this, a hundred times over
Nov. 18th, 2009 10:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluelovesorangeto even consider Jo March and Anne of Green Gables in the same company as Bella Swan is laughable, and frankly, insulting
I think Twilight has its own place in popular culture, but I don't think it's going to be a classic, unless we're talking of the cult, camp it's so bad it might be good -type of classic, because of course, there is always room for escapist crap. And I think that the young girls who pick up Twilight and fall in love with its world will grow up and find other, more real heroines to love. (Don't ask me what's going to happen to their moms.) I mean, as a former book seller, I was annoyed when the Gossip Girls, Clique, et al books suddenly flooded the YA market, and that's all the young girls seemed to be reading, but it was a fad, and Twilight is the new fad, just as Sweet Valley High was a fad for its generation.
Flavorwire compile a top ten list of best books for girls and young women.
I think Twilight has its own place in popular culture, but I don't think it's going to be a classic, unless we're talking of the cult, camp it's so bad it might be good -type of classic, because of course, there is always room for escapist crap. And I think that the young girls who pick up Twilight and fall in love with its world will grow up and find other, more real heroines to love. (Don't ask me what's going to happen to their moms.) I mean, as a former book seller, I was annoyed when the Gossip Girls, Clique, et al books suddenly flooded the YA market, and that's all the young girls seemed to be reading, but it was a fad, and Twilight is the new fad, just as Sweet Valley High was a fad for its generation.
Flavorwire compile a top ten list of best books for girls and young women.
