And, to follow up the last post, it seems that the die-hard Stephenie Meyer fans are not too thrilled with the EW cover either. Just look at those comments!
I think it's kind of funny. But I'm probably feeling snarky (or just looped out on cough syrup - summer colds are the worst!). I should probably maybe give the series another chance.
In other news, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is becoming a 3D movie. I'm not sure how I feel about that.
And, I haven't been able to stop thinking about the New Yorker's article on Anne Carroll Moore, E.B. White and children's literature/library service. I may have to post said thoughts at some point ...
Showing posts with label zombies vamps and thieves. Show all posts
Showing posts with label zombies vamps and thieves. Show all posts
15 July 2008
12 July 2008
Ahem.
Am too busy with summer reading things to think, much less compose blog entries.
But, the Go Fug Yourself take on the Twilight Entertainment Weekly cover is too delightful not to mention. So, you know, I am.
Am too busy with summer reading things to think, much less compose blog entries.
But, the Go Fug Yourself take on the Twilight Entertainment Weekly cover is too delightful not to mention. So, you know, I am.
08 March 2008
sucker allure
Am breaking my completely unintended hiatus to post this article from the New York Observer, about teen girls and vampire fiction. Because I think it brings up interesting points and I'd never really planned on not-blogging anyway.
Personally, I'm not that keen on the Twilight books. I understand their popularity and appeal. I read the first one and was totally into it, but at the same time felt grubby and ashamed the entire time. I took a stab at the sequels, but couldn't get passed the first pages, because the melodrama of the prose irked me so much. But, I'd also read a few interviews with Stephenie Meyer that really turned me off, so maybe I'm just a hater. Other contemporary takes on the vamps, um ... save the few mentioned below, not so much.
That said, I love the Blue Bloods books (Melissa De La Cruz has got way more skills than one might expect) and thought that Peeps was bloody brilliant. And yes, as an adolescent, I totally succumbed to Anne Rice (only the first three though) and read Dracula multiple times. Beyond that though, I was flat out-and-out obsessed with all things Poppy Z. Brite. Who, incidentally, would totally take Meyer and company down in a vampfest. And Buffy is pretty much my favorite tv show of all time.
So, I dunno. It is what it is. But zombies definitely make for better movie material.
Personally, I'm not that keen on the Twilight books. I understand their popularity and appeal. I read the first one and was totally into it, but at the same time felt grubby and ashamed the entire time. I took a stab at the sequels, but couldn't get passed the first pages, because the melodrama of the prose irked me so much. But, I'd also read a few interviews with Stephenie Meyer that really turned me off, so maybe I'm just a hater. Other contemporary takes on the vamps, um ... save the few mentioned below, not so much.
That said, I love the Blue Bloods books (Melissa De La Cruz has got way more skills than one might expect) and thought that Peeps was bloody brilliant. And yes, as an adolescent, I totally succumbed to Anne Rice (only the first three though) and read Dracula multiple times. Beyond that though, I was flat out-and-out obsessed with all things Poppy Z. Brite. Who, incidentally, would totally take Meyer and company down in a vampfest. And Buffy is pretty much my favorite tv show of all time.
So, I dunno. It is what it is. But zombies definitely make for better movie material.
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