As someone who have read it myself I can somewhat confirm what you say, it is not that bad. But then, it's really not good either. My problem comes mainly with its authour and the fans. And the fact that people have actually hurt people physically and emotionally(girlfriends cutting themselves and forcing their boyfriends to drink their blood, or flat out insulting them/leaving them for 'not being like Edward'). Also, the positive review where focused mostly on "this is what it's like to be a teenager with your first crush", and the first book is like that, the rest is just fap material without anything to fap to.Lykosia said:Yet, she still got some praising reviews from some critics and Publishers Weekly chose Twilight as the best book of the year 2005. I haven't read the books myself, so can't really say my own opinion about them, but some critics seemed to like the books. Which is why I don't believe them to be that bad. I only think that most of us here aren't the target audience.maidenm said:She did get a rejection letter, or rather she got 9 of them (!!). Five letters she sent to publishers went unanswered. Then she sent the script to Little, Brown, the company that accepted her crap. A company that back then had a... bad reputation. Suprised? She also refused to let a proof-reader edit her "work" because they might "ruin" it.canadamus_prime said:That still doesn't account for how she got published in the first place. Like if she's such a terrible writer then how is it that her publisher didn't slap her with a big fat rejection slip? I don't know, I haven't read it, I'm just going on everyone else's word here.
I should stop now, before I start ranting...