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When a person says that God inspired them or told them something the first question that should come to your mind is which God? The God of the Bible? Don’t think so as it contradicts many of the ways and teachings that that God revealed through others. Perhaps it is the God of this world, Satan? He is a good candidate since he likes to contradict the God of the Bible. And then there is the God of Islam, and the gods of hindu and the gods of shinto and so on and so on. And there are religions that say you are a God so then this is just a book about the author expressing his own opinion and since he makes some claims that are scientifically false, perhaps this is the God he is really talking to.

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Excellent! I’ve tried all kinds of tools! This has finally eliminated the tumbleweeds of dog hair in my house. Works on my shepard mix, husky mix, and lab/great dane mix.

I’m serious. I got fed up reading the book, took a few days off, and then when I finally got up the nerve to slog through the rest, I tried to look it up on my computer for a good HALF HOUR because it sounded like something a fourteen-year-old had posted on [...].

Then I remembered that it was a “real” book. Whoops.

I read this travesty because I work at a high school and I teach writing. And a (very) small part of me is glad that I did read it… because now I know why there are so many abysmal examples of “love stories” out there.

The biggest problem with Meyer’s book? The characters have no personalities. There is no reason to care about them. The narrator is someone who complains about everything–even when people are *nice* to her–and her only achievement in 500 pages is that she catches the eye of some super-hot boy. Edward is described as being so perfect you can’t even remotely identify with him, and all he does is whine about his tortured psyche and tell Bella what to do. As a couple, they do nothing but awkwardly snark at each other and provide examples of horrendous communication skills… not exactly the paradigm of relationships that I’d want to expose to teenagers.

Besides that… there’s really no plot. Like, none. And the writing is painfully amaturish. A brief summary/example: Bella moves. Bella hates moving. Bella goes to school. Bella sees Edward. Bella is inexplicably attracted to Edward. Bella and Edward creepily stalk and obsess over each other. Around page 400, some random vampire decides to come after Bella after an awkward and contrived confrontation, thereby creating a reason for “drama.”

In summary, I failed to see anything even a little romantic about these two sorry excuses for individuals, and it honestly frightens me that so many young people think this is an example of what a loving relationship is supposed to look like. Kids, your boyfriend should not ignore your opinions or physically drag you around against your will or sneak