WTF is this Twilight bullshit??

[SuperKnux]

So what in the fuck is this new fad about..? Vampire book series..? ..now a movie?

How did this get so popular and how long has it been going for, cause call me an idiot, but it's just been starting to get shoved in my face.

It looks pretty stupid to me. The movie previews look just about as lousy as the movie Ghost Rider with Wes Bently playing Blackheart.

[JohnnyNemesis]

Vampires are a new fad? Let me guess, you're just now coming around to Crystal Pepsi?

[PilZ-E]

From what I can tell Twilight is a Vampire romance series originally directed at 14 year olds. Since the announcement of the movie it has consumed every feeble minded girl in my high school, boys too.

[SuperKnux]

So it's mostly a tween girl thing. I guess they'll grow out of it someday..

Till then, I still want it out of my internets and television.

[Jebus]

I've heard about this new Twilight craze, but I haven't actually seen the actual crazy anywhere. Just people complaining about the craze. I didn't even know what Twilight was until a couple days ago. Newest South Park ep is supposed to be about it.

I'll stick to my dreamy Angel and Spike.

[PilZ-E]

Actually, its more of a 14-19 type thing.

[Rag Doll]

ahhhh, stopppp!

i have worked in bookstores on and off for the past year, when this craze first started. we sell dozens of copies of the 4 books in the series EVERY day (and we are a SMALL store). Like Pilz said, it's a 4 book series about a "plain jane" type of girl that is romanced by and falls in love with a vampire. There is also a werewolf in love with her. The first three books are apparently pretty tame, but supposedly in the last book she gets knocked up after having violent animalistic sex with the vampire....then to save her and the baby, the vampire gives her a c-section using his teeth. and yeah, it's a young adult book, so, teens. Though, a lot of older people are reading it too. I will not read it....looks dumb.

[PilZ-E]

So I was tempted to read it when some fairly intelligent girl was like 'oh yeah, i expected this and that but its actually pretty good' but that ended really quick. My friend started telling me about the actual storyline and how she basically has a crush on the vampire and all this stupid shit, f that ish.

[0r4ng3]

It's funny, I was unsure on whether or not I should make a thread about this (whether it's for people to complain or discuss), then I go to the forums, and here we are.

On a side note: I have no idea how, but Twilight makes me lose the game. Every single time I hear about it. It's quite annoying.

[nieh]

And I was doing so well.

[Kennytar]

Haha. Ive read all 4 books. Im not even sure why I read them... At first it was kinda interesting but then it got lamer and lamer and I truly hate 4th book.
Whats all the fuss about? Its all about Edward - the superhero unhumanly gorgeous vampire who can read minds. Every girl dream about him (and after the movie it goes worse) and not only girls, theres this forum called TwilightMoms - they are overly protective about this saga.

[Hypno Toad]

I've been hearing about this non stop for the past 3 months from my friend, then she spread it on to some more of my freinds.

Let me take this moment to say I fucking hate vampires. Such a boring, overrated monster. Grils only like Eward cullen ebcause he is some embodiment of every aspect of men they like:

-Charming
-Good looking
-Mind reading
-Blood sucking

All of this fills some sort of void, which is really sad in itself.

Every girl dream about him (and after the movie it goes worse)


My god, it's spreading to Eastern Europe too :(

[0r4ng3]

Let me take this moment to say I fucking hate vampires. Such a boring, overrated monster.
I don't have a problem with vampires, it's just that in this day and age, writing vampires with every single tired cliche is lame. Writing a decent story about vampires can be done, but if the formula is changed up a bit.

[Kennytar]

I don't have a problem with vampires, it's just that in this day and age, writing vampires with every single tired cliche is lame. Writing a decent story about vampires can be done, but if the formula is changed up a bit.

Those books are very cliche. Shallow, predictible and...... lame!

The author is SO overrated!

[Hypno Toad]

My friend started telling me about the actual storyline and how she basically has a crush on the vampire and all this stupid shit, f that ish.

Whoa, deja-vu.

[Kennytar]

My god, it's spreading to Eastern Europe too :(

It's all over the world......

[Hypno Toad]

It's all over the world......

NOOOOoooooooo!!

[wheelchairman]

I hope it's like the Blade movies. Blade is fucking awesome. The 3rd one was kinda cliche cheesy but still good. The first two are clearly the best.

Is it like Blade?

Anyways i heard about Twilight on wwtdd.com and I just got a little irritated that it grossed more in presales than Quantum of Solace.

btw Quantum of Solace is fucking brilliant.

I wonder how many more times I can change subject before someone notices or diagnoses with me ADD.

Everyone has ADD these days, its actually quite sad.

Anyone wanna ride bikes?

[_Lost_]

yeah... My roommate and a bunch of other people on my hall read the twilight books. At the beginning of the year, my roommate was trying to get me to read them. She was telling me what they were about and I was like "huh? well that sounds dumb". Now a lot of my guy friends have started reading them and have become embarrassingly addicted to them. Its annoying. What happened to good ol' LOTR and Terry Brooks novels? I should read the Lord of the Rings books again. hmm...

[wheelchairman]

LOTR is hopelessly boring. Endless description of landscape and then very short descriptions of human interaction. Wtf is wrong with him.

Everyone should read Wheel of Time. In fact, why isnt Wheel of Time a fad? It should be a fad all the time. Always.

[_Lost_]

Yeah, I liked Terry Brooks' books better. His first book was like all 3 LOTR books put into one book that was the same length as just one of the LOTR books. MUCH more interesting that way. All of his books that I've read are awesome.

RECOMMENDATION: The Shannara Trilogy- The Sword of Shannara, The Elfstones of Shannara, and The Wishsong of Shannara

The Heritage of Shannara Tetralogy was good too.

EDIT: I realize how lame the titles sound, but the books are good.

[T-6005]

LOTR is hopelessly boring. Endless description of landscape and then very short descriptions of human interaction. Wtf is wrong with him.

Everyone should read Wheel of Time. In fact, why isnt Wheel of Time a fad? It should be a fad all the time. Always.
This is true. Wheel of Time is great.

I've been keeping myself busy with what I'd call filler fantasy (read - anything that isn't Robert Jordan), and I actually read some Terry Brooks.

It's pretty meh. I mean, I didn't put it down, but then again I've never stopped reading a book once I started. The Sword of Shannara ones are essentially Lord of the Rings with different characters and without a strange addendum after the climax. I kind of liked the Jerle Shannara ones and the Genesis of Shannara ones, but I don't know if I'd read them again.

I think great filler fantasy is probably L.E Modesitt Jr.'s Saga of Recluse. Except for the fact that they have the protagonist decide what food to eat at least 4 times a book. It's kind of an odd recurring theme. And once you've read one you've pretty much read them all. Also the first two books of the Mistborn Trilogy are good (Per - this is the guy that'll be writing Memory of Light, and I want him to be finished already) but the third one is really bad.

Oh, and as for the point of this thread? I have less interest in Twilight and its source material than I do in the sequels to Eragon. Which is kind of saying something.