I didn't want to really write a whole lot about Twilight, but let me just mention it this one last time and then I'll try not to mention it again, but I think you will all get a kick out this.
So...I am going to get Breaking Dawn at midnight tomorrow and I'm going with some friends. They want to go to Barnes and Noble to get it, but I just don't know if I really want to be around all the super OCD fans, though. I mean I know when we go there that I am going to walk in and see 3 Edwards, 5 Bellas, a handful of Jacobs, probably an Alice or two, maybe even a Carlisle or an Esme. I don't know why it affects me so much that people dress up for these types of things...maybe its all the wasted time. I mean I can't really say much because I spent all of last week reading the books, but I still forced myself to be productive...even if it was just a little bit. I guess its because I can't fathom spending that much time wishing a fictional character/story were real life.
My best friend recently spent a few months in Ukraine doing a study abroad and she said that all the girls were reading Twilight and talking about it non stop and one of the girls said "I just wish Edward would come and take me away!" and I thought to myself, "Wow". I have heard and read a lot about the Twilight series this last week and I just find it interesting what people are saying. Maybe I'm just a heartless jerk, or maybe I just don't understand, but I think people are kinda crazy devoting their lives to these fictional stories...I mean they could put that effort towards so many things. I don't know, maybe I'm just a little OCD myself since I will be in a bookstore somewhere around midnight purchasing my own copy of Breaking Dawn and I will be turning my phone off and locking myself in a room until its finished so no one can bother me...but I know when its over that I'll just go do something else and not dwell on it....hmmm....interesting.
I don't know, Suz, I think it's so wonderful when a book can be written so well as to affect people so greatly. I've read enough books to know that there are only a few that can really affect you, really make you daydream. I think it's worth celebrating a book like that. Plus, it's a fun picture opportunity (I do crazy stuff like that, just to take a picture, just to put in my scrapbook. I am just that big of a scrapbook-aholic)!
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