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I know it's bad form to make fun of something if you haven't read it. I haven't read any of the Twilight saga. But let me assure you ... I'm just making fun of Stephenie Meyer PERSONALLY, not of her work. So I'm not a hypocrite, at least.
This is what prompted my icon, by the way:
WHAT IF... What if true love left you? Not some ordinary high school romance, not some random jock boyfriend, not anyone at all replaceable. True love. The real deal. Your other half, your true soul's match. What happens if he leaves?
The answer is different for everyone. Juliet had her version, Marianne Dashwood had hers, Isolde and Catherine Earnshaw and Scarlet O'Hara and Anne Shirley all had their ways of coping.
I had to answer the question for Bella. What does Bella Swan do when true love leaves her? Not just true love, but Edward Cullen! None of those other heroines lost an Edward (Romeo was a hothead, Willoughby was a scoundrel, Tristan had loyalty issues, Heathcliff was pure evil, Rhett had a mean streak and cheated with hookers, and sweet Gilbert was much more of a Jacob than an Edward). So what happens when True Love in the form of Edward Cullen leaves Bella?
Anybody who reads Sense and Sensibility and calls John Willoughby Marianne Dashwood's "true love" either 1.) can't read or 2.) is some sort of freaky sheltered/disturbed that I can't even fathom. ( Spoilers ) Also, it makes no sense because if they're true love on the basis of one-sided devotion (which IS the relationship, don't let anyone tell you differently), then Scarlett's true love should be Ashley Wilkes, not Rhett Butler.
For more of Smeyer's profound misreadings, check this out.
(By the way, if you're curious, the books in my icon are: The Riverside Shakespeare, The Iliad, Pride and Prejudice, Naked Lunch, Vilette, Mrs. Dalloway, Wuthering Heights, A Long, Fatal Love Chase, The Odyssey, Les Liaisons dangereuses, Pere Goirot, The Necklace and Other Stories, The Complete Poems of John Keats, The Collected Stories of Nikolai Gogol, The Republic, Origin of the Species, Of Human Bondage, Herland, The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre, The Strange Tale of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories, The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde and The Sonnets.
I ... haven't actually read most of them. :-X)
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This was just announced in Previews, cyberweasel tells me. I believe this is my OH JG JONES NO moment.
(Oh well, I've got at least four people going, "Hey, you're right!" when I tell them the Emperor is naked, so I feel justified.)
More stuff later.
This is what prompted my icon, by the way:
WHAT IF... What if true love left you? Not some ordinary high school romance, not some random jock boyfriend, not anyone at all replaceable. True love. The real deal. Your other half, your true soul's match. What happens if he leaves?
The answer is different for everyone. Juliet had her version, Marianne Dashwood had hers, Isolde and Catherine Earnshaw and Scarlet O'Hara and Anne Shirley all had their ways of coping.
I had to answer the question for Bella. What does Bella Swan do when true love leaves her? Not just true love, but Edward Cullen! None of those other heroines lost an Edward (Romeo was a hothead, Willoughby was a scoundrel, Tristan had loyalty issues, Heathcliff was pure evil, Rhett had a mean streak and cheated with hookers, and sweet Gilbert was much more of a Jacob than an Edward). So what happens when True Love in the form of Edward Cullen leaves Bella?
Anybody who reads Sense and Sensibility and calls John Willoughby Marianne Dashwood's "true love" either 1.) can't read or 2.) is some sort of freaky sheltered/disturbed that I can't even fathom. ( Spoilers ) Also, it makes no sense because if they're true love on the basis of one-sided devotion (which IS the relationship, don't let anyone tell you differently), then Scarlett's true love should be Ashley Wilkes, not Rhett Butler.
For more of Smeyer's profound misreadings, check this out.
(By the way, if you're curious, the books in my icon are: The Riverside Shakespeare, The Iliad, Pride and Prejudice, Naked Lunch, Vilette, Mrs. Dalloway, Wuthering Heights, A Long, Fatal Love Chase, The Odyssey, Les Liaisons dangereuses, Pere Goirot, The Necklace and Other Stories, The Complete Poems of John Keats, The Collected Stories of Nikolai Gogol, The Republic, Origin of the Species, Of Human Bondage, Herland, The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre, The Strange Tale of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories, The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde and The Sonnets.
I ... haven't actually read most of them. :-X)
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This was just announced in Previews, cyberweasel tells me. I believe this is my OH JG JONES NO moment.
(Oh well, I've got at least four people going, "Hey, you're right!" when I tell them the Emperor is naked, so I feel justified.)
More stuff later.
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