Stephenie Meyer gives a really good description of Bella in Midnight Sun. So sad that it is only the first half of the book that she is willing to release. I'm hoping she'll change her mind and finish the book and have it published.
Stephenie Meyer gives a really good description of Bella in Midnight Sun. So sad that it is only the first half of the book that she is willing to release. I'm hoping she'll change her mind and finish the book and have it published.
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Lalalalaaaa, lalalalaaa
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Yeah, I also picture Bella as less... graceful looking? Not that Kristen's super graceful looking, but she doesn't exude awkward clumsiness to me like I feel Bella should.
Also, have you seen Jacob? He's exactly how I pictured him... I'll find a picture.
It's so sad what happened with Midnight Sun.
When I read it it changed my view of Edward quite a bit...
Oh, and here's Jacob:
What's Midnight Sun?
And ew to Jacob. He should be much hotter than that. I like him so much better than Edward. Give me Jacob anyday. He can keep me warm.
A true firewasp ninja would never wear such a ridiculous sweater.
There's logic in nonsense.
Give me all the bacon and eggs you have.
I don't like that picture much either... the actor (Taylor Lautner) is so young though. Yikes.
Midnight Sun was a project Stephenie was working on. It was intended to be Twilight (the first novel) from Edwards perspective, but someone leaked an early draft of it online. Stephenie was crushed and decided to "suspend the project indefinitely."
She did, however, ask her fans to stop looking for bootlegged versions and posted the rough draft on her official website. It's about 200 pages and really gives some interesting insight into Edward and the other Cullens.
I really enjoyed it and I'm sad she's (probably) not going to finish it.
That sounds interesting. I'll have to go check it out.
A true firewasp ninja would never wear such a ridiculous sweater.
There's logic in nonsense.
Give me all the bacon and eggs you have.
OMG I'm so fucking excited for this damn movie.
Lunchroom movie clip:
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So I just got back from the theater, and the movie was INCREDIBLE.
The adaptation from book to film was great - I would say 90% accurate. Also, the big thing I really appreciated was that they didn't add a bunch of shit. With a few very minor exceptions, everything that was in the film was in the book in some form or other.
I thought Kristen Stewart played a great Bella (but she wasn't as annoying as Bella in the books = good thing). Rob Pattinson was perfect as Edward. I was a little iffy at the beginning, but he grew on me and ended up adding some great personality and humor to the character.
Overall great. I would rate it very highly. Go see it.
Okay, my best friend got me Twilight for X-mas, and I begged my son's girlfriend to borrow the other three. I finished all four books in a week! There should be a warning label on the cover of those books warning you how friggin' addictive they are!!! I read Breaking Dawn in one sitting. I literally could not put it down! Stephanie Meyer should be arrested for peddling crack...it's crack on paper, that's what it is!
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I just started reading these on Friday...OMG!! I finished the first one in a little over 24 hours, bought the second one yesterday and 200 pages into it. I haven't seen the third one anywhere in my area. Will have to go on a hunt. At least reading will be a little slower now since I have to work all day.
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Once you can get past the whiny teenage angst in the first book it's smooth sailing.
A true firewasp ninja would never wear such a ridiculous sweater.
There's logic in nonsense.
Give me all the bacon and eggs you have.
But it wasn't like that at all for me, I am a sap for that stuff! LOL
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I think that it was just really bad in the first book - after that it becomes so much better, and seriously addicting!
A true firewasp ninja would never wear such a ridiculous sweater.
There's logic in nonsense.
Give me all the bacon and eggs you have.
My daughter bought me the CD version so I could listen to it. I'll have to do all 4 of course now.
I really keep wanting someone to get their head ripped off but that's just how I am...other than that, I think the writing is really good. I always know that when I'm reading (or listening) and the author writes something that makes me nod my head and smile.
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Stephen King: "[Author of 'Twilight'] can't write worth a darn."
I never really paid attentiong to Stephen King outside of books enough to know whether or not he's actually criticized other authors. But I found this at Yahoo news.
