Oh god. I now have visions of Bella Swan having a TARDIS. Which she would use to never do anything ever ever. Poor TARDIS.
See, ok. I have read the first three of these books. I went into the first one KNOWING it would be bad - I'd been handed the book to take on a plane because my friend felt I needed to read it to understand why she was going as Edward Cullen for halloween (& why this was hilarious) and to see the Mormon overtones in it. I read the other two because I have PDFs of them and they have such amazing badfic appeal. I am utterly clueless how ANYTHING could be simultaneously so horrifically written AND so incredibly readable. It's like your brain turns off and just zips through the dreck.
The thing that really bothers me, though, is the freaky abusiveness of their relationship. I am actively horrified by people lauding these as appropriate to kids.
I loved seeing the movie, but I don't recommend watching it without someone else there who feels similarly to you about the books. It's AWESOME if you have someone to make smartass MST-style comments with and laugh your ass off. Otherwise, I can't even imagine.
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on 2009-02-12 06:59 am (UTC)See, ok. I have read the first three of these books. I went into the first one KNOWING it would be bad - I'd been handed the book to take on a plane because my friend felt I needed to read it to understand why she was going as Edward Cullen for halloween (& why this was hilarious) and to see the Mormon overtones in it. I read the other two because I have PDFs of them and they have such amazing badfic appeal. I am utterly clueless how ANYTHING could be simultaneously so horrifically written AND so incredibly readable. It's like your brain turns off and just zips through the dreck.
The thing that really bothers me, though, is the freaky abusiveness of their relationship. I am actively horrified by people lauding these as appropriate to kids.
I loved seeing the movie, but I don't recommend watching it without someone else there who feels similarly to you about the books. It's AWESOME if you have someone to make smartass MST-style comments with and laugh your ass off. Otherwise, I can't even imagine.