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Originally Posted by Joykins
Oh, great, just what I want snuck into my romances  This stuff is pretty boring for those of us who do not fantasize about it, KWIM? It's more like reading a recipe ("cut slashes in roast 1" apart, and insert a garlic clove into each slash"). |
LMAO!
Being a vehement non-Twihard (every excerpt I've seen drives me nuts; poor writing and flat, cardboard characters--plus Bella is the absolute worst female lead character I've ever seen in YA OR adult novels), all I can say is I'll take my vampire smut without the side of glitter, please. Or the "recipes". LOL I don't get the fascination with Twilight and never have.
The side by side comparisons of the fanfic vs. published version that Dear Author did were pretty telling though, as well as the numerous character descriptions and plot points detailed by others that come directly from the Twilight books. I'll be interested to see if Meyer's camp has anything to say about the blatant ripoff of her characters for profit. Merely renaming them while leaving nearly all other characteristics intact doesnt change that. Though I personally have no respect for her writing abilities, those characters belong to the ORIGINAL author, and as such, I think her legal team should be on top of this now to make sure she gets her cut--which in my IANAL opinion should be all of it.
If the Fifty Shades author had made more significant changes to render her characters, locale, and descriptions as unique, there'd be less of an issue....but the publisher wouldn't have bought it, and it almost certainly wouldn't sell as well. I get that "there's nothing new under the sun" and virtually every work is derivative in some way, but I have no respect for an author who can be bothered to at least TRY and distinguish her work from another's.