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* One review of the new ''[[The Saga of Darren Shan|Darren Shan]]'' movie said that it was a rip off of ''[[Twilight (Literature)|Twilight]]. Cirque Du Freak'' came out ''five years'' before ''Twilight''. Screw that, the ''last'' book was out before ''Twilight''! And anyway, the only thing they have in common is vampires.

** Speaking of ''[[Twilight (Literature)|Twilight]]'', ABC World News did a story about fans' excitement for the second movie ''New Moon''. In it, while talking about the books and their popularity and impact, they showed the book covers. Which is all well and good... except for the fact that the covers were for the ''"House of Night" series'' and ''not'' the highly recognizable ''Twilight'' covers.

** L.J. Smith has come under fire lately because of the <s>WB</s> CW series ''The Vampire Diaries.'' The books the series was based on were written and published in 1991 and 1992. The series was brought about by the vampire craze, yes, but the story was well before Twilight was even a twinkle.

* An Australian magazine claimed that [[The Millennium Trilogy|Stieg Larsson]] was a neo-Nazi. This is especially puzzling since the man was a democratic socialist who received death threats from far-right and racist organisations for his work against them, and depicted the Nazi characters in his first book as having kidnapped, raped, and murdered literally dozens of women, making one wonder whether the magazine's writers had any familiarity with him whatsoever.