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ugh, twilight swooning...I know mothers that read the series to their 12 year old daughters. (with certain parts omitted in the last book) but still. srsly? Twilight is NOT allowed to be the next Harry Potter. Harry Potter was awesome, and awesomely written... twilight? not so much. :headdesk: These are like 39 year old women going crazy. >.<
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I would never allow a 12 year old to read that series...no way.
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The first book in the series was are swooning over is "A Kiss of Shadows."
*smiles at Jess and keeps fanning her* Twilight can kiss my white butt. Cannot stand that people went Gaga over a book written by a mormon chick that couldn't write herself out of a box. The books lacked true imagination and any kind of thought provoking substance that made me want to turn the page. None of the characters grow in any kind of way. They flat line! |
I don't really know much of anything about Twilight (although I did see a few different places that it was written rather poorly). I didn't realize it was written by a Mormon lady. That seems... hypocritical to her faith (or my understanding of it), if so....
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IDK, I liked them but I wouldn't say I was gaga over them.
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I had read the first couple books in the Meredith Gentry series, but I couldn't get into them for some reason. I really used to love the Anita Blake series though, until the later books.... they all just turned into smut lol. The earlier ones were really good though, I thought.
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I enjoyed Twilight as an easy read, and it was catchy enough to get me to read all of them, but I didn't think they were worth all this hype--Harry Potter was written much better, and WAY better for kids.
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Yes much better for kids.
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Laurell K has cleaned up the series in the latest book. It's just like how the series used to be before all the sexual bullsh*t came into play. Made for a surprisingly nice read.
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I don't mind erotica if it's meant to be erotica and I know that's what I'm getting.
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Erotica...wow. Anne Rice wrote under a different name and I can't remember what it is, but she wrote about Sleeping Beauty and what happens after she is kissed. Those are some interesting books. Dark sexually and worth the read.
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A friend of mine gave me a box set of the Sleeping Beauty series by Anne Rice a while back. I knew they were... sexual but I wasn't really prepared for how graphic they were and some of the scenes in them. I think I finished the first book, and never started the second lol |
LOL. I actually read all of the Sleeping Beauty series... it was... different. Not exactly my tastes for such things (it was more graphic in ways I wasn't expecting), but interesting nonetheless. I never would have imagined sleeping beauty being taken down that particular twist of fictional road... >.>
Is anyone else noticing a general trend in the quality of books written these days? It seems that very few of the latest "best sellers" are actually well-written and even fewer include words with more than two syllables or which are not in the standard 6 year old's vocabulary :roll: ... |
The Beauty books were definitely a series that you needed to be prepared for...
I've noticed the same trend--people in the US are becoming dumber and don't want to have to think anymore. It's gross, and being promoted by chatspeak, elementary & high schools moving away from actual teaching and thinking due to standardized testing, and even a lot of colleges and universities (besides the big name schools) moving away from liberal arts and towards job training. |
Sad state of affairs really. Anyone see the movie Idiocracy? I can just see the country going down that road into retardedville.
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Haven't seen that movie, Queen, but there does seem to be a trend towards increasing "worker-bees" and away from creativity and ingenuity. Part of it is definitely the school system, part of it due to the myriad of "distractions" we have so easily available to us these days (television, video games, the internet), and part of it, I think is also environmental (a general poisoning of ourselves with multiple medicines and toxins in the food and water and air). >.> It's sad, truly sad. I hope it's short-lived, but I have my doubts about that, as the trend towards "dumbness" almost seems to be being "encouraged" by some self-appointed elite... [/jaded]
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Now you all have peaked my interest and I will have to look into this series.
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The Beauty books, Roo? Rice writes them under the name of A. N. Roquelaure. I found them on the shelf at a Barnes and Noble some years ago, but have no clue whether or not they would be so easily found these days or if you'd have to order them. There are 3 in the series.
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I can find them on amazon.com I'm sure.
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Most likely. :yes:
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I found one of the Lord of the Rings series books on there that I couldn't find anywhere else when I was looking for it.
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Amazon is hit-or-miss, but it's a good thing to check into. It's more versatile now that other people can post their (used) books for sale on the site. I'm sure you'll find them, Roo.
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Actually, all 3 are available in our library system. I just checked online.
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Wow. Through the public library? I'm actually really glad to hear that ... I would have thought they'd have been a bit "censored" for such a public forum.
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The don't seem to be apparently. Each book seems to be at a different branch though.
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