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[retro_eidas]

So, Twilight. It would hardly be exclusive to this series, but can someone explain to me how something can be at once so atrocious, you know full well of the atrocious as it is there right in your face, yet once you pick it up you somehow just. can't. stop? Is it the trainwreck factor? So Horrible You Can't Help But Gawk thing? I don't know, maybe it's just my own faulty mind, but I'd have really thought I'd had my fill of gratuitous, published fan fiction after The Da Vinci Code from the NYT bestseller list. I was apparently wrong.

mrstater, I'm quite certain this whole thing has traumatized me. Although I vow to you if I ever mention "Rpattz" seriously ever? You're more than welcome to come right up here and shoot me. A lot.

Comments

[amaresu]

Sounds like a good theory. Replace Dirty Dancing with Nightmare on Elm Street though. I've not read the Twilight books. My (older) sister loves them though. I read the back of one of them and put it back on the shelf. I fear if I ever did pick it up I would end up in your situation.

[eido.livejournal.com]

Resist!! Although what I find most amusing and soul-scarring about these books is that they almost never come alone. Twilight is a whole bloody series and A Great and Terrible Beauty is part of a trilogy, isn't it?

[amaresu]

Twilight has a movie and everything. I will resist with my giant pile of To Be Read books.

AGaTB is a trilogy. I've almost picked up the second book more then once. I think it's like badfic. When you look up and realize you're on chapter 20 and it's been 5 hours and you can't figure out why you're reading it, but you go on to chapter 21. Or maybe that's just me.

But it's like the fact that there is so much of it must mean it's good. So I keep reading trying to find the good and it never happens.