Oh right, as if this 12-year-old girl hasn’t read every Twilight book cover-to-cover 6 times…

Cidu Bill on Feb 7th 2010

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21 Responses to “Oh right, as if this 12-year-old girl hasn’t read every Twilight book cover-to-cover 6 times…”

  1. Keera Feb 7th 2010 at 04:30 pm 1

    Wait, she’s only 12 and finished reading all the HP books three years ago? I’d say she gave her best months. Those stories are not for little kids.

  2. PeterW Feb 7th 2010 at 04:41 pm 2

    The first three and a half are.

  3. Kimra Feb 7th 2010 at 05:15 pm 3

    No see, she’s saying read a book. So clearly Twilight doesn’t come into the equation.

    (personal opinion)

  4. Chuck Feb 7th 2010 at 08:40 pm 4

    My sister is 12 and she would never touch Twilight.

  5. Dave in Boston Feb 7th 2010 at 08:55 pm 5

    If she doesn’t want to have to deal with her series running out, she can always read Nancy Drew.

  6. Nicole Feb 7th 2010 at 09:48 pm 6

    Or … Sally could point out there there are actually books that are not part of a series … hard to believe but true

  7. Cornbread Feb 7th 2010 at 10:36 pm 7

    From what I’ve heard, Twilight is meager pickings for someone who’s used to Harry Potter -caliber books. Also it’s quite obvious that the kid’s just making up excuses, and the mother sees right through that.

  8. Chuck Feb 7th 2010 at 11:46 pm 8

    Nicole, you can still get your hear broken by finishing a book. It doesn’t have to be part of a series. I was so sad when I finished reading The Dead Zone.

  9. Judge Mental Feb 7th 2010 at 11:49 pm 9

    FWIW, Hillary doesn’t say that *she* necessarily finished all the Harry Potter books 3 years ago, merely that they books themselves “wrapped up” three years ago (the last one was published in July 2007). While it is implied that she has read all of them, it is entirely possible that she didn’t even start reading them until well after the last one was written.

  10. Dave in Boston Feb 8th 2010 at 01:57 am 10

    Nicole: for most purposes standalone books are equivalent to series of length 1.

  11. DemetriosX Feb 8th 2010 at 05:36 am 11

    Also, I believe Hilary is 10, not 12. That makes her a lot less likely to be interested in Twilight. As does her relative intelligence.

  12. hm Feb 8th 2010 at 09:55 am 12

    my 11 year old finished all the HP books 2 years ago (we started out reading them together so I could make sure they were okay, but I couldn’t keep up with her), and is not at all interested in Twilight. Percy Jackson and the Olympians is another matter entirely, I believe I have been told about 93 times that the first movie is coming out THIS FRIDAY, MOM!

  13. Ted in Fort Lauderdale Feb 8th 2010 at 12:18 pm 13

    DemetriosX - sometime in (I believe) December, Hillary and Faye were making snowmen and referred to themselves as 12-year-olds…

  14. Mark in Boston Feb 8th 2010 at 05:49 pm 14

    Well, I suppose she could read “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” by Charles Dickens, or any other unfinished novel.

  15. Nicole Feb 8th 2010 at 08:03 pm 15

    Chuck #8 & Dave in Boston #10

    You are both of course right. The end of a standalone book can be just as devastating as the end of a series. Perhaps even more

    I stand corrected

  16. Jeff S. Feb 8th 2010 at 11:53 pm 16

    My daughter is 12 and HATES the Twilight series. I don’t think she got past the first one, even though we own them all. We saw the first movie, but she never once asked to see the second one. In fact, she turned down an opportunity to see it when offered.

    Now, she hasn’t completed the HP series yet, only because we don’t own book 6. We DID stand in line until midnight to get the last book though. She doesn’t want to crack it until she reads #6, and in a small part because she doesn’t want it to end.

  17. Slager Feb 8th 2010 at 11:59 pm 17

    Love of Harry Potter does not equal love of Twilight! That’s fo’ sho’!

  18. Cidu Bill Feb 9th 2010 at 08:33 am 18

    Slager, the corolation I was making was not between Harry Potter and Twilight, but rather between 12-year-old girls and Twilight. And of course not all 12-year-old girls are Twilight fanatics — but I’d guess Hillary would be, especially if she doesn’t read enough to know good books from bad.

  19. Vicky Feb 9th 2010 at 10:50 pm 19

    Funny that you should metnion twilight here ’cause she’s talking about stuff present in the books- if that had been the title of this strip, then it would have looked like the author would have been poking fun at twilight

    I wasnt obsessed with twilight when i was 12, or even read it then..but she probably did

  20. Daniel J. Drazen Feb 11th 2010 at 11:33 am 20

    Why does she think that Potter is over just because Rowling wrapped up the series? There are something like a quarter million Potter fanfics at sites like Fiction-Alley and fanfiction.net. If she still wants to live the vida Hogwarts she should start making up her own stories. Kids these days….

  21. mkilby Feb 12th 2010 at 12:35 pm 21

    Rowling didn’t just end the series, she carefully added a coda at the end of the last book, showing that Harry enjoyed a trouble-free life for decades after the end of the last story. It was an ingenious strategic move: fanfic is impossible to repress, but now none of the HP-fanfic can claim to belong to the official “canon” if it tries to ressurrect the Harry vs. Voldemort conflict.

    That said, I gave up on Rowling entirely after book four. I didn’t mind her arbitrariness as long as HP remained relatively care-free children’s fare (as PeterW said in (2), that lasted to the middle of book four), but when the books started being arbitrarily manipulative, I quit.

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