User blog comment:Babyjabba/Anne Rice Disses Twilight/@comment-50.75.155.208-20111101173706

Honestly, I don't know that Stephenie Meyer would disagree with Anne Rice all that much. I mean, I'm not a huge Twilight fan, but I don't think Stephenie ever claimed her book series to be anything except youth fiction. I wouldn't go so far as to call it a failure of the imagination though. Stephenie simply tried to write something that younger people could closer identify with. And with all due respect to Anne Rice (who I do like, by the way), to say Twilight is based on a silly premise? That's the pot calling the kettle black IMO. The whole idea of vampires - of immortals who never die and live off the blood of others - is a silly premise. Jesus was the son of God and even he didn't live forever. Bram Stoker started the vampire fiction and writers have been coming up with different variations of it ever since. Personally I like seeing the different writers and their take on vampires. If everybody wrote about vampires in the same exact manner than Anne Rice did, it would get a tad boring.