OK, I admit that I have the reading and music tastes of a teenage girl. At least that's what my wife says, and looking at my reading list for 2008 so far, I'd have to agree with her. Earlier this year, I read the first three books of Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series, and with every page, I kept thinking "This is pap" and then I would turn the page and keep going. I think a lot of adults have that experience when reading this series. It's just such page-turning pap...
So it was with some trepidation that I picked up Breaking Dawn, the last book, and one that had garnered some less-than-positive reviews. My wife asked me if I wanted her to buy it for me... to spare me the public shame of the purchase. I declined. I can be ashamed in public, thank you very much.
It was as I expected. Pap, but I finished all 600 plus pages in a day and a half. It was like a fever. I just had to purge it and be done. It was OK... A couple of times, I felt like she chickened out from really exploring the ramifications of what was going on. My wife, reading the summary and reviews, was incensed that Stephanie Meyer was creating a role model for girls everywhere. She felt that as a best-selling author, she had more responsibility than that.
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