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...makes it just that much worse. For instance, one classic submission reads, “Today, my girlfriend dumped me proclaiming she wanted someone more like her ‘Edward’. I asked her who Edward was. She held up a copy of her ‘Twilight?? book. She was talking about a fictional vampire. FML.”Unfortunately, few of the stories are so unambiguously amusing. A distressing number recount long periods of time in which the only person to contact the poster was his or her mother, clumsily discovered affairs...

Author: By Max J Kornblith | Title: The Awkward Stage | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...Twilight book series stole the hearts of preteen girls nationwide—studios rushed to produce a movie version, news magazines splashed headlines like “A New J.K. Rowling?”, and Amazon reported that it had sold enough copies of the fourth “Twilight?? book to scale Mt. Everest eight times...

Author: By Anita J Joseph | Title: Selling Out | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

...Oliver Platt’s (TV’s “The West Wing”) slapstick drollery, nothing can save the hackneyed storyline of this too-dark comedy. Based on the novel by Scott Phillips and adapted for the screen by Richard Russo (“Twilight??) and Robert Benton (“Superman”), “The Ice Harvest” reminds viewers of a darker “Grosse Pointe Blank.” Every 10 seconds, someone in Cusack’s latest film is shot or bludgeoned to death, with...

Author: By Erin A. May, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Ice Harvest | 12/1/2005 | See Source »

...aisle to receive communion. The people who had managed to gather, ostensibly to celebrate the Lord’s resurrection, were not jubilant but old, weak, infirm, and worst of all, unenthusiastic. The image I saw that day—the image of a civilization in its twilight??is difficult to bear on its own, but is made doubly more so when contrasted with the images of vitality we see across much of the rest of the world. Congregations in the third world are immeasurably poorer than our own, and they certainly have better excuses for not going...

Author: By Mark A. Adomanis, | Title: Sunset in the West | 9/30/2005 | See Source »

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