Twilight's Really Not THAT Bad

I thought I'd do the right thing and read the book before bashing it--I have seen the 1st movie and thought the actress was really bad and realized now that she did give a good portrayal of the heroine in the book.  Isabella Swan is charmless, artless, shallow, and incapable of coherent thought except that one instance in the truck while the powerful vampire lover of hers panicked and wanted to run away with her to who knows where.  Compared to the heroines of Judith McNaught, Julie Garwood, and even occasionally, Jude Deveraux, Bella is too plain, too simple-minded, too DULL.  Let me name one girl for example:  Whitney in Whitney, My Love.  There.  See what I mean?  Or Brenna in The Wedding.  Or Jaime in The Bride.  Jade in Guardian Angel.  Anyway, Edward is no better, despite all his age.  Think Dorian Grey.  Yeah.  Edward is dust on Dorian Grey's portrait.  Anyway, I am sick of Bella's insipid character, Edward's flatness.  And oh god, it gave me goosebumps when he admitted to her that he was SPYING ON HER AND WHEN SHE ASKED HOW MANY TIMES HE'S BEEN TO HER HOUSE AT NIGHT HE REPLIED, 'WHAT ELSE IS THERE TO DO AT NIGHT?.'  That sent chills crawling up my spine.  Is that sick or what?!  But then again, this Bella character sticks to her decisions like jam on your cheek.  So it's not that bad, the book, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

26, October, 2010

I'm slow.  Numerous people have complained about this.  That ugly hag I had for a teacher in Grade 5 said she hated that I refused to run.  She was not wearing a Girl Scout Uniform that was 4 inches above the knees that flapped backwards up to her waist when she ran.  Ugly hag.  [Mrs Villaceran.  Yes, I remember you.  You're lucky I don't know your address.]  So it took me 3 hours to get myself and my baby ready to go out.  So what?  I already had my dose of caffeine, not much you can do there.  We went to the grocery store.  It was cold.  The exposed parts of my anatomy felt like I'd just dipped them in ice cold water.  For one thing, my fingers felt like they've just congealed into one whole mass.  I can still feel them, which was good.  I was glad to see some 'toilette' papers on sale.  They smelled good, and, oh!  Look!  Flowers.  Any ass would love that.  I also bought chocolate, which I thought was expensive, but I bought it anyway.  I liked the metal case.  It's metal and who  knows, with care I could even give it to my grandchildren as a toy they can bury their dead pet hamster in [of course the poor thing would have had died of natural causes--I know the Americans have outlawed this as a cause of death in 1956, but that's just them.  And maybe that law just includes humans.]  Anyway, I was horrified to find out it cost 2 times more than I thought.  Damn, that totally ruined the excitement I had over the fact that I thought I saw a huge mushroom growing on one of the trees on the way back.  Just imagine if you were the tree--you'd have panicked at having found such a thing growing on you, kind of like if you were human and you found maggots spilling from a cavity that you'd never noticed before.  Damn.