The discreet charm of certain pop-culture phenomenons

[gladia]

I'm a fantasy/science fiction fan, and as a teenage girl I was fascinated by vampires (saw Coppola's Dracula 8 times in the cinema to the point where I could recite the dialogues and where my Mum and Grandma started worrying about it). Still I felt a deep dislike for Twilight from what I heard about it.

Then I read something about it and my dislike grew deeper.

Then something funny happened - Miss M was reading it and kept firing angry remarks about it via Skype, and I found I was rather enjoying the stupidity. To the point where I started looking for negative reviews of Twilight books and movies - the worse, the funnier.

Then I decided that to be objective, I had to know the enemy. I don't feel brave enough to read 4 volumes of purple prose, but we organised a movie night with Miss M and watched the movies. Yay! There were just as hilarious as I hoped them to be.

And I'm playing with the idea of reading Book 1 in order to learn the enemy even better.

This never happened to me before. It's silly, but it's fun. :-)

Comments

[endofthewest]

I come from the same part of the country that Twilight is set in (the town in question is familiar to me from weather reports and news stories about logging) -- the author got pretty much everything hilariously wrong. But the town itself has been in an economic slump for years now, so they've turned Twilight into one of the pillars of their economy. So now their only two local industries are lumber and Twilight tourism, which is an upgrade from the one industry they had before.

Be sure to keep us posted on what you think of the books. People's reactions to Twilight are great fun for me. XD

[gladia]

Oh, it gets better and better! Now I'm pretty sure I'm taking the book on my autumn vacation if it ever happens.


I'm very glad that I had Coppola's Dracula to feed my adolescent fantasies. To think I would have to deal with Twilight!

The Twilight tourism bit made me smile - it's nice to hear that even badly written books can be good for something. :-)