By encyclops, on November 18th, 2008%
In which Meyer goes “oh shit, it’s time to end this sucker” and spins out close to 750 pages in one volume. At first it’s kind of exciting, because instead of taking 300 pages to work out the obvious Bella does it in maybe 100 and we shift focus entirely to the supernatural shit so that . . . → Read More: breaking dawn
By encyclops, on October 12th, 2008%
I’ve finished the rest of the Twilight series. After this I’ll post some comments on each of the other three books.
First of all, let me admit that I did mostly enjoy reading them, which is pretty amazing considering that I hated a lot of the characters, situations, and plot developments. I really don’t like the heroine . . . → Read More: finished the twilight series
By encyclops, on September 7th, 2008%
I was really severely into vampires around the time I was entering college. I’d just discovered Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles, and at that point she was only three books into them and they were still good. I loved the atmosphere, the melodrama, the imagery, and of course the homoeroticism. But most of all I think I . . . → Read More: twilight