[MTS]

The bell curve is a sad thing. While we get mind-boggling genius, we also get the frothing insanity that people like the otakukin belong to.

[The Crow]

Mappo's Travelling Sack, on Aug 21 2009, 11:31 AM, said:

The bell curve is a sad thing. While we get mind-boggling genius, we also get the frothing insanity that people like the otakukin belong to.

Well, while not being all that interested in getting picked up by Inuyasha on his white horsie, I can kinda understand the mindset.

I mean, would you say no if this showed up at your doorstep?

[The Crow]

A month and no anti-anime flaming? I'm baffled. At least I finally got around to start reading the first book.

I hardly managed to finish the first chapter before I put it down. I mean, the writing makes no bloody sense at all. All you find out in the first chapter is "I don't want to move here and I hate my dad". Nowhere in the text do you get any explanation why she's moving to the oh-so-terrible village, or loathe her dad who in fact seems to be a nice fellow, if somewhat confused about suddenly getting a teenage daughter living with him full time.


I sure hope you didn't get around to start reading all of the books Mappo, because then I fear you will be lost to us. Kinda like getting Dragnipur'd, but instead of pulling that huge cart, you're pulling the heart-rending memories of having read through that literary drivel. I wonder which would be hardest to drag along.

[Darkwatch]

The Crow, on 08 September 2009 - 10:43 PM, said:

A month and no anti-anime flaming? I'm baffled.

Go find the Inquisition Thread.

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

My friendly neighborhood twittard gave me the first book to read tonight. After I finish DoD I'm doing it.

[HoosierDaddy]

If you come back as a Twitard, I'll shoot you in the face. I'm all about mercy, Ray.

[MTS]

Yes, it seems the Inquisition has superseded the need for this thread. Unless it's directly Twilight related, I guess. 40 pages is a great effort, though. Not as many as has been linked to Goodkind - the latest incarnation is, what, 30 pages long? - but you must admit, he is a far greater league of evil, and a plagiariser to boot. A self plagiariser, no less. At least we can ascribe to Twilight an element of originality, even if said element is comprised of the shattered dreams of John Polidori, Bram Stoker, and countless others. Goodkind has destroyed far more.

But let's not lower the tone of this thread by talking about Goodkind. Ray, I predict you won't get past the first 50 pages. It's unpossible for anyone with literary taste.

[The Crow]

Mappo, on 09 September 2009 - 12:08 PM, said:

Ray, I predict you won't get past the first 50 pages. It's unpossible for anyone with literary taste.

Oh, must mean I have literary taste then.

[Darkwatch]

Australia has the right idea.

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'Racy' Twilight books banned from primary schools
By Lauren DicksonThe Daily TelegraphSeptember 12, 2009 12:01am

PRIMARY school students have been banned from reading the teen cult classic Twilight books because they are too racy.

Librarians have stripped the books from shelves in some junior schools because they believe the content is too sexual and goes against religious beliefs, The Daily Telegraph reports.

They even have asked parents not to let kids bring their own copies of Stephenie Meyer's smash hit novels - which explore the stormy love affair between a teenage girl and a vampire - to school.

Santa Sabina College at Strathfield was so concerned about the Twilight craze that teachers ran a seminar for Year 6 students to discuss sexual and supernatural themes in the books.

The school's head librarian Helen Schutz said: "We don't have a policy of censorship but the issues in the Twilight series are quite different from the Harry Potter classics.
"It is not available in our junior library for these reasons."

She said that younger kids read the book - which have been turned in a smash hit movie - so they could "talk the talk and are part of the cool crowd".

But teachers addressed the primary students because they were concerned they might be too young to deal with the adult themes.

"There was a great level of concern from the teachers and we anticipated there would be concern from the parents," Ms Schutz said.

"We wanted to make sure they realise it's fictitious and ensure they don't have a wrong grasp on reality."

The four Twilight books trace the love affair between Bella Swan, who moves to a new school, and Edward Cullen, a mysterious heartthrob who belongs to a family of vampires.

The line between real life and fiction has been further blurred by constant speculation that on-screen stars Robert Pattison and Kristen Stewart are off-screen lovers.

Catholic Education Office spokesman Mark Rix said individual schools had to decide whether the books were suitable.

"It comes down to the discretion of the school to keep an eye on what the kids read," Mr Rix said. "Some primary students are not ready to read Twilight. That said, some secondary students may not be either."

Balmoral's Queenwood School for Girls head librarian Heather Voskyl said only senior school students were allowed to borrow the books from the library.

"There isn't a lot written for the Year 4 to 5 age group so they are quickly pushed into higher reading age groups. There is a mismatch between their level of maturity and their level of reading," she said.

St Anthony's Catholic primary school in Picton has asked parents not to let their children bring the book to school.

Emmi Payten, 10, from Bellevue Hill, has read three quarters of the first Twilight book.

"I know it's all just fantasy. I think it's really good, really interesting and bits of it are really funny," she said.

Source

[Slow Ben]

I was at my gf's house the other day and went into her bathroom, sat down. Look around for something to read. Only one thing there. Yep, you guessed it. Twilight.

So i pick it up and peek inside just to make sure my corneas wont burst upon first glance. Decide its safe. I opened it to a random page. That is the worst writing i have ever had the unfortune to stumble upon in my entire life. I only read about 5 pages and i have no idea how anyone in their right mind can call that literature. You get better structured paragraphs in a Dr. Seuss book.

Needless to say i finished whilst reading the shampoo bottle instead.

[HoosierDaddy]

What scent was it?

[Slow Ben]

Ummm. It was Paul Mitchell. As to the scent I cant recall.

[HoosierDaddy]

That reads French Vanilla to me, you saucy minx!

[Darkwatch]

Still more women getting corrupted I see.

Oh well...

Never leave a book in the bathroom, accidents are bound to happen...

[Slow Ben]

What can i say? i like the fancy stuff.

No, seriously, I stick to the Mane and Tail horse shampoo, it makes my hair shine like Orions belt out on the ice.

No, but seriously seriously. Its the gfs. I use the 99 cent Suave from Wal Mart.

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Oh shit. So I borrowed the first book to read so I could be educated in hate, but wanted to finish DoD before I got to it. Today Dr. Luxury Wife was bored and picked it up, and is now reading it. I hope to God she doesn't like it.

[HoosierDaddy]

Most unfortunate misfortune. You just kinda get the feeling that you know she'll love it.

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

It's possible that after all the technical stuff she has to normally read, the pure mindlessness of it might appeal to her.

[Slow Ben]

Thats my gf's excuse. After chem and bio books all day its relaxing and she doesnt have to think.

Yes i'm making excuses for her, who wants to have a twitard for a fiance?

[MTS]

I wish my gf had a plausible excuse like that. She is doing a degree in literature, yet still swoons a little when she opens this travesty of fiction. It's unfathomable.