Beloved writer Stephen King has weighed in on the current popular authors - and he doesn't have kind words for Twilight creator Stephenie Meyer. He says, "Both Rowling and Meyer are speaking directly to young people... The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can't write worth a darn. She's not very good." Finally, the truth! I tried to read Twilight and found it painfully god-awful. Then again, I'm not thirteen. King makes an excellent point regarding the appeal of the series, "... it's very clear that she's writing to a whole generation of girls and opening up kind of a safe joining of love and sex in those books... for girls that's shorthand for all the feelings they're not ready to deal with yet." I was appalled the entire time I was trying to read that book and then I had a similar realization. I know how my boyfriend feels about me, so it's difficult to recall the agony of that kind of attraction - the only people who can appreciate that are those who have yet to experience it. I have my own connection with Stephen King and adolescence - I happened to be reading Pet Cemetery when I first got my period - and that's about the time I, ironically, would have enjoyed Twilight as well! What a lovely memory!
Beloved writer Stephen King has weighed in on the current popular authors - and he doesn't have kind words for Twilight creator Stephenie Meyer. He says, "Both Rowling and Meyer are speaking directly to young people... The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can't write worth a darn. She's not very good." Finally, the truth! I tried to read Twilight and found it painfully god-awful. Then again, I'm not thirteen. King makes an excellent point regarding the appeal of the series, "... it's very clear that she's writing to a whole generation of girls and opening up kind of a safe joining of love and sex in those books... for girls that's shorthand for all the feelings they're not ready to deal with yet." I was appalled the entire time I was trying to read that book and then I had a similar realization. I know how my boyfriend feels about me, so it's difficult to recall the agony of that kind of attraction - the only people who can appreciate that are those who have yet to experience it. I have my own connection with Stephen King and adolescence - I happened to be reading Pet Cemetery when I first got my period - and that's about the time I, ironically, would have enjoyed Twilight as well! What a lovely memory!
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