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It's a funny thing being an immigrant. If you get a job you are awful for taking jobs away from fine, upstanding members of [nationality], but if you have no job you are a worthless drain on welfare sucking the system dry. If you are a person of colour you do not even have to be an immigrant.

Twilight!

Everything I read about this story suggests it is awful. Terribly written, misogynistic, endorsing of controlling, stalking behaviour in the name of True Love, racist, colonialist... pretty darn -ist in general.

The story may be dreadful, but I have been enjoying reading other people snark about its flaws. Especially cleolinda's recaps:
Twilight
New Moon
Eclipse
Breaking Dawn part 1, part 2, part 3.
Midnight Sun chapters 1-6, chapters 7-12

Normally I do not like to apply the term Mary Sue to an original cast member in canon, but in this case I want to make an exception. Yeah, Bella and Edward and what the hey, Rand al'Thor too.

Off to read Growing Up Cullen now.