Great Indian Fruit Bat, Bhawani Das. The Met, via Arkivism
This is another post that I’ve had partially written for a long time.
I read the Twilight books partly in real time. I started the series and read the first 3 in 2007 about a year before the last book came out. Then I had to wait for 4 with everyone else.
According to the post, I bought Twilight with a gift card and intended to set it aside except I read the first few pages and couldn’t put it down. After I finished I ran out to buy the next 2 in hardcover. At the time, I was trying to read a book called Snow by Orhan Pamuk because he was going to be a speaker at Arts & Lectures. He won the Nobel Prize for literature. I DNF’d his book and read 1600 pages of teen vampires instead. Happily.
At the time I finished 3, I thought it was the last book and a good place to stop. I didn’t think another book was a good idea. But now that all this time has passed, I am fine with how the story resolved.
But back to reading. I found books 3 and 4 too long. I described long passages as “just typing.”
The reason for this post is a couple of years ago I rewatched all 5 of the movies for the first time since they originally came out.
After, I revisited my posts from my first viewing.
Twilight.
First watch: I didn’t hate it but didn’t think it was great. My biggest peeve was (and remains) that Jacob didn’t have a rez accent. As a fan I approved.
More recent watch: Any of the things that bothered me back in 2008 have long vanished. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I love the weird soundtrack. Love all the cast.
