I would like to start によって quoting Susanna Laitala, who wrote a review of Breaking Dawn for a Finnish newspaper: "... によって Stephenie Meyer, who, in my opinion, is a very talented writer." I disagree: I do not think Meyer could write even a decent children's book, with a plot culminating in a giraffe finding his ロスト scarf. She would probably decide that the giraffe is suddenly carnivore who has green stripes instead of brown spots - she has already done so to the beloved villains of literature, vampires. Meyer's ヴァンパイア are in fact 'vegetarian': they drink only animal blood. In addition, they sparkle in the sunlight - what has happened to medieval vampires, who burned to dust in the slightest hint of daylight? They've probably been exposed to too much sun, as Meyer's sparkly heart-throbs are anything but vampires. Perhaps they are fairies? They live in the woods, don't hurt people... and the sparkling is probably caused によって fairy dust, which can only be seen in proper light. That would be it.
Laitala claims that the 説明 in Breaking Dawn seemed somehow lacking. However, the hotness of the male protagonist, Edward is referenced about a hundred times - in other words about once in seven pages. Is that not descriptive enough, then? In addition, it seems like Meyer simply looked up もっと見る fancy-sounding words in her thesaurus, not caring one bit what they actually meant. According to Laitala, the text of the first three parts in the series are also emotional and rich in vocabulary, but I wouldn't call Meyer's aforementioned technique 'rich in vocabulary' - もっと見る like 'dirt poor in vocabulary'. Nor do I call a book where every chapter until nearly the end of the book begins and ends in the same way very emotional. Take, for example, the first part of the series, Twilight: I do not think that the reader experiences strong emotions when they read about Bella going to school, Bella being in school, Bella driving ホーム from school, Bella cooking for her father, Bella day-dreaming about Edward, Bella going to ベッド ... and the same is repeated in the 次 chapter. The weak cries of a decent plot are drowned under this purple prose until well over half-way through the book, when Bella is watching a baseball match between the fairies. Suddenly, real ヴァンパイア appear from the forest - well, they, too, sparkle in the daylight, but they do drink human blood. They attack Bella, which results in an entire chain of events that seems forced and unnatural. Not that being attacked によって ヴァンパイア is exactly natural, but the final quarter of the book radiates forced action sequences, the sole purpose of which is to get something other than Bella and Edward's unhealthy relationship into the book.
And unfair if someone describes this relationship: Bella has known Edward for approximately two weeks, talked to him maybe five times, and suddenly she is in love. Unconditionally, irrevocably in love, as the back cover of Twilight tells us.
This is impossible.
If the couple has known each other for two whole weeks, they can not be in love. Sure, right about now someone might say something about 愛 at first sight, but unless 'first sight' is, for example, when a person speaks または otherwise shows their personality, it is not love. It's just a crush, or, もっと見る likely physical want - also known as lust. Although it is impossible to define love, this is Wikipedia's メリダとおそろしの森 attempt: 愛 is the emotion of strong affection and personal attachment. I would define 愛 もっと見る または less like this: the feeling where a place, object または especially a person has become もっと見る important to one than oneself, larger than life - the feeling あなた would sacrifice yourself for your loved one. For this reason, what's between Bella and Edward is not 愛 - I believe that, in spite of all their threats, neither is yet ready to sacrifice themselves for the other.
According to Laitala, the 秒 part of Breaking Dawn, narrated によって werewolf Jacob was the best - but even this sentence is flawed: Jacob is not a werewolf, but a shape-shifter who happens to take the form of a wolf. This fact was revealed only the last part of the series, and the general theory is that it was only revealed because many have complained of Jacob's un-werewolfness. Firstly, あなた cannot inherit lycanthropy - あなた can become a werewolf only if bitten. Secondly, true オオカミ are not able to change on a whim, but the change follows the cycle of the moon and is often involuntary and quite painful.
The last big issue I would like to raise, is the explanation Meyer gave as to why the 'wolves' are 'wolves': chromosomes. According to Meyer, the 'wolves' are what they are because they have 24 pairs of chromosomes, and the ヴァンパイア of 25, compared to the so-called normal people's 23 pairs. However a wrong amount of chromosomes always results in some kind of mental retardation (though maybe this is evident in Meyer's wolves?) - and besides, according to this theory ヴァンパイア suddenly gain two もっと見る pairs when they are bitten and thus become vampires.
