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I don't know, I the Fountainhead still affected me greatly in my late twenties. Ben Franklin's Autobiography was rather powerful in my mid thirties.
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quote:Ben Franklin's Autobiography was rather powerful in my mid thirties.
Ditto.
In my 30s, interestingly, Bujold's Vorkosigan saga has had quite an impact about how I think about certain things.
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I think much of the argument in this thread presupposes a work of fiction must meet some criteria for being "great" to have an impact on a person, and that's certainly not true.
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quote:Originally posted by SteveRogers: I think much of the argument in this thread presupposes a work of fiction must meet some criteria for being "great" to have an impact on a person, and that's certainly not true.
Twilight changed my life!
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And conversely I would certainly not use that as a basis to lay accusations of "greatness" against a book which I think most of us can agree is much closer to criminal.
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quote:Originally posted by Aros: I don't know, I the Fountainhead still affected me greatly in my late twenties. Ben Franklin's Autobiography was rather powerful in my mid thirties.
quote:Originally posted by SteveRogers: And conversely I would certainly not use that as a basis to lay accusations of "greatness" against a book which I think most of us can agree is much closer to criminal.
As much as I dislike the Twilight books, I feel pretty comfortable in saying that Twilight is closer to being a great book than to being criminal.
It is, at the very least, a book. And it has non-zero merit.
But the writing and publishing of it broke no laws that do or should exist. It is not criminal in the slightest.
It deserves more credit than it gets for being a legit vampire story. I find it unbelievable that people criticize the kinkiness of it: Edward's a 100 year old man hitting on a teenager, etc. It's a vampire story, vampire stories are supposed to sexually inappropriate.
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Foust: It's more that Twilight is sort of billed as a wholesome Mormon-safe vampire story with no premarital sex and a loving relationship.
And then it still has stuff like a 100 year old man breaking into a teenager's room to watch her sleep, and then getting into a horrifically codependent relationship with her.
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quote:Foust: It's more that Twilight is sort of billed as a wholesome Mormon-safe vampire story with no premarital sex and a loving relationship.
And then it still has stuff like a 100 year old man breaking into a teenager's room to watch her sleep, and then getting into a horrifically codependent relationship with her.
That disconnect between the marketing of the book and the actual book itself exists, and it is hilarious.
But yeah, the book does present itself as a wholesome love story. The fact that it is actually a skin-crawlingly creepy story makes the book more interesting, not less.
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