TWILIGHT, You Guys!



I didn't read Harry Potter. Well, I read the first one, but wasn't interested enough to keep reading?

I know, blasphemous.

Well, I had been seeing all this buzz about Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series. Carolyn went to Borders at 12AM midnight to get the newest installment of the series a month or so ago. Ohnotheydidnt had its own separate ONTD_Twatlight community. They're coming out with a movie in November. I even read an article on the whole Twilight franchise in BusinessWeek.

I read some of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles (I think I stopped at Queen of the Damned) and I've always had a little bit of a fascination with vampires generally. I mean, they're pretty sexy RIGHT? So I gave into the hype and bought a copy of Twilight (in the Young Adults section, no less) at Target.


And....I LIKED IT.


It's not well-written by any stretch ("Do I dazzle you?" "Frequently."), but the story is so..... *sigh*. I admit, I'm a sucker for love stories, especially ones involving heart-wrenching tension between the characters. There's barely a kiss and I find find myself swooning.

There are quite a few parts that are pretty cheesy. Like, to the point where I was embarrassed. For example, when Edward is described wearing an ivory turtleneck? Or a sleeveless button-up? WHY WOULD YOU WEAR THAT WHY?


So I know the skinny pale girl from Into the Wild is playing Bella, which was pretty accurate to what I was picturing when I read the book. I do a search of who is playing Edward:



O RLY.


I don't know if that's who I pictured, but that's real nice.


So I watch the trailer.

I research the other characters (VOLCHEK from the OC is in it, guys!)

I wikipedia it (don't do it; CONTAINS SPOILERS).

I do some more images searches.




THE TENSION, PEOPLE. THE TENSION.

I think I might officially be a fangirl.