reading and reading

[discountchiapet]

I succumbed to the temptation. Actually, I wanted to see the movie Twilight cause Robert Pattinson is in it, and he's a total hottie! And my BFFs were reading it, and my MIL left a copy at the house, so it was in the cards or something.

59. - 62. Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer: Started out good, got really slow, got a little exciting, and then ended weak as hell. Why do I always end up reading books where I hate the main character? Seriously, Bella is crap. Meyer's writing is a little weak, predictable, and relies on Mormon cliches. It wasn't very gory for a vampire series, which was good for me. But it was a very fast read, each 500+ page book took me a day or two to read. So if you want to know what everyone else in the world is talking about, read it. If you aren't a teenage girl, read the wiki synopsis.

Comments

[mystril.livejournal.com]

I highly recommend http://Cleolinda.livejournal.com - she has wonderful hilarious synopses of the books. I read the first one and half of the second, then gave up and just read cleolinda.

[emily-hahn.livejournal.com]

I read the first book b/c a friend said it was fun. Good Lord, so boring! I only finished it b/c I wanted an informed opinion about why it's specifically boring. The friend who loaned it said the movie's supposedly going to have more action. But it's still hard for to imagine it being any less boring/filled with Mormon & abstinence ed subtext.

[discountchiapet.livejournal.com]

I think it was really kinda boring too. There was nothing going on until the last 100ish pages of each book. The middle could have totally been edited out and there would have been nothing lost!

[emily-hahn.livejournal.com]

If not for the Mormon subtext, I'm sure you could easily come up with a drinking game. Like everytime Bella has an accident.

Also - the main thing that I thought was so stupid was the one vampire sibling flipping out over the blood from a papercut and how it was SUCH A RISK because they can smell blood. Um, if they've been hiding out in a high school, wouldn't he have been killing left and right being around that many teenage girls starting their periods? That's way more blood than a papercut (gross, but c'mon, where's Meyer's logic?!)

[discountchiapet.livejournal.com]

In the 4th book there's a big scene with tampons, and that's all I could think too! Seriously, I was considering the biological aspects of the book like people do about physics in comics, haha.