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chitoryu12 posted:And then I froze where I stood. There were five people at the table.  DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUUN! Goodness but she is an unendearing protagonist, isn't she? Her and Bond, do you have a thing for books which have unlikable main characters? ... now I'm imagining Bella Swan falling for James Bond, and the horrible ramifications thereof.
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chitoryu12 posted:We scowled at each other in silence. I was the first to speak, trying to keep myself focused. I was in danger of being distracted by his livid, glorious face. It was like trying to stare down a destroying angel.  He's so ~*~dreamy~*~! 
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Jun 28, 2019 16:31
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 Ah yes, I see, these are ... human people who act like hu-mans, yes. No, don't give me that "Edward is a vampire!" he's been faking humanity for howevermany decades, he should be less poo poo at it by now.
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Jul 1, 2019 15:52
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quote:I felt greedy, a miser hording over each minute. You hack, Meyer, that's not how you spell "hoarding", nor how you use it.
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Jul 3, 2019 10:15
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quote:And the way he sometimes spoke, with unfamiliar cadences and phrases that better fit the style of a turn-of-the-century novel than that of a twenty-first-century classroom. Does he... ever actually do this on the page? Because I don't remember noticing it.
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Jul 8, 2019 16:37
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quote:The words bothered me more than they should—probably because his speculation hit home. I’d always suspected as much, and it embarrassed me to have it confirmed. "I'd always suspected I was immune to mind reading, probably because of my borderline psychopathy." quote:“I was trying to remember how to incapacitate an attacker—you know, self-defense. I was going to smash his nose into his brain.” "On the one hand, I love your readiness to straight-up murder a man. On the other hand, that doesn't actually work. Remind me to teach you how to break a fellow's neck some time."
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Jul 10, 2019 15:30
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chitoryu12 posted:Meyer tried to advertise this "forbidden love" story with the gimmick of Edward having to fight his nature as a vampire, but it just comes off as the equivalent of trying to date Ted Bundy while he resists the urge to bludgeon you to death with a tire iron. I kinda want to write a parody now, where the Mysterious Boyfriend actually is just a serial killer. And a really unappealing one, too, not the suave literary type with the violin and the elegantly filed fingernails, but the real-world kind with the greasy hair and the My Little Pony bedsheets. But the protagonist is still just ~*swooning*~ over them. Let Me Be Your Dakimakura posted:"Actually, it's called a magazine," he said, waving the metal block in the air. The slightly nasal tenor of his beautiful voice sent a thrill down my spine. "A clip is a strip of metal into which one slots bullets so they can be rapidly fed into a weapon with an internal magazine."
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Jul 15, 2019 15:15
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chitoryu12 posted:Is this the first swear in the entire series? I think it is! It always catches me by surprise when I'm reminded that Americans consider "hell" a swear word.
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Aug 20, 2019 11:23
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chitoryu12 posted:Booboo Stewart? See? See? You laughed when he called himself "Booboo", but who's getting the callbacks, huh? Who's laughing now?!
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Aug 28, 2019 17:04
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Stephanie Meyer posted:I was like a lost moon—my planet destroyed in some cataclysmic, disaster-movie scenario of desolation—that continued, nevertheless, to circle in a tight little orbit around the empty space left behind, ignoring the laws of gravity. chitoryu12 posted:I've said it before, but Meyer's clumsy metaphors make me want to go back to Ian Fleming. I was about to point out that this was technically a similie rather than a metaphor, but then I looked it up to double check and I discovered that actually similies are a type of metaphor.  I Learned A Thing!
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