how many people have read The Twilight Saga Collection???

[WhimsicalWonder]

*whispers* It's okay Theo, I'm down here too.

[Genocide]

Fair enough. To each their own. I remember reading it when it came out, I must have been 6 or 7. I loved it. I bet if I was younger and read Twilight I'd hold it just as high.

[WhimsicalWonder]

My mother loved the Harry Potter books. Passionately. I'm the black sheep. Obviously. I just started 'The Count of Monte Cristo' as an ode to this thread. My mind works in mysterious ways. Try not to judge.

[WhimsicalWonder]

as an ode to... or in honor of. *sighs* Too much coffee, too much thought.

[Seraphim]

Hahaha. I love it, Whimsical. I'm starting on a whole list of classics, so your mind is not so mysterious to me. I hope to make time for 'Count of Monte Cristo' in the near future.

[Genocide]

There is a constant debate on if reading something terrible is better than not reading at all. I think if people read bad books and it gets them reading good books, then yes, it's a good thing.

I suppose it doesn't truly effect us either way. :]

[Theomanic]

Definitely being the right age for something makes a huge impact - I look at stuff now that I loved when I was a kid or teenager and some of it is definitely wince-worthy! However, I would've thought I would like Twilight as it is very similar in style to books I read as a teenager and loved (the books by LJ Smith that have been republished due to this sudden surge in vamp lit popularity). But the movie seemed awkward and my friend who has almost identical tastes to me in that regard really didn't like it. So. I guess I'm giving thoughts to both sides of the argument. I am sort of curious to give it a try anyway. I read most of the Sookie Stackhouse novels and the writing in those was really not good, but yet I endured because I enjoyed the stories.

My boyfriend *loves* "The Count of Monte Cristo"... he's heading it for the third time now. It's very improbable compared to his normal selection of authors; typically he reads Irvine Welsh and John Irving.

[WhimsicalWonder]

The count plays a dominant role in the diving bell and the butterfly which I adored relentlessly. That's my primary prompting, the final push was given to me by someone who started me on the movie and then cut it off halfway through.... Then of course this thread started saying "read more fiction" to me so here I am... except the kids were out for a couple of hours and I wound up re-watching the road to perdition and getting tipsy instead. Hence the poor grammar. It simply ceases to be a priority when driniking.

[Theomanic]

I forgive my Sartre-buddy anything. (I would say Nausea-buddy but that sounds bad).

I've not read "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly". I feel like it would make me very sad. I'm not really one for fiction, biographies even less, and memoirs on the deathbed even less. So. At least it's not a memoir of a war hero on their death bed, that would be the end! As it is, I'm curious what you liked about it.

[Seraphim]

I guess I'm giving thoughts to both sides of the argument. I am sort of curious to give it a try anyway. I read most of the Sookie Stackhouse novels and the writing in those was really not good, but yet I endured because I enjoyed the stories.

I thought the same thing about the Sookie Stackhouse series. I haven't read the latest one yet, but the story line is pretty good for the most part, and I find her writing more tolerable than Meyer. Then again, it is written for a more adult audience.

With Meyer, I found her book The Host to be much better of a read than her Twilight series. She definitely still had her moments and phrases that made me cringe, but not nearly as often as in Twilight.