Twilight, the books

[lesbiassparrow]

DON'T JUDGE ME. I HAVE HAD 8 HOURS SLEEP IN 3 DAYS. JUDGE ME LATER WHEN SANITY RETURNS.

That creepy ass werewolf imprinting thing is even freakier than Edward sitting in her room watching her at night and all his mad controlling behaviour. AND YOU WILL NEVER CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE.

And! Edward's efforts to protect his virtue against Bella's teenage lust for sex sparkles, will never not be golden entertainment.

Comments

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

HEE! IMPRINTING - this is a good way to sort of your love trieangles!!!

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

I want to smack both the guys during their face-offs. And sometimes Bella. Though as she's usually one sandwich short of a picnic I tend to forgive her more.

[baleanoptera.livejournal.com]

What scares me is that I've never read Twilight - and yet I know EXACTLY what you are talking about. (and why does the desire to read the books increase instead of diminish the more I hear about them? *is scared*)

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

I held out FOREVER. I read half the first book and was so horrified I put it back on my shelf (all of my big mistaken book decisions go on my shelf as a reminder of my folly). But in the end it gets you.

RUN WHILE YOU CAN. THERE IS NO ESCAPE FOR ME.

[wistfulmemory.livejournal.com]

I'm just wondering how reading those books with the lack of sleep won't traumatize you even more than they normally would.

The werewolf imprinting thing is freaky, and I feel sorry for every person involved in it. (And I also feel it's sad that I know what you're talking about without having read the books/watched the movie.)

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

I held out against Twilight for so long. BUT IT GETS YOU IN THE END.

And reading it is weird as I've read so much about the books and film that I have this sense of deja-vu all the time.

SAVE YOURSELF IF YOU CAN.

[wistfulmemory.livejournal.com]

I think I've heard enough bad things that I can hold out against reading it. There are so many other books that I'm wanting to read and need to catch up on when I return to America that I don't think I'll have a problem resisting the urge to read the books. Feeling deja vu all the time while reading would be annoying.

[brainchild129.livejournal.com]

Deciding whether the imprinting or the stalking is worse is rather like deciding between a punch in the face or a kick in the groin - either way, it's going to hurt like hell.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

At least Bella got 17 years of life before a sparkly vampire started stalking her. Being imprinted upon at 2 or whatever seems like an even worse deal. Though there's not much in it, to be sure.

[morwen_peredhil]

This is next up in my Netflix queue and I CANNOT WAIT. Although I am disappointed that the sparkly scene was apparently not nearly as ZOMG SPARKLING BRILLIANTLY LIKE DIAMONDS as it should have been.

My sixteen-year-old half-sister will be visiting with my dad and stepmother next week and I am really, really hoping she doesn't love Twilight.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

I am really, really hoping she doesn't love Twilight.

I am going to horrifically honest: as a teen I think I would have loved this book with a passion. It really is aimed at pretty much everything my 14 year old self would have thought really, really important. I think I would still have rolled my eyes at the sparkling and the control freak behaviour but the rest of it I would have eaten up with a spoon.

But maybe your half-sister is a better and stronger person.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

And! Edward's efforts to protect his virtue against Bella's teenage lust

The "BELLA, PUT YOUR SHIRT BACK ON!" shit still cracks me up. That, and him being like, "THAT V-NECK BLOUSE IS POSITIVELY INDECENT." Ooooookay, Sparkles.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

I love how he's all "YOU MUST MAKE AN HONEST MAN OF ME BEFORE ANYTHING HAPPENS" and Bella is just "WHATEVER. I'm an eighteen year old virgin, so just do me before I get old and wrinkly."

Edward is the Joseph Andrews of the vampire world. His virtue is his precious jewel which must be preserved at all costs.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Because he will totally go to hell if he loses his virtue. I mean, killing all those people for their blood, whatevs.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

I love how the book totally skips over his 10 years as a vampire vigilante (THE YEARS OF A KILLER) to focus on his struggle to fight off the advances of an teenage girl.

Bella has got to be the most frustrated girl in Forks. It explains an awful lot about her poorer decisions.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Rule of thumb with Twilight is, if it's interesting, we skip it. It's like, every single other character is more interesting than Edward and Bella, and even Edward is more interesting in the time before he met Bella. So clearly, we must never, ever talk about any of that. I think she even said she would never write a book about Carlisle, who was born in the 1600s, because it would involve research.

Bella has got to be the most frustrated girl in Forks.

Here's a thought: due to the venom, all the kissing has been close-mouthed, hasn't it? I think there was some reference to that at some point that just made my jaw drop.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

It's like, every single other character is more interesting than Edward and Bella, and even Edward is more interesting in the time before he met Bella.

Hmmm. I don't know - I have to admit finding all the endless backstory of characters in book 3 a bit boring. Maybe our speculation on Edward's killing sprees, Carlisle's wandering around trying to find a good vampire to hang around and have good veggie times with, etc., might be best left as speculation. Personally, I like to visualize Edward killing people and then writhing in enormous amounts of guilt about it but thinking I MAY BE A MONSTER BUT AT LEAST I AM STILL A VIRGIN. And then doing it again the next week. I also speculate a lot about his mother and what on earth she said to him when he was growing up. I imagine there was a lot about girls only wanting one thing from him...

What makes me really pity Bella is that Edward is in her room pretty much every night. And with the mad stalking every time she goes anywhere and her crappy internet connection, it's not like she can purchase anything to, um, help her out.