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syncope ([personal profile] syncope) wrote2009-10-18 02:24 pm
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I just closed a tab that was a page on Henry Jenkins' website. My friends suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. I attempted to wade through that ponderous prose and just gave up and asked for a summary. Yet I kept the tab open...thinking I would read it? Idk.



Seriously, do I need to read the books? I am inclined to read them so I can negotiate the show from the proper perspective, but I hesitate as I was burnt on THAT OTHER VAMPIRE CRAPFEST TEEN SERIES. How bad are they, with Twilight as the gold standard?



Are there coms and junk yet? I just dumped all the ontds off my fl so I have room for new garbage coms I can scroll over.
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[identity profile] transtempts.livejournal.com 2009-10-18 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh god, I mean, she is GORGEOUS (of course) and her nickname is the Ice Queen...or something like that. Oh, and she looks like an angel. *eyeroll*

Anyhow she pursues Stefan aggressively in the books. And he does this push and pull thing. And there is a lot of, well angst.

Bonnie is spunky and fun. Matt is also around a lot - he, Damon and Bonnie have an interesting and occasionally charged relationship. (Even when I was little I thought...WHICH ONE DOES DAMON WANT TO BITE FIRST?) *g*

Anyhow, yes, they are not great literature, BY ANY MEANS, but they are more readable than Twilight -which I nearly threw over an embankment into the bay...

[identity profile] ethrosdemon.livejournal.com 2009-10-18 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I love it when authors don't even realize what they're doing (the Damon thing).

Nice use of a TB icon.
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[identity profile] transtempts.livejournal.com 2009-10-18 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
*g* Yes.

[identity profile] mica-chan.livejournal.com 2009-10-18 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Definitly not. Vampire Diaries is so horrible I had to stop at the middle of the first book. The writer is terrible. Twilight is gold if compared to Vampire Diaries...(and we all know Twilight is no master piece).
Well, at least that's how I see things...I know some people who trully adore the books, but I confess I can't understand how they manage to do it.
But I do want to try to read the books again though. If only to compare with the tv programme.
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[identity profile] transtempts.livejournal.com 2009-10-18 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't adore the books, definitely not, but I found Twilight the more abhorrent work.
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