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Review: James Cameron’s Avatar

December 28, 2009
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Avatar’s hype did not impress me.  The initial trailers I saw were lackluster, and that’s me being nice.  The special effects looked hokey, and the plot, from what I had heard of it, was Dances with Wolves in space.
I was not interested and had pretty much written Avatar off my list.
But my wife and [...]

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Zombies Rule! Vampires Drool!

December 2, 2009
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Vampires bother me.  And not just because some wackjob housewife decided to make it popular that they sparkle. They’ve always been so generic.  While they are the quintessential things that go bump in the night, they also have no real flair.  Even the most unique take on vampire lore can  only go so far.
On the [...]

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Twilight: An Outsider’s Perspective

November 25, 2009
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The final installment of Anti-Twilight Week is brought to you by my wife, Jennifer.  She may have never read the first word of Stephenie Meyer’s “saga”—lucky her—but she certainly has some valid opinions on why the series is not all it’s cracked up to be. Enjoy!
When Beej asked me to write a post for Anti-Twilight [...]

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Stephenie Meyer’s Writing is an Insult to Fanfic

November 23, 2009
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Let me say this first: I don’t particularly like fan fiction. I appreciate that it can be a terrific way for up-and-coming authors to develop their storytelling chops without dealing with the in-depth processes of characterization or worldbuilding; however, the writing is often lazy and uninspired, relying on tropes, clichés, and an nascent use of [...]

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Anti-Edward Cullen: A Treatise

November 20, 2009
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This post is brought to you by VampyChronicles, two 20-something, self-professed anti-fans of Twilight. They’re currently reading through Stephenie Meyer’s series, snarkily blogging as they go about chapters, bad merchandise, the movies, and whatever else comes to mind as being ridiculous and/or irksome.
Originally, we were going to write about the top five things [...]

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Don’t Touch That Book, or Why Twilight is Not for Girls

November 19, 2009
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Today’s post is by Bonnie Norman, who analyzes speculative fiction works from a lesbian, feminist, and anti-racist perspective in order to foster discussion about the issues that plague SF and society in general. She can be found at her review blog, A Working Title, which also has links to her other writing pieces.
Twilight is [...]

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