Comments on: Not As Exquisite As Advertised http://www.galacticmu.com/literature/not-as-exquisite-as-advertised/ Press your spaceface close to mine Sat, 10 Dec 2011 01:19:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Sunday http://www.galacticmu.com/literature/not-as-exquisite-as-advertised/comment-page-1/#comment-595 Sunday Mon, 26 Jan 2009 06:57:08 +0000 http://www.galacticmu.com/literature/not-as-exquisite-as-advertised/#comment-595 Dude, these things are always up for discussion. I mean, not what you allow your daughter to do, but what parts of a book are good and what parts aren't. I mean, I don't know that I'd express my dislike of Twilight to Heather exactly like I wrote it here (I'd probably use less cussing, for starters) but I'd still tell her why I didn't like them. Right? She needs to read the Uglies series, BTW. I know I've nattered on about them before. Dude, these things are always up for discussion. I mean, not what you allow your daughter to do, but what parts of a book are good and what parts aren’t. I mean, I don’t know that I’d express my dislike of Twilight to Heather exactly like I wrote it here (I’d probably use less cussing, for starters) but I’d still tell her why I didn’t like them. Right? She needs to read the Uglies series, BTW. I know I’ve nattered on about them before.

]]> By: Nastybear http://www.galacticmu.com/literature/not-as-exquisite-as-advertised/comment-page-1/#comment-593 Nastybear Mon, 26 Jan 2009 01:18:26 +0000 http://www.galacticmu.com/literature/not-as-exquisite-as-advertised/#comment-593 I don’t think I can’t let Heather ever read this, she might get violent. I don’t think I can’t let Heather ever read this, she might get violent.

]]> By: Sunday http://www.galacticmu.com/literature/not-as-exquisite-as-advertised/comment-page-1/#comment-581 Sunday Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:41:50 +0000 http://www.galacticmu.com/literature/not-as-exquisite-as-advertised/#comment-581 I know! I know, I feel bad about ranking on it, because I get why teen girls are into it. I don't blame the Heathers of the world for swooning. To be honest, all I'd heard of the books before I read them was the intense polarity - the raging, screaming teen girls begging Robert Pattison to suck their blood compared to the reviewers wondering where the hell Meyer "learned" to "write". And predictably, I feel solidly between them. It's not the worst book I've read, certainly not the worst YA book, but neither does it seem to justify the madness. It seems popular <i>because</i> its popular, if such a thing is possible. I know! I know, I feel bad about ranking on it, because I get why teen girls are into it. I don’t blame the Heathers of the world for swooning.

To be honest, all I’d heard of the books before I read them was the intense polarity – the raging, screaming teen girls begging Robert Pattison to suck their blood compared to the reviewers wondering where the hell Meyer “learned” to “write”. And predictably, I feel solidly between them. It’s not the worst book I’ve read, certainly not the worst YA book, but neither does it seem to justify the madness. It seems popular because its popular, if such a thing is possible.

]]> By: bobeena http://www.galacticmu.com/literature/not-as-exquisite-as-advertised/comment-page-1/#comment-580 bobeena Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:32:39 +0000 http://www.galacticmu.com/literature/not-as-exquisite-as-advertised/#comment-580 Oh man...Heather is so going to disagree with you, but then again she is a teenage girl whom after reading the twilight book wanted to find a vampire boyfriend. Oh man…Heather is so going to disagree with you, but then again she is a teenage girl whom after reading the twilight book wanted to find a vampire boyfriend.

]]>