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Originally Posted by raphaelnonsenso
Whatever gets kids reading. Years ago, I started on The Hobbit then went on to the rest of Tolkien's work.Since then there have been some awful Middle Earth(ish) books published, but the point is, it opened up my eyes to the world of literature. Doubtless it will be the same for many readers of Twilight, or for that matter, Harry Potter.
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In general I agree - getting kids reading is a good thing.
However, when the message of the book in question is: "Behaving like an abusive predatory creep is really a sign of
True Love," then I have a bit of a problem.
And that's even giving the male lead of those books the benefit of the doubt and saying that he's not really a hundred year-old adult preying on a child, but that his neurological development stopped at eighteen and that he's basically just a teenager with a hundred year's practice.