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Well, first of all, I was joking.
Second, I don't know if kids reading is such a good thing if it's achieved by handing them some of the worst literature out there. I swear those books read like bad fanfic.
I don't like the characters because they're two dimensional and undefined. I don't like the setting because it has no depth. I dislike the lore because it has no creativity. I dislike the writing style because it's awkward. I dislike it's message because it's stupid. I dislike it's 'originality' because it attempts to cash in on something entirely unoriginal, thus marring it almost beyond repair, but again because it too lacks creativity. The whole series is it's own fangirl and the result is everything but pretty.
Now, all these dislikes are things that are a personal opinion of mine. What constitutes 'good' when it comes to literature is different from person to person and that's fine. Except, and perhaps especially when this frame of reference lacks all those things that involve effort, talent or skill on the part of the writer and not just an endless repetition of self-indulgence. But hey, people are allowed to like crap. In certain things, I do too. Crap can be fun, campy campy fun and that's all good and well. But none of that makes it a good book or movie.
And yeah, I'm harsh on Twilight because it offends my sensibilities so. Admittedly more so given the frothing-at-the-mouth idiocy of 90% of it's fans or at least those I've been exposed to. It may not be empirical data, but what use is the silent majority if the vocal majority is that bad?
So go ahead, read Twilight, watch one of the movies. There's real reasons to like it chief among which stands as direct counterpoint to my dislikes in that the main character is infinitely relateable due to her lack of any definition whatsoever.
Besides, if this is harsh you should hear me rave about my personal shortcomings. Those must be downright tortuous if this constitutes harsh. At the end of the day, though, I like to think I'm and equal-opportunity hater, but sooner or later something comes along that is both popular and despicable, at least to people like me. Twilight is this decade's Napolean Dynamite, another movie that sucked to the millionth degree and yet was held aloft as genius by every person in my school. Sometimes it's not worth chewing through the restraints. I've ranted too much, peace out, auf wiedersehen.
EDIT: Oh and a bit more OT, the best way to make a survey would probably just be to break down by component and give the usual five degrees of hate through like that everything else uses.
Second, I don't know if kids reading is such a good thing if it's achieved by handing them some of the worst literature out there. I swear those books read like bad fanfic.
I don't like the characters because they're two dimensional and undefined. I don't like the setting because it has no depth. I dislike the lore because it has no creativity. I dislike the writing style because it's awkward. I dislike it's message because it's stupid. I dislike it's 'originality' because it attempts to cash in on something entirely unoriginal, thus marring it almost beyond repair, but again because it too lacks creativity. The whole series is it's own fangirl and the result is everything but pretty.
Now, all these dislikes are things that are a personal opinion of mine. What constitutes 'good' when it comes to literature is different from person to person and that's fine. Except, and perhaps especially when this frame of reference lacks all those things that involve effort, talent or skill on the part of the writer and not just an endless repetition of self-indulgence. But hey, people are allowed to like crap. In certain things, I do too. Crap can be fun, campy campy fun and that's all good and well. But none of that makes it a good book or movie.
And yeah, I'm harsh on Twilight because it offends my sensibilities so. Admittedly more so given the frothing-at-the-mouth idiocy of 90% of it's fans or at least those I've been exposed to. It may not be empirical data, but what use is the silent majority if the vocal majority is that bad?
So go ahead, read Twilight, watch one of the movies. There's real reasons to like it chief among which stands as direct counterpoint to my dislikes in that the main character is infinitely relateable due to her lack of any definition whatsoever.
Besides, if this is harsh you should hear me rave about my personal shortcomings. Those must be downright tortuous if this constitutes harsh. At the end of the day, though, I like to think I'm and equal-opportunity hater, but sooner or later something comes along that is both popular and despicable, at least to people like me. Twilight is this decade's Napolean Dynamite, another movie that sucked to the millionth degree and yet was held aloft as genius by every person in my school. Sometimes it's not worth chewing through the restraints. I've ranted too much, peace out, auf wiedersehen.
EDIT: Oh and a bit more OT, the best way to make a survey would probably just be to break down by component and give the usual five degrees of hate through like that everything else uses.
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