I loved Point Horror! And yeah, it was way better than the crap Meyer writes. I'd love to see an author like L.J Smith get more recognition. She wrote some great vampire/supernatural books for teens that were released almost a decade ago and are infintely better than Twilight. Everyone should check out the Night World and Dark Visions series, they're excellent.

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So.

This is just an even lamer version of Buffy The Vampire Slayer type pop-fiction stuffs, or what? W/ a rather more dragged-out "Angel The Hot "protector" vampiric guy?

Bc if so. I'm not gonna even try it I don't think.
My niece , one non-reader s-i-l & one teenybop cousin are lending the 'Twilight' books back n forth to each other: & that should prob tell me just about all I need to know about that "series". Oh noes

How long are the books btw? I could ask the two mentioned above (not sil bc she takes offense, heh) but I sorta refuse.
Bc srsly idk when they've any of them last read a real book before this series & movie etc came out
Or am I just being a litsnob elitist ass?
Probably

OR HAS THERE NEVER BEEN A HALFWAY PROPER VAMPIRE TYPE BOOK SINCE STEPHEN KING'S "SALEM'S LOT" ?

Gah

& lol geek.

& sigh
Chyia, insufficiently pop- 'd

they are badly written. and long, chyia. LONG.

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Well in that case
HAHA I might just have to read it/them w/a red proofreading/copy-editor's pen at the ready.
Cause that can be its own form of entertainment. *snob*

Meh, to me a properly 'long' book is like 500 - 800 pages. Ref: Flanagan's The Tenants Of Time. Just f.e. , bc unfort there are very few GOOD books of recent vintage that are anything close to long as that one (& it's rly good too, beautifully written, historically consistent (w/only the small literary license taken which is specified in the Author's notes) & such

That sort of stuff is my fave
Which pretty much lets out the VC Andrews type thing.
Mostly

So: Given that one reader's boring pacing, trite story line, execrable writing, & abominable "structure", is another person's can't-put-it-down entertainment -- therein lies a problem bc I'm already expecting to be unimpressed. Unfair.
Niece-God-dau is rly pressing the "omgz this is sooo good I'll lend it you; a MUST READ!!".

Geek will I throw it accross the room after the first 3 chapters (or maybe 3 PAGES?) d'you think? Bc srsly I want to check out the excitement & see what ppl like in it, & stuff : HOWEVER there is a dang limit ?

*grin* & btw:said god-dau/niece is a nurse -- v competent clinician - who doesn't happen to be a book person normally, & not particularly well- read outside her career field. She has multitudinous other talents (she's a painter for one,) & lotsa other artsy stuff:, but . Reading not so much. Hence w/her excitement over these books etc

Obv i'm missing something?
Or not.

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Chyia, contemplating lending Ken Follett's 'Pillars Of The Earth' to her in return p'raps

( P.S. btw: I've not seen teh mooooovie, altho I kinda wanted to at one time or was at least a bit curious?. However, turned out to be not v feasible, so wtfe.)

chyia, when i am reading them, i find myself wanting to crawl away in embarrassment... but i cant crawl away from myself? and besides i want to read the next chapter.

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