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Twilight (Sorry for cursing)
öde:
Have you?
öde:
And it's a good thing tweens aren't at all interested in sex, or being whisked away to an exciting, sexier world by a magical being, otherwise they'd all be reading/seeing Twilight.
evilbobthebob:
http://www.lubbockonline.com/stories/112008/liv_358123107.shtml
oh look a lot of 12 year olds. Also 18 year olds, and a lot of middle aged women too.
scarred:
Augh sorry. I didn't mean to get personal. Finals are starting and I pulled an all-nighter last night, and on top of that Twilight just makes me raeg irrationally. As for the age thing, most of my opinions are based off of experiences with crowds like these:
Which I find mildly disturbing because the object of their undying affection... well, to put it in the words of Rifftrax, "Their relationship is based off of him not killing her. That's healthy."
I guess if the books were written even half-competently I wouldn't have half the beef with them I do now. It's the combined frustration with poor storytelling and distaste of rabid, obsessive fandom that really irks me.
Eris:
I would say that the books are aimed towards teen readers, seeing the main characters (other than like, parents), are 16/17/18, with some outliers in the 20s, but they are seen as parents as well. Having characters a similar age, especially for stuff like YA fiction, makes it easier for the readers to relate to. A 15-yar-old girl is (generally) not going to care about a 40-year-old man's story, she is going to want to read about something she can relate to, and at the moment in her life she can relate to, uh, school life and crushes?
The majority of the book is about School Life and Crushes/First Love. Teenagers are, like tweens, pretty impressionable, especially in the early teens. Those pictures you showed of the Twilight stuff seem targeted to teens and older. I agree that tweens are probably a bit young, but I disagree that this should make any influence on the readers be dismissed. The Twilight books are taking themselves seriously and the (probably unconscious/unintentional) subtext in there is something that teenagers probably don't take much notice of, but that doesn't mean that they aren't taking it in. Especially with such bland characters that readers can project themselves onto, it makes it easier for them to have fantasies about being in the twilight universe and having Edward love them forever and all that bullshit. I am not saying that adults don't do that (Mills and Boon books sell ridiculously well for that same reason), but that it is probably something more to worry about with the younger readers.
Also, I would argue that there is plenty of sexuality with Miley Cyrus, but that is for another thread maybe.
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