My lovely friend Fiona, from the very awesome music blog Acoustic Dreams & Hardcore Screams put this very funny and ingenius blog 'Reasoning With Vampires' up on her Twitter feed, and once I caught sight of it, I just had to retweet it myself. [I'm just cool like that!]
'Reasoning with Vampires' sets out to convince all Twilight fans, lovers, and true devotees of the franchise just how much Stephenie Meyer is quite the amateur when it comes to writing. But, the ingenious part is the fact that the author does not do this by bitching about how boring they thought the Saga is, but by actually combing through all four books themselves to pick up and point out, very bluntly, what exactly goes wrong within Meyer's pages of seemingly well written prose. But to be fair, Meyer's target audience and key demographic ISN'T at adults rather, but at teenagers, tweens and young children. Which at first, doesn't seem like too much of a problem, especially as Stephenie is a Mormon, so all sexually explicit content is definitely out, but it's more than that. Even the actors who play the characters we feel we know and love so well, have come to admit this since making the films, reading the books, and trying to spend more time and headspace into getting to really know the voices of their characters, and how to relay this on screen in a way that is complimentary and accurate to the story.
Kristen Stewart, who plays Bella Swan, has previously said in interviews before that there's a certain level of fast moving, energetic raw desire that comes from the pages, so she finds it weird as when she's reading BETWEEN the lines to what it all really means, she still finds 10 year olds coming up to her telling her in all earnest, that they can 'relate' and 'understand' Bella's story and point of view. Actually, No, you can't.
So, in conclusion, the blog proves that Ms Meyer, for all her millions made by the Twilight Saga in spite of her inaccurate sentences, can now afford to get herself a decent editor. One that will actually correct her mistakes, if any in future, and not actually leave them alone in the book, to be mercilessly judged for all to see, although it is very, very funny indeed, and definetely worth a read by anybody, Twilight fan or not.
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