Just in case I didn't get my point across yet, I strongly believe that the Twilight series is not even close to the 愛 story of a century it has been claimed to be. Instead, for example, the Harry Potter series has lots もっと見る of the criteria for that: romantic love, parent/child love, unrequited love, friendly love, and last but not least teacher/student love. There's a 愛 story of the century for あなた - in my opinion, Twilight should take it's horrible 書く style and lust and go to the Harlequin-shelves in supermarkets, because then it would be with those of its own level.
Laitala claims that the 説明 in Breaking Dawn seemed somehow lacking. However, the hotness of the male protagonist, Edward is referenced about a hundred times - in other words about once in seven pages. Is that not descriptive enough, then? In addition, it seems like Meyer simply looked up もっと見る fancy-sounding words in her thesaurus, not caring one bit what they actually meant. According to Laitala, the text of the first three parts in the series are also emotional and rich in vocabulary, but I wouldn't call Meyer's aforementioned technique 'rich in vocabulary' - もっと見る like 'dirt poor in vocabulary'. Nor do I call a book where every chapter until nearly the end of the book begins and ends in the same way very emotional. Take, for example, the first part of the series, Twilight: I do not think that the reader experiences strong emotions when they read about Bella going to school, Bella being in school, Bella driving ホーム from school, Bella cooking for her father, Bella day-dreaming about Edward, Bella going to ベッド ... and the same is repeated in the 次 chapter. The weak cries of a decent plot are drowned under this purple prose until well over half-way through the book, when Bella is watching a baseball match between the fairies. Suddenly, real ヴァンパイア appear from the forest - well, they, too, sparkle in the daylight, but they do drink human blood. They attack Bella, which results in an entire chain of events that seems forced and unnatural. Not that being attacked によって ヴァンパイア is exactly natural, but the final quarter of the book radiates forced action sequences, the sole purpose of which is to get something other than Bella and Edward's unhealthy relationship into the book.
And unfair if someone describes this relationship: Bella has known Edward for approximately two weeks, talked to him maybe five times, and suddenly she is in love. Unconditionally, irrevocably in love, as the back cover of Twilight tells us.
This is impossible.
If the couple has known each other for two whole weeks, they can not be in love. Sure, right about now someone might say something about 愛 at first sight, but unless 'first sight' is, for example, when a person speaks または otherwise shows their personality, it is not love. It's just a crush, or, もっと見る likely physical want - also known as lust. Although it is impossible to define love, this is Wikipedia's メリダとおそろしの森 attempt: 愛 is the emotion of strong affection and personal attachment. I would define 愛 もっと見る または less like this: the feeling where a place, object または especially a person has become もっと見る important to one than oneself, larger than life - the feeling あなた would sacrifice yourself for your loved one. For this reason, what's between Bella and Edward is not 愛 - I believe that, in spite of all their threats, neither is yet ready to sacrifice themselves for the other.
According to Laitala, the 秒 part of Breaking Dawn, narrated によって werewolf Jacob was the best - but even this sentence is flawed: Jacob is not a werewolf, but a shape-shifter who happens to take the form of a wolf. This fact was revealed only the last part of the series, and the general theory is that it was only revealed because many have complained of Jacob's un-werewolfness. Firstly, あなた cannot inherit lycanthropy - あなた can become a werewolf only if bitten. Secondly, true オオカミ are not able to change on a whim, but the change follows the cycle of the moon and is often involuntary and quite painful.
The last big issue I would like to raise, is the explanation Meyer gave as to why the 'wolves' are 'wolves': chromosomes. According to Meyer, the 'wolves' are what they are because they have 24 pairs of chromosomes, and the ヴァンパイア of 25, compared to the so-called normal people's 23 pairs. However a wrong amount of chromosomes always results in some kind of mental retardation (though maybe this is evident in Meyer's wolves?) - and besides, according to this theory ヴァンパイア suddenly gain two もっと見る pairs when they are bitten and thus become vampires.
Just in case I didn't get my point across yet, I strongly believe that the Twilight series is not even close to the 愛 story of a century it has been claimed to be. Instead, for example, the Harry Potter series has lots もっと見る of the criteria for that: romantic love, parent/child love, unrequited love, friendly love, and last but not least teacher/student love. There's a 愛 story of the century for あなた - in my opinion, Twilight should take it's horrible 書く style and lust and go to the Harlequin-shelves in supermarkets, because then it would be with those of its own level.
