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I really dont want this to be a rant, i'd like any of you to discuss your feelings on it!
If any of you are passionate about leisurely reading, or reading at all.


I hate when people are like "(Insert book) is such s**t! I read it then burned it, because i'm a hardcore douche with my knickers up my a**!"

No matter what book it is, I'm going to be angry and want to slap them.
People in US, Canada, UK, etc. are so spoiled when it comes to wanting a book and getting a book. In the US we have tons of bookstore, and paperbacks are as little as $8

I saw a special on China, where a girl saved her money for 6 months to buy a paperback Harry Potter book, it broke my heart. I also saw a girl who worked in a shampoo factory, and her only means of having something to read was reading the labels they printed on shampoo bottles. (Cant recall her country at this moment)

I dont see why people dont just donate unwanted books to charity, instead of being so careless and selfish to BURN it. Ugh... confused

you've actually met people who've burnt books? Most people I've met are too apathetic to even think of that.

...For me I think it depends on the book.. any book that has been published in anyway (electronic or printed) shouldn't be destroyed... my journals from when I was a kid... Those puppies can BURN.

I don't know why anyone would even burn a book o_0 I'm not a reader at the very least, but I figure that you probably shouldn't buy a book if you don't like it (there are libraries anyways so you don't need to buy books usually). Furthermore, burning books is bad for the ozone... gonk

My mother and I are both readers, and we hate books being burned, no matter how crappy the book may be to us. xD (We actually discussed this a couple of days ago. Lol.)
Dad likes to pick at us and threaten to burn our books. We give him a deathglare.

That is what made me make this, burning Twilight.
And I dont see how any of the books are "abusive" He never raises a hand to Bella (I've read them all) Also Bella is based off a Mary-Sue, shes not "submissive' She is just a why, goody-girl. But she begins to grow out of that in book 3.

He does get weird when she hangs out with the Werewolf bloke, Jakob, because shes a harlot rofl But he still lets her see him -.- If it's a "controlling" aspect you mean by abuse.

In book 2, he saved her form an insane vampire. He was actually out of hte country the whole book, which is why she got close to Jakob. And at the end she got in a battle with a enemy vampire type, and in the nick of time, Edward came and saved her. Awww moments exchanged and all was forgiven.

Also, in book 1-3, Bella wants to be turned into one of them but Edward seriously wants what is best for her and tells her he cant do it. And he wont allow anyone else to to do it either.

I am only going into all this, because i dont get why people say he's abusive, manopulative, and it seems these are adjectives people use quite havily when they havent even read the book. Let alone, the series.

Its not the best series ever, but I read them, and I dont see what all the commotion is about, good and bad commotion.

Are you kidding? How could you NOT see it? There's more to abuse than just beating someone to a pulp. There's also sexual abuse and emotional abuse.

This can expain it better than I ever could.

If it is what inspired you to start this discussion, then you should have figured it would have come up sooner or later.

Why start a discussion if you refuse to discuss things with those who disagree with you? That's not discussion. That's just patting yourself on the back.