New Moon - Stephenie Meyer

Most irritating protagonists ever. Persistantly, self deprecating, vacuous, idiocy nauseatingly obsessed with pompous, zealous, self rightousness.

It is part of the author's job to evoke an emotional response in the reader, but I think exasperation is probably not what Stephenie Meyer was going for.

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Twilight - Stephenie Meyer

Teen, Vampire, Romance. No way I am in that demographic. Well, maybe just a little bit.

With a hint of my own personal favorite, the argument from personal incredulity:

Well, where did you come from? Evolution? Creation? Couldn�t we have evolved in the same way as other species, predator and prey? Or, if you don�t believe all this world could have just happened on its own, which is hard for me to accept myself, is it so hard to believe that the same force that created the delicate angelfish with the shark, the baby seal and the killer whale, could create both our kinds together?

Pretty much where this argument belongs, in a book about Vampires.

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The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins

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Coraline - Neil Gaiman (Audio Book)

Oh my twitchy witchy girl, I think you are so nice, I give you bowls of porridge, and I give you bowls of ice cream, I give you lots of kisses, and I give you lots of hugs, but I never give you sandwiches with bugs, in.

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The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger (Audio Book)

I wrote and deleted a few sentences of adulation for this book. I deleted it because I found myself sounding like Holden Caulfield or just being phoney as hell. So here is a quote I found in my diary from 1993:

I like to be somewhere at least where you can see a few girls around once in a while, even if they're only scratching their arms or blowing their noses or even just giggling or something.

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