The past three years has seen the rise of a phenomenon that is sweeping middle school girls across the world; you folks know it as "Twilight." The first of those books, "Twilight," was written by Stephenie Meyer, a stay-at-home mom from Arizona.
The story was based on a dream Meyer had in 2002, and she finished the book in three months. With the first one under her belt, Meyer went on to finish the series with a grueling three other books. For some reason, the publishing company Little, Brown and Company thought the first book was worth something. Let me assure you: It isn't.
"Twilight" is a vampire and human romance series that follows every other vampire and human romance series: Girl falls in love with handsome guy, guy turns out to be a vampire, vampire struggles internally with his feelings of love and hunger, girl proves her love by doing something stupid which ultimately ends in her death, vampire must turn girl into vampire to save her life, couple lives forever happily.
I will admit I have read the first one, and before I get my "man card" revoked, it was on a bet. It was quite possibly the easiest $5 I've ever made. The book itself was around 350 pages, in 14-point font and nearly double-spaced. Meyer took every shortcut she could have. The story progresses at such a pace, the reader finds themselves wanting something to happen after 200 pages of Bella Swan, the series' heroine, pining for Edward Cullen, her bloodthirsty love. Finally at the end of the book, a group of rogue "vamps" comes literally out of nowhere and begins harassing Bella and the Cullen family. In order to save Bella's life, the family takes her away from Edward while he hunts the only seemingly cool character in the book, James. James somehow tricks Bella into leaving her escorts and going to a dance studio from her childhood in Arizona. Bella falls for the trap and although Edward swoops in just in the nick of time, it's not before James takes a chunk out of sweet Bella's arm.
I can't comment on the rest of the series having not read them, but if the first one is any indication of what's to come, I can rest easy knowing that I'm not missing anything.
The series swept the nation so fast that not three years after the publication of the first of those books a movie was already in the works, and now a year after that, the sequel is breaking "The Dark Knight" single-day records. Its Hollywood blasphemy.
Teenage girls need to get off of this train before it becomes an even bigger wreck. I mean seriously, the acting in these movies is terrible. Rob Pattinson, every girls' heartthrob for the next two years, is only good for being looked at. Kristen Stewart is much the same; how can you make a movie that rakes in over $72 million in one day, out of a series of books that would insult anyone with a good amount of common sense?
Frankly, I am tired of listening to all the ads and media hype about those books. I'm tired of seeing Robert Pattinson's doped-out, pasty look ruining my TV screen and I'm tired of seeing both the Team Edward and Team Jacob merchandise littering our department stores and poisoning our kids' minds. Even Steven King has publicly ridiculed these books, saying "Both Rowling and Meyer, they're speaking directly to young people ... The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can't write worth a darn. She's not very good." I don't know about you readers, but I'm with King on this one.
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