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bendaimmortal said:
The Vampire Chronicles.
The narrating in The Vampire Chronicles is exceptionally beautiful and colourful, while in Twilight, it's rather fanfiction typish and avarage.
The Vampire Chronicles have (an) original and interesting main storyline(s) plus many, many interesting and colourful storylines on the side. Such the story of Louis and Claudia, then Lestat becoming a rock star for the fun of breaking the rules as extremely as possible and happens to wake the vampire queen. And as for the "side storylines", more or less side those of as in fact these are the very bases to the other ones; Lestat's entire mortal life, his and Nicolas's story, the story of the Twins, Marius's story... There's so MUCH and indepth in the Chronicles and it all links together in one way or another.
While in Twilight, there's pretty much only one storyline or at least the rest of them revolve around the one; that in itself is all about a high school romance. That doesn't even develope nor work realistically. So, yeah. Nah. Not my thing.
The characters in the Chronicles are also much more original and colourful and deeper than in Twilight, which, again, is more like a fanfiction with the so-called Mary-Sue characters and they don't seem to get that much depth when it comes to the author writing about them. But then, I haven't read the entire serie. But then again, characters should be more indepthly developed and explained already in the first part than I think they are, in "Twilight".
Twilight completely alters everything but the blood-drinking part. It even turns this demon-like nightly creature, which can not socialize with mortal beings as much as it might want to, into a sparkling diamond in the sun, who can also work and go to school like any human being could. The Twilight "vampires" are practically superhumans, whose bodies are dead and drink blood and are turned into this by a bite. So, some very basic vampire stuff is there but they're still made into superhumans and not vampires, as majority of the myth elements have been stripped away or drastically changed.
I find it funny Anne Rice called them "tamer version of the vampire". In my view when someone alters and changes something as much as Meyer has done with this creature - it's no more a tamer version but something completely different that only remotely reminds of it's origin.
In the Chronicles the vampire myth is taken into incredible depths. She gave the vampire a human heart but still kept the demon, the monster in them, and didn't enable them to come out of the shadows so literally and extremely as Twilight does. She visioned an indepth sociaty for the vampire that included rules, crimes and punishments. Her vampires are about good and evil in a perfectly fascinating balance and way, and their exsistance is pondered good and well. Twilight never took the vampire into such an observation whereas it also dismissed everything that made it mythic and interesting.
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