And I'm spent.......
Well, I've finally finished reading Twilight.
It was.....interesting. Some elaborations:
- Edward watches Bella? While she's asleep, too? That's incredibly creepy and stalkerish. I mean, I understand that he doesn't sleep but there has to be something else he can do. And Bella being flattered is just weird. Is it too much to ask that she have a normal reaction once in a while?
- The lovey-doveyness continues also. Apparently they love each other. Pfft. It's also AMAZING how good Edward is at mind over matter.
- The bit about creation actually made sense, though. Who's to say that every supernatural creature, and us ordinary folk weren't created together? Evolution is a marvelous thing, indeed.
- The meeting of Edward's family seems to strike me as too soon. Too much information, in too short a time. I like the Cullens, though. They're not bad for Sues and Stus. Carlisle's story is incredibly interesting, but it seems that Meyer is dumping all of this on us all at once so we don't notice that the plot is progressing much too fast.
- However, out of all the family, Rosalise's reation is the only one that really makes sense. Sure, Edward had been alone for a long while, but he's a vampire. What do they expect? Having a human around puts both her and the Cullen family in danger.
- Edward was spot on in the waiting for the screaming, though.
- Charlie's reaction to Edward and Bella's being together was much too flippant. He's her father, why did Bella get away with it so easily?
- The baseball thing strikes me as corny, but I guess they have to find something to do. It would be cool to watch, anyway.
- The visiting vampires thing is expected, but if the Cullens knew they were coming soon, why risk Bella being there at all? Common sense, people.
- James being a "tracker" is too convienient a dilemna. The odds of Bella being incredibly appealing to 2 vampires, even in a novel such as this, is too improbable. I have a feeling Meyer simply decided to create a dangerous situation because she realized that there had to be a climax somewhere and she was running out of steam. The timing of it was fairly pathetic. I was considerably more than halfway through when the dilemna came in.
- Somehow, I doubt that any normal teenaged girl would be able to think of so concise a plan in too short a time. Really, the decoying and deception doesn't seem like something Bella is capable of at all.
- Honestly, the plan to avoid James was the most exciting part of the novel. Too bad it came too late and everything else was so nauseating.
- It seems unlikely that Bella could actually evade Jasper and Alice at all, much less so easily. The inconsistancy, it burns! It is kind of clever that the ballet studio Alice saw is actually where Bella had to meet James, but if they suspected it was so, couldn't they have anticipated the whole thing somewhat and prevented it entirely?
- I'll admit, the angel-dream scenario moved me. But with the extent of Bella's injuries and the cruelties of James it seems impausible that the Cullens even arrived there, much less that Bella is still alive. James' lying about Bella's mother being there was pretty clever, I think.
- And the excuses for her injuries? Right, like somebody is that clumsy.
- The part about Edward taking Bella to prom sporks itself.
- Bella's wanting to be turned into a vampire is just unbelievable. I would be scared- of the pain, immortality, the general blood-sucking issue. I don't think the girl realises the difficulty of the matter at all.
Conclusion: While it kind of grew on me, Edward isn't real, the writing is just bad, and the plot progression is WAY too quick. I think I'll read some more Neil Gaiman, instead.
There was also an excerpt of New Moon, but it speaks for itself, and I'm too tired to dissect any more bad writing any further. I'm going to the Shakespeare Stratford Festival soon, anyway. :D