parent of a teenage girl, if I was my kid would HATE me. Although I found the Twilight series pretty much mindless entertainment, it was pretty tame.
However, this craze that has developed and led to books like one I partially read recently called “Eternal Hunger” by Cynthia Eden. Listed as a ‘Paranormal Romance’ it was really more along the lines of one of those X-rated sex stories that are sent in to Hustler magazine. I am not kidding, VERY explicit and is the first book I have EVER encountered from a public library that should have had an adults only warning label.
Cheers!
Not to mention that the books had a lot of intentional humor in them--and I don't mean the silly plot, but some pretty good gags. Edward is really something of a prude, grumpy, self-righteous and designed to be so. Bella is a terrible clutz. But she drives an old, rusty truck and holds down a part-time job, takes care of her dad, feels horrible guilt when she lies to him...
I think too much is being made of this. The book has many moral dilemmas, so at least the author knows about morals.
This explains why I’m so goofed up - the only stuff I ever read growing up was Jules Verne and HG Wells.