Copycat.
Okay. I am in a better mood today and totally prepared for blogging. Got my boho sweater on, my scarf, my indie music playing, and I just saw something preposterous that I must discuss.
But first, let’s just take a moment. Because I want to discuss this:
Obviously, we have made the stunning revelation that I love The Twilight Saga. Seriously, if you don’t, I don’t get it. Unless you are male, then I kind of get it. I know Daniel refuses to read them. I have tried and tried to make him. Its not going to happen. And this saddens me. Why, you ask? Because, do you know how much he could learn from Edward Cullen? I mean, if he just jotted down a few of his lines in the book on a 3×5 notecard and kept them in his pocket to stealthily pull out and read to me at random times in our life together, I would be putty in his hand. But I digress. (I really, really enjoy that phrase by the way.)
Can I tell you how much I can not wait for this movie to come out?
I can not wait!!!!!!!!!!!insert infinity exclamation points here!!!!!!!!
I know. I know. The first movie was superbly disappointing in relation to the books. And New Moon (the movie) will probably be craptastic in comparison to the book as well. I am the first to admit that, and isn’t that the way it almost always is? The movie never measures up to the book. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t fan-freaking-tastic to see Bella and Edward (and Jacob) all on film together; living out the scenes that we have imagined in our heads so many times.
I am almost always 100% disappointed in books that go to the big screen. But that doesn’t make me any less excited to see them.
Every time I see the preview for New Moon, I have to hold myself from running to my bookshelf, digging Twilight out and rereading the entire series again. Because I am waiting, timing my revival of the “Saga” with the midnight showing of New Moon on the 20th of November. So all the details are fresh in my mind and I can intelligently nit-pick all the problems between the film and the book.
Anyway, you know I am a sucker for a good vampire book. Preferably series. So today, I logged on to my Sony Reader Store account, to see what new releases came out. And I saw this. And just now, when I was looking up the link for that book, I saw this.
This annoys me. To no end. Its not only that I have a weird protective love-fest thing going on for Twilight. I just think that a parody of Twilight is ridiculous. Really? Really? A character named Edwart and one named Edweird? Give me a break. Things like this just piss me off. Like this whole Pride and Predjudice and Zombies thing and now the Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters thing.
Do these people really consider themselves writers? I don’t. Especially on the Jane Austen rip-offs. I haven’t read them. I refuse to. And I have no desire to. But according to the GoodReads reviews I have read, it is the exact same book that Austen wrote, with the exception of crap about zombies and sea monsters written in. What the Hell is that? If you want to be a writer at least be original. Or at least try to be, don’t ruin the classics. That is like sacrilege to me.
I am desperate to write something. Besides this blog. Like a short story that will never see a published page, or a novel that will never sit and gather dust at Barnes and Noble. But I would never sit down and feel so deperate to write something, anything that I resort to stealing someone else’s ideas. Even if I plan to parody them. I am sorry, I just don’t think it’s right. I think its stealing. I really do. Writing is all about creating. Not about reading a book and then deciding to steal the idea, but alter it just a little bit here and there so it’s a parody or it talks about some zombie attack on England.
I don’t know, maybe it just goes against my personal artistic/creative mantra/rules that Ashley lives by. Am I wrong here? Should I go pick up my own copy (read: download to my reader) of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies or Nightlight? Or Twilite? Thoughts, opinions on this?
