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  • eyedclaar
    eyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    TrixieCat wrote:
    Um, what were you doing reading a girl book?


    Long story. Actually, it's not. My wife's friend loaned it to her. My wife was reading it on the couch and I was sitting next to her. I read about a paragraph before I started laughing.

    Anyone familiar with the concept of "show don't tell" when writing will find this book particularly maddening. Worst writer ever!
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  • eyedclaar
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    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    Does anyone know of any guys who have read the books? As far as I can tell, they sell exclusively to teenage girls, or women who wish they were. :p

    So, basically what's left of the Chris Cornell fan club?
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  • Cocaine_Nosejob
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    There's girls in my class that are obsessed with it, and they're like...20 maybe?

    I thought it was for kids. I'm pretty sure my niece read it and she's 13...
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  • brainofPJ
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    AmentsChick wrote:
    huh?? There's a book?


    apparently. my wife told me about there being a book. she never read it, she prefers good reads, but i guess her sister and niece have.

    seems like almost any movie based on a book gets way over hyped


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  • NothingSound
    NothingSound Posts: 198
    It's about emo vampires. My wife is an english teacher and so many of her kids did book reports on it she read the first one. She said it's pretty badly written and nowhere near as clever as Harry Potter. The author's "out" for the whole vampires and the Sun thing is they live in Washington state where it's cloudy a lot. Give me a break.
  • unifiedscene
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    AmentsChick wrote:
    What's the deal with this movie?? It's getting hyped like crazy. Am I missing something? :confused:

    The book has sold bajillions of copies to teenage girls that feel strange new quivers when they fantasize letting some sexy vampire boy that is dark and romantic sink his teeth into them. They will be there by the zillions to swoon over said vampire.

    My girlfriend is going. I make fun of her mercilessly for reading them.
    she was underwhelmed, if that's a word
  • unifiedscene
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    iamsampj wrote:
    yeah...i think the 3rd book in the series just came out not too long ago. all of the girls that i work with read through the entire series within a week!! i don't understand it all either?! i had to schedule 2 of my managers off this evening so that they could go see the movie.

    i refuse to read this series...i'm not going to fall for the hype. harry potter is as far as i'll go :)

    Harry Potter is not hype though, it's all substance ;)
    she was underwhelmed, if that's a word
  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    unifiedscene wrote:
    Harry Potter is not hype though, it's all substance ;)
    I just threw up a lil bit in my mouth.
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  • eyedclaar
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    unifiedscene wrote:
    Harry Potter is not hype though, it's all substance ;)

    Yeah, never got that craze either...
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  • unifiedscene
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    eyedclaar wrote:
    Yeah, never got that craze either...

    They're just good clean, classicist mythological fun. Each book has a mystery, smooth writing. Good stuff. Entertaining as all hell. But then, even as a lit major I was never a snob. I read because I love a good story and loathe the narcissism of the current writers. It's why I'm a big Michael Chabon fan, even if he has fallen off the wagon.
    she was underwhelmed, if that's a word
  • eyedclaar
    eyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    unifiedscene wrote:
    They're just good clean, classicist mythological fun. Each book has a mystery, smooth writing. Good stuff. Entertaining as all hell. But then, even as a lit major I was never a snob. I read because I love a good story and loathe the narcissism of the current writers. It's why I'm a big Michael Chabon fan, even if he has fallen off the wagon.


    Oh, you were being serious. Well, no harm done I guess.
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  • LikeAnOcean
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    I love vampire movies, but after watching the preview for this movie, I swallowed a little of my own puke. It is definitely aimed at 13 year old girls.
  • urbanhippie
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    eyedclaar wrote:
    Yeah, never got that craze either...
    Never diss Harry Potter :) That and comic books was what got my teenage son into reading, something which I tried and falied to do. Now, at 15, he'll read anything he can get his hands on. He's always raiding my bookshelves for George Orwell, HP Lovecraft and Poe, something I never thought I'd see, but I'm more than glad it's happening :)
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  • eyedclaar
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    urbanhippie wrote:
    Never diss Harry Potter :) That and comic books was what got my teenage son into reading, something which I tried and falied to do. Now, at 15, he'll read anything he can get his hands on. He's always raiding my bookshelves for George Orwell, HP Lovecraft and Poe, something I never thought I'd see, but I'm more than glad it's happening :)


    hehe. I read a ton of fantasy and sci-fi books as a kid. I certainly have no qualm with kids getting into reading... even if it is those Twilight books (that was hard to admit). I just don't get the adult fascination. Not that there's anything wrong with it...
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  • urbanhippie
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    eyedclaar wrote:
    hehe. I read a ton of fantasy and sci-fi books as a kid. I certainly have no qualm with kids getting into reading... even if it is those Twilight books (that was hard to admit). I just don't get the adult fascination. Not that there's anything wrong with it...
    I read Harry Potter. They were ok. Never read Twilight though. But I'd rather kids read crap books, than no books. My ex mother in law never read anything apart from magazines, and my father in law, nothing but the newspaper :eek:

    I've tried hard to instill my love of books into my kids, and every little helps. Anything that gets people to read more can only be a good thing....even if it is crap writing :o
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  • chiquimonkey
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    i was wondering the same thing last nite watching the news and the kids all in line. i have no idea what the deal is with this stuff
  • NothingSound
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    Twilight - 4 movies
    Lord of the Rings - 3 movies (and maybe another on the way)
    Harry Potter - 8 movies

    Why on Earth can we not get a Dark Tower movie series??
  • petrocs
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    ok so I took my neice to see this last night and I have to say...it sucked
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  • mickeyrat
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    NothingSound wrote:
    Twilight - 4 movies
    Lord of the Rings - 3 movies (and maybe another on the way)
    Harry Potter - 8 movies

    Why on Earth can we not get a Dark Tower movie series??
    can you imagine the cost to produce? May have to wait til CGI gets more advanced.Would LOVE to see that though. Now the question is who directs?
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  • petrocs
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    mickeyrat wrote:
    can you imagine the cost to produce? May have to wait til CGI gets more advanced.Would LOVE to see that though. Now the question is who directs?

    HBO miniseries I hear
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    10/3/05 Philly. 5/27-28/06 Camden. 6/23/06 Pitt. 6/19-20/08 Camden. 6/24/08 MSG. 8/7/08 EV Newark, NJ. 6/11-12/09 EV Philly, PA. 10/27-28-30-31/09 Philly, PA., 5/15/10 Hartford,5/17/10 Boston, 5/18/10 Newark, 5/20-21/10 MSG

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