If you liked the ending of Stephenie Meyer’s “New Moon,” you can thank the author’s movie.
Meyer tells Oprah Winfrey that she orginally planned the ending of the second installment in the series to be a bit more cerebral and to take place inside Bella’s head.
Meyer let her mother read the manuscript and her mother suggested that a bit more action-packed ending might be better.
And so Meyer revised the novel, and now “that whole scene at the end, that’s kind of my favorite part now, is there because my mom told me it would be better that way.”
The big-screen version of “New Moon” opens this weekend in theaters.
“If you liked…” you’re kidding, right? The Twilight books are some of the worst garbage “written” in the last century. Seriously, anyone who has read them and calls themselves a fan should shoot themselves in the head immediately.
what, you’ve never enjoyed a sci fi channel original movie or a lowbrow comedy either? sometimes its nice to curl up on the couch with a guilty pleasure. the movie was pretty bad, but the books made for some enjoyable rainy afternoons… also it may have escaped your notice (Mitch) but they’re kind of oriented towards girls.
Now if you had said that they’re not good enough to merit all the huge fuss, I’d probably agree with you, but I felt like that about harry potter too – neither series are works of great literature, they’re just fun reads, and anything that gets people reading anymore is a good thing…
1 – They aren’t good reads. They read like something written by a forty year old who has not yet finished the third grade.
2 – I did read the first one, because every female in my office was clucking about it nonstop for months. It was underwritten trash, and not even enjoyable, trashy trash. To say Meyer is a talentless hack doesn’t even begin to cover it.
3 – The movie was just awful. Though it had a huge budget, it never even tried to rise above the level of a Syfy Saturday night movie.
4 – And most obvious … Vampires. Do. Not. Sparkle.
5 – I keep hearing people make the same claim you have, that they are written for teenage girls. I have read books that are also written for that market. Yet they’re well-written. It seems to me that people make excuses for Meyer’s atrociously bad writing, as though it’s ok, cuz it’s for girls. I find that to be insulting.
Too bad she didn’t change the rest of the book to remove all of the suck.
But then, if she took all of the suck out of it, the entire series would fit on a Post-it note.
The best one word review of the Twilight movie I’ve seen so far is “anaemic”.
Talentless hack she may be but every time I catch a train half the people reading books are reading a Twilight novel. Anyway I thought she threatened to give it all up because a draft of the last novel was leaked?
Thank goodness! I seriously thought I was the only person that just didn’t like the books. I have girlfriends of mine who go on and on about these waste of trees. While reading the first one, I could not stop rolling my eyes. The heroine in the story is a co-dependant, self-deprecating girl with no ambition but to gaze into some boys eyes. You have got to be kidding me.
Yup. I bet she is crying all the way to bank. Those who DON’T like it, and DON’T want more of it, just DON’T read it. I am sure that she and Rowling can console each other with their millions.
And I will decide whether Vampires sparkle or not as soon as someone gets me one to look at.
Michael, why are you bringing up Rowling? She *can* write. Meyer cannot. You have failed to make a point.
No one disputes that she’s managed hit the sweet spot marketing wise.
So has Jerry Springer. Being a financial success is hardly an indication of quality. Meyer obviously has a loyal (someone would rabid) fan base. She’s a still a complete hack as a writer.
And, for your listening and viewing pleasure:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1glNuQiE77E
I read the Twilight series. It was a quick, fun read that had little substance. It’s nothing I will read again, but I don’t feel that I was cheated out of my time in any way. I can see why girls eat it up, and there is nothing wrong with that.
I don’t judge Meyer’s talent just on that one series, because that series was not designed for someone like me. I have gone on to read Host, an adult sci-fi novel – something that was written more to my demographic. Host is, IMHO, an awesome book. One of my favorites. If you pretend to know enough about Meyer to judge her causing you to not read that book, you are really missing out.
Wow.. you people really need to re-look at your life careers.. If you all think you are such amazing critics of books… maybe you should write them.. I think that J.K. Rowling is an amazing author.. and Stephanie Meyer isn’t all that bad… Let’s see what you can come up with?!?!
I dont understand how you can call the quality trash when obviously the majority disagree, not to say the majority is always right but in this case its a bit of common sense that these books were going to be widely adored. Whether the writing may not be up to par when it comes to comparing others but definitely the plot of the story makes a book and this book carries a very strong plot with it that captivates most young girls “first love experiences” per say. Not to mention that it truly is designed for the more younger audience and therefore isn’t there to overwhelm them, it’s practically dumbed down to the point where it can be better understood by more undeveloped (ie teenage girls) minds as goes with the Harry Potter series, they are not suppose to be so sophisted and advanced that the younger audience (which they were written for) can’t come to a solid relation with the characters and have a better understanding of the situations they are in. So if you feel that these novels and movies are not up to your standards then obviously you arent understanding what genre they fall under or else you wouldn’t of watched/read them in the first place. If you don’t like teenage romance novels/movies then don’t f***ing read/watch them. Quit whining about it.
Also just to note that the whole novel is based on a teenage girls perspective and narrated by her as well, so how do you expect the writing to be? Go figure.