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[swordmage]

I recently got my hands on a PDF of Twilight.

I'm about 50 pages in and can't. go. any. further.

It's just not very good.


Someone on FW mentioned they'd read it because it was compared by a friend to Sunshine by Robin McKinley.

I agree with the hell no.

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[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

Someone on my flist was trying to read them too, and linked to a really funny lj where the writer totally snarked it. I can't remember who, though. If I find it, I'll show you. It was funny.

It does sound just horrible.

[swordmage.livejournal.com]

I've got links for a few write-ups.

Figured I'd give it a shot to see what all the fuss was about. Great bit is, it's a PDF, so I found the (infamous) sparkle scene/description.

Edward in the sunlight was shocking. I couldn't get used to it, though I'd been staring at him
all afternoon. His skin, white despite the faint flush from yesterday's hunting trip, literally
sparkled, like thousands of tiny diamonds were embedded in the surface. He lay perfectly still
in the grass, his shirt open over his sculpted, incandescent chest, his scintillating arms bare. His
glistening, pale lavender lids were shut, though of course he didn't sleep. A perfect statue,
carved in some unknown stone, smooth like marble, glittering like crystal.

Yeah...

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

Pale lavender eyelids?

No wonder we get so many horrible fanfic writers, when "real" writers get away with this sort of thing.

[zinjadu.livejournal.com]

Those are really awful, awful books. I tried, really tried to read them. AND THEN HAD TO STOP READING THEM.

I never, ever put books down and not finish them. Ever. This was a rare exception. For the sake of my brains!

[raventhourne.livejournal.com]

So who wrote this awfulness?

[swordmage.livejournal.com]

One Stephanie Meyer.

[ash-blackwell.livejournal.com]

I've never read the young adult trilogy Swordmage is referencing, but the writer is Stephanie Meyer. I /have/ read her new one "The Host" and it was good enough I re-read it immediately, though I will admit the first 50-70 pages were more than a bit rough. I chalked it up the cross over from young adult to adult fiction. I’m surprised she was published the first time if that is an example of the writing skill shown in her first work…