If not the writers, then who?
Buffy and Angel 1: BUFFYNANGLE4EVA!!!!!1!
Is it better the second time around? Or the third? Or tenth? This is the place to come when you have a burning desire to talk about an old episode that was just re-run.
Isn't that sort of what writers DO?
And she hadn't read Dracula - in the interview I read she said she doesn't read vampire books because if they are too close to hers then that upsets her and if it's really different it upsets her. But she has seen parts of Inverview with a Vampire and Lost Boys, but not much because it grossed her out.
Yep, that's what I've seen in a bunch of interviews with her. Doesn't read horror (and has made comments that have a very strong subtext of that the horror genre is bad, disgusting, and evil), and was too freaked/grossed out by Interview With The Vampire and Lost Boys to finish watching them. These are just a few of the reasons Stephanie Meyer makes me full of rage.
I've seen the argument that Meyer is being subversive or ... I don't know...that some how her ignorance of the genre is the same as what Joss was doing with Buffy.
She's not, she's just willfully ignorant on the subject and I don't want to read that....unless I take that class on vampire literature at the community college and I'm forced to.
What I find so weird about Meyer is that most of the authors I know (generally from here) love to investigate and research whatever they are writing. It seems weird to just start writing.
It seems weird to just start writing.
And yet, in her case, lucrative.
wrod
Valid point. I almost want to read out of curiosity but won't.
Valid point. I almost want to read out of curiosity but won't.
I read the first 100 pages of the first one before I gave up. I did find them hysterically funny, although I don't think that was the intent.
I ran across someone who was reading Twilight, doing a kind of read and snark/discetion of the book. But I forgot to bookmark it and now I don't know how to find it.