by Pink-Explosion » Tue Nov 11, 2008 6:52 pm
Huh. Not sure if this really belongs here, but 'ere it goes anyway!
I was recently (We're talkin' less than an hour) messeged by someone on a text-based game I play. I suppose he saw it fit to discuss the books with me, once he had seen my ad posted for the TwilightMUSH Game. Here's the log:
(For those who don't know, text-based games like this one use a private paging system. when it says 'you page <so and so>' then it means that I paged him back.)
Packard (Pack) pages: WOW! I live about 30 mins away from LaPush RL
You paged Packard with 'ROTFL.'
You paged Packard with 'Nice.'
You paged Packard with 'Have you read the books? Or no..?'
Packard (Pack) pages: Heh ... not only have I read the Twilight series but I knew the people the original story was based off of.
You paged Packard with 'Uh.'
You paged Packard with 'So you knew Stephanie Meyer, or something?'
Packard (Pack) pages: They have been airing stories on the books for Months ... and no ... SM had nothing to do with what REALLY hapened ... just like the stories that inspired the Blair Witch Project had little that resembled the actual movie ... contrary to assertions otherwise there was a 'GOTHIC like' Romance that inspired this original story but it had nothing to do with Vampires
You paged Packard with 'Alrighty, then... :V'
You paged Packard with 'Why does she not mention anything on her site, or on wiki?'
Packard (Pack) pages: Would you? Thom Clancy doesn't cite his sources so he doesn't have to pay them (and to keep them out of trouble)
Packard (Pack) pages: And if you change a story enough it becomes 'original' ... for example: the original story happened in Greys Harbor not Forks ...
Packard (Pack) pages: It's hard to explain if you don't understand tha basic concept ... simply put: art imitates life and life imitates art.
You paged Packard with 'I get it.'
Packard (Pack) pages: SM didn't do anything that EVERY other writer hasn't done too ... there was a book signing recently that I missed ... it had the majority of the cast and I think SM too ...
And then I stopped responding, because I really don't believe him at all.
I was just wondering if anyone has any idea if he's right, or wrong? I know it's a long shot that anyone will, but I figured I'd try and stimulate some conversation.
*** To the administrators, feel free to move this if it doesn't fit in this board. I wasn't sure.***
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