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[recrudescence]

Gaaaah.

Am reading Twilight. Just to make sure it's really worth the wank.

Thing is, I was reading Lovecraft immediately beforehand, and the juxtaposition is like going from plasma-screen HDTV to a black-and-white affair with rabbit ears you have to spastically wave around in order to get anything resembling a satisfactory picture.

New!Teacher swore I would love it and send me the file earlier today. Eighty pages left and I am so thoroughly beyond unconvinced. She owes me an Atlas bar (which, bluerosefairy, are a highly recommended specimen of Korean junk food). This is seriously the least engaging thing I've read in a very long time. And that includes the photo essay on mangroves I just taught in fifth grade.

The "one big incestuous vampire family" thing could have been kind of cool, too. But I am Not Thinking About This because I have yet to start my Yuletide fic. Ahahaha, God help me.

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[shutterbug-12.livejournal.com]

So nice to hear that someone I trust thinks that Twilight is a piece of complete drivel. One of the wardrobe crew is reading it and flying through them, saying how engaging and entertaining they are, and it's hard for me not to ridicule. I suppose everyone has different tastes, but I can't understand how these have become so popular, after reading an excerpt and going, "Seriously, are people joking?"

[recrudescence.livejournal.com]

I just find it unengaging and amateurish--if I want to read a brainless vampire novel, there are plenty out there that I can actually enjoy.