The Works of Stephenie Meyer

[bitca]

I think in Eclipse? That's when they talk more about the backgrounds of the characters.

I like the rest of the siblings, too. Well, except for Rosalie.

[incognito]

Stephenie Meyer says that she picked old-fashioned names for her characters. But really, how old-fashioned are names like Edward and Alice? Of course they aren't as popular as some other names, but they never struck as me being particularly old-fashioned. Then again, I think I may have a warped idea of which names are trendy; I grew up in a community with a heavy Asian presence, and sometimes it seems like half the Asian guys I meet are named Edward (or Eddie). I've met my fair share of Asian Alices, too. I've known a Rosalie (Asian), and a Jasper (white). All people around my age. The only person my age I haven't met is an Emmett.

I've heard people joking about how Asian-American parents like to give their kids out-of-vogue American names (another popular one being Esther, but IMO that's because the name has some biblical significance), so maybe the names really are old-fashioned and I'm just not aware of it.

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I've heard people joking about how Asian-American parents like to give their kids out-of-vogue American names (another popular one being Esther, but IMO that's because the name has some biblical significance), so maybe the names really are old-fashioned and I'm just not aware of it.

In my experience that's been the case at least with Asian students picking Anglo names when they move here. I knew one girl from Hong Kong who chose Elaine, and another from Korea who chose Joyce.

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Apr 17, 2009 16:28:28 GMT -4 @roisin54 said:

In my experience that's been the case at least with Asian students picking Anglo names when they move here. I knew one girl from Hong Kong who chose Elaine, and another from Korea who chose Joyce.

Hey, I have Asian friends with those names! Are they really that outdated? Man, I feel so out of the loop now.

My middle (and American) name is Julie. I don't think that one's completely old-fashioned...

I guess I'm just weirded out that apparently, to Smeyer, names like Edward and Alice are old-fashioned, when I grew up surrounded by people with those names. Growing up I knew an Eddie Shin, Edward Lee, Edward Kim, etc.

[Sunnyhorse]

Stephenie Meyer is the kind of idiot who thinks "Renesmee" is a great idea for a name, so it doesn't surprise me at all that she finds nice, normal names like "Edward" and "Alice" old-fashioned.

[susyhomewrecker]

It's not just that Edward and Alice were common names way-back-when, they've ALWAYS been common names. And if the kids at my mom's preschool are any indication, older names are back in style now (there's a Barbara and a Florence in her class, plus I know someone who just had a baby named Esther).

I really hope "Renesmee" doesn't catch on.

[huntergrayson]

Dudes, you just know some 14-year emo idiot tweenager is gonna get knocked up and name the baby "Reneesmee."

And by said idiot emo tweenager, I mean one in real life, not Bella.

[susyhomewrecker]

My friend borrowed Breaking Dawn from her next-door-neighbor, who is an actual fan of the series. When she gave the book back, she told her neighbor how much she hated the book and "thought Renesmee was the stupidest name ever!" Her neighbor turned bright red and mumbled something about thinking it was pretty.

Yeah, the next-door-neighbor is in her 20's.

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If Edward is old-fashioned, then so is Isabella. I don't know how many Eddies I went to school with. (And I was born in 1978, class of '96)

Renessme. All the "Kaylies" and "Kylies" are going to sound down-right sensible and mainstream.

[Witchie]

Sued by former roommate for plagarism[/color]

According to sources, Meyer has been accused of stealing the idea for her popular Twilight series of novels for young adults and teenagers from her college roommate, Heidi Stanton. Stanton, 36, of Salt Lake City, Utah, attended Brigham Young University during the early 1990's and was for a time during their sophmore year roommates at a campus dormitory with the alleged author, Meyer.

Mrs. Stanton's claims have some credence to them as she has documented proof that a short story with very similar idea was written by her in 1993 while she was a sophmore at BYU. English department chairperson Dr. Peter Benton was at the time a second year professor of writing and distinctly remembers Ms. Stanton's prolific writing style and the vampire story in particular.

Uh oh.