Update on "the boy who read Twilight"

[meganbmoore]

*I am not a speaker in this.  I asked "How's the book going?" and they took over.*

"I don't know why it's so long.  It's just the first two chapters over and over and over again.  I'm kind of curious about what happens, but it's just a lot of wasted pages."
"What happens is that Luke Perry left, and the show was never the same again."
"Why is it 90210?"
"Because I can't think of anything else, and at least Shannon Doherty was hot."  (Actually, is it "Shannon" or "Shannen?")

Between this and the spoiler wank, I've been very entertained the last couple days.

Comments

[vivacious-dan.livejournal.com]

Shannon. And she was hot :]

And ugh, Twilight. I asked for all THREE books for Christmas because a lot of my anime friends online were sweating the series so hard. I don't think I made it past the 50th page. It was just so dumbed down and juvenile D:

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Uhm...yeah, that's why I try to investigate beyond squees.

[vivacious-dan.livejournal.com]

Well, it wasn't just the squeeage.

It was people who had similar tastes to me in terms of anime and manga series. Similar good tastes. So, I took a chance on the series and it turned to be made of fail.

[bzoppa.livejournal.com]

Actutally, it's Shannen (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001147/). There's a picture of her at 4ps, she apparently came in some years ago and posed with the owners.

My friend is reading Twilight right now. She kind of likes it. She also has a higher (lower?) tolerance for... mainstream entertainment than I do.

I still refuse to read it, and I love the snark that appears on my flist. I'm thoroughly spoiled.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I feel the snark entertains me far more than the book ever could. I only wish I saw Eragon snark as much.

[anime-heart.livejournal.com]

I refuse to read a novel that came to someone in a dream.

I did read the first volume of Eragon just to see if anything actually happened and made sense. I was sorely disappointed. My son just refused, absolutely refused. to even touch it. He loved the Percy Jackson books though.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I read the first 2 Eragon books. After the first, I think I wrote a huge thing about how to mis-write a coming of age fantasy hero. It hink I made 5-10 posts about how bad the second was and how much I hated the main character as I read the third.

[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

I'm taking an unholy amount of glee from reading these conversations.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Sadly,that may be the last...I suspect he'll finish it tomorrow, when I'm off.