OMG FACEBOOK ROMANCE DARK TWILIGHT BIGWORD LOL. (Marketing)

[Chu]

Disclaimer: This post is harsh. My main beef with this situation isn't that Twilight fans are reading Wuthering Heights; it's that classics are being fed to an uneducated audience. I don't like it when complex things go in one ear and out the other (one eye and out the other?) just because the listener (reader?) is too shallow to understand them. Does that mean that they shouldn't strive to understand it? Oh, absolutely not. That would be the best-case scenario. I'd be happy with this marketing technique if that were the case.

Oh, and the fact that they're trying to say that Mary Sues/Gary Stus and cliche horse shit make great literature... kinda pisses me off. Just sayin'.


FFFFFFFF RAAAAGE. I'm required to read Wuthering Heights for a summer assignment. It took forever to finally track down a copy, but when I did, I couldn't bring myself to be excited. The woman that worked in the bookstore said that they had one copy left. It was hidden in the young adults (meaning stupid teenage girls) section and was remade with a Twilight-esque cover to appeal to the idiots sweet little girls.

Damn, it worked like a charm. There was only one copy left. Let's quote the synopsis, shall we?

[ecco]

dear god Chu, it sounds like you rage as bad as I do.

anyway!

does anyone else get the feeling, that whoever wrote these horrid extras was forced into doing so by his/her boss? and so grudgingly, they wrote it all but have entirely taken the piss from beginning to end? cos the whole thing sounds like a lot of sarcasm to me. o.o it wouldnt surprise me.

this reminds me an awful lot of the way they tried to market Shakespeare to teens when i was in secondary school. theyd have posters with quotes from shakespeare on it, then a "modern" translation: SHE IZ WELL FIT.

FML, i thought, and now i want to read Shakespeare even less if theyre going to patronise me from beginning to end. -___-;

[Keylaleigh]

Oh my... and I thought it was bad to see Twilight go into "shitty graphic novel-land". This is an outrage! I didn't know about this! Well, then again I'm not fond of the romance genre very much, so this would be the kind of thing that would elude me.

Now... the moment they start taking shitty literature and imposing it on The Scarlet Pimpernel (my favorite piece of classic literature), I'll be worried. But because the Scarlet Pimpernel is so kick-ass and amazing, that hopefully won't happen. Whatever they pair with it had BETTER be kick-ass and amazing as well.

But about the Shakespeare thing, that is actually kinda funny! I chuckle at the fact that teenagers have a hard time understanding Shakespeare. It's NOT THAT DIFFICULT! My freshman brother understood it without my help, and I devoted every day a semester to the Bard! I need to get back to reading his stuff, though.

[Chu]

@ecco: That's not even the brunt of it. -_- Poor Raz.

It sounded very sarcastic to me too. o-0 I know that my quotes probably emphasized it, but the tone remains the same throughout all of the extras. I was actually thinking that I'd probably find something like that on the internet.

Oh, they got Romeo and Juliet too. And Pride and Prejudice. I'm not sure if they have extras though.

By the way, on some copies of this book, it says, "Bella and Edward's favorite book!"


@Kelaleigh: I used to be really into romance, but I fell out of it when I started reading provocative things like 100 Years of Solitude and 2001: A space Odyssey. Like I said, I only picked this up because of my assignment. Otherwise I wouldn't have even glanced twice at it.

Oh, Shakespeare really isn't difficult at all. :/ I don't understand why people complain so much about it. I guess it's because they don't bother to try?

[KoyiTar]

Read an Anne Rice novel to get your mind off of it. I suggest Interview With a Vampire. Sorry I don't by into fads especially tweeny bopper fads that have stuck around as long as this crap. Twilight is a poor joke and the fact that good novels are trying to gain attention by going down the same path sickens me.

[ecco]

i just found it funny how suddenly all the teenies shut up about High School Musical once Twilight came along.

fine by me, Zac Efron actually has talent, now the insane little fangirls have someone else to focus on he can get a real career... i hope anyway >.>

[KoyiTar]

Hes been in a couple of really good movies since High school Musical at least I thought they were good.

[ecco]

yea, i absolutely love him in 17 Again tho i havent really seen him in anything else, but that one showed he actually has talent..

i feel like this is going too far off topic lol XD

[Maeve]

Take a few deep breaths, Chu ^^

Guh, I hate when that happens. Just like I hate when they take new books and write something like "The best thing since insert-great-author-name!" on it, just to sell more copies.
I mean, I'm totally into getting kids to read more advance books, even if they don't necessarily have all the knowledge and maturity to understand every single word of it. I just hate stupid marketing and things that get a wrong impression to people... <.<*

As a kid, I remember taking home a few books from the library that were probably too advanced for me at the time, but I still like them, even if it was more for the cute characters/ interesting story than for the symbols and great plot development. And when I grew up I re-read some of them, and I was (and still am) amazed by some of the things I've missed and that make the book even better.

However, most of the people I know who have ever picked a book because it said somewhere that it was "similar to a popular book" were just demoralized when they realized it wasn't really the case, and most often they just stop reading it and never return to it, thinking it's lame and not worth reading. Kinda the opposite of what you,d want to do with old classics...

The few quotes you put really sound sarcastic, which would be somewhat funny, but I'm afraid the targeted audience won't even realize it

And now I need to go to the library and get a few good books...

[Keylaleigh]

Well, the Scarlet Pimpernel has a mild romantic element, but it's mostly action and intrigue.

What I love is when a book series calls itself "the next Harry Potter". Twilight was one of these. The only one that comes close to being the next HP, though, is the Percy Jackson series. And Riordan's new work, the Kane saga.

[KoyiTar]

I so very agree I loved those books so much. The movie though sucked in comparsen.

[Keylaleigh]

Oh GAWD, are you correct! I was very sad to not see Clarisse in the movie!

What I said to people who asked me how it was started with "Did you read the books?"

If they said no, I told them they'd love it. To somebody unfamiliar with the series, it was a great movie!

If they said yes, I'd tell them that they would be sorely dissapointed.

[KoyiTar]

Its like the made Annabeth or bell I forget what her name is now out to be Clarisse. I was like thats not how she acted at all towards Percy where Clarisse shes the mean crazy person that almost killed him during capture the flag and Anna was on the same team as percy and luke not on the opisite.

Who wrote this movie was Riordan even in on it and Persephone was not in the underworld at that time. Also Grover though he did have his moments of oh look a hot chick it wasn't to the extent they had it in the movie.

[Kattie]

Didn't Bella say she liked such books as Wuthering Heights? Maybe that's why it was hard for you to get a copy, because the Twilight-loving girlies wanted to be like Bella even more or something. But, man, adding all those extras...isn't it enough if stuff like that is printed in magazines for pre-adolescent Hot Topic goth kids?

[Chu]

Bella likes, what was it? Wuthering Heights and Romeo and Juliet? XD OMG I READ THOSE TOO!!!!


But yes, she did, Kattie.