The Next Jane Austen?

You know that song that you liked at first but then it became #1 on iTunes and they started to play it on every radio station after every other song so you started to hate it? You know how there's virtually no way to get away from it so you just have to withstand two to three minutes of hearing the same annoying words that you literally never want to hear sung to that tune again? Yeah, that is exactly what I feel like every single time I hear the words "Twilight," and "Stephenie Meyer."

I came across an article in Time magazine a few months back that said, "Forget the next JK Rowling, Edward Cullen is the next Mr. Darcy of the world of literature." So, is Stephenie Meyer the next Jane Austen? I think not.

First of all, this movie coming out November 21st is going to demolish that book like we have never seen done before. Forget how pathetic those Harry Potter movies are. But, not to worry because Stephenie obviously knew that her books were going to be ruined and she didn't want to miss out on all of the fun so she went ahead and published one of the worst books I have ever read in my life. I had never thought that the best way to slaughter a character who becomes more and more annoying in every book is to make them get pregnant with a man eating child.

Second of all, there's no such things as bad publicity? I don't know about that. Teenage girls have become so obsessed about Edward Cullen and the rest of the Twilight crew that it's nearly impossible not to know what the books are about. But, most intelligent people are wise enough to stay clear of a book that seems to have more screaming in the reviews than anything good to say. It has gotten so out of hand that the word "Twilight" makes more people in this country cringe than shriek with glee.

Thirdly, Twilight will not become a classic novel that will be read and taught to young adults for years to come. A classic novel takes many things, most of which are not in this so called "Saga." It has to be timeless which it is not due to the vast expanse of car names jotted deep into the sentences. In 100 years, future Americans will not want to hear about a brand new, yellow Turbo Porsche.

Also, I'm not so sure Stephenie Meyer knows exactly who her audience is. One of the very first things you do when writing any sort of text is know who your audience is. This is something they teach you in 5th grade English class. Really. So, as we have all seen and heard, Twilight is clearly a book for teenaged girls. New Moon and Eclipse are also mostly for teens. But, Breaking Dawn is not. And you cannot change your audience on a book that is a sequel. You can't! It's just really not good. And personally, I do not think it is a good idea to write a book for teenage girls about a character who has a baby and loves this baby more than almost anything else in the world. This book was also hightly predictable and extremely anticlimatic.

In esscence, I think we can all agree that Stephenie Meyer is not the next Jane Austen. Not even close. Not even a little. Not at all.