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Twilight Series
Vendetagainst:
I was reading the Amazon Twilight fora and saw a LOT of comparisons to Harry Potter, especially by fangirls who used Harry Potter as an example of something worse. I mean really, people, Harry Potter was not an extraordinarily well-written book, but it didn't use shitty purple prose as a crutch either. There was depth and variety in the characters, and the protagonists were not raging dicks. There was actually a sense of adventure in HP, rather than OMG HE'S SO PRETTY bullshit, and at least Potter could occassionally stand on his own two legs from time to time. And he didn't spend the first hundred pages of the book fawning over how fucking great he was. Plus he wasn't a shallow piece of shit.
yelley:
i wrote up my post then i realized that there might still be people in the world that don't know the ending of HP or the twilight series, so be aware there are spoilers in my post. yeah.
i like harry potter better than twilight because j.k. rowling didn't give up on her climactic battle scenes and she wasn't afraid to kill off her characters when characters needed killing. who died in HP? harry's parents, sirius, dumbledore, moody, hedwig, lupin and tonks (yes? been a while since i read them), and more that i know i'm missing. in twilight? um.... harry clearwater? irina... but nobody liked her anyway.
HP:OotP, huge fight in the department of mysteries, sirius dies. in eclipse, meyer takes the main characters away from the main fight and we read about it through edward's translation of seth's thoughts while bella whines about shit, shit gets real for maybe 5 pages and jacob gets injured but of course his superwolf powers save him. lame. the final battle in HP:DH was epic compared to the oh, she's not a dangerous baby after all, i guess we'll mind stab at you for a while until we realize that bella is supernewvampire then we'll give up and go home and give you everything you've always dreamed of. what the hell. harry potter's life was hard. he had bad guys after him all the damn time. bella had bad guys after her and all that happened to her was her leg got smashed and she became immortal.
seriously. there is no comparison to be made between HP and twilight.
Alex C:
I've never read any of the books, but I'm also under the impression that bad things actually happened to Harry from time to time. Like friends and mentors were lost, he's an orphan and when he runs into ancient mysterious creatures they aren't sparkly and want to bone him.
EDIT
Ninjaed by Yelley!
yelley:
i cheated though... i accidentally posted before i had finished ranting and had to go back and edit. ^_^
RedLion:
--- Quote from: Chesire Cat on 10 Jan 2009, 08:51 ---Because ultimately only fucking assholes legitimately hate on what other people do in there spare time. Naturally provide it isnt shaking babies or kicking dogs.
Its ok to gently chide people but to really hate on them and genuinely insult them is beyond prickish. Seriously when I was 17 I used to care what other people did and be an asshole about it, then I grew up and realized theres 'different strokes for different folks' and not everyone is going to live up to the ideal I expect of them (let alone myself).
--- End quote ---
We weren't berating or insulting her about it. We were teasing.
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