Quotes
I love quotes. I collect them by the thousands. For this reason I was surfing GoodRead's quote selections, and stumbled across this one completely by accident.
The author appears to just be some random person who felt like adding it for no really good reason, but it makes me smile, particularly given my own feelings on the two characters/fandoms.
“Ronon Dex could drop Edward Cullen with a look.”
― Annalyse Tar
The author appears to just be some random person who felt like adding it for no really good reason, but it makes me smile, particularly given my own feelings on the two characters/fandoms.
Thinking about girls liking Edward Cullen makes me weep for humanity almost as much as I weep over the fact that those books are popular.
As for Twilight... as bad as they are, they were almost tollerably bad until Breaking Dawn. That one's just horrible. It took me a month to read it - and I can read almost anything in a day, two tops.
That being said (and the last thing I shall say on the matter is) the entirety of the Twilight series is just a way for girls to feel okay about themselves after they forgive their boyfriends for abusing them.
I couldn't even get through the first book. I remember I'd never heard of Twilight, but a friend of mine was reading, and I borrowed her book. I don't think I even reached halfway.
And, well, as for me, I've this rule that I can't mock a book until I've read it completely. Thus my whole relationship with Twilight. It's one I regret to this day.
Although now I'm thinking Ronon Dex, Vampire Hunter sounds like a really cool AU. I wonder if it would work as a jossworld fusion .....
Ronon Dex, vampire hunter, would be so cool though. Give it a whirl. I know I'd read it.
My son had to study it for media studies and truly hated it, so if I did give into temptation and rent one of the movies just to see what all the fuss is about, he'd probably never talk to me again. So I'm saving that one for a really special punishment!
(sometimes you have to be evil when you're a parent).
I know someone at work who tried reading the books, but they struggled to get past the first chapter. Frankly it makes me wonder why the franchise seems to be as popular as Harry Potter.
I only read the books myself because I've a policy where I cannot mock/make fun of/etc a book/series/movie until I've seen it, so as to be educated in my mocking. I regret reading the books to this day.
Did see the first 3 movies though. Those, if possible, were even worse than the books. So please, don't do that to your poor son. Nothing, short of jail-worthy offenses, could ever be worth that. And even then there's that pesky law against cruel and unusual punishment.
Le sigh.