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I think there's a huge freaking leap between Twilight and Monte Cristo or the Scarlet Letter, really. And honestly, I don't think Twilight is only barely encouraging anything that can be called "literacy."

I would rather encourage my daughter to read that book and further her reading from there through recommendations than to have her completely disregard reading, which is what many teenaged girls are doing.

But that makes it sound like it's so either-or. There's so many good, accessible books out there for teenage girls. Dealing With Dragons springs to mind. Bruce Coville's The Unicorn Chronicles, as well. Well, any of his stuff, but that one would probably appeal more to girls. And his stuff starts from age five and goes up to...well, I'm 23, and still reading his stuff. There is so so so much out there for teenage girls to read, from romance to fantasy to goofy little "what it's like to be a teen" books that there is No Good Reason why this piece of dreck should be the one (and often only) that they read.

Forget the relationships, I'm just talking about the friggen writing. Because then they come away thinking that that kind of writing is good.

asdnjsakdn THE WRITING! D< Seriously- Meyer is an English major and the way she writes in those books makes my inner grammer nut go crazy.

If we're talking about teenaged girls, it very much is a case of either-or. Girls don't really want to listen to their parents' suggestions at that age; they're much more keen on their peers. And who are their peers most likely going to be reading? Stephanie Meyer.

I know that I personally abhor fantasy, so the books that you've mentioned really wouldn't appeal to any teenaged girl like myself. XD

It doesn't have to be a case of that, though. That's what I'm saying. Why are their peers reading that? If the good teenage-girl books got pushed instead of the lame ones, then their peers would be reading those, and they'd be reading those, etc.

Fine, you hate fantasy (which doesn't explain why you'd be reading Twilight; vampires and sparkles and all). So there's BabySitters Club, Angus Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging, The Princess Diaries, that Pretties/Uglies series, Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants, Chix with Stix, etc.
And that's just the stuff geared particularly at the girls. There's the entire section of Young Adult stuff in Barnes and Noble. For pity's sake, there's even manga, if we must go that far.

It is not a fricken case of either-or. It's a case of some crap bit of vampired-up, teenaged-down harlequinn romance without the pedegree suddenly being the next big thing pushed at girls by the media, which doesn't encourage them to read--it encourages them to stay stupid.

You're not getting in the teenager's mindset. They can break into all the other books you mentioned above once they actually start reading. The problem is that many kids don't read and have no interest in reading to begin with. They need a spark to get them into it, and Twilight is that spark.

which doesn't explain why you'd be reading Twilight; vampires and sparkles and all

I... haven't read Twilight, and I have no intention to, for the reasons stated above. I haven't read Harry Potter either, if it makes you feel better. Come to think of it, I haven't read any of those you mentioned--I grew up on James Harriot, Steven King, Louis Lamour (or whatever his name was), and now I'm quite happy with reading manga.

DEALING WITH DRAGONS! Someone remembers those books! I had to be coaxed into reading those as a kid (although I was a bookworm) because I went, WTF, female lead? I'm not reading a bunch of fantasy books about some girl. And they were great.

And Bruce Coville is FTW, obviously. Any geeky kid should LOVE the A.I. gang series. The, "My Teacher is an Alien," series is classic... And I can practically recite the, "Space Brat," books from memory.

There's tons of better choices out there. Nobody needs to depend on sparkling vampires.

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