Dec 14 2008
Twilight? Hmm.
Last night, Turk and I finished up Twilight. I mentioned before that we were having trouble getting into the book and that I wasn’t overly impressed with it. Unfortunately, that remains true. (Please don’t hate me, Twilight lovers!)
Don’t get me wrong, I think Twilight was well written and it was obviously interesting or we would’ve put it down and called it a lost cause. I enjoyed many of the descriptions about the Northwest, scenery that I could picture perfectly since many similar scenes are just a few miles down the road from me. I especially enjoyed the descriptions about Edward, dead sexy by all meanings of the phrase. Mmmm. Edward’s immortal, cold, sexy lips can suck my blood any time, as far as I’m concerned… (Shh, don’t tell Turk.)
However, I feel like it dragged on in unnecessary places, especially at the end. I don’t like it when I’m reading a book and thinking, Get on with it already, I get the point, unless there is some twist that I hadn’t expected. Unfortunately, there were no major twists in Twilight that had my jaw dropping.
Maybe this is because there was so much hype about Twilight’s awesomeness that I was expecting something incredible. Maybe it’s because I was expecting something similar to Harry Potter, but got something far less superior. Who knows. But, I will say this, the first book of the Harry Potter series wasn’t as incredible as the books that followed. Though we weren’t amazingly impressed by Twilight, we’re still intrigued and will be reading the following books in the series. I’m holding out hope that the books will get better as the series progresses.
There was one reason that kept pulling me through the parts that dragged in Twilight, and that is the author. Stephenie Meyer wrote Twilight after a vivid dream she had one night. She was not a published author, she was a mother of three little boys. She queried 15 agents before one finally took the bait. Imagine how the other fourteen agents are feeling right about now! And, imagine how heartbreaking all fourteen of those rejections were for Stephenie. But she pushed on, she found an agent who signed her to a publishing company and now look at what has happened! She has inspired and entertained millions across the globe, all from a dream she had one night.
That is truly inspiring to me. A stay-at-home mom, just like myself, writing for the love of wanting to write. It is much like J.K. Rowling who was unheard of and unpublished before Harry Potter. It makes me think that maybe, just maybe I can get myself out there too.
Huh. Well if you weren’t overly impressed with Twilight, book 2, New Moon will be a hard read. It’s definitely has a darker side to it. Book 3 was my fav. We’re like the exact opposite though…I LOVED LOVED LOVED the Twilight series (and anything my Stephenie Meyer) but I just could not get through any of the Harry Potter books. Too funny.
See, I don’t mind the “dark side” by any means. It was just the dialogue that seemed to go on for no reason that I didn’t like. Still, it was no doubt a good book, just not as amazing as I had thought it would be.
I haven’t read the books, but my son has read them all and really liked them. We did go see the movie with him when it came out and weren’t very impressed. I think it’s more a teenage movie. Just my opinion.
The 4th book is the very best!!
I’ve read all the books and IMO #1 is weakest - unless you can count in ½’s in which case the first ½ of book two sucks butt. However, book 3 is great and book 4 is even better. But it depends on why you are reading it. I have a fascination with vampires and I love the way Stephanie describes them. I love their back stories and their talents. I love learning about the culture. I love Alice and Jasper too.
Stephanie is not the best writer, she is no JK Rowling - her style is totally different. I found that I had to keep reminding myself that this was her first series and that she was writing for a teenage audience. I want her to rewrite the series for adults - steamy!
I guess that was the problem: my mindset. I wasn’t thinking initially that it was written for teenagers. Like you, I loved how she described the vampires, and I really liked that she didn’t give them fangs. I thought that was a cool twist on the traditional vampire story. And yeah, I agree, I want an adult version. Hubba hubba!