Stephenie Meyer is No Joss Whedon
I was in Borders over the holiday shopping season. On their wall, they had a screen playing video clips of author soundbites.
Stephenie Meyer shows up to say how surprised she was at Twilight
She says that every author has to blurb their book in their pitches… okay…
And she said that she challenges anyone to write an eleven-word description of Twilight and not make it sound like a bad episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Schreeech! Whoa, whoa, whoa! Hold on a minute!
I snapped my head up just in time to see the camera pan out and reveal a gaggle of tweens sitting at Stephenie’s feet twttering away in agreement.
I started Twilight who knows how long ago and am now stuck on page 229 because the writing is god-awful. I could live with the characters. I can live with the plot. But the writing. The actual words on the actual pages. They just hurt me.
At least I’m now stuck on page 229. I was stuck after paragraph one for several months before that.
Now let’s count things off.
- The worst episode of Buffy is still better than this stuff.
- To imagine that she is even close to Joss Whedon is amazing to me.
- Just how much does she owe to Buffy?
- Couldn’t she pick Dark Shadows or something more meriting of her comparison?
- If any of those girls started watching Buffy, they’ll see how much better it is. The series holds up, ladies and gentlemen. Yes, it does.
- Yes, I know I’m overreacting.
- I’m not really overreacting by that much.
- I repeat my incredulity that the Harry Potter generation is embracing Twilight.
- I optimistically got New Moon at the same time as Twilight. Seriously, does it start getting better soon? Perhaps at page 230?
- Grr…Arg!
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