so I was wondering...

[seperis]

So this is the thing about Twilight by Stephanie Meyer - the more sporkings and reviews I read, the more I want to read it. You see, that angsty obsessive vampire thing is something I never got over. Plus, sparkly.

Now, to what I'm actually looking at thoughtfully.

Master: An Erotic Novel of the Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback) by Colette Gale, who also wrote Unmasqued: An Erotic Novel of The Phantom of The Opera, which I am also looking at thoughtfully. Mostly because I have this suspicion this is going to be very, very bad.

And also, despite the fact it's called Master, apparently this is not going to be about Edmund taking it and liking it from the prison guards.

...this could be sleep deprivation. Anyone read either one and give me a yes/no?

Also.

Phantom by Susan Kay, which my favorite extensions of Gaston Leroux's original. It's really good. And it's really fun. And it builds a *lot* on the history of the Phantom.

ETA: Huh. I forgot she also wrote Legacy about Elizabeth I and I really liked that one too.

Comments

[sorrelchestnut.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. The thing with Twilight, for me at least, was that it totally captured the sense of wonder, and... newness is I think the word I'm looking for? Of falling in love for the first time, and having that person fall right back. It's fantastic in that sense, it kept me spellbound, I sighed happily when I closed the book. (Incidentally, my mother, who is turning sixty-two this summer, felt *exactly the same way.*)

And then I read the second book, which had them breaking up, her spending all of her time with her best male friend who was in love with her, and basically leading him on and screwing with his feelings, and being passively suicidal and incapable of functioning like a human being without her ONE TRUE LOVE. I think there was this whole bit near the end where she went cliff diving, because she just didn't care if she lived anymore without him. I wish I was kidding, but I'm not.

So what it boils down to is that the main character's (and, it is very clear, the *author's*) favorite story EVAR is Romeo and Juliet. Which, personally, I despise, for exactly the same reasons as I despised this book, but I know a lot of people like it. That's fair. But you shouldn't use it as a template for your YA romance, because that is dumb, dumb, dumb. Romeo and Juliet should not be your model of romantic behavior. Because they ended up dead of their own idiocy.

So essentially, I loved the first book, and if you stop there you're probably okay, though I have to admit, the sparkly vampire bit, in retrospect, was pretty fucking hilarious. (All I can say is, it made sense at the time?) The second book, which made me froth at the mouth, retroactively ruined the first one for me. I'm still going to see the movie, mostly because I think my mother will eviscerate me if I don't go with her, but I'm going to try my hardest to approach the movie as if I don't know what happens after the credits roll, and how much it sucks.

[thisisbone.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's pretty much exactly the way it happened for me, too! I thought the first book went a little off the rails in the meadow scene (zzzzzzzzzstillgoingzzzzzzz), but on the whole, for what it was, it was good! And I loved Jacob. A LOT. And then the second book came out, and the whole "I will DIE! I must DIE! I will FIND A WAY TO DIE IF IT KILLS ME" thing made me want to shriek and tear my hair out because who WRITES like that for a target audience of EMO TEENAGE GIRLS!??!?!?! She romanticized that self-destructive behavior, IMHO, and just. NO.

And so I never read the third one, though I heard it treats Jacob even worse than the second one...the fourth comes out in August.

BUT! Then I saw the teaser trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBvOhfL4mYw), and I knew that I'd be seeing the movie, probably several times. Because I'm EASY that way.

They found the perfect Edward, I'll give them that!

[seperis.livejournal.com]

...dammit, that trailer.

*whimpers*

[thisisbone.livejournal.com]

*holds your hand*

[seperis.livejournal.com]

...it's just that thirty seconds just justified buying every damn book in this series.

The universe hates me.

*clings*

[thisisbone.livejournal.com]

*clings*

I feel like I should protest it, you know? It's, like, The Cutter's Guide to Adolescence, but then they had to stick Robert Pattinson in there, with his cheekbones and his lean, and that crooked smile, and he alone becomes the SOLE SELLING POINT. Absolutely irresistible.

I mean, just look at him:

(http://www.moviesonline.ca/gallery.php?movie=Twilight)

[seperis.livejournal.com]

We're kinda doomed, right? Right.

God he's pretty.

*looks at picture* It's weird. Looking at him, totally no longer matters. Just.

Mmmm. Pretty.

[thisisbone.livejournal.com]

*nods*

Totally doomed. And I might have joined twilight_adult

pleasedon'tjudgeme

[seperis.livejournal.com]

....give me until the books get here. *resigned*

[thisisbone.livejournal.com]

*checks watch*

Well? ;)