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[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Now come on, if you stick to reading it out of principle it sorta turns into X-Men and that's ok with me.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

When I watched the movie, I turned every line spoken by a vampire into a pickup line and it became fun again, but you shouldn't have to play games like that with your literature. Or cinema.

The whole "imprinting on a baby" thing I heard about, that really skeezed me out

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But that baby is named with a portmanteau of the grandma names! It's so carefully thought out! /s

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

it's very illustrative of the culture the author comes from.

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I worked at borders when the last book in the 4 part series came out. Manager told me to read it. So I speed read the first two

The only part I liked was the use of blank chapters to represent the passage of time during depression

The rest was so dullllll

I don't know if xmen in the 4th book would have saved me