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ampersandwitch:
So...midnight sun. The lame 'and you'll never see the rest of it ever again because i'm put out waah' seems incredibly immature. It is rumored that Midnight Sun itself is a piece of work that Meyer wrote because the characterization of Edward is so bad that Robert Pattinson couldn't figure out his motivations well enough to act him in the upcoming movie. The way she handled its leakage makes it seem like she's trying to punish someone, but to her own admission, the leak wasn't even malicious. The writing isn't anywhere near rewarding, as she writes Edward not like the supposedly magnanimous, selfless, wise centuagenarian that she's previously described him as being, but a petulant near-adult who is bored by being in high school. Is that aspect ever explained? Why is a vampire in high school? Why does he bother?
The stories read like shameless wish fulfillment fantasy, a fact that becomes painfully clear in the fourth book, which concludes with 200 pages of every character remarking what a great vampire the already Mary Sueish character has become. She mentions basing the character on her own experiences, even the ridiculous manner in which Bella is hounded at her new school. If you decide to delve further into the crevices of this self indulgent website, you can find pictures of an event called 'Eclipse Prom,' which is... a prom, thrown for the release of Eclipse. There are 'lookalike contests' for the two main Garys, Jacob and Edward. In this picture, Meyer herself poses as Bella.
As they say in fandom, 'squick'worthy.
tuna ketchup x:
Immature AND unprofessional. It's unfortunate that your baby got out before you were happy with it, but it happens. And this isn't like a locked diary getting published; this is something meant for publication. It would be like a director pulling a plug on a film because a badly cut bootleg was being sold in Hong Kong.
Articles I've read from ex-Scientologists who were not celebrities or high-ranking members have led me to believe it's not just a front. Or it is, but there are people who are gullible enough or hopeless enough to grasp at anything. Those people give away their fortunes to the cult, sign "billion year contracts" that bind them to working at the cult's centers for looong hours, lose their connections with their families, etc. Regular cult stuff. I read that once you reach OT III (the Xenu story) most people start to disbelieve but at that point you've already poured so much of your time and money into $ology that you feel compelled to stay. And also you get treated better once you reach that stage. But still not as good as a celebrity. But I have read that recruitment rates among regular folks are way down since that South Park episode, so yay! Of course Will Smith is now a $ologist, so boo to that. But now I guess I'm getting off track with this. One of my major college papers was on $ology so I'm always frothing at the mouth to talk about it.
Tom:
Religions can and do have a tendency to bleed into one's own works. Tuna Ketchup x hit the nail on the head. Imagist, you just interpreted it as an outright insult.
jimbunny:
That's because you phrased it as an insult. You could try leading with your well-reasoned arguments next time, so that other people don't have to fill them in for you.
imagist42:
Man, I do not take things to be insulting that are not pretty blatantly insulting. I mean, I am a chill guy but even my immediate reaction was "WTF?"
Also, religion "bleeding" into works is a wholly separate thing from religion founding and defining works. The former can actually be pretty interesting. What Stephenie Meyer does is the latter, and it is not so much.
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