[beru]

Make them read Eragon instedits a nobrainer but still WAAAAY better than that wich willnot be named

[HoosierDaddy]

I got half way through the second book and called it quits. The Eragon series is like an unholy conglomeration of Tolkien, Ursula le Guin, and David Drake, but with by far worse characterization and prose. And saying it has worse characterization than Drake is saying something.

[beru]

nah it is not THAT bad but its limited and got as manny characters as one storyline from SE
and its kind of mainstream cliche but thats what makes it such a easy, fast read with one good side and one bad (tho Paulini made them both a bit grayer in the newest books)

[Mr.James]

I think I might have failed humanity....
I was on an outing with a group of friends yesterday, and one of our friends is running late. When she arrives I am horrified to see that she is wearing a Twilight T-shirt, I restrain myself from saying anything lest I divert the conversation to twilight and who would want that...but alas, one of the other girls says and I qoute -although translated "OMG U LIKE TWILIGHT ME TOOO THEY ARE SO ROMANTIC AND DARK" and just like that they both erupted in a frenzy about twilight and cullen and all that crap...now apparently the other girls and guys of our group didn't know what twilight is, which relieved me quite a bit cause the infection wasn't as widespread as I had feared...but sure enough, the two twittards start spreading the filth to the other girls with fanatic zeal, and the other girls get this gleam in their eyes...right now I'm thinking 'we're going to lose them' so I start to fight back with all the energy in my body, pointing out flaws and atrocities in twilight, but alas to no avail...I ended up screaming COME ON....ITS A VAMPIRE THAT GLITTERS IN TEH SUN WTFFFF...and this girl -who isn't a twittard yet- looks at me and says 'wow, that sounds sexy' that's when I knew I was beaten...as it turns out they are showing Twilight on TV here in a couple of weeks and my twittard friends have organized a sleep-over so they can see it together and they ended up recruiting out non twittard friends to come with them...filling them with promises of sexy vampires and forbidden love...oh the travisty...
I couldnt sleep that night....

[Mushroom]

It's times like these I feel I should weep for humanity.

But no. no.

We must cleanse this part humanity instead.
It is the only solution.

[beru]

well if she things sparkly virgin stupid crazy uncertan meateaters are sexy she was a lost cause
(sparkly=well known, virgin=yes he is, Stupid=he cant talk in a constructunal way, crazy=he is imortal and at SCHOOL!, uncertan= the whole problem, meateater well probably both things this can meen (see virgin))

[cauthon]

My sis-in-law is also starting to read Twilight :-/ (she's 15). Kinda sucks, given that she has GotM on a loan, but has stopped in favour of TL. Argh!

[Darkwatch]

Mr.James, on 14 September 2009 - 10:00 AM, said:

I think I might have failed humanity....
I was on an outing with a group of friends yesterday, and one of our friends is running late. When she arrives I am horrified to see that she is wearing a Twilight T-shirt, I restrain myself from saying anything lest I divert the conversation to twilight and who would want that...but alas, one of the other girls says and I qoute -although translated "OMG U LIKE TWILIGHT ME TOOO THEY ARE SO ROMANTIC AND DARK" and just like that they both erupted in a frenzy about twilight and cullen and all that crap...now apparently the other girls and guys of our group didn't know what twilight is, which relieved me quite a bit cause the infection wasn't as widespread as I had feared...but sure enough, the two twittards start spreading the filth to the other girls with fanatic zeal, and the other girls get this gleam in their eyes...right now I'm thinking 'we're going to lose them' so I start to fight back with all the energy in my body, pointing out flaws and atrocities in twilight, but alas to no avail...I ended up screaming COME ON....ITS A VAMPIRE THAT GLITTERS IN TEH SUN WTFFFF...and this girl -who isn't a twittard yet- looks at me and says 'wow, that sounds sexy' that's when I knew I was beaten...as it turns out they are showing Twilight on TV here in a couple of weeks and my twittard friends have organized a sleep-over so they can see it together and they ended up recruiting out non twittard friends to come with them...filling them with promises of sexy vampires and forbidden love...oh the travisty...
I couldnt sleep that night....

That girl who thinks a glittering vampire is sexy, she's retarded.
Cut their cable that night or something.
Buy them a blow up doll with eyeliner and cover it in glitter and leave it at the door.

You're best bet would have been to attack the supposed romantic and dark aspects.
Showing that Ed is an abusive mate, Bella is a weak woman, Jacob is a borderline rapist and pedophile.
If they try to defend it you only have to say:
"You're defending a book that promotes misogyny? Ok, to each their own I guess..."
Then they'll try and defend it, and all you have to do is tell them that it's not their fault, they're women after all.
At which point they'll get mad and you can respond:
"Wait, why are you mad? You're cool with misogyny, and being the empathetic person I am, have decided to adapt my behaviour to something you like."
Then they'll say no again and again, you can just sit there and look smug.
Go find articles describing it's misogyny such as:

Reader, I hurled.

Mushroom, on 14 September 2009 - 10:33 AM, said:

It's times like these I feel I should weep for humanity.

But no. no.

We must cleanse this part humanity instead.
It is the only solution.

Join the Inquisition then my friend and we will fight back this heresy!

cauthon, on 14 September 2009 - 11:44 AM, said:

My sis-in-law is also starting to read Twilight :-/ (she's 15). Kinda sucks, given that she has GotM on a loan, but has stopped in favour of TL. Argh!

