*Sigh* :/ I told myself that I would never waste my life writing a twilight rant, but this is just so depressing I had to do it.

Soooo anyway, I work at Chapters in the kids section (0-12) and I had a 11 year old girl and her mom come in today looking for a book. I asked the girl what kind of stuff she liked to read about and she just shrugged her shoulders so I started going around and showing her some books. My first choice was Dealing with Dragons, which is a funny, witty, amazing book about a princess who wanted to do more then fill the typical 'get kidnapped and marry a prince' role. She didn't really seem interested (the brat) so I showed her a bunch of other stuff. I pointed out Island of the Blue dolphins, Julie of the Wolves, The last Apprentice, Bridge to Terabithia, Airborn, The Redwall series, The Black Cauldron series, Because of Winn-Dixie, Matilda, Watership down, Wind in the willows, City of Ember, The rats of Nimh, the Jungle book, Little women, The Wrinkle in Time, Where the Red Fern Grows, The Graveyard book, The Judy Blume books, and sooooo soooooo many others!

And you know what this little moron says???!!!!!!

'No, those sound boring. Dont you have anything like Twilight?'

And then she sees the 'Unofficial Twilight companion guide' (Wth?!) and proceeds to freak out and demand her mom buy it for her D:

So yeah, while shes running around squealing, I'm left standing there with a copy of Lassie in my hand, and I know I have this disbelieving, horrified expression on my face cuz the mom gets very uncomfortable and says 'Well, at least she is reading'.

No, just no >.<

Twilight is a poorly written, cliched, waste of paper that does nothing more then target little girls and romanticizes obsession, sexism, pedophiles and continues the horrific trend of confusing lust and teen angst with love. Personally, I believe in quality instead of quantity, and that letting young, impressionable, easily swayed, obsessive girls (and considering that we had Twilight brats try to steal our Edward cutout more then once, yeah, I think those all apply) read about some idiot girl (Bella) who has no personality and opinions (other then 'Edward is hot' and 'omg I will now kill myself cuz he is not here' ) is just bad parenting.

lol and I'm not going to even start on the sparkling and eating of the mountain lions and the fact that Edward an his pals go to high school! Despite being immortal! I know if I become a vamp high school is the last place I wanna be. Plus hes like a 100+ years and macking on a 16 year old girl AND despite the fact that he is teh UNDEAD manages to impregnate her with his supersperm XD

And yes I have read half of the first book and snippets from the other ones. Not to mention talked to people who have read all 4 books (both people who hated and people who loved them)

It's just...... This has disillusioned me a little, and I need someone to comfort me and tell me it will all go away eventually :C