暮光之城
Twilight
Stephenie Meyer · 初版 2005 年
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为什么值得读
- 曾是图书馆借阅与大众市场极度火爆的热门读物
- 作为流行文化样本可供探讨读者审美与大众喜好
有三件事我是绝对确定的。第一，Edward 是一只吸血鬼。第二，他身体里的一部分——我不知道那部分究竟有多强大——渴望着我的鲜血。第三，我无可救药、毫无保留地爱上了他。当 Isabella Swan 搬到阴郁的 Forks 小镇，遇到神秘而诱人的 Edward Cullen 时，她的生活迎来了惊心动魄而又令人战栗的转变。凭借瓷白的皮肤、金色的眼眸、迷人的嗓音和超自然的异能，Edward 既令人无法抗拒，又让人捉摸不透。直到现在，他一直成功地隐藏着自己的真实身份，但
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……有多特别，但归根结底你只是在给复杂的事物强加武断的评价，最终还是得让大家自己决定喜欢什么。我最过不去的一道坎就是《暮光之城》（Twilight）。史上最烂的书，我使劲浑身解数也写不出这么烂的玩意儿。所以我以前总对自己说，我讨厌那些人是因为他们被现代文化洗脑了，现代文化告诉他们喜欢《暮光之城》没毛病。……
…something is or how unique it is, but eventually you're just assigning arbitrary values to complex things, and you're forced to let people decide what they like on their own. My big sticking point was Twilight. Shittiest book ever. I couldn't write that bad if I tried. So I used to tell myself that I disliked people because they were brainwashed by the modern culture that told them it was okay to like Twilight.…
……好书并勤加练习写作对于成为一名优秀的作家至关重要，但我们在写作能力培养上正处于前所未有的糟糕时代。普通人从小读的书——如果他们真读书的话——也就是《哈利·波特》、《暮光之城》之类，整天被脑残广告淹没，浸泡在极度劣质的社交媒体帖子里，等等。普通人写得最多的东西就是工作邮件。反观比如赫尔曼·梅尔维尔（Herman Melville），他成长在……
…great books and practicing writing is critical to becoming a great writer, we've never been in worse time for writing development. The average person grows up reading--if they read at all--Harry Potter, Twilight, etc., being inundated with inane advertising, steeped in piss-poor social media posts, etc. The most writing the average person does is work email. Contrast that to, e.g., Herman Melville, who grew…
……全州的图书系统越来越萎缩，至于馆际互借，嗯，以前挺好的，但他们现在正大批清理书籍（我说的可不是第39本曾经抢手如今落灰的《暮光之城》），那些书以前在我去过的绝大多数分馆里都能找到。许多高校图书馆正在玩一场红心大战（Hearts）。赢红心大战只有两种办法，第一种包括……
…the statewide system is getting thinner and thinner, and inter-library loan beyond that, well, it used to be great, but they're shoveling out books (and I'm not talking about that thirty-ninth copy of Twilight which was once in hot demand but isn't any longer) that were once in most branches I visited. Many academic libraries are playing a game of Hearts. There's only two ways to win Hearts. The first involves…
性如果在书里用得好，是个很有用的工具。接吻也是同理，而《暮光之城》却把它用作令人作呕的软色情手段。但这两种手法往往都被滥用了。（《暮光之城》给出了一个既重要又令人悲哀的教训，那就是：如果你给了人们他们自以为想要的东西，……
Sex is a useful tool in a book if it's used well. Same thing with kissing, which Twilight uses for its disgusting soft pornography. But both are misused more often than not. (Twilight teaches an important and saddening lesson, namely: if you give people exactly what they think they want,…
……读《阿特拉斯耸耸肩》（Atlas Shrugged）。当约翰·高尔特（John Galt）开始演讲时，直接跳到下一章。恭喜你，你现在掌握了跳过书中那些极其枯燥乏味段落的技能。2. 开始读《暮光之城》。当继续读下去感觉像受刑时，停下来。把剩下的部分拿去当烤肉炉的引火纸。你现在掌握了发现自己不喜欢的书就果断弃读的技能。带着这些未读完的……
…reading Atlas Shrugged. When John Galt starts making his speech, skip to the next chapter. You have now gained the ability to skip pieces of a book that are really, incredibly tedious. 2. Start reading Twilight. When it starts feeling like torture to continue, stop. Use the rest as fire starters for your grill. You have gained the ability to not read books you discover that you don't like. Take those unfinished…
这两点可能都成立。需要澄清的是，我所说的“质量”，并不仅限于狭义上遵循写作老师说的那套条条框框。《哈利·波特》和《暮光之城》之所以大火，是因为它们具备某种内在特质——在我看来，可能跟世界观构建（world building）以及某种难以言表的阅读体验有关。这两本书都有其“缺陷”……
It's possible that both of these are true. To be clear, when I say quality, I don't just mean this in the narrow sense of following the rules that writing teachers say you should. Harry Potter and Twilight both became popular because of some essence that they had---in my opinion, probably related to the world building and a certain difficult-to-describe experience of reading. Both of those books had "flaws"…