Comments on: Stephanie Meyer Responds To Criticism: It Hurts

By: The Fail is Strong

The Fail is Strong — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:05:16 +0000

Criticism: It’s Part of the Writing process. Get over it, or stop writing. Kthx

By: MW

MW — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:39:43 +0000

If she recollected herself and actually stood up for herself and improvement I’d probably be inclined to try reading future books.

But I guess the book returns hurt sales enough that she had to roll belly up in submission. She really just kinda keeled over at the criticism in order to kiss up to angry fans hoping they’d “change their minds” as this is “kind of where it is supposed to go” (WTF is this? Are you trying to convince people to stay further away from BD).

In any case, that reaction was very disappointing.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 08:55:40 +0000

Ok I’m a writer myself, so I have nothing against Stephenie Meyer personally. But I think she seriously needs to slow her writing down & consider the overall tone that her books are evoking. Take Twilight, for example: Looks are everything. The only way that the illustrious Bella Swan will give you any attention is if you look a certain way & don’t talk too much about yourself (no, scratch that – just don’t talk at all – she would rather listen to her own thoughts/opinions, which constantly change & make no logical sense). She hates Forks, she ignores her dad, the weather is miserable…everything in her life depresses her.

Bella Swan is one of the most shallow, insecure, spoiled and ungrateful brats ever written. It would help if her love interest was at least a likable person, but Edward Cullen is not. He is a demeaning, controlling person with behavior bordering on abuse (at least in his introductory chapters). There is no reason for Bella to be attracted to him, and yet, she falls so hard for him that nothing else matters…including her REAL friends and family who have stuck by her and even put up with her annoying tendencies. It makes me sick to think that I enjoyed this series at one time.

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By: John Harm

John Harm — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:54:45 +0000

No book can live up to expectations? Everyone thought Harry Potter 4,5,6, and 7 were good…

Although the characters are poorly constructed, and the writing style horrendous, I do not begrudge Meyer for creating a world of imagination and interest in literature for teenagers.

But really, they may want to read some other stuff too….

By: Jazz

Jazz — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:01:09 +0000

So, just to recap, “love” is making yourself do things you don’t actually want to do for someone else? Good luck with that.

By: Brittany

Brittany — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:18:27 +0000

It’s not the criticism that should hurt, it’s the actual books. I’ve read two of them, and I have to say that they deserve all of the criticism I’ve seen out there. The characters are two dimensional and have very little growth, the story is poorly told, the sentence structure is juvenile and something you would expect from a teenager, and add all of that to the fact that Bella and Edward are practically the definition of Mary Sue characters it’s no surprise that these books have comments such as the aforementioned “don’t burn the book, return it”. The sad thing is, that if this was written well and the characterization handled properly it could be a good story. But because of how Ms. Meyers handled it, it just isn’t.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:56:54 +0000

I liked Meyer’s book and i give her credit for all the time she put in it. i feel sorry for all the people who don’t seem to understand! and maybe the “dude” wants to put himself through those kinds of things for a girl. that is what love is, all men do things for women that they dont want to and its because of LOVE!

By: Miss Jones

Miss Jones — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:11:44 +0000

I am avid reader and i enjoy books from several origins. I do not discriminate so when my seventeen year old cousin told me that I should read twilight I looked at her and said yeah. So I am twenty three living in the big city and i decide to read a book that was specifically written for teenagers. By the way I am a English major so this was going to be interesting after hearing the reviews. But you know what I read so many serious books that it felt good to read a Candy book. I think that people are being way more critical then they have to be. In my opinion it was poorly written and not very descriptive and too many mistakes. Regardless of the syntax and grammatical errors i still thought that it was a good story. I believe that her book did what it was suppose to do keep people wanting more. For that she has accomplished a lot…. That’s the problem now we are way too serious. I love
Austen as writer and in enjoy several genre’s of literature. As a English teacher I just enjoyed living in that Edward and Bella world it was fun, nothing to serious 1

Just chill people it not real !!!!1 just enjoy it for what it is.

Live, laugh and love `

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:03:45 +0000

stephanie meyer’s way off man. any dude who puts himself through that much crap can do much better than some random chick from nowhere. what’re you trying to say about real guys? that we’re good for nothing? give us some credit

By: Zii

Zii — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:55:03 +0000

I know that it might hurt when someone criticises you, but for crying out loud, she’s a 35 year old author! My advice to her would be to take this criticism and not see it as a bad thing- rather see it as a way to make her writing better. Seriously…