A small exercise: Step 1: Open Google
Step 2: Type twilight in the search window.
The conclusion of the Exercise: 93,900,000 results.
Now for people who have just landed back on earth from mars/moon or were quarantined for a year, Twilight is a bestseller, a fantasy novel, a romantic fantasy, a romance fantasy between a girl and for lack of better sense- a vampire. But don’t write it off just yet .And I am saying this because I want people to buy the first novel of the series which is quite good- not great though. Good enough to make you buy the remaining three, but by the time you buy the last huge book in the series, named ‘Breaking dawn’ you feel like looking for the author to break her head.
And the publishers are smart people too, I received a pamphlet in the last book of the series with an advertisement of some other author carrying forward the legacy of vampires with her own 4 book collection of a concept called ‘vampire school’ wherein the protagonist supposedly gets trained to be a good vampire. Kind of like a finishing school. I bet the author did not finish hers.
Before I am labeled a hypocrite by my friends who have seen me obsessed with Edward mania (the vampire in Twilight) I liked the first book, it was romantic, lighter. I was immersed in the imaginary world and then that’s a good thing, right? Anything that makes you feel good is good (Exception to this rule is drugs maybe.) But people need to know when to stop. The way J.K Rowling did. (Did she?) Or Lewis Carroll did. (He did for sure).
The whole twilight experience made me Google the history of literature on vampires. There’s another book “Interview of Vampire” which was adapted into a movie years back staring tom cruise, Brad Pitt, Antonio Bandreas together. That’s a treat!
I fail to understand the fixation with unreal though. What is it that makes us believe in Ghosts, Werewolves, witches and super powers? Be it a young girl falling for a vampire or a seventeen year old wizard searching for horcruxes or hallows. It somehow attracts. I would like to analyze it psychologically though.
For me the experience of reading Harry Potter or the vampire series was like being lost in a different world which I thoroughly enjoyed.
But I still wish to know the reason for it. Another “I Don’t know Why”
Till then Enjoy this:
Bella: How old are you?
Edward: Seventeen
Bella: How long have you been 17?
Edward: A while
Bella: I know what you are. You're impossibly fast. And strong. Your skin ispale white, and ice cold. Your eyes change color and you never eat or come out into the sun.
Edward: Say it
Bella: Vampire.
Step 2: Type twilight in the search window.
The conclusion of the Exercise: 93,900,000 results.
Now for people who have just landed back on earth from mars/moon or were quarantined for a year, Twilight is a bestseller, a fantasy novel, a romantic fantasy, a romance fantasy between a girl and for lack of better sense- a vampire. But don’t write it off just yet .And I am saying this because I want people to buy the first novel of the series which is quite good- not great though. Good enough to make you buy the remaining three, but by the time you buy the last huge book in the series, named ‘Breaking dawn’ you feel like looking for the author to break her head.
And the publishers are smart people too, I received a pamphlet in the last book of the series with an advertisement of some other author carrying forward the legacy of vampires with her own 4 book collection of a concept called ‘vampire school’ wherein the protagonist supposedly gets trained to be a good vampire. Kind of like a finishing school. I bet the author did not finish hers.
Before I am labeled a hypocrite by my friends who have seen me obsessed with Edward mania (the vampire in Twilight) I liked the first book, it was romantic, lighter. I was immersed in the imaginary world and then that’s a good thing, right? Anything that makes you feel good is good (Exception to this rule is drugs maybe.) But people need to know when to stop. The way J.K Rowling did. (Did she?) Or Lewis Carroll did. (He did for sure).
The whole twilight experience made me Google the history of literature on vampires. There’s another book “Interview of Vampire” which was adapted into a movie years back staring tom cruise, Brad Pitt, Antonio Bandreas together. That’s a treat!
I fail to understand the fixation with unreal though. What is it that makes us believe in Ghosts, Werewolves, witches and super powers? Be it a young girl falling for a vampire or a seventeen year old wizard searching for horcruxes or hallows. It somehow attracts. I would like to analyze it psychologically though.
For me the experience of reading Harry Potter or the vampire series was like being lost in a different world which I thoroughly enjoyed.
But I still wish to know the reason for it. Another “I Don’t know Why”
Till then Enjoy this:
Bella: How old are you?
Edward: Seventeen
Bella: How long have you been 17?
Edward: A while
Bella: I know what you are. You're impossibly fast. And strong. Your skin ispale white, and ice cold. Your eyes change color and you never eat or come out into the sun.
Edward: Say it
Bella: Vampire.
