Potter is enjoyable even for an adult. There are levels where it deals with morally complex issues in morally complex ways. Furthermore, the story grows and changes over the course of the seven books, moving from Gary-Stu-but-Fun to a fair degree of thoughtfulness about the price of being a hero. Potter also has an essentially idealistic mindset and message re tolerance, standing up to injustice, sticking by one's friends, etc.
Twilight, from what I hear, has a main character who is essentially a Stupid Teenage Girl (as opposed to a Clever Teenage Girl), and few adults can enjoy that. If one was never a STG, then one certainly hasn't developed more tolerance for it with age. And if one is a former STG, being reminded of it is probably painful rather than entertaining.
That said, my understanding is that Twilight is appealing to many despite the STG behavior--the author does enough hand-waving and other entertainment to make the books enjoyable. I think, however, the implosion came down on the last book because instead of STG becoming capable and smart, she went fully down the STG road; in addition, the melodramatic stuff moved into silly and squicky, and broke the suspension of disbelief.
I suspect that more than one ex-reader of the Anita Blake books now has a trigger point for when a vampire author moves from the interesting to the ludicrous.
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Date: 2008-09-24 07:40 pm (UTC)Potter is enjoyable even for an adult. There are levels where it deals with morally complex issues in morally complex ways. Furthermore, the story grows and changes over the course of the seven books, moving from Gary-Stu-but-Fun to a fair degree of thoughtfulness about the price of being a hero. Potter also has an essentially idealistic mindset and message re tolerance, standing up to injustice, sticking by one's friends, etc.
Twilight, from what I hear, has a main character who is essentially a Stupid Teenage Girl (as opposed to a Clever Teenage Girl), and few adults can enjoy that. If one was never a STG, then one certainly hasn't developed more tolerance for it with age. And if one is a former STG, being reminded of it is probably painful rather than entertaining.
That said, my understanding is that Twilight is appealing to many despite the STG behavior--the author does enough hand-waving and other entertainment to make the books enjoyable. I think, however, the implosion came down on the last book because instead of STG becoming capable and smart, she went fully down the STG road; in addition, the melodramatic stuff moved into silly and squicky, and broke the suspension of disbelief.
I suspect that more than one ex-reader of the Anita Blake books now has a trigger point for when a vampire author moves from the interesting to the ludicrous.
Potter never crossed the ludicrous line.