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Jennifer Leos

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Aug 5, 2024, 1:49:25 PM8/5/24

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Thisis a complete and detailed archive of every review I posted for the Mark Reads Twilight series. At the time these were written, I was the community manager for Buzznet.com and, like MRHP, I have no desire to separate the comments from the reviews.

Hey Mark, your link to Chapter 8 of Eclipse actually goes to Chapter 7. ? Also, Breaking Dawn 37 links to Breaking Dawn 38. (Finally finished reading through this archive. I can't believe you made it.)

Hey, you stole my speech! I was abot to say all that.

Especially the 'siriusly' bit. Because, even when speaking in normal conversations, (speaking!) i say siriusly instead of seriosuly. I actually find it hard to say seriousy now. I think I've forgotten how to.

But yeah, you just summed up everything I was thinking in your comment.

Okay, so I don't really know where to put this, but I suppose this is as good of place as any.

Firstly, I love your review of Twilight. It's nice to be able to point to someone else and go "See! I'm not the only who thinks that" Especially when it comes to this book being whiny,dramatic, emotional abuse soft porn. Seriously. I just had to say one thing though. And it's meant with all due respect, because I know's it Meyers damn fault for making people think it. But please, no one think that her or her writing any way represents or is an example of Mormons. I myself am LDS and I hate Stephenie Meyer. Yes some of it is from her writing style and a terrible plot and characters that you want to kill yourself, but mostly it's because of exactly what's happened on the internet and everywhere else. People think that this "Twilight Series" is some twisted view of Mormonism and that her ideas a represented and present in out church. To which all I have to say is.

Bullshit.

She has her own views. Fine. Individuals view their lives and religions differently. But don't damn well blast your personal views all over your published work and proclaim them to be one with your religion. Newflash: they're not. As a matter of fact, half the time Meyer is stepping totally opposite.

Okay, okay my point was. Please, don't take her deluded, twisted, psycho views as sound doctrine for Mormonism. I just ask that people take her as her own terrible author self, and that her views are hers; and especially that her literature has nothing to do with the LDS faith or doctrine.

I know it's her fault she made it look that way for being a total douche and trying to connect her faith and her literature (bad Meyer *newspaperroll*) but it's not. Well, maybe in her head it is. But in reality. No.

So, I really do love your reviews. But I just thought maybe someone should say something, with politeness and tact. At least, I hope it came across like that.

I am proud to say I haven't read Twilight but I'm familiar with it, as I once watched it on an overnight bus in Thailand. IThat was turned up to 11. On a bus full of old Thai men hitting on me in broken English, I still would rather their company to watching Twilight. I'm happy you dislike it as much as I.

But its more than just a poorly written series. Once I heard people talking about the plot points, and I thought that the "imprinting" stuff was a joke or something and I'm completely disgusted that it's not. It is not okay. So thank you for calling out the totally disturbing undertones of sexual abuse (actually, they're not undertones, nothing this author writes is subtle.)

I agree with everything you say about Twilight, escpecially about it being so misogynistic. However, Stephanie Meyer posted this on her website about Bella's character being "anti-feminist" and it may make you think;

"When I hear or read theories about Bella being an anti-feminist character, those theories are usually predicated on her choices. In the beginning, she chooses romantic love over everything else. Eventually, she chooses to marry at an early age and then chooses to keep an unexpected and dangerous baby. I never meant for her fictional choices to be a model for anyone else's real life choices. She is a character in a story, nothing more or less. On top of that, this is not even realistic fiction, it's a fantasy with vampires and werewolves, so no one could ever make her exact choices. Bella chooses things differently than how I would do it if I were in her shoes, because she is a very different type of person than I am. Also, she's in a situation that none of us has ever been in, because she lives in a fantasy world. But do her choices make her a negative example of empowerment? For myself personally, I don't think so.

