Comments on: Vampire Guide

By: Chenoan

Chenoan — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:15:24 +0000

….Robert Pattison’s attractive?!
Where are you getting your information!!?

By: dieAntagonista

dieAntagonista — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:29:17 +0000

@Record Store Tough Guy: Sir yes sir. If I can get my hands on them, that is!

By: Record Store Tough Guy

Record Store Tough Guy — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:51:11 +0000

@dieAntagonista: Unless you portray one group as humans, one group as blood drinking animated corpses, and another as freaky mutant bat creatures that can assume the shape of humans. Seriously. Read the Dresden files.

By: dieAntagonista

dieAntagonista — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:36:33 +0000

Why hello there. I come from the place, where this myth of a vampire originated. The first man who was supposedly a vampire, was just that. A man. There is a whole story to what supposedly happened, I'm sure the majority knows it. But basically, it was just a man who went crazy with his enemies, rammed weapons through their heads, causing a massive storm of blood all over the place. But he was still just a man. So like Blondie said, it's not "unrealistic" to portray a vampire as a good looking man. In fact it's unrealistic to portray them as anything else, but a man. @Paul_Is_Drunk: Hasty assumptions. Not cool.

By: Tetsuo137

Tetsuo137 — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:10:58 +0000

@Paul_Is_Drunk: I was not aware that a prerequisite for judging wether a movement has failed or not, is knowing more women as friends, lovers, confidants, and as family than someone else ever will in their entire life. I guess I better shut the fuck up because I haven’t lived all over the globe and I haven’t donated time to abuse shelters. Because as we can all see, you having done this has total relevence to the…how did you put it? The “actual debate”.

You may love or hate that book, that is your call and I have no problem with that, I made my point that I liked it, and that not all people should judge it based on simply seeing the movie. Whatever they think of it after that is their own affair.

My focus has shifted over to the fact that you said that you think it speaks to how badly the feminist movement failed. And then you turn around and tell me to look up hyperbole. Fool. Where in your whole point was the hyperbole? The fact that the feminist movement failed? What a clever way to weasel ones way out of a debate. I will remember to pull the hyperbole card next time.

By: Record Store Tough Guy

Record Store Tough Guy — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:44:46 +0000

Haven’t read the whole thread, but for a really interesting take on vampires, check out the Dresden Files. The Red Court, White Court, and Black Court make Edwards ilk look like rank amateurs.

By: penguin_lady

penguin_lady — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:10:10 +0000

@ColombianMonkey: Ah...thanks Monkey for the Spongebob. I needed that!

By: Corndoggeh

Corndoggeh — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:00:34 +0000

I thought Twilight was cool. Flame…..now…

By: ColombianMonkey

ColombianMonkey — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:54:00 +0000

@penguin_lady: ^_^

By: penguin_lady

penguin_lady — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:50:31 +0000

@ColombianMonkey: Psh...you and your "wikipedia"...

By: ColombianMonkey

ColombianMonkey — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:37:28 +0000

@penguin_lady: it is the same word http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kritik

By: Kishi

Kishi — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:29:35 +0000

@Tetsuo137: Then you obviously have no sense of shame or taste, and I pity all those around you. Besides, the book isn't a feminist failure because it makes women want to be stay-at-home wives, it's a failure because it convinces them that a controlling, emotionally abusive relationship is the epitome of love.

By: Paul_Is_Drunk

Paul_Is_Drunk — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:21:42 +0000

@Dr.Devine: Fair point.

By: Dr.Devine

Dr.Devine — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:54:42 +0000

Oh, ok professor. So you have it in that format so that you can write a book, possibly a scholarly article, on why these particular books are “bad”.
…Really?
Really?
Really?
Are you serious?
What the hell is wrong with you?
Who is your intended audience for such a work? People with the same obsessive tendency to need to bit by bit pick a book to pieces for no better reason than because you can?
What do you expect to gain from it?
Other than +100 internets for being the only “nega” fanboy in the universe?

@Paul_Is_Drunk: To be fair, you only seem to have focused on one particular area of the debate, that is, the bit about twilight attesting to how badly the feminist movement had failed. And I’m not in any way saying that tetsuo’s response wasn’t slightly idealistic and juvenile.

By: Paul_Is_Drunk

Paul_Is_Drunk — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:29:12 +0000

@Tetsuo137: Little boy, I have known more women as friends, lovers, confidants, and as family than you ever will in your entire life. I have lived all over the globe, I have donated my time to abuse shelters (for both men and women), and donate more to Planned Parenthood in a year than you probably make in a month. So get off your high horse, stop focusing on one insignificant factor for why someone thinks this book is utter shit, and participate in an actual debate. You offend me with your knee-jerk reactionary absolutism. And look up the word hyperbole.

By: kendobunny

kendobunny — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:55:05 +0000

Actually, I posted it into a blog because of all the requests I was getting for an easier format to link to from several message boards. I want to be able to explain in detail why the books are total crap… from the fact that Bella and Edward never have a conversation without him laughing at her or threatening her, to the fact that Bella never does anything but complain or drool over Edward. The blog are my notes for my actual dissection of the work- I need to be able to reference page numbers, conversations, quotes, etc.

By: Dr.Devine

Dr.Devine — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:18:43 +0000

Sorry, I debated in high school,
It means the same thing, the spelling is just german.

By: penguin_lady

penguin_lady — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:13:19 +0000

@Dr.Devine: When you say "kritik" I think you mean "critique". I don't think "kritik" is even a word.

By: Dr.Devine

Dr.Devine — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:34:50 +0000

@tetsuo:pimpin.
@RSlxidor: YES.
@kendobunny: nice blog. I like how you have to scroll to the bottom of the page to figure out who wrote it… YOU.
You actually took the time to go through PAGE BY FUCKING PAGE and kritik every little typo. Worst of all, you seem to have actually developed your own language to describe the happenings of the book.
I mean, I read through chapter 7, and I couldn’t do anymore man.
Its bloody awful. There is such a thing as asserting your opinion that a book you have read is terrible, without beating the damn thing to a pulp.
I’d like you to take notice that no one is ever going to read that blog the whole way through. It would be impossible. I mean, you seem to be jiving Meyer for not writing well, and yet, your kritik of her work reads like fucking javascript.
You should probably start attending therapy, you obsessive freak.

By: fracked again

fracked again — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:43:16 +0000

sorry, Meyer. Like her name matters, except as a label for an EPA literary superfund cleanup site.

By: fracked again

fracked again — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:40:27 +0000

I read the first few pages on Amazon. It is shit. Complete unadulterated shit. It has no redeeming value and the only social commentary one can draw from it is people have an appetite for eating shit. Being poorly written, with a weak plot, one dimensional characters, and glorified abuse is not worthy of praise, and I can only hope that the books themselves are printed on quilted, absorbent three ply, at minimum, otherwise, the excrement printed on the pages mights slide right off into your lap.

If Miller wanted sparkle, she should have gone with faeries.

By: Tetsuo137

Tetsuo137 — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:18:35 +0000

You did say**

By: Tetsuo137

Tetsuo137 — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:17:28 +0000

@Kishi: And yet I am unashamed. How odd. @Paul_Is_Drunk: So in your opinion the feminist movement failed because of a book that makes women wish they were stay at home wives? In the last 70 years women have marked their place in this world more than ever and you call it a failure? Because you have spoken with many, many, many women? No, sorry, you did you "I guess". How ignorant your guessing is. You offend me.

By: Sarcastastic

Sarcastastic — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:57:25 +0000

The thing about Vampires is they aren’t manly, this is true, but they are most certainly badass and intimidating. Dracula is so purely evil that he causes the real manly character, Abraham van Helsing (as already stated), to break down and cry. THAT is most likely where the confusion comes from.

By: RSIxidor

RSIxidor — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:43:37 +0000

Guys, you are all wrong THIS is what a vampire looks like!