Cricket Readers Recommend
Twilight
by Stephanie MeyerIts awesome! It might be a little mature, but still!
submitted by Michelle O., age 9
(May 11, 2009 - 8:53 pm)
(May 11, 2009 - 8:53 pm)
Its awesome! It might be a little mature, but still!
Oh, and Lawful Good/Lawful Neutral etc. is a TV Tropes thing. It's basically exactly what it sounds like.
There's also Lawful Evil, and Chaotic Good/Neutral/Evil.
(November 6, 2009 - 5:31 pm)
I agree with the people who say that it is bad. Used plot, weak characters, and just plain BAD WRITING, to name a few. Ugh. I could write a book better than that. Much better than that.
(November 28, 2009 - 5:39 pm)
I give it a one, because Stephenie Meyer actually completed four books.
Dear lord, I hate the names Edward and Bella now thanks to her...And I actually wrote a good story with a character named Edward. Sigh, I changed it to Edmond.
Bella is stubborn, selfish, and is dominated easily. She should've just died in the first book.
Edward is overcontrolling. I mean, he "lets" Bella visit Jacob. Too protective or what?
I strongly DO NOT recommend this book for anyone in the fifth grade and under. I strongly recommend this book to be used for toilet paper.
Gracie, Michelle, WHAT WERE YOUR PARENTS THINKING WHEN THEY LET YOU READ THIS SERIES!!!
Greetings from the home of Steve Jobs and the iPhone,
Claire K.
(November 6, 2009 - 12:47 am)
@ TNO (umlaut): Yes, that makes sense. Thanks. I like that idea, also... So Pratchett isn't leaning towards any particular afterlife? That's good.
Also: TV Tropes. Of course.
@ Claire: Mm, the beautiful swan. I think Smeyer could've been a tad mre discrete with that...
And, well, Bella came pretty close to dying several times before getting vamped and all in BD, but dear old Edward was always there to save her.
And therein emerges the conception of Team Tyler's Van...
(November 6, 2009 - 7:17 pm)
I think I'm going to read Twilight and (please don't whack me!) I think I might actually like at least some of it. I'll get back to you on that, though.
(November 7, 2009 - 3:19 pm)
Re: Pratchett!deaths: Yeah, basically after you die you pretty much go where you were expecting to go, with the exception of Miss Flitworth in Reaper Man, because Death takes her to where her long-dead fiance's soul was so they could be happy together.
In fact, early on in the history of the Disc, Death made an effort to appear in the form people were expecting, but it got to be too troublesome to try to guess so he just ended up sticking with the seven-foot-tall skeleton with a scythe form.
Re: TV Tropes: exactly.
Re: Team Tyler's Van: Then Eddie had to go messing with Destiny. :(
(November 7, 2009 - 5:36 pm)
I love this series. What's wrong with all of you who hate it? Especially you, Mary W. There is nothing wrong with this book.
It's kinda weird you were aloud to read this at 9. I hope you understood the last two books. Speaking of which, the last book is the only one that could be called inapproprate.
(November 7, 2009 - 4:01 pm)
@ TNO (umlaut): Death sounds very sweet, actually, odd though that sentence may look...
So how many books are there in the Discworld series, exactly?
And yes, dear Eddie tends to do that.
@ beautiful stream, in reply to your question, "What is wrong with you, Mary W?":
That has been widely debated, actually, and there are numerous suitable responses. For instance, it's been claimed that I have a horrible superiority complex; other people say I'm too cynical; and I have been called outright mean. However, I personally think the correct answer is "I'm completely insane, of course" because that covers all the bases and just so happens to be totally truthful.
(November 8, 2009 - 5:48 pm)
So far I haven't read anything I've thought was "amazing", but I haven't read very much yet...
(November 9, 2009 - 2:54 pm)
I know. He is.
There are 30+ Discworld books, and they just get better as they go along. No Sequelitis to be found, hooray! <3
(November 10, 2009 - 9:16 pm)
It was okay. The only person I really liked much was Alice.
(November 14, 2009 - 3:45 pm)
Quite honestly, I would have liked her if it wasn't for the shopping thing. I mean, Smeyer goes and sets up this mildly insane clairvoyant character with a lot of potential for depth and her life revolves around... shopping. parties. fashion. Outward appearance. Never wears the same clothes twice.
*blink blink*
Good lord, it's a sparklepire version of pre-character-development Amneris. Except Amneris actually has an excuse for being an airhead. And she grows up by the end, so...
Anyway. The point is, if you're going to have a "quirky" character, you've got to give them a better personality than the airhead fashion diva. You've got to give them substance, real interesting traits, like- I dunno- astronomy or olympic chess playing, or marathon running or whatever.
