Top Eight Reasons Why Twilight Was Bad

Ok i disagree with a lot of your reasons but i will give you so explaniaition to some of your examples that look more like questions.

1. They sparkle because they are beautiful. So many people have written articles like this saying that the vampires are cruel scary figures. Well Bella likes that fear and is more atracted to him. This was written to have a new era and assumption to the vampires.

2.They were the cool kids kept to theirselves.

3. Come on their American who doesnt love baseball its just trying to make them seem more 21 century.

4.Everyone has their falts no one ever said in the stroy that she was perfect shes not the vampires here.

5.They only go out when they are alone that is why they skip school. Not so they can camp like everyone thinks but so they can hide.

6.His part did seem a little short and far from sweet but what can you say.

7.You never see the vampires lure their pray and when they smelled Bellas blood you could see Edward change and go pratically insane.

8.Well there changing. This was a fun teenager book a love story.

thank you

this was reviewed by Victoria Wright the writers critic.

You recieved 5 stars for a well written explanationn.

Twilight is poorly written and a poor example of a loving relationship. Since when is abuse romantic? Ugh.

Victoria,

“1. They sparkle because they are beautiful. So many people have written articles like this saying that the vampires are cruel scary figures. Well Bella likes that fear and is more atracted to him. This was written to have a new era and assumption to the vampires.”

Authors worth their salt do not blantantly ignore the hundreds of years of folklore that came before them. Meyer does exactly that. It would be one thing if she acknowledged something- anything- about vamplie lore, but she didn’t. Edward even scoffed at Bella’s questions about vampires sleeping upside-down in coffins and not being able to go into the sun, so esentially Meyer is spitting in the facees of writers such as Stoker, Polidori, le Fanu, Phillips, and so on. I have to disagree that it was “written to have a new era… to the vampires”; it was written because Meyer had a dream. This kind of inspiration isn’t wrong if the author takes the time to plan the novel out, but Meyer obiviously did not, as evidenced by the book’s lack of plot. The seemingly endless pages of mindless drabble about Edward leaving, Edward’s looks, Edward’s family is silly, redundant, and above all, boring. The conflict of James’ coven seems like an afterthought; it should have been introduced sooner as to build up anticipation and break up the monotony of the first 20-some chapters. Other dissatisfying elements of Meyer’s writing include: the fact that she breaks the rule of “show, don’t tell” through all four books, her word usage is overly flowery (see: purple prose) and words are often misused, her sentence structure rarely varies, and the dialogue between characters is weak.

“2.They were the cool kids kept to theirselves.”

Okay, I confess I don’t have anything to say about the “coolness” of the vampires, as I feel it is an irrelevant point as to why he Twilight series is or is not well written. However, I will take this as an opportunity to illustrate the exiguous, if not all-together nonexistant, character development. The characters in this series are completely stagnant, as in they are the same people they are at the end of the series as they are in the beginning. In any novel, the conflict should bring some sort of realization to characters’ lives, that’s what makes literature interesting. James is in and out so quickly that it is impoissible him to have impacted Bella long-term or change her in any way. Also, none of the characters have fatal flaws, that is, not flaws that kill them, but get in the way of their wants and needs. Bella and Edward get each other, despite the fact that he is a vamipire and she is, um, clumsy and smells good? What I mean is, their flaws don’t really get in the way. Edward randomly decides that he’s cool with being with her even though he’s afraid of killing her, and we don’t get any reason or struggle shown to us. Bella just complains and does nothing and all of a sudden she has what she wants, Edward. Again, we don’t see her put forth an effort or struggle for him, it just happens, which is, plainly stated, bad writing.

“3. Come on their American who doesnt love baseball its just trying to make them seem more 21 century.”

The only problem I have with this part of the book is that it’s completely irrelevent and eximplifies Meyer’s poor planning. It seems like she just wrote this in to have something to write about, it has no effect on the plot. James’ coven probably would have found the Cullens, baseball or no baseball. It would have been cool if Meyer tied baseball into the story in a way which enriched the plot, but she just didn’t.

“4.Everyone has their falts no one ever said in the stroy that she was perfect shes not the vampires here.”

Even vampires need faults, as I previously stated. Characters are made intriguing and relatable by their flaws. (And by flaws, I do not mean Bella’s humanity or Edward being a vampire. Again, those traits don’t really get in the way, when they very well could have if the book was written correctly. As for Bella’s clumsiness, it’s not a flaw because it makes her more likable, gag.)

I think I’ve covered everything I wanted to say, so I won’t comment on the other questions. I assure you that I’m not unable to rebuttle them, it would just be redundant of me to bring up the same points over and over. All in all, I think Twilight is a wear, badly written series and it makes me down-right lugubrious that it is what people my age (18ish) turn to when they want to read.

Well a few vampires in old books could go out in sunlight, I’m pretty sure Carmilla the vampire could her character was written before Dracula, but daylight usually has some kind of effect on vampires I laugh at SMeyers attempts at making up scientific reasons for her vamps

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Posted February 14, 2010 at 6:27 pm

Carmilla followed Germanic legends of vampires walking abroad from 12 noon to 12 at night.

However, before Sheridan Le Fanu’s novella there was Dr. Polidori’s The Vampyre, where Lord Ruthevan walked abroad, but if injured had to be placed in the light of the rising moon to revive, even from apparent death.

This was also featured in James Malcolm Rhymer’s Varney the Vampire: or The Feast of Blood and Boucicault’s play The Vampire.

I’ve heard from many people that the vampires sparkle due to their skin being “Hard as diamond”… That mean it’s actually diamond? If so, how could what’s his name have been killed, since last i checked, you can’t just bite into diamond and burn it.

And even then. The plot of Twilight has no backbone “I love this pedo/stalker/potentially dangerous vampire who’s only interest is to have my blood, but it’s okay.” And when it comes down to it, Edward is pretty damn ugly. Books and movies. If to make a fair judgment, Jacob would be a much better person to be with.

And what’s with this “Bella getting pregnant”? Last I checked, vampires were drained of all blood. And therefor, cannot have an erection. And since he’s been dead for X number of years, his sack is probably dried up to nothing.

Im only going to say this once, Twilight is just another piece of overblown media garbage. Honestly, they murdered vamps…