I've been amazed by how terribly angry some the Twilight Haters are on my flist. I read the books. I don't care one way or the other. I read them because my students were reading them, and I wanted to be able to talk with them about the books. When I saw the movie I realized it hadn't stayed in my brain. Still, when I see people say the Twilight series is ruining the minds of the people who read them, and Smyer is evil, and it's better that people never ever read again instead of reading these books, I'm disturbed. I've seen pretty prominent BNFs on LJ proclaim that Smyer has some evil Mormon agenda, some evil anti-feminist agenda, and on and on. I'm concerned for these people because if it upsets them so much, shouldn't they stop writing about it and seeking out more information about it? It seems unhealthy. Of course, I know better than to go near the angry, obsessed defenders of the books.
I like reading your stuff because you have some humor about it, and as far as I can tell, you don't think Smyer has destroyed literacy or set it back 10,000 years.
I don't know how someone could be confused about how you feel about the quality of these books. That's odd.
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Date: 2009-07-22 05:29 pm (UTC)I like reading your stuff because you have some humor about it, and as far as I can tell, you don't think Smyer has destroyed literacy or set it back 10,000 years.
I don't know how someone could be confused about how you feel about the quality of these books. That's odd.