Buy my book! I heart Edward!

Stephenie Meyer has a new book coming out to tide the Twihards over until Eclipse comes out and she’s recommending that you buy it before seeing the movie:

“When there is so much going on off-stage so to speak, it leaves a lot of mysteries,” she says. “Of all the Twilight books, Eclipse has the most going on outside of Bella’s view. For the movie to work, we have to see and understand some of these things.”

I do see where she is coming from, and if you read the draft of Midnight Sun (Edward’s interpretation of the book Twilight) it makes his “pained” (aka “constipated”) expressions make more sense. And it’s always nice to see the scene from another point of view.

But at the same time it seems like a cash grab because if you haven’t noticed by now: Twilight sells. Big time. And it swept the MTV Movie Awards last night – so clearly people love it. So why not put out a short story and take advantage of it?

People.com says that you’ll be able to read the book novella for free at breetanner.com starting June 7th, but it’s already the 7th and I don’t see anything live, so in the meantime I’d recommend clicking the link in this side panel ———-> and buying it from Barnes & Noble. Not only do you get your fix, but you will be supporting us! Yay!

Stacey: I will not be buying or reading this book.  I don’t need to know more about Twilight.  Especially from a character’s point of view that up until this point I didn’t even know about.

But it will sell.  Because people are sheep and will buy anything that is related to these books.

Who am I to talk though?  I am pretty sure I would read anything JK Rowling would put out with regards to Harry Potter.

Stephenie Meyer is coming out with a new Twilight book called “The Short Second-Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella” or as I like to call it “How to get on the Best Sellers List by cashing in on your other books”. Do we need this book? No. Will it bring anything new to the table? Probably not. Am I going to read it anyway? Shamefully, yes. Why do I subject myself to this stuff?

Stacey: I will totally buy this book.  And hate myelf for it every minute while I read it.  But the real reason I will buy it is because one dollar will be going to the Red Cross.  Yes.  That is the real reason I will buy it.  Really.  You believe me don’t you? 

(Pic: students.ou.edu.com, source Celebitchy)

I am the first to admit that I was not a Harry Potter fan.  I fought and fought against reading that collection of books because it really isn’t my thing.  And Tanya and my best friend Fionna kept telling me…you have to read them!  Finally, FINALLY, I gave into Harry Potter.  I finished the Sorcerers Stone and am almost finished The Chamber of Secrets.  And they are SO good!  Like, the best books I have ever read.  Really.

And as everyone here knows, I am a Twilight fan.  Loved reading those books.  Well, actually, it was more of a love hate/thing.  Because really, they are terribly written books.  I am not saying they are terrible books, no, as there is clearly something about those books that is enjoyable and great, but are they well written?  That’s debatable.  And truthfully, not even close to being in the same category as Potter.

Which is why this story makes me laugh.

Apparently, people at the Oscars asked JK Rowling (Potter) and Stephanie Meyer (Twilight) to present together.  Of course Steph jumped at the opportunity (of course she would!  This is the same woman that needed to have a cameo in her own damn movie).  But JK declined, stating that the world ““won’t be hearing from me often I am afraid, as pen and paper is my priority at the moment.”

And while I am sure that it wasn’t meant as an insult, I am going to assume that it is.  Because why on earth would JK Rowling want to present anything with Stephanie Meyer.  Rowling who produces literary gold, and Meyer who basically writes romance novels with vampires and werewolves (I’m sorry but its true!).

So lets pretend that JK thinks that Stephanie is beneath her.  Its more fun that way, isn’t it?

Tanya: There is absolutely no debate about the Twilight books being well written. They’re not. They are engaging, but they are not well written. I read the Harry Potter series immediately after reading the Twilight series and I think after every chapter I said “this book is AMAZING!”. Had I read Harry Potter first I probably wouldn’t have made it through the cheesy teen romance novel.

Stacey, you should read the Dead Until Dark series next. It puts Twilight into perspective even more. And it’s a good series

Apparently Tanya was onto something when she wrote about Stephanie Meyer being a rip off writer.

According to TMZ another writer named Jordan Scott is suing the worlds most annoying woman (in my opinion) claiming Steph ripped her off basically word for word from her book The Nocturne.

Not sure if I believe this person as anything as wildly famous as the Twilight saga are going to have people try and ride their coat tails, but I do find it odd that there are so may stories out there with such similar story lines.  Mabye thats why Twilight is so popular…its filled with generic feelings and thoughts.

With that being said, I love Twilight and don’t really care where it came from.  Besides, is anything original anymore?