Greetings, Earthlings!
I just don’t get it …
I really don’t understand all the hype that Twilight is getting. Honestly, I had no idea what Twilight was until the movie posters started popping up everywhere ……
Okay, vampires? Cool. A human falling in love with a vampire that only drinks animal blood (I didn’t know that was possible …. why didn’t that ever happen in any Hollywood vamp movie ever?) …. I can deal with that. But from the reviews I read, it doesn’t sound like my cup of tea. Maybe I’m a snob, but when I read a book, I want to walk away with something in my head, whether it’s a better understand of something, a new appreciation for a writer, humor, sadness, whatever. But I’ve heard that these books aren’t even written that well …. haters can hate on me, but there are better love novels and stories about the “testament of love over all things” than some whiny, shy chick who falls in love with, what is essentially, a bat. Also, since when did shy girls “get all the guys”? I’ve never understood that (also probably one of the reasons why I hated High School Musical so very much…).
Oh and the book cover? The apple? We get it. It’s the apple from The Tree of Knowledge, the Garden of Eden, the Forbidden Fruit. How metaphorical and sophisticated you are …. did you learn that in high school? Please use something else — if I have to read or see one more Biblical reference that just screams LOOK, I WAS AN ENGLISH MAJOR IN COLLEGE AND LEARNED ABOUT RELIGION AND WHY IT’S IMPORTANT IN LITERATURE AND THE REASON WHY I’LL USE THE SAME SYMBOLISM AGAIN AND AGAIN I am going to reconsider my educational choices.
Also, I’m not really all that into vampires. All I can think about is Count Chocula from that cereal or poorly made Buffy episodes or its spinoff Angel or vampire movies from the 1800s that didn’t have sound. They don’t scare me or bring about any sort of emotions.
You want to read a really good book that represents the meaning of commitment? Go read The Time Traveler’s Wife. Or, if you don’t want to read it, wait until December when the movie with Rachael McAdams and Eric Bana comes out.
“A most untraditional love story, this is the celebrated tale of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventurous librarian who involuntarily travels through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare’s passionate affair endures across a sea of time and captures them in an impossibly romantic trap that tests the strength of fate and basks in the bounds of love.”
I know the summary makes it seem really cheesy and very Penthouse-y\trashy novel-esque, but it’s really really really good. It’s probably more for young adults and adults, but it really is great.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452694/ — Visit here to see pictures from the upcoming movie.
Alright, I must organize my room\bookshelves\closet\life.
Stay focused,
K
