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Old 06-16-2014, 09:04 PM   #35
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Stephenie Meyer is not a bad writer. She just writes things that a lot of people find objectionable/not matching their taste in books ("sparkly" vampires ). That is quite different from incomprehensible drek.

Credit where credit is due: she set out to create a book about a sparkly-vampire romance, and succeeded in making a well-written ... sparkly-vampire romance.

The fact that the concept is weird and, as far as I am concerned, inferior in plot value, merely makes me a more discerning reader. It does not magically make the-books-that-must-not-be-named possessed of bad writing. Which is a separate issue entirely, and someone who was unbiased would just write that off to different tastes.

(As you can see I am heavily conflicted. )

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