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In the last few years, the book "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer has become overwhelmingly popular among the general population, teenagers espacially. The book about a teenage girl named Bella who moves to the town of Forks, Washington, where she meets and falls madly in love with a teenage vampire named Edward. Seems innocent, right? Not quite. So why hat "Twilight", you ask? Let's break it down into three categories:poor writing, unhealthy relationships, and poor excuse for love.

POOR WRITING

Meyer writes at an amateur level, constantly abusing the thesaurus with shameless purple prose. She takes simple, elementary sentences and stuffs them with an overabundance of modifiers. Example:

"His skin, white despite the faint flush from yesterday's hunting trip, literally sparkled, like thousands of tiny diamonds were imbedded in the surface. He lay perfectly still in the grass, his shirt open over his sculpted, incandescent chest, his scintillating arms bare. His glistening, pale lavender lids were shut, though of course he didn't sleep. A pefect statue, carved in some unknown stone, smooth like marble, glittering like chrystal.


There are 69 words in that short excerpt, 18 of which are adjectives/adverbs: 5 of these are synonyms for the same word: sparkling. But that's nothing: the word murmur is used 46 times in the first book alone. Nice way to use imagination insteas of repetitiveness, right? Meyer's constant massacre of words ic a fast way to fill up pages, but leaves absolutely no room for plot, character development, or any kind of quality.

Acclaimed auther Stephen King recently gave his opinion on Meyer, comparing her to J.K. Rowling. According to King, "Both Rowling and Meyer, they're speaking directly to young people... The real differance is Jo Rowling is a terrific author and Stephenie Meyer can't write worth a darn." This is not an exaggeration. Meyer, who has had no previous experience in writing,is exactly that: inexperienced, Although the "Twilight" saga isn't written terribly, it is written very simply, with amateur writing style, forced vocabulary, and an overall lack of deepness and literary quality.