I don't think my recent funny-thing-happened-at-the-barn bit falls into the category of posts-about-how-terrible-Twilight is
Nope. Thinking more about the reams of internet that are recently devoted to concerned essays about/mocking of/outrage against/etc., which, all knowing me, I am really just...over now.
The funny thing is (and maybe it's to do with where I'm looking), the slam-Twilight conversations don't seem to involve leaning on kids' assumptions. They're conversations between and targeted to adult audiences: not talking to kids about book content, but about kids and book content.
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?
I have no idea. But I suspect it has something to do with it never even hitting adult radar until there was a movie. Nobody ever freaked out about Pullman before they optioned The Golden Compass either.
(Trick to avoiding excoriation and censorship for your book? Don't sell the movie rights. You can say anything until then!)
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Date: 2008-09-24 06:20 pm (UTC)Nope. Thinking more about the reams of internet that are recently devoted to concerned essays about/mocking of/outrage against/etc., which, all knowing me, I am really just...over now.
The funny thing is (and maybe it's to do with where I'm looking), the slam-Twilight conversations don't seem to involve leaning on kids' assumptions. They're conversations between and targeted to adult audiences: not talking to kids about book content, but about kids and book content.
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?
I have no idea. But I suspect it has something to do with it never even hitting adult radar until there was a movie. Nobody ever freaked out about Pullman before they optioned The Golden Compass either.
(Trick to avoiding excoriation and censorship for your book? Don't sell the movie rights. You can say anything until then!)