1. I find Twilight both unsettling in ungood ways and unfun, whereas I find Potter unsettling in ungood ways, but basically fun.
I don't think that's necessarily the difference for most people, but it's the difference for me. (Thus my this-is-ridiculous-but-I-kind-of-adore-it appreciation of many books with similar content done in more entertaining ways.)
2. I don't think my recent funny-thing-happened-at-the-barn bit falls into the category of posts-about-how-terrible-Twilight is, but just in case: I don't, of course. But I do think that people sometimes/often gravitate towards stuff that reinforces a worldview they believe in or (in the case of kids in particular, though they're likely as not to grow out of it) are experimenting with. So I think a certain amount of leaning on a set of assumptions that a kid seems to be lapping up in a book is not necessarily a bad thing.
Can I ask a question? Why are people suddenly freaking out about the series? Not you, but I've seen a bunch of stuff lately about it, and man, nothing people are upset about wasn't basically there in book one, years ago. Why has slamming it suddenly become the new black?
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Date: 2008-09-24 06:11 pm (UTC)I don't think that's necessarily the difference for most people, but it's the difference for me. (Thus my this-is-ridiculous-but-I-kind-of-adore-it appreciation of many books with similar content done in more entertaining ways.)
2. I don't think my recent funny-thing-happened-at-the-barn bit falls into the category of posts-about-how-terrible-Twilight is, but just in case: I don't, of course. But I do think that people sometimes/often gravitate towards stuff that reinforces a worldview they believe in or (in the case of kids in particular, though they're likely as not to grow out of it) are experimenting with. So I think a certain amount of leaning on a set of assumptions that a kid seems to be lapping up in a book is not necessarily a bad thing.
Can I ask a question? Why are people suddenly freaking out about the series? Not you, but I've seen a bunch of stuff lately about it, and man, nothing people are upset about wasn't basically there in book one, years ago. Why has slamming it suddenly become the new black?