{"id":2049,"date":"2009-03-30T14:31:18","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T12:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/?p=2049"},"modified":"2010-05-31T23:57:20","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T21:57:20","slug":"twilight-the-story-i-hate-to-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/2049","title":{"rendered":"Twilight – The Story I Hate to Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"twilightbook\"<\/a>I recently decided to pick up the wildly popular series of Twilight books.\u00a0 I\u2019ve heard so much about them but always had other things I wanted to read first.\u00a0 When the movie came out, I felt a bit pressed for time, because I really wanted to see the movie, but not without reading the books first.\u00a0 I like to be able to make up my own images of people in my mind before they are shown to me on screen.<\/p>\n

A friend read the books recently and raved about them.\u00a0 She went beyond raving though, into a place that I\u2019ve never seen someone go over a book before.\u00a0 Honest to goodness depression that the story was over.<\/p>\n

Could it be that<\/em> good, seriously?\u00a0 They are<\/em> \u2018teen romance\u2019 books after all.<\/p>\n

Little did I know what I was in for *sigh*\u2026 from the first moment I opened the first book, I was completely hooked.\u00a0\u00a0 For the following three days I was incommunicado.\u00a0 I actually bought the first book, so I could read it wherever I was, but when I finished it I was so hooked I couldn\u2019t wait to start reading the next, so I downloaded it\u2026 and the one after that\u2026 and the one after that.<\/p>\n

My friends didn\u2019t hear from me, except the ones who have read it, so that I could blab my thoughts on the story to them.\u00a0 My husband wondered if I was ever going to come out from behind my laptop for something other than food, toilet breaks or sleep and I\u2019m pretty sure I didn\u2019t bother to shower or answer the door or phone the entire time.\u00a0 It was bad\u2026 really bad.<\/p>\n

\"twilight\"<\/a>
\nThe Cullen family of vampires<\/strong><\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t realize how much worse it could get until I was finished reading them\u2026 and then I understood what my friend meant when she said she was so depressed now that it\u2019s all over.\u00a0\u00a0 I was devastated!\u00a0 Suddenly I was thrown back into the real world and I didn\u2019t want to be here.\u00a0\u00a0 I wanted to live in Bella\u2019s world where you are never alone, there is always someone watching over you and protecting you\u2026 where the family of the one you love accepts you and loves you wholeheartedly even though you are different\u2026 A world of lullabies and baseball in the rain.<\/p>\n

\"twilightbball\"<\/a>
\nVampire Baseball <\/strong><\/p>\n

I wasn\u2019t there though.\u00a0 I was sitting at home, alone\u2026 my dogs were bugging to be fed, there was laundry to do, I hadn\u2019t figured out what to make for dinner yet, there were bills waiting to be paid and my hair was in that annoying \u2018growing out stage\u2019.\u00a0 It fucking sucked.<\/p>\n

Twilight is an amazing story, but it\u2019s quite dangerous too.\u00a0\u00a0 It has a way of dragging you into a perfect world where even the most impossible things can seem real.\u00a0\u00a0 When it\u2019s over and you close the book, you are left sitting and hating everything real about the world you live in.\u00a0\u00a0 Where the love you feel is real but will never have the force or excitement of the completely unrealistic (but desirable) form of it you just read about.\u00a0\u00a0 Where everything takes so much more effort and every relationship you have seems to be missing something by comparison.\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s scary that a story in a book can have that affect on people, but it does and I know I\u2019m not the only one.\u00a0 I\u2019ve visited a few fan sites and by the looks of things I am (believe it or not) among the more mildly affected.\u00a0 Frightening thought.<\/p>\n

\"twilight2\"<\/a>
\nEdward and Bella. Forbidden love at it\u2019s best.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve not read this series, you (like I did when my friend tried to explain it to me) couldn\u2019t possibly understand, but if you have \u2013 I know you\u2019re with me on this.<\/p>\n

The world created by the author is one of the purest kind of love.\u00a0\u00a0 Not just that but it\u2019s a forbidden love, and we all know that the forbidden fruit<\/em> sayings exist for a reason.\u00a0\u00a0 Put that together with unconditional acceptance, excitement and magic\u2026 how can anyone ever finish this story and not feel a little disappointed to be back in the real world?<\/p>\n

This is all what makes me love these books, and hate them at the same time.\u00a0 They are like a drug and they affect you in a way that I\u2019ve never experienced with any other book in the past.\u00a0\u00a0 They stay with you, even days after you\u2019ve finished them you can be driving down the road or watching TV and the characters will flash into your mind for no real reason.\u00a0 It could go on forever and you\u2019d still be left wanting more.<\/p>\n

Crazy, right?\u00a0 I know\u2026 even as I write all of this I know how ridiculous I sound\u2026 but that doesn\u2019t stop it all from being true.<\/p>\n

\"twilight4\"<\/a>
\nOur first glimpse of sweet Jacob<\/strong><\/p>\n

So anyway, Saturday my friend came over and we watched the movie together.\u00a0 Both of us hopping with excitement in our seats as it began.\u00a0\u00a0 I know, it was hard to believe we were both over 30, but I guess we\u2019re all still teenage girls at heart\u2026<\/p>\n

I was disappointed.\u00a0 I was disappointed to be<\/em> disappointed!\u00a0\u00a0 I knew that they had no chance in hell of fitting everything into the movie that was in the book, but they really could have done better.<\/p>\n

First, the things I did like.\u00a0 I love the people they chose to play all the parts, they were perfect\u2026 (although I did sort of imagine Alice to be more like Daisy Adaire from Dead Like Me).\u00a0\u00a0 I loved being able to see these beloved characters \u201clive\u201d and sit there and gush during the parts where they DID get it right.\u00a0 I loved that for all the parts they left out, they didn\u2019t forget the scene in the meadow, which was one of my favorites.<\/p>\n

There were a lot of things I found wrong with the movie though, and they deserve a bullet list.<\/p>\n