Friday, October 16, 2009

okay... it's official. i have found the absolute most HILARIOUS book review on goodreads. it's for eclipse (twilight book... #3, i think) and while reading, i was laughing so hard, i just about spit coffee all over my desk. regardless of wether you've read any of these books (i've only read the first)... this is F.U.N.N.Y. this guy gets the "voices" of bella and edward SPOT ON- and uses them to portray a conversation between himself and stephanie, the author. this is what i meant when i said that meyer's writing was so terrible that it's almost embaressing. so, PLEASE... enjoy:

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"You gave it three stars?" she asked me, biting her lip and holding her breath.

"Yes," I finally answered with my marble lips, cold yet strangely comforting, even warm. "Stephenie, don't forget to breathe."
...more "You gave it three stars?" she asked me, biting her lip and holding her breath.

"Yes," I finally answered with my marble lips, cold yet strangely comforting, even warm. "Stephenie, don't forget to breathe."

"Oh, of course." A storm seemed to rage in her for just a moment.

"I gave it a three. It's good." I would never lie to her, could never lie to her. Yet, somehow, she felt it was a lie and brooded in stillness for a moment that seemed to last an eternity.

Finally, I broke the aching silence. "I gave it a three because the vampire lore was that good -- the extended plotline and the setup for a decent fourth novel were all enjoyable." There, I said it. Would it be enough for her? No, it would never be enough.

"But you absolutely hated the tent scene with the [spoiler removed:], and you wanted to send Bella straight to vampire hell for her self-absorbed, self-indulgent, self-obsessed self-ness by the end."

We paused and I noticed sobs erupting from deep inside her.

"Stephenie, breathe, and stop biting your lip, it's getting really annoying. Quit with the crying already. Yes, all of those things are true, and if I could release myself from your books, I would. But-"

"But?" she asked longlingly, her fingers caressing my face while my fingers caressed her face and somebody else's fingers were somehow caressing both our faces because you can never have too much face-caressing going on -- whose fingers are those, anyway? (note from me: OH. MY. GOD. i die.)

"But despite how much I hate Bella by now, I really want to find out more about the Volturi and the process of becoming a vampire and whether Bella is somehow part of an ancient bloodline that stirs up all the vampires and werewolves whenever she's around. That's why I gave it three stars, and that's why-" I gasped, she gasped, we both forgot to breathe and bit our lips, "-why I will be reading the fourth book as soon as it is out."

Finally, I remembered to breathe and stopped caressing her face, looked into her eyes and with my godlike, cool, marble lips, asked, "Satisfied?"

Smiling, she answered, "Yes, very."

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like i said before... NOT my writing. but, i felt it was so perfectly acurate, with both the style and the review, that i just HAD to repost it... and i figured we could all use a good laugh. the real author can be found here.

6 comments:

  1. Hehe. Love it. I'm so glad to find at least ONE other person who found Twilight to be as poorly written as I did!

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  2. I liked the series (for the story, not so much the writing style), and I thought this was hilarious! Biting lips, caressing? Hilarious!

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  3. yeeeeah... i dont know how anyone could read the book and NOT notice the glaring bad awful writing. but, same goes for dan brown, and everone seems to forgive him.

    it's definitly an interesting (for lack of better terms) story... i'll probably read the rest of the series eventually.

    oh god, i'm still laughing. "her fingers were caressing my face and my fingers were caressing her face and somebody elses fingers were caressing both our faces......."

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  4. Dammit, Skinny, I can't laugh this hard with a baby on my bladder. Such a perfectly telling review for this book. Oh, the caressing!

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  5. This is so so funny- best thing I've read in a while!

    I read 3 pages of the first twilight book, and then, completely bewildered, I wondered why on earth everyone likes the books so much??

    Love it :)

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  6. I laughed SO hard at this. Even though I haven't read any of the Twilight books (nor do I plan to), I am currently reading her book, The Host, and the writing style is similar to this. It's a page turner, but her writing style kills me!

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