According to Stephen, “Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people… The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.”
** Gotta LOVE some good shit talking!! **
While Stephen may not be a fan of Stephenie’s writing, he understands the appeal of the series.
“People are attracted by the stories, by the pace, and in the case of Stephenie Meyer, it’s very clear that she’s writing to a whole generation of girls and opening up kind of a safe joining of love and sex in those books. It’s exciting and it’s thrilling and it’s not particularly threatening because it’s not overtly sexual.”
** I was just talking about this subject with my boss the other day. I was saying how there is sex in the book but only in some obscure very non-specific way. I attributed it to Meyer being a Mormon, but maybe she's just a prude. If you expect kids to deal with vampires and death why not just throw sex at them too? **
