The online battle between Harry Potter and Twilight grew more pronounced as one of most successful novelists, Stephen King ignited the tension more by saying that JK Rowling is a terrific writer while Meyer is not very good or effective as a writer. Heated online battle between Harry Potter fans and Twilight fans started last year when the two movies were thought to be shown in theaters in the same month and hate mails have been sent from one camp to the other. With these new events, that now is directly targeting the authors of the famous novels, JK Rowling of Harry Potter and Stephanie Meyer of Twilight things sure fired up the debates again. According to Stephen, “Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people… The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.” King well known for his blood and gore, monster filled stories stated that “People are attracted by the stories, by the pace and in the case of Stephenie Meyer, it’s very clear that she’s writing to a whole generation of girls and opening up kind of a safe joining of love and sex in those books. It’s exciting and it’s thrilling and it’s not particularly threatening because it’s not overtly sexual.” He further explains, “A lot of the physical side of it is conveyed in things like the vampire will touch her forearm or run a hand over skin, and she just flushes all hot and cold. And for girls, that’s a shorthand for all the feelings that they’re not ready to deal with yet.” My own personal opinion about the matter is that I certainly agree to King in saying that Rowling is a much better writer but with some reservations. Rowling's writing specializes in action and adventure, ingenious plotting and theme that Meyer seems to have a little of but I can say that Rowling lacks an element than Meyer has tons. Meyer isn't very good in writing a detailed and action paced fight scene but she knows how to make the reader fall in love and be dazzled by it whereas Rowling shies away from this concept. There should be absolutely no competition since these two authors and their books have a different style, theme and target audience. Harry Potter revolves around adventure, bravery and loyalty while Twilight shines in on mystery, sacrifice and love above all things. For the heated bulletins and forum entries about this topic I can only say that I know we love these books and we should just be thankful for their authors for sharing their novels, ideas and passion with us for they are certainly the most fantastic novels of their time.
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