For a while, my favorite hobby was embarrassing Eric when he had friends over by telling all his friends how much I love Twilight. There are three major components to my love for it:
- I enjoyed it as a brainless romance novel.
- I enjoy snarking on it, because despite my sincere enjoyment of it, there are quite a few areas one can legitimately poke fun at
- Analyzing the messages presented in the book.
This whole post is full of spoilers, and if you have any intention to read the book, you should go do that before you read this post.
The most salient of the many criticisms I’ve read of the series is the way it idealizes abusive relationships. I would think long and hard before I’d give this to a tween or any impressionable person. It also glorifies the failure to (as cleolinda so charmingly put it) put on your big girl panties and deal with things.
Links
For the lulz
- Cleolinda Jones has snarked Twilight hard and hilarious.
- Summary of all her works with comments. All the links below are also linked from this page, but them here for easy listing.
- Her Twilight summary is not actually out to be hilarious, but this list would be incomplete without it.
- New Moon
- Eclipse
- Breaking Dawn, 1 2 3
- Midnight Sun 1 2
- Movies in 15 Minutes: Twilight
- Movies in 15 Minutes: New Moon
- As a general rule, I don’t link straight to comments, but this one is awesome enough that you really should just skip right to it.
- Movies in 15 Minutes: Eclipse
- Movies in 15 Minutes: Breaking Dawn part 1
- New Moon’s Valuable Lesson For Today’s Youth
- LiveJournal user stoney123 gave a detailed and hilarious accounting for the similarities between the books and Mormon teachings.
- Twilight (about half way down there’s a picture that made me laugh a lot, so even if you’re not interested in reading about it, I recommend going to look at the pictures.)
- New Moon
- Eclipse
- Breaking Dawn
Serious internet
- Seduced By Twilight, I lul’d about it’s suggested New Year’s Resolution for Carlisle, “I will dye my hair a more pleasing shade. This yellow blond has got to go.”
- Edward and Bella’s relationship rated against National Domestic Violence Hotline’s warning signs of abuse
- Basically, everything Racialicious has ever written about it:
