Showing posts with label Twilight. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Twilight. Show all posts

Friday, May 27, 2011

Twilight Dissing


Twilight. How much do I abhor this word. Come in front of me, I dare you, I can talk hours, hours about it, if you don’t believe ask all my friends especially to all the twilight lovers in our school. I am nightmare to their kind. I haunt each and everyone of them to their sleep till they ultimately agree twilight is rubbish, terrible, revolting, disgusting, trash, vulgar, junk, ghastly, hideous, atrocious, appalling, loathsome, beastly, obnoxious, dreadful, horrible, vile and most definitely THE WORST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ.

Twilight:

“Isabella Swan's move to Forks, a small, perpetually rainy town in Washington, could have been the most boring move she ever made. But once she meets the mysterious and alluring Edward Cullen, Bella's life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. Up until now, Edward has managed to keep his vampire identity a secret in the small community he lives in, but now nobody is safe, especially Bella, the person Edward holds most dear. The lovers find themselves balanced precariously on the point of a knife—between desire and danger. Deeply romantic and extraordinarily suspenseful, Twilight captures the struggle between defying our instincts and satisfying our desires. This is a love story with bite.” – Goodreads


My Opinion:

As you can see it’s the first time I’ve used someone else’s synopsis of a novel. Can you see the reason why? I wrote the synopsis at least 3-4 times before copying it out straight from Goodreads. Each time I wrote I couldn’t help but writing negative points about it. The only thoughts that kept reappearing seemed inappropriate to jot it down on my blog. So all of you who keep asking me why I hate it so much here are the reasons:

Dissing About Twilight:

  1. Bella Swan: *You’re a soulless git, You moron!* I’d love to meet you someday, oh how much fun will we have! Ha, it’ll be the death of you I swear! In serious mode now: Bell Swan, perfect name, yes. Ordinary girl, no problems with parents and agrees to everything that they do without complaining. All in all she has no personality other then being annoying, irritating and exaggerating her sighs, crying and swooning obsessively over Edward’s hotness. She has no goals apparently and she cant see her future and life without Edward. What is happening to this generation! This is not the 18th century in which women have to be so reliable in men. How can someone be so dependent on a boy? How can someone even change themselves, sacrifice there family and friends never to see them ever again for some pathetically shiny vampire? Ugh, the thought sickens me, I’ve never read a protagonist so selfish. She uses Jacob as a substitute when Edward goes away. When he comes back she marries him leaves Jacob heart broken! There are heights of selfishness Bella Swan. I just wish to say, I HATE YOU!

  1. Edward Cullen: To all the Twigirls out there, would you really like to have an obnoxious stalker watching you while you sleep? Seriously its unhealthy and in a way really discussing. Sheesh! Edward is so possessive about her it must creep you out, if it doesn’t you should truly visit the doctor sometimes. He follows her around 24/7, because he think that if he doesn’t she’ll get hurt. Oh wow Edward your such a savior! Another thing about him is that he has mood swings through out the day, how can someone like him! He’s just so irritably immature for a 109 year old!

  1. Love or Lust?:   Bella: You’re beautiful!
                                      Edward: Oh, Your beautiful too!
                                      Bella: No you’re so good, so shiny your perfectly handsome
                                      Edward: No I think you’re good too.

This is what twilight is about. Think about it, is it love. Why do they love each other? Edwards loves her smell (ugh. GROSS.) and Bella loves his hotness. If Edward truly had ever loved her, he would’ve stayed away from her. And most importantly if Bella hadn’t been an idiot things would have been different. They didn’t even know each other how can they suddenly not live without each other? Gosh these two are brainless.

  1.  Plot: Come to think of it, what is the plot? Is it Bella describing Edwards physical appearance in ever two pages. I think that’s right. That is the plot. Seriously speaking, was the romance between them the plot? No that’s unlikely but that’s what 400 and something pages were written about wasn’t it? And the rest 30 were about her fainting? There was no story. The End.      
  1. Planning: Stephanie Meyer is the most brilliant planner I have ever seen. She’s a genius. I am not joking. In fact how can she make millions of girls swoon over the twilight books? What made me like them when I first read it? Two years ago I discovered the answers after re-reading the entire saga. Bella and Edward have no personality as such which make them stand out. There both plain and dull as ever. Now imagine a teenage girl reading twilight, she’ll put herself in the position of Bella and puts in all her personality into Bella’s character. So now Bella is half dull her and half this very die-hard twilight fan. When Edward comes in , the twilight fan puts her, mixes of all her crushes together and form a super human being who is all in all perfect and has all the traits she wants. Then and there she puts all that personality in Edward. Did you get it? How can you even relate to her! You have to take this seriously because this is what is happening to you right now. Meyer’s a goddamn physiologist!  And its high time you get over it.
Stephanie Meyer

  1. Writing: How well you write! Ooh I want to write like Stephanie Meyer some day! My foot! She cant write. She cannot! When will you people get that. At times, I prefer garbage over her dialogues! How can someone describe a vampires voice as velvet! I am sick of Stephanie Meyer and her Edwards velvety voices! The most ridiculous things of all was that he sparkles. Why Meyer why!? Why do you keep making a fool of yourself? People, the world of books don’t start and end with Stephanie Meyer! If you want to look for young adult novels there are millions of them out there waiting to be read. Books like twilight should be banned from existence.

  1. The New Harry Potter- WTH! How dare you! Twilight will never be the new Harry Potter, because Stephanie Meyer cant write how can you even compare her to JK Rowling? Anyway if you had a mind these are two different genres we are speaking of.  I don’t even like putting Harry Potter and Stephanie Meyer in the same sentence what sort of Harry Potter fan am I?

I don’t see where dissing about twilight will get me. But I sincerely hope it will keep you away from reading this atrocious novel. It could have been built better with talented hands, a bit of imagination which does not include the word sparkle and obviously not the clichéd over used plot.

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Indians in English Alphabets


Have you read any author who is multi-talented enough to cause severe irritation just because of there knack of writing? What about Stephanie Meyer’s paranormal ‘velvety voice’ romances, the young sixteen year old witches of New York city of  Meg Cabot or the so called clumsy writing of Dan Brown, possibly even the repetitive endings of Danielle Steel. Did any one of you think of Indian authors?

Let me state my confessions:
  • I detest Indian authors who write in English by that I mean those who write fiction.
  • Sadly, my first Indian author aside from the Champak stories was Chetan Bhagat.
  • I had vowed to never read another Indian novelist again but that didn’t last long.
  • The latest Indian author I read was Battle for Bittora by Anuja Chauhan.

To all the modern Indian authors, how do you write? Does it give you immense pain to open the dictionary or even at times the thesaurus while writing, does Harry Potter point his wand yelling Crucio at you not to right click on a specific word in MS Word to look up for its synonym. I admit I am not keen on Indian authors especially the new ones since those are the only one I have read.

I have read (my order of reading from 2008 to 2011):
  1. The 3 Mistakes of My Life- Chetan Bhagat
  2. The Indian legends retold- RK Narayan
  3. A Girl like me- Swati Kaushal
  4. Trust me- Rajashree
  5. Anything for you ma’am- Tushar Raheja
  6. 5 point someone- Chetan Bhagat
  7. Namesake – Jumpha Lahri
  8. The White Tiger – Aravind Adiga
  9. The Zoya factor- Anuja Chauhan
  10. Battle for Bittora - Anuja Chauhan

That makes ten from which I have excluded the Hindi novels- Pinjar by Amrita Pritam and Pareeneta by Sharad Chandra.  See, I don’t read Indian authors all of these books have just crossed me path sometime or the other. Some of the books that really stand out for me in this list as:

IMMESASURABLY  DESPISED: 

The 3 Mistakes of My Life- Chetan Bhagat
Almost every Indian knows this book or at least the writer. “Bad” is the word to describe this. Bad English, bad characters, Bad plot, bad author. How can anything be that much bad? Truthfully, I haven’t even finished this book since the past three years!
About the author: Studided in IIT Dehi and then in IIM Ahemdabad


A Girl like Me- Swati Kaushal
A young girl called Ani has moved from US to India after her fathers death. As the story progresses she gets shocked about the rash education system and faces many adolescent problems involving her mother and other family issues. It’s the worst form of literature I have read after Chetan Bhagat  it deserves to be on number two.
About the Author: Swati Kaushal is an MBA from IIM in Calcutta, has worked with Nestle India Limited and Nokia Mobile Phones, India.





Trust me- Rajashree
A blunt heroine and an egoless hero… Wow this must be such a non-cheesy book with no flicks of Bollywood masalas and ooh and yes I forgot I so do not know what will happen in the end! Additional note: There is a mutual understanding between me and this book we hate each other and please trust me on this one!
About the author: She has written and directed a film, The Rebel, which won a National Award 




Anything for you Ma’am- Tushar Raheja
People who haven’t read many books, I dedicate this book for you. If you have an  expertise in this area you will abhor it like I do(excluding the fact that I don't have much expertise). If it were a movie it would have done much better because the author (non surprisingly again an IITian) cannot write. I mean it he cant write at all.
About the author: Was an 4th year IIT’ian when he wrote: Anything for you ma’am.



LIKED:
 
The White Tiger – Aravind Adiga
I really liked this book I cant explain it though. The writing was good but it wasn’t polished enough. Maybe it was the way Mr.Adiga formatted his plot you could feel the hard feelings flowing through you. You felt what the poor man felt through his letter to Mr.Premier. Now that’s what I call a true writer.
About the author:  Won the man booker prize in 2008 For the White Tiger.  



Battle for Bittora - Anuja Chauhan
It is true I don’t like chick-lit nor do I like Indian authors writing fiction in English. This story isn’t good in fact it’s a normal as any chick lit can be but I love the author. Its because of the author I have read her books. Her writing is unique and there are few Indians who can even write. She has this witty style of writing which makes think that the whole conversation is in Hindi while its written in English. It’s a feat a few author can achieve.
About the Author: Used to be the vice president and Executice Creative Director of JWT an advertising company. She has created Pepsi's 'Nothing official about it' campaign and ad slogans like, Pepsi's Yeh Dil Maange More and Oye Bubbly.



Indians in English letters may appeal to you in some way or the other, maybe its the IITian or IIM tag perhaps it’s the epic Bollywood Masala you’ve been waiting for or maybe like me, you like a decent book with very good writing. For me, writing is what makes a book outstanding. Books with great plot and intensified characters can only made with unique styles of literature.  So a request to new Indian authors please do use the thesaurus. I am sure Harry Potter wont Crucio you, he probably doesn't even know who you are. 
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