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By Charlene Ross, Monday, June 29, 2009, 6 comments
I just finished reading Twilight and now I see what all the fuss is about. Well for the most part anyway. Sure it’s not literature (but then so little of what I read is) but it is much more compelling and better written than a lot of the garbage out there. (Hmm, probably not the most ringing endorsement – surely you’d never see that as a quote on the book jacket: Skirt! blogger Charlene Ross calls it better written and more compelling than a lot of the popular garbage on the market!)
It is a book written for 16-year-old which in today’s culture means every young girl 11 (or yikes even 10) and older is reading it. God knows if I were a teenager (or a tweenager) I’d be eating it up. It really does take you back to high school and that feeling of first love and the yearning and near obsession of wanting to be with that person every second of the day and feeling that you seriously could not live without that person. Remember that?
In many ways it reminds me of Forever by Judy Blume. Sure there were no vampires, and while Twilight deals with NOT giving into temptation and Forever deals with a girl losing her virginity, reading Twilight reminds me of how all my friends and I just fell in love with Katherine and Michael and for years and years I just knew that I would marry someone named Michael because I became so enamored with his character. (Um, turns out my husband’s name is Dave…sigh… It’s probably just as well since Katherine ended up dumping poor Michael for a hot tennis instructor anyway!)
Which really brings us to the reason I really enjoyed Twilight (and why I’m sure all the mommies I know enjoyed reading Twilight) – it’s an incredibly sexy book. The way that Edward talks to Bella, and looks at Bella, and touches Bella so tenderly - it made me want to have sex with my husband all the time. Well, it actually made me want to have sex with Rob Pattinson or maybe Jason Patrick in Lost Boys circa 1987 all the time but according to all the gossip magazines Rob Pattinson is obsessed with his co-star Kristen Stewart and is constantly following her around like a puppy dog and texting her every 30 seconds when they are apart and it’s not 1987 anymore and Jason Patrick is no longer that 21-year-old-almost-vampire that I had a serious crush on back then (though he still looks pretty good if you ask me) and oh yeah…I’m married...so I guess having sex with my husband instead of with them will just have to do!
I’m starting the 2nd book, New Moon today. My husband can’t wait.
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hey, Charlene, I watched the
hey, Charlene, I watched the movie a few weeks ago. I must say, I now love vampires! Yes, they are very sexual beings....but the absolute cool thing about Edward and Bella is that they "hold back." The sexual tension and suggestive behaviour is VERY hot. Have fun with Dave! LOL xx
Charlene, you got to read
Charlene,
you got to read some of An Rice's fist few books on vampires. Very cool and yet hot.
There is somehting to be said about the undead who want to drain you of your blood that can makes you sit up and pay attention! Worked on me!
elizabeth cassidy -Life and Career Coach www.BranchingOutLifeCoaching.com
Ok, so here's my opinion on
Ok, so here's my opinion on Twilight. I read the books last year when I was in chemo. Really liked the first one and the second one, and the third one was pretty good, and the fourth one wasn't bad. Bella really drove my NUTS. Seriously. I wanted to smack her- she just got so effing WHINY the more the story progressed. But, the vampires are pretty fabulous, (Alice was my favorite). And the excessive, superfluous dialogue drove me nuts in all the books. That's one reason that I actually liked the movie better than the book- they cut out the superfluous stuff. I will say this though- reading them while doped up on chemo meds made them much more entertaining then when I re-read them just before Christmas. Apparently drugs can be used for entertainment- who knew?!? :)
Just can't do it.
I barely got through the first two books, and refuse to read the other two or see the movie. I'm a closet vampire freak...but only where it concerns "real" vampires...I.E. Dracula and historical myths like the ones of "Underworld." Vampires do NOT fall in love, nor do they sparkle. I can't read Ann Rice. I much preferred Elizabeth Kostova's "The Historian," which followed the myth exactly. The Dracula of myth was never in love; he lusted after the maiden's blood. And....the writing of the books was just too much. As Sarahthequeen said, superfluous.
That being said, I am enthralled with Meyer's adult novel, "The Host." The beginning was very hard to get through, but after the first five or six chapters, it hooked me. No whiny teenager, no sparkling vampires...it is a book about aliens...it's kinda like "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" from the body snatcher's point of view, and it is fabulous...
And yes, there is romance in it as well...you should try it when you finish Twilight.
:)
Some of my friends have told me that Bella gets really whiny and if there's one thing I can't stomach it's whiny teenagers. (I mean I'll be living THAT soon enough!) So we'll see. The funny thing is my 12-year-old son picked up Twilight and is actually liking it but has made me swear to not let any of his friends know he's reading it. (Um none of you are friends with him are you?)
And I do want it stated for the record that I DO more often than not try to read something of substance - but it is summer after all.
And Sarah - BTW - you CRACK ME UP! Drugs as entertainment - who knew indeed!!!
Well, it's summer time, and
Well, it's summer time, and I'm pretty sure that it's against the laws of physics to read books of substance in the summer time. :)
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