Sooo...y'all, I have an idea.

Sooo....any of you jealous of Twilight? Any one of you wonder how it is that bad books make the bestselling list, while good books languish? Isn't it frustrating? Here's an opportunity to release that frustration, I think. See, I was looking in public records seeing if I could find myself/other people for the hell of it. And when I typed in "Stephenie Meyer", look what I found! An address! 4725 Desert Cove Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85028. I'm 99.5% this is actually her, as the record lists her husband's name and her children's. I haven't found a phone number yet, but that's a matter of time and patient Googling. And I feel like embarking on a bit of trolling. Any suggestions as to what to do?

Yeah, go read a book instead.

Try /b/, they'd be all over it.

You want us to harass a successful author?  I think you're in the wrong place.  We discuss books, their ideas, and their faults and merits. I think most of us have enough sense to respect all of them, at least as part of the whole. This kind of genre fiction can, at the very least, teach us something about the kind of stories and language that appeal to a certain demographic.  You propose persecution of an author, an act as corrupt as book burning.

I'm glad that /book/ has lived up to its name and not gone along with the OP.  Why do you care so much if people are obsessed with Twilight?  At least they are reading something.

I know where she lives but that's not the way to get back at her.  What I'm going to do is I'm going to make a book so terrible it's guaranteed to get on the bestseller list.

>>6
Now we're talkin'.

>>5
At least they are reading something.
There is no virtue in reading trash. None at all.

>>6
This is how /book/ gets back at people then when the book becomes a huge success go to an interview and say I just wrote this piece of shit to show that you people have no sense of what is good writing and what is bad.

>>8
Incorrect.  It develops, or at least maintains the physical skill.  It also supports an industry that's on the wane.
Heaven knows I'm the last person who should be critical of a snob, but a snob must endeavor to be well informed and thoughtful.

>>10
It develops, or at least maintains the physical skill.
Pretty much everyone who has any sort of life reads something every day, whether it's a sign, a flier, an instruction manual, something written on a box. You'd be surprised how many written words appear on television, not to mention in video games. Nothing is being developed in reading trashy novels that isn't being developed elsewhere.
It also supports an industry that's on the wane.
Well, shit. It's not like the truly great artists are going to be making money either way, unless they somehow manage to break out into the mainstream (unlikely).

Twilight may be a piece of shit with no merit to it whatsoever - I've not read it so I wouldn't know - but a person who has picked up even a bad book and liked it is more liable to pick up another and find his or her way into the better ones.

>>12

Trudat. You have to start somewhere and if its Twilight then so be it.

But then again I have no right to shit on Twilight, I've never read a page and my only knowledge of it comes from /b/ telling me THEY don't like it. I'm sure the same goes for other faggots in this board.

>>13
No. I read 3 1/2 of them. They are absolutely terrible, and I would never willingly read them again-- hell, I didn't even finish the fourth, even though I was forcing myself to try (I have to talk to my younger cousins at family get-togethers, and this is all they talk about, so I wanted to at least know what was going on).

i just killed her family lol

There's nothing out of the ordinary in books that appeal to basic instincts be popular among young (and stupid). You see, when you're writing Conan The Barbarian kind of stuff, being a shitty author actually helps. It's just simple mind pornography, it should be as clear and bland as possible, and have as little proper literary merit as possible - just enough to sustain believability.

Twilight describes the dreams of every mediocre-minded female, and thus is immensely popular among them. It's just the Conan The Barbarian, girl version. While simple-minded men, and, actually, even the intelligent men, want to be big,s trong and unstoppable (and a king and a hero), women would go for an immortal sparkling beautiful boy that would give his life for her and only wishes to serve her and solve her problems.

In fact, it also applies to all other books. The trick is, intelligence hinders clever people from fully enjoying fantasy realisation fiction, because they see it for what it iss all too clearly. So more intelligent people need same shit, but in disguise. They need a true conflict to balance their fantasy realisation. Best artists do this kind of work, and become immortal; while shitty writers who struck some base gold just exploit it and become really rich, although are often forgotten long before they even die - unless their main characters happen to enter popular culture, like Cthulhu or Conan, or Potter, or Gandalf.

[quote]i just killed her family lol[/quote]

no me

>>15
i just read her twilight lol