Twilight

I recently heard that this book was a best seller, so I downloaded it off of /rs/. Holy shit, what a crappy book. What I find amazing is that I can't find a single bad review about it while browsing Google. Nobody mentions the one dimensional characters, how Bella Swan (seriously, that's her name) seems like a wish fulfillment character for the author (she's popular for no reason, attracts the attention of all the boys, doesn't have any real flaws). Sometimes I forget the book is written in first person, that's how bland Bella Swan is. And just the author's general writing style is dry and bland, bogged down with unnecessary gossiping, and more telling than showing. It seems like I'm reading the same few phrases over and over "he said this with a coy smile," "I couldn't believe the weather was blah blah blah," "I don't understand why I'm so popular here." Seriously, why isn't this book getting torn a second asshole it so sorely deserves?

Why the fuck did you even read the damn thing?

Popular fiction is MOST OF THE TIME really bad.

>>1
I haven't read it, but what I was told about it made it sound pretty damn stupid. My friend (who stopped reading ASoIaF to read this shit) explained to me why the vampires go to skool but it still didn't seem to sit with me very logically. I mean, if you can do all that stuff, the rules of normal society simply no longer apply to you like in Rising Stars. You could walk into stores and take whatever you wanted and walk out because there's nothing anyone could do to stop you. Granted they're not that powerful, but highskool? Seriously? What the shit? As you said, Anon, that book seemed like a total wish fullfillment for the author.

Is it me or do most female fantasy authors seem incapable of turning their books into trashy romance novels?

>>3
why the vampires go to skool
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i read it and enjoyed it, and the 2 (soon to be 3) sequels, but then i am a masochist.

but seriously, all bookstores i go to have this in the young teen female section so i dont know where you got the idea it was good, never read book reviews, listen to what your friends recommend, that way if you dont like it, you can tell them

I read it to, too. Usually books that are hyped so much are at least somewhat entertaining, but Twilight was positively horrid I could hardly stand reading it.  The main character was a very nasty little snob, her love interest was described as looking like as handsome as a Roman statue or whatever and he probably had as much personality as a block of stone, too. I've seriously read fanfictions written by 13 year olds that were considerably better written and just better overall than Twilight was.