Comments on: Stephenie Meyer Wrote a New Thing http://techland.time.com/2010/03/30/stephenie-meyer-wrote-a-new-thing/ News and reviews from the world of gadgets, gear, apps and the web Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:09:32 +0000 hourly 1 By: coldshowers http://techland.time.com/2010/03/30/stephenie-meyer-wrote-a-new-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-7300 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 04:40:38 +0000 http://techland.com/?p=21244#comment-7300 *gasp* someone wrote a book that others despise? the. earth. just, stopped: spinning.

From my point of view, whatever it is worth, the movies weren’t good at capturing the story. The books were great. Great concept. Great story.

You didn’t like it? That’s cool; there are plenty of books out there you might enjoy. But alas, pessimism abounds.

]]> By: sonicroyale http://techland.time.com/2010/03/30/stephenie-meyer-wrote-a-new-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-6990 Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:11:52 +0000 http://techland.com/?p=21244#comment-6990 Lev, I think saying she “wrote” a new book is a bit inaccurate. According to her blog, she wrote it before she’d published, back when she was editing Eclipse. A small difference, all in all.

]]> By: gminnj http://techland.time.com/2010/03/30/stephenie-meyer-wrote-a-new-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-6768 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:35:59 +0000 http://techland.com/?p=21244#comment-6768 Far more troubling than the Meyer news:

Why is Count Chocula ONLY available during Halloween season???

When the hell did this happen, and why are we standing by idly?

If Meyer is allowed to publish these books, and we aren’t allowed to eat Chocula, what kind of world are we living in?!?…

]]> By: tereglith http://techland.time.com/2010/03/30/stephenie-meyer-wrote-a-new-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-6725 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:32:34 +0000 http://techland.com/?p=21244#comment-6725 Why did Red Cross agree to this?

]]> By: radiohank11 http://techland.time.com/2010/03/30/stephenie-meyer-wrote-a-new-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-6720 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 04:17:54 +0000 http://techland.com/?p=21244#comment-6720 And so the milking begins. Oh wait… I guess that happened a long time ago.

]]> By: tyrantking http://techland.time.com/2010/03/30/stephenie-meyer-wrote-a-new-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-6708 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:40:49 +0000 http://techland.com/?p=21244#comment-6708 My wife read the first two books with her teenage sister. I was lucky enough to be in the room while parts of the second book were read. To their credit they stopped after the second book but it was too late. My ears were already bleeding. Awful doesn’t begin to describe the books. However, someone pointed them to the female protagonist’s birthing scene in the fourth book and that crap is so bad that it’s good. Literally LMAO.

]]> By: ajmartinez51 http://techland.time.com/2010/03/30/stephenie-meyer-wrote-a-new-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-6704 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:30:16 +0000 http://techland.com/?p=21244#comment-6704 If the movie is even loosely based on the book, the book is still terrible. These are fantastically bad movies, unless you enjoy pointing out obvious flaws.

‘We have to play baseball in thunderstorms because we hit the ball so hard.’

Not swinging a bat like that you don’t. Wouldn’t the bat explode? Bleh.

]]> By: ewstephe http://techland.time.com/2010/03/30/stephenie-meyer-wrote-a-new-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-6699 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:28:30 +0000 http://techland.com/?p=21244#comment-6699 Not that you’re wrong or anything, but it might be a tiny bit unfair to criticize a book you haven’t read based on the movie. I could name some awesome books with disappointing movies (*cough* harry potter *cough*).

On a different note, what 13-year-old girl is going to read this new book knowing that it ends with the heroine getting torn to pieces and burned?

]]> By: charlieromeobravo http://techland.time.com/2010/03/30/stephenie-meyer-wrote-a-new-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-6696 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:54:50 +0000 http://techland.com/?p=21244#comment-6696 I’m astounded that she’s allowed to write anymore. My wife and I saw Twilight on On Demand last weekend to see what all the fuss was about. I can’t believe that story was written by an adult. Not only was it a crap story but it wasn’t even competently crafted. I can understand why 13 year old girls love it. A lonely, average looking girl falls instantly, mutually in love with a sexually nonthreatening supernatural being who defends her life from another obsessed supernatural being and to celebrate they go… to prom! That’s 2 hours of my life that I’ll never ever get back.

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