I’m sure everyone in the world knows by now that the latest movie installment in the Twilight series, New Moon, raked in $72.7 million on opening day, breaking the record from last year by The Dark Knight. How many of those were fangirls who waited for the midnight premiere, braving the cold and wet? I’ll admit that I am a Twilight fan, but I can wait a little bit for the craziness to die down. Those rabid fans scare me. Do I want to see the movie? Yes, even though I dislike New Moon out of all the books in the series (although Breaking Dawn is a very close second for the godawful name Stephenie Meyer gave to Bella and Edward’s daughter). Taylor Lautner is definitely easy on the eyes (look at those abs!) but I hate the character of Jacob in this book – he’s whiny and cocky and too arrogant for me. I’m obviously on Team Edward, but Edward annoyed me quite a bit in New Moon too, not gonna lie. I’ll still take Edward any day over Jacob though =)

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I recently became a fan of Stephenie Meyer’s book Twilight. It’s a pretty recent book, written in 2005, and it’s been popular for awhile now but I never got around to reading it until just a few weeks ago. It’s really sad, I used to be one of the first to read the newest and most popular young adult fiction among my friends. I just don’t have the time for it anymore =( And I think I lost part of my enthusiasm for series after reading the final two books in the Harry Potter series. I’m a die-hard HP fan but I absolutely hated those last two books. Thank god for Fanfiction.net and the other fans out there just like me who hated the way the series ended and wrote their own personal interpretations in some of the best writing I’ve ever read.

But I fell in love with the Bella/Edward love story after reading Twilight. I drool just imagining what Edward Cullen would look like in real life. Talk about eye-candy And that sensous, velvet voice…oh Bella Swan, you are the luckiest girl in fiction ever. And then Stephenie Meyers had to ruin my fantasies with her sequels, Eclipse and New Moon. WTF?!! Why must you introduce a love triangle? And turn what was a perfectly lovely novel about love and immortality and free will and gorgeous vampires into a freaking soap opera that involves a deadly feud between werewolves and vampires?

And don’t even get me started on the whole Bella-Edward-Jacob thing. Jacob was totally cool in Twilight but he turned into a stupid cocky jackass in the last two books that makes me want to punch him in the face. And Bella is so stupid: why would you even bother with a smartass, immature idiot who thinks of the whole thing as a game when you have this perfect, angsty, greek god look-alike practically wrapped around your finger. Gaaahh. It makes me angry. I’ll probably read Breaking Dawn, the last book in the series, just so I can get some closure and see if Ms. Meyers actually writes the ending that should happen (if Bella gives up Edward for Jacob, I will burn that book!)

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