if you're a can't hack it pantywaist who wears your mama's bra, raise your hand.

[enamoured]

In case you don't know: in the past day or so, Stephen King only spoke the truth and said that Stephenie Meyer is not a great writer. And lo, the Twilight fans take offense to this:

I think he is just jealous because he's not getting as much coverage or is well liked as Stephenie. He really doesn't know real writing. I read one of his books and to me, IMO, he doesn't catch the readers attention like Stephenie does. I mean, it is his opinion but I don't agree with it. And books don't have to have blood, lots of violence and sex in it to be a great book. That's just how I feel.

I was pretty shocked that he just publicly put her down like that. But I think he is just jealous, I mean it cant be easy to be asked about another authors work instead of your own.
I was disappointed in reading that too. The old adage, "if you have nothing nice to say, don't say it at all" should apply. His dismissal of the book as a silly teen girl "not quite sex"storyline is a slap in the face to those of us who are grown women, and know the truths and common threads that run through all of us gals (young and old) when it comes to first love. Perhaps he has not had the joy of such an experience, and hence misses the point completely.

Right. Stephen King, jealous of Stephenie Meyer? Riiiiight. Tell you what: when SMeyer writes a story that is seen to be excellent source material for a movie that is considered to be one of the best of all-time, gets nominated for Best Picture like the previous one did, and gets made into a miniseries that scars people for life, please tell me. Though I suppose that parts of Breaking Dawn could, indeed, scar people for life.

Also, I take personal offense to Twilight being #1 on Good Reads' Best Young Adult Novels list. THERE ARE SO MANY GREAT BOOKS ON THAT LIST. The Giver (which is still one of my favorite books, and totally turned on my interest for dystopian fiction)! The Book Thief (SOBS, that book)! Speak! The Westing Game! The Perks of Being a Wallflower! The Absolute True Story of a Part-Time Indian! A Great and Terrible Beauty! And those are just titles in the top fifty; all of which have way more going for them than Bella Swan and her Disco Ball Boyfriend. I know it's a subjective, user-based list, but for the love of God, really?! Even IMDB's viewers aren't that stupid, and, well, IMDB has some stupid at points.

I need to finish writing Better Than Truth now.

Comments

[lauren5678.livejournal.com]

Haha, yeah I'm real sure Stephen King is jealous of Stephanie whatsherface. Nevermind that the teens getting offended probably weren't even alive yet when King was in his prime... but whatever. She's NOT a great writer- I skim read a bit of twilight in the bookstore and said no thank you.

[themurphybed.livejournal.com]

You only speak facts.

And I've read 3 and 1/2 of the Twilight books, and they're awful. Putting me in an interesting situation when I tell people them that. Basically, I'm called a liar and told that I just say they're bad because I want to be ~an individual~.

Then again, these are the same people that would tell me I had no clue if they were bad if I hadn't actually read them and still though they were hardcover fan-fiction.

I know I'm slowly getting off topic but I guess it bothers me that people think you can't enjoy something for the sheer awfulness it is. Just because you've invested time in reading a novel doesn't mean you automatically have to like it. Reading it doesn't make you smart, critically thinking about what you've read does. That includes deciding if you like it.

Twilight has definitely provided some lols. However, I draw the line at finding humor in a scene where the lead (now less than chaste) vampire bites through his teen bride's uterus to free a parasitic writhing baby.

Yuck.

[moirariordan.livejournal.com]

And books don't have to have blood, lots of violence and sex in it to be a great book.

...

*eyes Breaking Dawn*

No blood, violence or sex. Got it.

Not like Stephen King is a master at psychological manipulation and terror, or anything. Obviously Smeyer is the true artist.

The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.

HAHAHAHA. Oh, Stephen King. You can be a douchebag sometimes, but ILY anyway.

(And if he were just jealous, why would he bring up JK Rowling? Arguably she's sold more books, been around longer and her cultural phenomenon is just as huge, if not greater, than Smeyer's. And how can you be jealous of somebody who is writing for a completely different audience than you? It's like saying that Trey Parker and Matt Stone are jealous of the people who make Spongebob.)

Twifangirls: common sense. Use it.

[kwiditchjunkie.livejournal.com]

I laughed so hard when I read that article about Stephen King. All the more reason why I love that man. XD

Dude, Shawshank is one of my top favorite movies. And The Green Mile was fantastic. Seriously, people who read Twilight don't know amazing literature, even if it rammed itself up their asses.