Comments on: A Sparkling Review of That Twilight Book Everyone is Howling About

By: Nochance

Nochance — Tue, 22 May 2012 03:47:51 +0000

Whatever happened to people enjoying a great story from a great storyteller? Writing was never about the intelligence level of the author or its readers. It is only meant to entertain.

By: Josh Hanagarne

Josh Hanagarne — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 22:42:22 +0000

Thanks Julio!

By: Julio Crookston

Julio Crookston — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 22:37:21 +0000

I found this to be very . I have went through and read many of your posts. They are great!

By: Bill Jones

Bill Jones — Mon, 31 May 2010 20:12:14 +0000

So I’m playing catchup on the blog thing and I get to this. Freaking hilarious.

Now I haven’t read the book nor seen the movie…even as free as it is on TV…all they do is bring up the memories of the people (all over 30) that I know that live for this stuff.

I can never look at them with a straight face…

By: Red Shoe Blogger: A Manifesta | Cleavage by Kelly Diels.

Red Shoe Blogger: A Manifesta | Cleavage by Kelly Diels. — Fri, 21 May 2010 07:03:07 +0000

[...] as twisted, maturing moral entities and we all know that stuff sells. I hear a little book called Twilight is doing quite well these [...]

By: Book Review: Strong Enough?

Book Review: Strong Enough? — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:14:57 +0000

[...] I’m a reader and a student and a collector of anything to do with the iron game. I’m not going to stop reading and I’m not going to stop reading about training, even though I may never implement the methods I read about. I do it because it’s fun. I do it because it makes me happy. I do it because I’d rather read a study about isometric contractions than even glimpse the cover of Twilight. [...]

By: Marc Wyzykowski

Marc Wyzykowski — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 05:30:16 +0000

That was right at my mean-spirit-level. Pants is awesome.

I urgently wanted to show my wife, but her response when I told her about your post, and my version of your twilight fan, did not leave her amused. So I’ll just link to it on Twitter to cure the itch.

By: Josh Hanagarne

Josh Hanagarne — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 02:39:48 +0000

Here’s to us, Marc! This is a lot more mean-spirited than I am, but you might enjoy this:
http://theoatmeal.com/story/twilight

By: Marc Wyzykowski

Marc Wyzykowski — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 01:26:09 +0000

Couldn’t possibly agree with you more. My wife fell under this spell. This was after we made fun of her friend for taking a family vacation to Forks, WA and writing “Edward hearts Bella” in the sand to confirm the fact that she was there as a groupie.

She has read the book countless times. She has read the others in the series, but keeps coming back to Twilight again and again.

It doesn’t stop there. She watches the movie too. Over and over again. Interesting note about this: we saw the movie before we read the book and laughed it off as complete nonsense.

Following her first reading, she kept insisting that I read the book as well. After about a week and a half of the constant prodding, I picked it up with an open mind.

Somewhere in one of the first chapters there is a line that reads something like this “…Edward said in a low attractive voice…” as if the author was really trying to hammer home the point that we should really be “attracted” to this Edward guy. This was probably the third mention of the word “attractive” in describing Edward.

I put the book down and really could not continue any further.

P.S. I share your sentiments about Prius’ and their obnoxious owners.