Sparkly vampires read Bronte

Friday, September 4, 2009

I haven't read any of the Twilight books or seen the movie, nor do I desire to do so. But I do find the rabid fandom surrounding Stephanie Meyer's chaste and sparkly vampire stories amusing, and today there are two bits of Twilight news I can't resist passing along.

First, there's the announcement that a Twilight MMORPG is on the way. Now the fans of the books can go online and, er, pretend to not have sex with each other.

Next, there's the news that HarperCollins is putting out a Twilight-branded edition of Wuthering Heights, with a note on the cover proclaiming that it's "Bella & Edward's Favorite Book!" I'm sure that if Emily Bronte was alive today, she would say, "What are all these horrible machines, racing past me in the streets? What are those great metal birds, soaring through the sky above? Who are these strange people, the men dressed in tatters and the women dressed like the lowest of strumpets? All about is noise and tumult, and the air is heavy and rank. Dear Lord, am I in hell?!" Then maybe she'd see her Twilight-branded book for sale in a Borders window, and she'd say, "Who the crap are Bella and Edward, and what are they doing on the cover of my book?!"

Then she'd probably stagger out into the street and get run down by some jerk in an SUV.

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1 comments:

Diana Laurence September 4, 2009 at 9:53 AM  

Greg, you totally crack me up. "It's "Bella & Edward's Favorite Book!" I bet Emily would not have a good grasp of cross-selling, all right. In the same vein, I'm wondering what Bram Stoker would think if he stumbled upon a copy of my book on vampire dating, "How to Catch and Keep a Vampire." I'd love to be a fly on the bookshelf when that happened!

--Diana Laurence (www.howtocatchandkeepavampire.com)

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