Comments on: twilight: a review

By: variation on the ABC game — rustypants speaks

variation on the ABC game — rustypants speaks — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:00:35 +0000

[...] could be done with that ghastly “Twilight” series and/or the movie, or a TV show, [...]

By: Steph Stauter

Steph Stauter — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:36:02 +0000

Hey Scott,

I liked Twilight, although the whole “icy cold body”/”smoldering eyes” thing did start getting old by the end. Trust me that the books get better and there are some twists that you don’t see coming just from reading the first book. I think the writing gets better too. Just try reading the next one and if you still hate it then it’s probably not worth reading any more.

Steph

By: Moldy-Wan ~;-)

Moldy-Wan ~;-) — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:17:37 +0000

I have seen some trash published in my day that left me wondering “what in the world was the publisher’s editor-in-chief thinking when he accepted this crap!!?”

Publisher’s Weekly called Twilight a “‘riveting first novel, equal parts suspense and romance.’ Ages 12-up.”

“Riveting?” As your review states and PW notes, it is written for tweens & teens. Kind of sad, I think. At that age, kids should be offered quality writing to help them with their language and cognitive skills. Most especially their cognitive skills. Oh well. Maybe Little, Brown had a quota to fill a needed market. It’s still sad. It’s like picking up the New Haven Register newspaper (in Connecticut), reading it from front to back and finding more than 30 spelling and grammar errors that demonstrate that the reporters use an automated spell-check and did not bother to review to see if the words chosen were actually the right ones and that the newspaper obviously no longer employs copy editors or fact checkers.

Carl Sagan used to call things like that “the dumbing down of America.”
L&K,
Moldy-Wan ~;-)