I’ve mentioned a few times now about Those Books, and how I obsessively read the entire series at the start of the year. To say I was addicted wouldn’t be that much of an overstatment, really. I devoured them like hot cookies, I even read them whilst in the passenger seat of a car – knowing full well that I’d get travel sick and spend the next hour or so with a nausating headmash. I am, of course, talking about the much hyped Twilight Saga.

The thing is… they’re spectacularly badly written. Now, I don’t profess to know how to write – but I do know how to read. Not to knock Stephenie Meyer, she came up with a really addictive story and must have made millions of dollars in doing so, but some of the stuff in there is just.. meh! Much of the ‘bad writing’ could have (and should have?) been picked up and corrected by an editor. Jesus, they could have just changed a few Chagrin’s around, at least!

It’s interesting to note just how many of my intelligent peers, those who read religiously, and I mean… good stuff, have become completely and utterly obsessed with these books. Many of them, like me, taking just a day or two to read each book and developing insomnical type tendancies just to see what that Edward could possibly do next in his constant internal battle between love and evil – Woe is he. Seriously, though, stop being the freakin’ anti-hero already… everyone knows Vampires are the shit.

Can anyone think of other atrociously written trash that is just unbelievably addictive? I can think of several TV shows that bring on that familiar ‘fuck… this-is-shit-but-I’m-so-addicted’ feeling (erm… yeah, I own Newlyweds on DVD… and I’m totally not ashamed to admit it).

Just what the hell is it about these books?