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50 Shades of Grey - kinda curious on everyone's thoughts
twofaced:
Also, I saw a girl at work with one of the fifty shades books and simply said, "Oh, you're reading the series?" and even she kind of gave me a "don't judge me please" look and said, "Yeah, I'm kind of liking it..." I had to giggle at that. I told her I had just started on #1 and she said "OMG Don't you love it?" and I simply said "I've only read chapter one... Love is not the word I would use..." then she told me it gets better at chapter 8.... Not sure I can hold out for chapter 8....
Sakabelle:
Chapter 8 must be where they do it for the first time. I'm on chapter 6 I think. I highly doubt I will make it to the end to be honest.
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: twofaced on June 13, 2012, 06:57:29 PM ---I completely agree with you on the ending. As I mentioned before, I read Twilight to answer questions that rose up in youth group, and I was OBSESSED. I LOVED the books. And then I read #4. You remember the term "jumped the shark"? The point when a storyline becomes so ridiculous, it jumped the shark, ala Fonzi in Happy Days? I totally think that Twilight jumped the shark, like Stephenie herself said "Shit, I've been writing this crap too long, I must shove every happy ending into this last book so I can finally be done with it!" and voila, Breaking Dawn... When I read Breaking Dawn, I went from loving Twilight and telling everyone how great it was into making fun of it. And now to try and make it through a fanfic... *sigh* Let's see if I can actually read chapter 2, I've started it twice...
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Yep, I agree. I can handle the first half of Breaking Dawn, until Bella becomes a vampire, and it's all downhill from there. My biggest problem with the books is that Stephenie Meyer does not know how to write action, suspense, or good villains. I've never been able to successfully reread any of them because I always lose interest right before the "climactic" parts toward the end - the baseball scene in Twilight where the e-vamps show up, the whole Italy part in New Moon, etc. I always felt like James and Victoria were totally random, and the Volturi were a huge build-up to NOTHING. She would have been better off sticking to the forbidden romance/love triangle stuff than trying to throw in random vampire wars (in which one side surrenders before any fighting actually takes place) at the end.
Pengi:
--- Quote from: Sakabelle on June 13, 2012, 07:26:58 PM ---Chapter 8 must be where they do it for the first time. I'm on chapter 6 I think. I highly doubt I will make it to the end to be honest.
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Even them finally doing it is really lame.
Christian is WAY overstated and pathetic and moody. I mean even before I knew it was Twilight fan fic I was like "good God this guy's like a Edward Cullen on PMS....take a freaking Midol dude" LOL
And the girl. OY WITH THE POODLES ALREADY!
mare:
On my way down to Philly for the workshop I was teaching, the teachers in the van were talking about how much they wanted to read it. By the time we got to the place I had convinced them all it wasn't worth it lol
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