These things are what I personally have a problem with. I don't have a problem with her getting married,whatever, its fiction and fantasy but her getting married to EDWARD is where the problem lies. He is not a hero but making him the romantic lead gives young women (and men) alllllll kinds of bad ideas of how people act in real life.

Hm, I think if the wizards revealed themselves, it would be very similar to the plot of X-Men. They'd be trying to save the world, but instead of being allowed to do so, we'd be trying to kill, cure, or at least capture and study the only people who could save us from the enemy. Not to mention, I am betting the hyper-conservative right wing politicians and ultra-conservative fundamentalist people of all religions (making us normal faithful look like monsters) would protest them to death or drown them in hold water.

OMIGOD I literally could NOT STOP laughing throughout these reviews. Like, in EVERY review I was randomy laughing at the computer and freaking out my family.

Thank you so much for these wonderful mind/ stress reliefs!

"This series of books is all about making problems where none exist. Had Stephenie Meyer written Hamlet, the story wouldn't be about Hammie's dead daddy, but instead about some inexplicable dilemma involving Hamlet's desire to eat cherries despite the fact that he's allergic to cherries.

HAMLET: O' sweet orbs of juice that beckon my heart like whispers of tempt. Mine skin doth itch when inside me you dwell. Away, take these devil's eyes!

ROSENCRANTZ: Dude. Eat a banana instead.

HAMLET: Yours is the tongue of fools!"

There's this dude who reviews the twilight series too, he's also funny! He's called Dan Bergstein. Something you both relate to is you both hate twilight! Except he likes a bit of the characters, like Emmett, (same as how you like Hagrid I guess) and Jacob. Have fun reading them!

Hey I just wanted to let you know that I found your website through Reasoning with Vampires and I absolutely love your Twilight reviews. I've been sort of obsessed with Twilight recently, in a very morbid curiosity sort of way. I purchased the whole "sigh-ga" as an e-book for my Nook and started reading them not long ago. Did you know altogether they equal something like 1505 pages? That's a LOT of pages. Anyway, I'm still not very far into the first book, and it really is amazing just how bad it is. I agree with everything (negative) I've read about them, and I find Bella as a protagonist absolutely appalling and unlikeable. But I can't stop reading! What the hell?

Anyway, I've decided to stop reading your reviews of the series until I finish it, and I guess I wanted you to know that? I don't know. But I do love what you've done here, and the very real and interesting points you've raised about what makes these books so especially terrible. I can't wait to finish them so I can finish reading all of your reviews, but for now I guess I'll move on to something I'll probably never have an interest in reading. Maybe Harry Potter.

I have never read anything so spot on, and yet so hilarious, as I have your reviews about Twilight. I cannot even begin to tell you how much I have cracked up over your reviews, blinkies, gifs, and the comments. I borrowed the books and read them but wasn't really impressed. Reading your reviews, and the comments, has made me realize WHY I wasn't impressed. I truly boggles my mind how anybody can read what you've written, and still defend this shite. I have a 12yo daughter who I refuse to let near these books or movies, though I have heard the movies are a smidge better? At any rate, you presented a legitimate and serious critique and analysis, while at the same time being able to inject some humor, no easy feat.

I just finished reading your entire review of the Twilight series and I can't believe you made it through. You had really good points and it was hilarious to see your reactions. Thank you for saving me from having to read it myself and giving me a leg to stand on when I tell people I wouldn't touch these books with a 10 foot pole. In Mark Reads 'Breaking Dawn': Chapter 4 you state that there are very few feminist males out there and since you are reviewing "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" I thought you would enjoy this video of Joss Whedon's speech for Equality Now (no spoilers). [youtube cYaczoJMRhs =cYaczoJMRhs youtube]

You know, I'm worried about me. I liked twilight, I was never obsessed with it, but I genuinely liked it. Admittedly I was about 12 when I read it but I'm not a stupid person, and all of this abuse, and unfortunate implications went completely over my head. ._.

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