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Twilight Scribe Accused of Plagiarizing Other Vampire Novel

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Sproing
08/04/09

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Mormon Glazerhead!
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City_Dater
08/04/09

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That is one heavily made-up and photoshopped Evangelical Christian.
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snugbug
08/04/09

@City_Dater: Mormon. C'mon now.
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britneyspearstears
08/04/09

@City_Dater: She can plagerize my heart any day.
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SpecialK
08/04/09

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Couldn't any chick-lit writer do this to any other chick-lit writer? She stole my idea? Her book has a struggling journalist and a fashionable best friend just trying to make it in the city. My book does too! Her book has embarrassing sex scenes and annoying but charmingly funny parents. My book does too!
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nicepony
08/04/09

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Jerry Seinfeld's wife helped on "Breaking Dawn," too.....her suggestion was to hide vegetables in the vampires, so kids would eat them.
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FormerEnglishMajor
08/04/09

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If anyone should be suing, it's Joss Whedon.
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Dandy Darkly
08/04/09

@FormerEnglishMajor: And who should sue Joss Whedon? The Vampire the Masquerade game creators? Count Chocula? He should sue himself for ripping off most of Angel to write Dollhouse. Haha.
Let it go Buffy people.
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FormerEnglishMajor
08/04/09

@Dandy Darkly: it's not a big deal to me. Just the whole angsty-immortal-vampire in love with a mortal high school teen but-they-can't-ever-consummate-their-relationship is far more of a similarity than the Rosemary's Baby thing.
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The Recession Is Over
08/04/09

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May be this is the obvious question, but no one is asking... "Why the hell would anyone want to take credit for any part of Twilight?"
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DahlELama
08/04/09

@I do love Sherry: I'm guessing it has something to do with the obscene amounts of money that Stephenie Meyer is raking in for ruining the youth of America.
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misslinda
08/04/09

@DahlELama: Ruining indeed. I read the first 2 books (I know, I know, why???? WHY????) and I would not want any child o' mine reading that garbage. It's practically a roadmap for little girls to fall into the low self esteem camp. "I'm not good enough for my boyfriend, my life is boring when I'm not around him, life isn't worth living since my boyfriend left me, I need a boyfriend to save me from my klutzy old self, when I'm 30 I'll be old and cruddy so please turn me into a vampire so I can be young and pretty forever..." Seriously, do not let your kiddies anywhere near this drivel.
That said, I'm anxious to get home and start on the third book in the series, and I hate myself for saying that.
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snugbug
08/04/09

@misslinda: But what about the "erotics of abstinence"? That's kind of a fresh twist in this day & age, no?
Also, based on hearsay from (adult!) friends who're addicted to Meyer, her books don't name-check Prada, Treo, Valium, Juicy Couture, Captain Morgan, etc. ad infinitum. If you look into any of those super-duper successful tween series (The Clique, Gossip Girl), you'll discover that the characters are hysterically obsessed with fashion/gadget/booze/pill brands and "collectible" painters. V. disturbing.
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sarrible
08/04/09

@snugbug: There's plenty of literature for teenagers that falls somewhere between Twilight and Gossip Girl. There are even, you know, good books that don't breed materialism and shitty self-esteem.
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Weegee's bored
08/04/09

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Vampire novels are to the 2000s what technosuspense was to the 1980s. Remember when every other novel was about a killer submarine?
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Swifter
08/04/09

@Weegee's bored: The next genre is killer submarines crewed by vampires!
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JacquesPaysan
08/04/09

@Swifter: Look out, son. Tom Clancy owns enough guns to kill everyone in North America.
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Swifter
08/04/09

@JacquesPaysan: He's no match for Buffy.
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Magister
08/04/09

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Way off-topic, but the young lady in the photo seems to have an Anne Hathaway, Gina Gershon thing going and I got distracted.
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skahammer
08/04/09

@Magister: I know exactly what you mean. Upon discovering that was an author photo, my first thought was "Maybe I should read more books."
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Limitedappeal
08/04/09

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It's not exactly like they're disputing ingenious plot twists here. There's also a passing similarity to Great Expectations.
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ChillbearLatrigue
08/04/09

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I usually detest this kind of legal action, but anything that puts an end to this Twilight series has to be a good thing, right?
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The Cajun Boy
08/04/09

@ChillbearLatrigue: I haven't even bothered to see the damn movie. I'm afraid that True Blood has turned me off of anything related to vampires from here until the end of time.
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ChillbearLatrigue
08/04/09

@The Cajun Boy: I think I may be the only person that I know that isn't completely disgusted with season two of True Blood. The reason that I haven't seen Twilight is because I'm an adult. I'm sure that may have factored into your decision as well.
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sloe-eyed
08/04/09

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yes, "Breaking Down" is how i feel whenever i see a pic of the sparkly vampire's smarmy mug.
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Dally
08/04/09

@sloe-eyed: I haven't read or seen Twilight ... why are they sparkly? Glitter glue accident?
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kr4ck3rj4ck
08/04/09

@Dally: they sparkle like diamonds when sunlight hits them, unlike vampires of way back who blow up in smoke and turn to dust.. that's one corny twist to vampires that the author thought of..
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DahlELama
08/04/09

@kr4ck3rj4ck: Ohhh...so many more of Richard's captions make sense now. Thank you! Also, that's kind of dumb, no?
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