Plageristic, Unoriginal, Sloppy
Oh my God... I just found a page full of soulmates... with the exception of the tard that loves the series. I can't stand Meyers' writing style. It's incredibly juvenile. I'm an aspiring author and reading her stuff does two things for me. One: it lets me know that if this dumbass can make it, I can. And two: it sickens me that Meyers got a book out before I did with a writing style I can equate to some of the simpletons in my junior high school English class.
On top of all this, I started writing my book almost ten years ago, when I was in the sixth grade. My main character's name is Jacob Black. In case anyone else hasn't read these books, one of the main characters' name is Jacob Black. I actually had a literary agent tell me no one in the publishing community would touch my story because of this. So the bitch effed me out of getting published. How do you think I felt when my girlfriend dragged me to the "Breaking Dawn" release and I had to hear the name "Jacob Black" shouted and chanted all around me, and to know it's not my Jacob Black they were talking about. I was TORN. I almost cried, it was the most terrible experience of my life. To have the name I've wanted to hear chanted and shrieked all my life yelled out right next to me and to know it's not MY Jacob? Yeah, I was devastated.
Then, wouldn't you believe, my girlfriend is OBSESSED with this series? It's put a huge dent in us because she's absolutely in love with it (she hates Jacob though, thank God) and I abhore it. She's always going on about Edward and Bella. HOW MANY TIMES HAS THIS STORY BEEN TOLD? The tragic romance. Oh, except he sucks blood. Gee, I'm so glad to see originality absolutely POURING out of the minds of over-praised, practically plageristic idiots. I have no problem with Vampires, I love them. But my God, I've heard similar stories a thousand times over. Hell, I wrote one in the fourth grade, about a girl who falls in love with a werewolf. The Frog Prince? The Swan Princess? Gee, neither of these bare ANY resemblance to the main storyline in Twilight at all.
And the way the books are aimed at younger girls is completely sickening. If you've read enough into them, the books are really, REALLY sexual. I mean, my girlfriend gets all hot and bothered after reading some of the scenes and comes to me with it! Granted, I'm not complaining there (that's the ONLY good thing to come out of them). But these books' target audience is pre-teen girls! Yes, let's give them just ANOTHER excuse to go out and get pregnant. It may not be saying they should go have sex, but it sure is giving them that stirring in their loins that makes them want to. It's basically fantastic (as in fantasy, not in the critical sense) erotica for young girls.
And finally... I'm a Harry Potter guy. The most obsessed fan in the world (I have three tattoos including J.K. Rowling's signature to prove it... she actually signed my arm, it's a tattoo now). So, Twilight is direct competition to MY literary god. Stephanie Meyers has been called the "new" J.K. Rowling. Bullcrap. If it hadn't been for Harry Potter, a book like Twilight would never have been able to be succesful. And Meyers' story is unoriginal compared to Potter. It's a rehashing of a hundred stories told through time. You can see right down through the transparent exterior to the other tales woven as its skeleton. Bella Swan and Edward Cullen couldn't even walk on the same literary ground as Harry Potter. She's Betty Sue/Sleeping Beauty/ditzy heroin and he's the macho stereotype/anguished hero/pretty boy all rolled into one. No original character development at all. Oh gee, Bella's sarcastic. WEEEE! That's completely groundbreaking.
In all, Twilight should be burned for its plagerism, unoriginality, and erotic subtext aimed at young girls. I hate it. It needs to be condemned and people need to stop praising Meyers' for A HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL WRITING STYLE! God, if this country and our culture praised stupidity any more, we'd all be mentally retarded.