She stopped reading GotM to read Twilight?
Yeah, do something about that.

[Stalker]

My sister became corrupted years ago when the books first started polluting the minds of young teenage girls and older.
Recently, while I was home for the summer, I noticed the infection had spread to my mother. Very disturbing, it wouldn't have been long until they convinced my dad to have a family movie night (I hope he would resist, but in the end it would fail). Knowing that immediate action was necessary I, like any good member of the inquisiton, against this plague upon our females, and some males (gah), the books somehow disappeared (that is, into my safe keeping, where they shall never see the sparkly sun). EVER!

For real though, I threw em under my bed, and left for college.

[beru]

other way around surly?: you left for college and THEN trew them under your bed, right?

[Stalker]

nah, they are under my bed at home, because I would lose all respect for myself if they were under my bed here at school. Because here my bed is 6.5 ft off the ground and my desk is below it. So that would mean the books are on my desk...

so the night before I left, I stuck them safely away. I feel bad because I guess it was my sisters, but damnit I am her older brother and am trying to protect her here. lol.

[Bent]

So apparently some dude that starred in this is coming to some premier( is there a sequel or something?) in my town, where Regal Cinemas "main" offices and theaters are...Should I take this guy out? Also, no idea who it is, I think its the main guy...but whatever

http://www.knoxville...e-in-knoxville/


anyway, I could probably manage to get close enough to throw some glitter in his eyes, maybe punch him in the face, and spit on him once or twice....

[Illuyankas]

Bent, on 14 September 2009 - 04:14 PM, said:

So apparently some dude that starred in this is coming to some premier( is there a sequel or something?) in my town, where Regal Cinemas "main" offices and theaters are...Should I take this guy out? Also, no idea who it is, I think its the main guy...but whatever

http://www.knoxville...e-in-knoxville/


anyway, I could probably manage to get close enough to throw some glitter in his eyes, maybe punch him in the face, and spit on him once or twice....

Don't! The actor playing the main male lead deserves nothing but your respect and pity. Not only did he sign on purely for the paycheck and to get out of the Potter niche, only to find himself stuck in this horrible mess of fan obsession, but he insulted the book, its characters and its author multiple times in reviews and interviews. He also almost certainly prevented Meyer from getting royalties from one of her books by leaking it and making her cancel it getting published. And he has to deal with the thousands of shrieking fangirls trying to hunt him down, to the point where he got hit by a taxi while trying to flee them. Poor bastard.

If it's anyone else from the cast (with the possible exception of the female lead who was reputed to also insult the franchise in public and to the press but I can't confirm it), though, then feel free.

[Slow Ben]

Illy is wise.

[Mr.James]

Darkwatch, you truly deserve your title as Most Holy and Exalted Inquisitor....I renew my pledge to your cause.

and I'll try your techniques come the morrow...wish me luck my brothers!!

I also encountered something similar to what Cauthon did, one of the non-twittard girls -and so help me she'll remain so- has had my copy of GOTM for about a year but "hasn't got around to read it" or "it's too confusing"...but she jumped in joy when one our twittards gave her a copy of the first twilight.....er....books...I imagine she must be almost done with it by now...

and Illy iss indeed wise...poor real life cullen...

This post has been edited by Mr.James: 15 September 2009 - 01:11 AM

[MTS]

I gave one of my female friends GotM once...that was a triumphant day. She agreed to be initiated into the wonders of SE and, indeed, real literature. Although she reads Terry Pratchett, so I guess she was already halfway down the path to true enlightenment. Anyway, I was going to save her from the evils of Twilight. I was positively giddy. Well, not really, but excited nonetheless. Anyway, fast forward 7 months, it still remains unfinished on her desk, while numerous rereads of Twilight have occurred in all their sparkly horror. Principal complaints? Too many characters. The fact it jumped between different narratives was too confusing, and not knowing what the hell everything was made it boring. And she didn't like that Tattersail was fat. Honestly. I tried to entice her with tales of dragon sex (that would appeal to Twitards, right?), to no avail. I should probably get it back from her before she throws it away in a fit of pique...

[Darkwatch]

Mappo, on 15 September 2009 - 02:07 AM, said:

And she didn't like that Tattersail was fat. Honestly.

...

Wow, tell her that you want GotM back. She's right Twilight is the book for her seeing how shallow she is.
Also you might want to point out that Iz (Bella) is described non stop as PLAIN, AVERAGE, and NOTHING SPECIAL.
So somewhere she might want to think about an eye exam.
But I guess pointing that out would make her mad since Iz is nothing but a place holder for the reader to project herself and thus any attempts to show that Iz not that good looking will be interpreted as an attack on your friend's physique.

It's an insidious problem.
One that can only be cured by Sword and Fire.

[Illuyankas]

If she's bothered about Tattersail being fat, tell her she's a shallow person only concerned with looks and other insults of that variety and that you're disappointed in her for it.

[Stalker]

or tell her that Tattersail is uses magic to appear fat as a disguise, to hide that she is a super-assassin who sparkles in the moonlight.

A white lie for her sake is worth it. Do not go down the road of Twilight.

[MTS]

Oh, I did all that, obviously. The opportunity for insults was endless. She didn't talk to me for a week. Her attempts at denial and and then even backpedaling were very amusing. 'I'm not shallow! She just doesn't act like a fat person, that's all'. Hah.