Twilight Saga

               I loved reading the Twilight series. They are probably my favorite books to read and reread. I know I’ll probably get a lot of grief for saying that but really if you’ve read them you probably know what I mean. I know there were a lot of crazed teenaged fans for a while and, I won’t deny it, they were ridiculous. While that was going on I wondered, were these kids motivated by the movies or the books? Or, because the movies weren’t as great as the books (of course), did a handful of these kids read the books and the rest are like a bunch of sheep following the heard? They saw the movies and said “yea that’s cool.. I can see why everyone’s in to this..” yea right?

               Like I said in my last post, the first movie almost didn’t make sense unless you read the book. The second movie was better I thought but perhaps that’s because there was more action and less ground work in the book. I haven’t seen the third movie and really I didn’t read the third book either. Actually instead of reading the third book I bought the audiobook. It was like 23 hours of listening and at the time I was moving from Colorado to Oregon (for the second time in my life) and had 20 hours of nothing but road. But really I wish I would have read the book. I don’t remember the third as much and I have a hard time deciding if that’s because I wasn’t as interested in the fighting, or if it’s because I didn’t read it and have to visualize every part. Instead it was fed to me, like watching movies or T.V. shows really isn’t exactly an active process.

               The fourth book was my favorite and I’m glad they are turning it into two movies. It’s been about 2 years since I read the series so I don’t think I’ll be too disappointed if the movies don’t match the book to a T. So really I’m not a crazed Twilight fan but I am excited to see what they’ve done with the last of the series.