(November 16, 2009 - 11:29 pm)
Hey, I'm Lila. I've read all of them, and I have to say--not a good choice. Twilight isn't the right thing to advertise on here. I mean, the purple prose ALONE should scare most good readers off--and it does, not to mention that the characters are flat-out Mary Sues and Gary Stus (perfect characters with no flaws that are so perfect you can't possibly live up to their standards, eg, Bella being instantly popular at her high school, having a perfect boyfriend that heroically leaves to save her life, although she goes insane and is forced to save his life with her "perfection" even though he is "perfect" too, along with the fact she has no ambition, or any such thing, while her only flaw is her "adorable", "endearing", "cute" klutziness that isn't there so much at all), and so many illegal actions are encouraged (Edward watching her sleep? Stalking. Last I checked, it was illegal in all fifty states. Edward removing her engine from her car and having his sister kidnap her? 1, kidnapping, 2, abuse, both illegal and punishable by a very, very long time in jail. Jake imprinting on Renesemee? Bella diving off a cliff? Edward going far over the speed limit? Speeding (I think we all know what this is). Need I go on?), it's not funny.
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It would be all right, if fans would realize this and move on, but most don't.
Sorry for the rant, I just don't believe Stephanie Meyer is the best author for anyone on this site. If they're encouraging good literature, they should choose something that is at least not MA rated. Let's stick with the K+'s and T's. MA's really shouldn't be read by nine year olds....
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Lila
(November 22, 2009 - 10:31 pm)
Thank you, darling.
I have a new theory: Bella Swan has a brain tumor. I am dead serious. See?
1. Poor coordination and balance; Bella is supposedly the clumsiest girl in existence.
2. Hallucinations and/or delusions; In New Moon, Bella begins to both hear and see Edward whenever she gets an adrenaline rush. It gets to the point that she jumps off a cliff to hear his voice. Furthermore, in the same book she's convinced she has a giant hole through her chest.
3. Speech difficulties; present in the book with Bella's stuttering, and made particularly apparent with KStew's head explody moments in the movies (when Ed leaves/threatens to leave/almost gets torn to shreds by the sensible vamps: "alkefakjsdfakjdfha;';dkhajeha;flkajdfnad;ajhaapple!!!!!!!!!!!" says KStew)
4. Confusion in everyday matters; Bella's natural state is to be perpetually confused about something or another.
5. Sudden personality changes; At the beginning of Twilight, when she decides to "exile" herself to Forks; Twice in New Moon, when she becomes catatonic for six months and then turns into an adrenaline junkie; again in (I think?) Eclipse, when she grows a spine for .0016 seconds and punches Jacob (or is that also New Moon? They blur together...); again in Breaking Dawn when she randomly decides that she *loves* being married, and goes from being completely pain intolerant to dealing with Cruciatus level pain without so much as a whimper (yes I use HP standards to measure pain).
6. Impaired judgment; she thinks a strange boy sneaking into her room to watch her sleep, without permission, for two months, is romantic. She thinks dating an unstable vampire is not only a good idea but inevitable. She does a lot of other stupid things, too, like jump off of cliffs.
So, you see? Bella has a brain tumor. If I ever finish my Twilight rewrite and/or miscellaneous *real* vampire "romance" story, a brain tumor'd heroine is going to be totally canon.
(November 24, 2009 - 10:47 pm)
@ Lila: Exactly.
@ TNO (umlaut): *gasp* That makes sense... That makes a /lot/ of sense! In resonse to your list:
1. I wouldn't be surprised if that was inserted as a complete aside by Smeyer after her editor, in fleeting a moment of wisdom, commented that Bella's personality was eerily perfect. It's very forced.
2a. Hallucinations, yes, closely followed by impaired judgment as listed on #6. I would take hearing my ex-boyfriend's voice in my head as a signal to *stop* jumping off cliffs because there's *clearly* something wrong with me. But no. Not Bella.
2b. Yes, yes. The giant hole in Bella's chest. What was that? As a one time comparison/metaphor/literary device thingy, alright. But she made it seem like a literal hole in her chest... which is weird anyway... I admit that confused me once or twice.
3. In addition to that, the breathing thing. KStew *does not know how* to breathe out of her nose like a normal person. "Edward *gasps for breath* I-i-i *inhales deeply* LOVE you *gasps again* soooo much--- *shuddering exhale*!"
4. See Twilight's prologue, for example.
5. Punching Jacob was Eclipse, I think; it wasn't NM. And again, yes. Eddykins does this too: "Bella, I love you. You're perfect the way you are... Gosh, you're such an idiot. ...I love you more than ANYTHING!... I'm leaving, you're not good enough... BUT ALICE, I LOVE HER!.... Oh never mind, just let her die. ...Bella! I love you soooo muuuch!"
6. There's really nothing else to say. If someone is jumping off cliffs to hear a stalker vampire's voice in their heads, they should be seeing a therapist.
I think you might be right. It explains her outrageous mental insecurity, as well.
(November 25, 2009 - 1:39 pm)