Twilight

Posted by Vanessa May 30, 2009

I've been reading the Twilight series lately. Yes, I know I'm a little late to the party, but I like to make an entrance and I also need to know that the latest teeny-bopper craze is actually worth the time and energy. Having not read a book series of great interest since, well...basically Harry Potter, I was keen to start into a new one. I tried to read the Golden Compass series but they weren't nearly as entertaining as Harry Potter or Twilight.

As I started reading the first Twilight book, I found the writing style so easy to read and the story-line so captivating I would not only be dreaming about handsome, eloquent, strong, manly vampires coming to sweep me off my feet, I would often lose track of time and then realize it was 1am on a Tuesday night. Not that I'm a total goodie-too-shoes, but on a school night, I just can't stay up that late. I no longer worked with openly disgruntled software developers that hated PMs and would gladly ignore me for the better part of the morning, allowing me the 4 cups of Artigiano americanos it would take to fully awaken the senses including, and perhaps the most vital, my sense of humour. An incredibly important sense to get one through the day when patience decides to vacate the building and you're left to deal with 35yr old children. But I digress. These days, I needed to have my wits about me, and staying up till 1am reading about vampires and werewolves just wasn't helping. Of course that didn't stop me from continuing my 1am reading routine and showing up at work with mounts of make up, dark glasses and very large caffinated beverages to hide the dark circles under my eyes.

Since I'm almost done reading the series, I decided it's time to watch the movie. I made sure I read Tan's review of the movie first - he's a fan of bad movies like I am so I tend to trust his judgment. (Although I'm sure my bad movie choices fall into the bad 'chick flick' category compared to his.) I headed over to visit my nephew and watch the movie with Ali. Although it was a very entertaining 2 hours, I have to admit, I was hoping for more. Could it be that I preferred the natural british accent the actor who plays Edward has? Or that there just wasn't enough time to tell the story properly? Or that it was too soon after reading to book to see the movie? Or perhaps, and this is very speculative, it's because the Edward depicted in the books was far more beautiful, romantic, subtle, elegant, graceful and heroic than poor Robert Pattinson could ever be. My friend Scotty certainly agreed when he boldly stated that he was in love with 'Book' Edward compared to 'Movie' Edward.

Maybe I'll have to give the movie another chance...perhaps one day, I too will fall in love with 'Movie' Edward like all the other 18-yr-old crazed fans.

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