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Originally Posted by jhempel24
Twilight RUINED Vampires, I'm so tired of it. I've never read them, nor do I have a desire to, but I hope every one of those characters gets a stake through the heart, a silver bullet in the brain, or just a good ole' beheading.
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As I understand it, those won't work. They're
special vampires. They have all the advantages (not to mention being uber-sexy, even if what they're doing is actually
creepy) and none of the disadvantages. Not one. They can even have children, because they're not really
dead dead, y'know? I believe it was mentioned earlier that the only way to kill them is to cut them in pieces and then individually burn the pieces. Which still doesn't explain why hundred-year-old men are pretending to be high school students.
There's a word for a character that has all the advantages of an archetype and none of the disadvantages, and for a character that is loved and respected in circumstances where we'd back away slowly from a real person. That word is "Mary Sue". They're normally the work of first-time authors with self-importance issues. ... Oh.
I agree that kids reading is a good thing. However, how would people react if the thing that got kids reading was hardcore porn? Would there still be the "well, anything that gets kids reading is good" reaction? Or what if it was the book from another thread here that amounts to "how to be a better pedophile"? Anything that gets kids reading? Why is it that kids chose
not to read until they were presented with examples of some highly disturbing relationships that, frankly, should be aberrant, not admirable? What have the parents been doing if their kids aren't reading until they find
that?
Frankly, I'd be less disturbed by the hardcore porn. At least it makes no bones about what it is.