New Mormon Books

… as Latoya Peterson pointed out in a piece for Double X … the current crop of pointy-toothed dramas continues the genre’s fascination with sexual violence and the idealization of the chaste woman. I can’t fault her for taking issue with eroticized depictions of abuse, often against women. But she’s wrong to equate the sexual politics of True Blood with those of the abstinent, repressed Twilight. These two are not the same animal.

Rough Sex With Vampires: What Does “True Blood” Tell Us About Women and Sexuality?
By James Brady Ryan, Nerve.com.
AlterNet.org, July 18, 2009.
http://www.alternet.org/sex/141317/rough_sex_with_vampires:_what_does_%22true_blood%22_tell_us_about_women_and_sexuality/

The success behind the books stems from the ability of Stephenie to convey an array of emotion within each character, mainly Bella, from whose point of view of the books are written, with a few exceptions. Stephenie has written the books in such a fashion that readers don’t simply enjoy them; they climb into the world of the Cullen family. The books span beyond simply an interesting plot; they tug at the emotion and heartstrings of tweens, teens and adults alike.

Twilight Parents 101: Who is Stephenie Meyer?
By Kimberly Sherman, Twilight Parents Examiner
Examiner.com, July 18, 2009.
http://www.examiner.com/x-13198-Twilight-Parents-Examiner~y2009m7d18-Twilight-Parents-101-Who-is-Stephenie-Meyer

…then the Harry Potter comparisons started rolling out. Media pundits everywhere declared Twilight the new Harry Potter. I wondered, flabbergasted, how any person could ever believe such a thing. Potter?! Really? What I saw onscreen was soap opera trash for the tween nation. It didn’t bear anywhere near the universal appeal of the Harry Potter series. But now I’m here, explaining how such a preposterous claim is less an arguable statement and more a joke, an unfunny one at that, like Will Ferrell trying to ice skate.

Do The Math: 8 Reasons Harry Potter Is Greater Than Twilight
By Tim Gomez
Cinema Blend.com, July 16, 2009
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Do-The-Math-8-Reasons-Harry-Potter-Is-Greater-Than-Twilight-13981.html

I’m about to make a very unpopular comparison, one that surely will have some fans trying to revoke my own Whedon fandom: Bella, Buffy, and the bloodsuckers from Twilight and Buffy aren’t all that different.

Girls on Film: Bella, Buffy, and Bloodsuckers
By Monika Bartyzel
Cinematical, Jul 6th 2009.
http://www.cinematical.com/2009/07/06/girls-on-film-bella-buffy-and-bloodsuckers/

It’s no surprise, then, that Stephenie Meyer hit the jackpot with her young adult vampire series, Twilight, which is now a major motion picture enterprise as well. … But as a child of the nineties, and quite possibly the biggest fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I have to ask: what the hell happened to us?

Twilight
By Jessica Ferri, Kissing Dead Girls
Bookslut, July 2009
http://www.bookslut.com/kissing_dead_girls/2009_07_014759.php

Yes, I did it. I read Twilight. I blame peer pressure.

weekly book review: twilight, by stephenie meyer
Pretty to Think So, June 18, 2009
http://somewherenevertravelled.blogspot.com/2009/06/weekly-book-review-twilight-by.html

After all the time that I’ve spent covering the “Twilight” beat for MTV, I was extremely honored to be asked to attend Summer School in Forks: A “Twilight” Symposium, a real-life fan event that allowed Twilighters to attend classes, go to a prom and enjoy field trips around the real-life town that Meyer immortalized by making it home to her beloved characters.

‘Twilight’ World Comes To Life In Forks, Washington.
Summer School in the small Washington town features ‘Twilight’ classes, field trips and prom.
By Larry Carroll
MTV Movie News, Jun 29 2009.
http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1614969/story.jhtml

Simply put, the Twilight franchise — those ubiquitous young adult novels that inexplicably also make grown women swoon — really sucks. Thanks Stephanie Meyer, for completely watering down all the cool stuff abut vampires.

Love or Hate for Twilight?
By Jillian Lovejoy Lowery and Molly Schoemann
The Perpetual Post, June 25th, 2009.
http://perpetualpost.com/?p=2072

Simply put, the Twilight franchise — those ubiquitous young adult novels that inexplicably also make grown women swoon — really sucks. Thanks Stephanie Meyer, for completely watering down all the cool stuff abut vampires.

Love or Hate for Twilight?
Simply put, the Twilight franchise sucks all the fun out of vampire lore.
By Jillian Lovejoy Lowery and Molly Schoemann
The Perpetual Post, June 25th, 2009
http://perpetualpost.com/?p=2072

In the story of Twilight (United States, 2008), which debuts this Friday in our country, there is not a trace of irony. Love is really love, as is surrender. And that may be the key to the success of both the American series written by Stephenie Meyer, which already in its fourth book, as it is in this adaptation of its first episode: Return a generation of students to a kind of romanticism that seemed to have been discarded — the kind which believes in genuine feelings, and that preaches not only waiting for the right person, but for the right time.

Os mortos também amam
Crepúsculo, a adaptação do primeiro livro da série da escritora Stephenie Meyer sobre um vampiro adolescente e sua paixão impossível, é mesmo um fenômeno: agrada ao público jovem pregando a virtude e a castidade
By Isabela Boscov
Veja, 17 December 2008.
http://veja.abril.com.br/171208/p_172.shtml