Twilight: Part Three: Movies and New Mooning

Congratulations on getting to read this particular post! I hope you find it as satisfying as if you were actually doing something productive with your time.

Having finished reading ‘Twilight’, it made sense to, firstly, watch the movie, and secondly read the next one.

I’ve done that. And now it makes sense to blog about it.

Firstly, the movie.

Fourteen words: Amazed that the story could be portrayed worse than it was in text from.

However, the movie bettered the book  by realising that having an ominous antagonist throughout the whole thing instead of rushing one in the last half of the third act was a much better idea. I agree.

If you do find yourself watching it, pretend that the male lead is constantly constipated. Way more entertaining.

I'd kiss you but...I really need to take a crap

I give it a generous closing bracket ) out of 5.

A must avoid.

Now for New Moon, the second book in the exciting (?) series.

You'd think it would make sense to put a picture of a moon on the cover

Truth be told, I really got into this one.

You know how when you’re reading a book, and you start reading faster and faster because you can’t wait to see what happens next? Amazingly, that was what I ended up doing. But instead of wanting to see what happens next, I was wanting to see if something was actually going to happen at all.

I had glimpsed the movie trailer and saw a whole lot of action bits that, despite being three quarters of the way through the book at the time, I had yet to encounter in the actual ‘novel’.

Hence my anticipation. I think that’s the right word. Anticipation….?

After finishing this ‘novel’, I’ve decided the author has some sort of debilitating literary disease where her stories can’t actually have characters DO anything until the end. She should totally seek to cure that.

On another note, the book is essentially a pointless excursion into the mind of an annoying person, much like the first book. Huge amounts of tedious whining and suicidal tendencies plague the pages. We get it already! She’s sad. Look at that! I just summed up most of the book in only two words.

I have also learned, thanks to a comment from the last post, that there are four books, not the assumed three. I stumbled upon the fourth one at a book store. It’s double the size of the first.

Pray for me.

Zach

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~ by zachjacobsen on November 10, 2009.