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This is the new thread as the other was sooo long and had lots of pages. Continuation of our wonderful discussions on Twilight Fanfiction, Books, and Life in general.  But mostly Twilight fanfics... and life stuff that will get me a NOT ALLOWED statement. 

Okay, here is a place to discuss what you are reading, ask for recommendations and complain about the writing.

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Um, maybe because when you are 16/17 having 2 hot guys fighting over you is cool. But you can't actually think it's cool if you are the character.  But it's definitely cool to dream about it happening to you. 

My question is, how long can these guys play unaging vampires?  Considering most of these guys playing teens are in their 20's to start with. 

I tried watching it when it first started but couldn't get into it.

Ian Somerhalder is 35, Paul Wesley is 32, Steve R. McQueen is 26, Nina Dobrex is 25, so eh....

They actually (Stefan and Damon) were turned during the Civil War (which is why they were so much better at history than their high school history professor.  I'm not sure what age they were supposedly when they were turned - Stefan had a ring which kept him from some of his vampire tendencies - like drinking blood.   The two of them lived with a human cousin/uncle who was supposed to be their guardian even tho they were both at least 100 years older than he was.  Damon had a temper tantrum and killed him which did a number on their backup story. 

I watched, I think, the whole first season of the VD show, but never watched any more. It wasn't a bad show, it just seemed to never evolve past the initial love triangle.

I tried to read the books after watching the show, but eh, GOD, Elena was awful in the books, so I never read past the first one. She was TOTALLY different in the books than the show, mean and selfish and snobbish and "I'll get what I want, whatever the cost", so I really had no initiative to read any more.

I heard about though, she's just weepy and blah in the show so I'm not sure it's any improvement.

See I read the books ( actual books) back when Adam was a boy, in the 90s. I re-read the first one when they decided to adapt them; the two were so completely different I didn't bother to continue watching the series. But I'm pretty sure that as mean as Elena might have been in the books she wasn't a ho' that slept with her boyfriend's brother, was she? Or did I blank that bit out?

Like I said, I only read the first book, so I have no clue. I do know that the publisher took the books away from the original author, LJ Smith, after the show started, because they wanted her to skew the books the way the fans seemed to be liking things, and she refused. I think Elena was swinging around to Damon in the books, and the publisher didn't like that, and this was one of those publisher owned series, not the authors' original creation.

Like I said, I only read the first book, so I have no clue. I do know that the publisher took the books away from the original author, LJ Smith, after the show started, because they wanted her to skew the books the way the fans seemed to be liking things, and she refused. I think Elena was swinging around to Damon in the books, and the publisher didn't like that, and this was one of those publisher owned series, not the authors' original creation.

Nah, I'm pretty sure in the books Damon ended up with Bonnie (though saying that I've only read the books written by the original author, its crazy what the publishers did to her!)...But I can't be 100%, I'm not even sure where those books are now! They're long gone....

Its frightening how much I do remember - or think I remember from the Vampire Diaries tv show (it probably didn't help that Fox kept showing repeats of the lst and 2nd seasons ad nauseum).  Bonnie was the witch?  I do know the scene that scared the hell out of me was when Damon was in bed with I think Carolyn and he turned on her into his vampire self and turned her.   Talk about traumatizing a viewer.  Totally unexpected.

Just watched the first episode of Outlander on Starz.  It's made a good beginning.

Interesting question demaris - if they're identical - who cares which one Bella ends up with.  If it/he walks like a duck, talks like a duck and thinks like a duck - its still a duck or in this case Edward under another name but the same face and dna.  Its a crapshoot whether its a hea.