Twilight Madness

I've ignored it for long enough....and I got bored Friday, so while I was at K-Mart I saw the book, remembered my friends telling me I had to read it, remembered my love of vampire stories (no matter how cheesy), realized I had the $6 in the bank to buy the book so I did.  I took it home Friday night and read it. I didn't finish it, but only because it was 2am on Saturday by now and I had to get up at 7am to support my fraternity and eat pancakes.  After the pancakey goodness I went home and finished the book in roughly 30-45 minutes.

I really thought it was a good book.  Nothing like everyone else's enjoyment/obsession ("OMG I'm going to die because I want Edward to be real so I can live every teenage girl's fantasy!!!") of it, but it was really good.  I loved it because it wasn't a vampire story...it was a human story.  Yeah ok, I couldn't ignor that the Cullen's were vampires of course, but Stephanie Meyer was amazing at making it real and human.  The emotions drew me in...the inner struggles, the complexities, they were deep and real.  Even the struggles that Edward had...those internal struggles of a tortured soul, were human (well, aside from the blood drinking thing).  The story captured my heart quickly and kept it long after I put the book down.

So now we're into Saturday and I would have been fine.  I said I liked the book, not that I was obsessed with it.  I would have been able to wait till next payday to buy the next book New Moon....but then I made the mistake of reading the teaser in the back of Twilight....I called my friend then and asked to borrow the next two books.  She, of course, said yes and I ran out the door, in my pajamas and dinner in the oven, to her apartment down the street.

I finished New Moon and started on Eclipse Saturday.  Sunday was finishing Eclipse and starting on Breaking Dawn.  Monday I finished Breaking Dawn and thought I was done.  Heaven knows I was exhausted from lack of sleep.  Yet I felt so ... alive ... It was almost as if those books renewed a passion in me that had long been dormant....I loved it, but it frustrated me at the same time.  You see, a passion like that isn't good if you don't have someone else to share it with *sigh*.  Oh well. 

I thought for sure I was free of the bonds...but my friends are asking if I'm going to see the movie.  I was hesitant because I really feel that the movie would ruin the story for me.  They would take the honest and heart felt humanity from it and stuff it full of action, sex, and vampires (not that I would complain...but I really feel like I should protect the story...I don't want it to be corrupted).  

So I started surfing around aimlessly, and I remembered a work partner had said something about the trailor being pretty good.  He was in the same boat as me...had never heard of the story but was going to the movie because his "it's complicated" girl wanted to go see it.  Yeah, I watched the trailor...8 times....I guess I'm going to see the movie. ((Edit: I just watched the trailor again...damn I hate obsessing))

Then I found a gem...Midnight Sun the first half of Twilight written from Edwards point of view.  It was amazing to be able to compair the manuscript to the book and fill in the few blanks.

Sometimes I don't like being alone....