Last Saturday for some odd reason I decided to try the Twilight series. Ok what is the Twilight series? I didn’t know either and I’m a huge latecomer to the Twilight insanity. I mean I kept seeing these books everywhere but never picked them up. They are in the YA genre of fiction and that turned me off. I also tend to shy away from anything mainstream on a big level. But I bought a used copy of the First in what will be Four books in this series.
Twilight.
That was it. I was hooked. Bell and Edward…what a sweet love story. Also, while I giggle at some of the passages in this book were fall out funny and loopy to me, Belle is a character I can get to know and care about and that is always the thing that captures me. I read through Twilight in mere hours and drove myself to Target the next morning to buy the next in the series, New Moon. I finished New Moon within a matter of two evenings after work. (I stayed up last night until 2 a.m. engrossed in New Moon). I have the 3rd book in the series sitting on my nightstand at home…waiting for my return after work. I honestly can tell you I wish I could leave work early to go read that stupid ass book. And that never happens to me.
During the height of the Harry Potter craze…I didn’t care to read it. When they released Harry Potter #5 I tried in earnest to read the first novel. Twice I tried and twice I failed. I don’t like Harry and more importantly I never cared about Harry. Not even a little freaking bit.
But this Twilight series? OMG…where have I been? I found out on Monday after googling and finding more information that the last book in the series comes out on Friday night at midnight. It was precisely at that point that I decided to read 1 thru 3 in their entirety so that I can sit like a looney tune in the bookstore waiting for midnight for my ever-loving fanfuckntastic copy of Breaking Dawn. This is said to be the last book in the series but I hope that Stephenie Meyer, much like that dolt that wrote the Harry books..what was her stupid name? (yah see how much I don’t care?!) will change her mind and want more big checks.Â
It should be said that she did not earn in any way as much as that Harry author did but…the big boys in Publishing overlooked her and are now shaking their heads and crying in their publishing beers about that oversight. There is a cult following for this series of books. Heck you can buy Edward and Bella merchandise out the wazoo. I even want to buy a coffee cup…and I’ve never experienced this reading phenomenon before personally but I would totally wear a Edward t-shirt. I detest Danielle Steele, Patterson, etc. etc. All the big guys in the book world because for me they suck. There are so many great authors out there with much to write about and Stephenie Meyer could be a better writer, seriously it’s not her writing skills that are so awesome…it’s her imagination that cannot be topped. I resisted the hype….and then stopped just long enough to fall in over my head. I can’t believe this is me saying this but that shiz is some good shishnit.
So…tonight I dig past the first chapter in the third novel Eclipse….I have until Friday at midnight and would like to be completed on Thursday if at all possible….Another 640 pages to go basically….
I love this so much I cannot even find words…
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