Confessions of a closet Twilight fan

[sherron0]

I'm all nuts now about the Twilight series.  I can't believe I am completely sucked into a young adult book with teen-aged characters about teen-aged angst.  With the major female being as close to the definition of a Mary Sue as any I've ever seen.  But I'm just loving it.  This woman can write emotions and angst. I will have to go see the movie and see how well they handled everything.

I've finished books 1 & 2 & 3, and I actually spent the $18 for book 3, which is still only out in hardcover. 

 I was going to buy Breaking Dawn last weekend, but Thomas literally threw his body in front of my reaching hand and herded me out of the bookstore, saying, "You made me promise not to let you buy anymore books!"

I do have an overwhelming pile of books waiting to be read.  But...

Comments

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

I decided a while ago that either you were That Teenage Girl or you weren't. If you were, it's perfectly constructed to suck you in.

If you weren't (and I so wasn't -- not that I was completely rational by any means, but I had different obsessions), it's perfectly constructed to make you want to kill pretty much every single character.

Except Alice. I love Alice. I hear even she gets tiresome later, tho. (I've only read the first book.)

[sherron0.livejournal.com]

Jan. 18th, 2009 04:24 pm (local)
I guess I was That Teenage Girl. I was going to deny it, because I dated LOTS and was very popular, and knew how to play my cards, especially with the boys. But mid way through junior year, someone did push me in love (I didn't fall, no way —I was pushed) that grew to be that obsessed, overwhelming type. And I understand obsession, then, and since then. And it's been a LONG time since I was in highschool, so I'm okay with all the immaturity, I've had time to accept that yes, we were that bad.

And yes, I did want to smack almost everyone at one point or another. But couldn't stop reading. The story telling was gripping, and the vampire mythology interesting.

But of course they're no Vicki & Henry.

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

No reason to deny it -- I don't mean it in a derogatory sense. Just that the appeal of the books is really contingent on having had that experience. I think it conveys it pretty well if you didn't -- one thing a lot of people miss is a certain level of self-awareness, that Bella doesn't just obsess, she obsesses about WHY she's obsessing. And yes, it's still a very self-centric worldview, but dude, seventeen.

That said, if you didn't have the experience yourself, wading through hundreds of pages of it is exasperating rather than compelling.