I can understand why you'd read something for the fun of seeing what comes next. I guess I just can't do that. With Twilight, I think people just can't put aside their sense of disbelief. And I don't know whether that is a symptom of the buzz (good and bad) around the novel or if they just don't like the novel. Flat out, the books aren't as good as the Harry Potter books. I'll say that and stand by it. However, I really did like them. I got sucked into the world they occur in. I read the first novel in about five days, on and off. I started the second novel on a Tuesday morning when I got to work. Because I wasn't busy, I read it all day long, then I read it when I got home. I couldn't stop myself. And, the first 150 pages of it actually depressed me (and even made me feel sick). Not for bad writing reasons, but for good writing reasons. In the first part of the second book, Bella is extremely depressed. I sympathized with her because I had gone through something similar in my life. And, from the writing, I think Stephenie Meyer has probably also gone through something similar or she wouldn't have been able to capture those emotions so well. So, if it had enough of an impact on my emotions to depressed me for an entire day, then it can't be that horribly written.
Anyway, I understand why some people don't like it for multiple reasons. However, I do not understand this intense hatred for me. Sometimes it feels like people want to drastically react to something they don't like because many other people do like it. All these fandomsecrets about hating Twilight? Like, woah. Why take so much time to make a secret and post it anonymously if you're just saying you don't like a book? That's a bit obsessive to me. I don't like tons of things, but I don't make secrets about them. I just shove them to the side and move on to things I do like.
Speaking of fandom secrets - I want to post secrets, but I don't have any. I think I've posted maybe three since I've joined. Every time I think of something to submit, I realize that it isn't really a secret, and I'd post it on my journal without any shame.
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Date: 2008-05-30 02:30 pm (UTC)Anyway, I understand why some people don't like it for multiple reasons. However, I do not understand this intense hatred for me. Sometimes it feels like people want to drastically react to something they don't like because many other people do like it. All these fandomsecrets about hating Twilight? Like, woah. Why take so much time to make a secret and post it anonymously if you're just saying you don't like a book? That's a bit obsessive to me. I don't like tons of things, but I don't make secrets about them. I just shove them to the side and move on to things I do like.
Speaking of fandom secrets - I want to post secrets, but I don't have any. I think I've posted maybe three since I've joined. Every time I think of something to submit, I realize that it isn't really a secret, and I'd post it on my journal without any shame.