Heh, you're not missing much by skipping the Dan Brown stuff. He's one of those authors who has an interesting idea, but has no freaking clue how to write characters that aren't complete cliches or totally boring or plots that aren't totally convoluted and contrived. I read Angels and Demons years ago, and was seriously unimpressed. I only got about two chapters into The DaVinci Code before I discovered that one of the main villains was this albino who was into self flagellation. After almost spraining my eyeballs from rolling them so hard, I put the book down and backed away slowly.
The moms would be firing crossbows loaded with pointy wooden sticks.
Heh, I'm not sure if pointy sticks would kill the Twilight vampires. Stephanie Meyer basically tosses all of the typical vampire stuff out the window (garlic, aversion to sunlight, holy water, smelling like they're dead, the requirement to drink human blood, etc). There's really no downside to being one of her sparkletastic creations that I could see - or any weakness that she mentioned. Although that would probably require some plot to reveal, and we can't have that shit interfering with all of the emo angsting.
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Date: 2009-02-24 11:52 am (UTC)The moms would be firing crossbows loaded with pointy wooden sticks.
Heh, I'm not sure if pointy sticks would kill the Twilight vampires. Stephanie Meyer basically tosses all of the typical vampire stuff out the window (garlic, aversion to sunlight, holy water, smelling like they're dead, the requirement to drink human blood, etc). There's really no downside to being one of her sparkletastic creations that I could see - or any weakness that she mentioned. Although that would probably require some plot to reveal, and we can't have that shit interfering with all of the emo angsting.