Twilight's vampires aren't real-life
February 11th 2010 05:39
Stephenie Meyer
Emmet Spain, a 29-year-old Australian who has just successfully negotiated the obstacle course which leads to the publication of a first novel, may have ended, once and for all, the raging debate about the legitimacy of Twilight.
For those who have been on an extended break touring Ursa Major, Twilight is a publishing phenomenon built around a Stephenie Meyer novel about love between a teenage girl and a teenage, you know, vampire. They really like each other, which means he is torn between the desire to kiss her neck and, you know, sink his teeth into it.
Some people have suggested that this stretches the boundaries of the accepted vampire behavioural paradigm, while others have said who cares they’re not real. Are they?
Emmet Spain is of the boundary stretching persuasion, and calls the supporters of the Twilight version of things “puppy dog vampires”.
``Essentially vampires don't need love. They feed on life and they're brutal creatures,'' he said, a truism which surely puts a cross into the hearts of Twilight fans.
If you want real vampires, Spain provides them in his novel, Old Haunts.
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Comment by Dianna G
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I think that there should be a middle ground when it comes to vampires. They definitely don't NEED love, they need blood, but I think that they should be CAPABLE of love just like any other character in a book.
~Dianna
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Stephenie Meyer would agree with you
I think it's a fun debate, but I think it's an irrelevant one if looked at in the broader light of fiction writing. As a writer yourself, I'm sure you agree that fiction must have a free voice.
So if someone wants to create a vampire who gets warm and fuzzy, go for it. Especially if, as a consequence, you create a publishing success story.
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Very true. I mean, most fiction writers-especially fantasy and SF writers-are drawn to fiction because of the freedom they have with their stories.
Well, hopefully we won't start getting fuzzy vampires. Sparkling is bad enough. I may think vampires are allowed to love, but I really don't know about that sparkling thing.
~Dianna
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This is the beauty of fiction. A writer can create anything and nobody can argue against it.
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I think you've summed it up well. Meyer has created something appealing.
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I like the notion of "real vampires".
For me, the Twilight vampires are watered-down versions for the faint-hearted. I love a good vampire story so I read Twilight and was massively disappointed. It lacks bite (nice pun, eh?), if you ask me. I'm obviously in the minority here, though.
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I like the notion of "real vampires" too. But I also like the motion of freedom of writing.
Perhaps most important of all, however, I like the idea of knowing something about which I speak, and I haven't read Twilight. I applaud you for doing so.
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So we can categorise you as a teeth rather than a teen man?
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Well said. We should print your comment and distribute it to every aspiring novelist