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Stephenie Meyer

I’m not sure that telling men that a movie about women isn’t for them is helping

Fri, Jul 19, 2013
20 comments

You want to reinforce the idea that women are a minority with niche interests that could not possibly be appreciated or understood by default normal human beings (ie, men)? This is the perfect way to do it.

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Stephenie Meyer has found a whole new way for teen girls to be conflicted about sex (The Host review)

Thu, Apr 04, 2013
26 comments

Did Neo come to see that the Agents had the right way of things? Did Luke eventually realize that the Empire was a stabilizing force in the galaxy? But poor Melanie is suffering from the ultimate case of Stockholm Syndrome.

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question of the day: What 2013 movie are you most looking forward to?

Thu, Jan 10, 2013
24 comments

Let’s get our geek on for the coming year!

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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (review)

Mon, Nov 19, 2012
67 comments

The world’s most insipid vampires are back in inaction! Twilight has never been more about people standing around waiting for stuff to happen to them…

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The Host (teaser trailer)

Mon, Mar 26, 2012
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I’d like to think that Andrew Niccol will make Stephenie Meyer tolerable…

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question of the weekend: Should writers be encouraged to write multivolume novels?

Sat, Feb 11, 2012
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Just as how it’s easier to market movies that are part of a franchise or are sourced from material that audiences are already familiar with, so it is with books…

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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (review)

Mon, Nov 21, 2011
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It. Is. So. Romantic! I could almost die. Just like Bella does here. Almost die, I mean. Because that’s what you do for love.

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my reads: ‘Dracula, the Un-Dead,’ by Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt

Sat, Aug 28, 2010
8 comments

Certainly it’s the funniest Dracula book that isn’t meant to be funny. It’s also ridiculously entertaining.

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The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (review)

Tue, Jun 29, 2010
38 comments

The sparkly vampire guy and the shirtless werewolf guy, they’re still fighting over perfect, perfect Bella, whose perfection extends to a delicate and supposedly adorable feminine idiocy…

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