Stephen King On 'Twilight' Author: 'Stephenie Meyer Can't Write Worth A Darn'
By Access Hollywood
1 hour, 26 minutes ago
Getty ImagesAccess Hollywood LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Stephen King's opinion may drive a stake through the heart of "Twilight" author, Stephenie Meyer.
In an interview with USA Weekend, the bestselling author compared Meyer with J.K. Rowling , the author of the Harry Potter series.
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According to Stephen, "Both Rowling and Meyer, they're speaking directly to young people... The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can't write worth a darn. She's not very good."
Meeooww!
While Stephen may not be a fan of Stephenie's writing, he understands the appeal of the series.
"People are attracted by the stories, by the pace and in the case of Stephenie Meyer, it's very clear that she's writing to a whole generation of girls and opening up kind of a safe joining of love and sex in those books. It's exciting and it's thrilling and it's not particularly threatening because it's not overtly sexual."
He further explains, "A lot of the physical side of it is conveyed in things like the vampire will touch her forearm or run a hand over skin, and she just flushes all hot and cold. And for girls, that's a shorthand for all the feelings that they're not ready to deal with yet."
Was the "meeooww" actually in the article or your addition?
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oh snaps!
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I always wondered what he thought of SMeyer.
I knew he loved JKR and a lot of people compare the two series so I was interested to know his take.
And I am amused.
oh shit.
hide the page before Noel Sheppard makes it look like King thinks teenage girls can't read
That's not nice.....
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Here's the link
February 02, 2009
Exclusive: Stephen King on J.K. Rowling, Stephenie Meyer
I'm working on my big American Icons cover story on Stephen King today, and it could almost fill up two full issues. King gave me so much good stuff: He's a truly fascinating guy, and he had so many great stories and takes on things. When I flew up to Maine to talk to him in December, we got into a discussion of popular authors vs. the academic elite, a subject he has strong opinions about, and I asked him if his mainstream success over the past 35 years paved the way for the massive careers of Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling and Twilight author Stephenie Meyer. Click read more for King's feelings about those two as well as some other best-selling authors. And remember to check out my cover story on King in the March 6-8 issue of USA WEEKEND.
Photo courtesy of Simon & Schuster
King, whose Stephen King Goes to the Movies collection came out last week, doesn’t know how much of an influence he had on Meyer, but he does know that Rowling read his stuff when she was younger. "I think that has some kind of formative influence the same way reading Richard Matheson had an influence on me," King explains. "People always say to me, 'Well, what about H.P. Lovecraft?' And the thing was, you read Lovecraft when you were a kid but I never felt that he was speaking my language. It was chillier than my heart was, and when Matheson started to write about ordinary people and stuff, that was something that I wanted to do. I said, 'This is the way to do it. He’s showing the way.' I think that I serve that purpose for some writers, and that’s a good thing. Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. ... The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good."
But then King recalls that when his mom was alive, she read all the Erle Stanley Gardner books, the Perry Mason mysteries, obsessively when he was growing up. "He was a terrible writer, too, but he was very successful," King says. "Somebody who’s a terrific writer who’s been very, very successful is Jodi Picoult. You’ve got Dean Koontz, who can write like hell. And then sometimes he’s just awful. It varies. James Patterson is a terrible writer but he’s very very successful. People are attracted by the stories, by the pace and in the case of Stephenie Meyer, it’s very clear that she’s writing to a whole generation of girls and opening up kind of a safe joining of love and sex in those books. It’s exciting and it’s thrilling and it's not particularly threatening because they’re not overtly sexual. A lot of the physical side of it is conveyed in things like the vampire will touch her forearm or run a hand over skin, and she just flushes all hot and cold. And for girls, that’s a shorthand for all the feelings that they’re not ready to deal with yet."
Lalalalaaaa, lalalalaaa
Lalalalaaaa, lalalalaaa
sugarpop <3
What's Twilight?????? I havn't heard of it.
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sorry were you referring to my comment or to stephen king's?That's not nice.....
Steve's
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