The ending of a two-week obsession
Well, it is official, in two weeks I read all four books in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series. How do I feel? Ridiculously silly actually, I never grab books up and get so absorbed that it takes me 2 weeks to just finish them so they will be out of my life. I was impressed with Twilight, I fell quickly in love with the characters, her writing was modern, take that as you wish, I was a bit distracted by so many prepositions at the end of sentences. Overall however, combining classic works in literature into the book made me fairly intrigued, I found a few new friends as Bryan was in Haiti, only after the first two books I was more in wanting to know where the characters would end up rather than the story itself. While the last two books were interesting, I think they were beyond my actual liking (to each her own on that point) but I had to read them, it was my obsession. I finished, and even watched the movie. I was one of three 20-somethings at the film and actually went by myself to see how I really felt about the movie adaptation. It was sad, tough roles to play as much of the character development came through Bella and Edwards thoughts and not actions it was impossible with the script for any actor to gather the intensity, especially two very young actors. Overall, I agree mostly with Ebert, it reached its target audience, 16 year olds (not me 
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So what do I do now that my fairy tale land with vampires and changlings is over? Do I continually analyze how Meyer’s religious beliefs affect the progression of the novels, and also appreciate the importance of marriage, the sanctity of the marriage bed, the desire to not shed blood even when facing the strongest enemy and praise the author for presenting an aversion to the norm of teenage love stories of our culture or do I head back to Lord of Rings? The books I so “wrongly” left (if you ask my husband) for this guilty pleasure.
My guess is that I will enter into the woods again with Frodo, but I do appreciate the diversion. I am not sure whether these books will last much past this generation, but I applaud the author and hope that if more movies continue that they will focus on character and not situational development to carry the viewer along the way into this seemingly realistic, incredibly make-believe land of Twilight.
Thanks for reading my rant, I had to get this off my chest.
