A lovely chat with a dear friend in the past week has engaged me in a second full time job which is reading Twilight by Stephenie Meyer.... although I have watched the movie earlier but this novel is so additive and suspenseful that I put all my activities after work on hold except reading it to the extent that I couldn’t resist having any wasted time without it so I bought the Audio book edition and currently having it in my iPod where I can listen to it in the places where carrying a book is inappropriate e.g. whilst driving or walking!!
I usually discuss whether reading those novels which were adapted into movies should be before or after watching the movie, normally I read the book and then I watch the movie but in this particular time, I did the other way around, so the novel is now detailing the explaining the movie … I started also to find out the differences (and sometimes justify them!) between the movie and the novel, more also how the actions in the movie are moving much faster and briefer than in the novel, for instance in the novel Charlie told Bella about the Chevy truck on the way back from the airport but in the movie she knew about it after getting home more also the whole section about the blood type test is not in the movie and in the movie Bella and her mom never exchanged emails (all phone calls) unlike the novel…etc.
The novel is a teenage human-vampire romance story, where Bella fall in love with the vampire Edward who (and his family) drink animal blood rather than humans, although Edward has initially avoided her because the scent of her blood was so desirable to him…
Normally forbidden love stories are like the forbidden apple on the novel cover make people tempting for them and find their way directly into people’s heart and so did this one being the international bestselling novel, it excelled in the way it has been written being so reasonable, delicate, direct to the point, and easy to follow novel.
Normally romance novels has the 2 normal people who fall in love, so a male reader can imagine himself as if he were the male guy and sometimes even learn from the way he acted, the words and actions the hero was doing, even trying to think and maybe dress like him or whatever… but in this story it is impossible since Bella’s love was basically built on how ideally Edward looked like, on his supernatural power, his changing eyes color, the way he showed her the world from the top of the tree, and maybe his driving on top speed habit which I liked most J …etc. all of these things are impossible for normal human, hence it might become frustrating for a male reader unless he put himself in Bella’s shoes!!, who looks normal, drives an early sixties Chevy truck, cannot dance, doesn’t play Volleyball properly …etc. but get loved and love the perfect person; beautiful, speaks in an angelic voice and most importantly sharing and caring person who doesn’t hide secrets and tells all the facts as they were even though they might cause big problems for them both.
The story is lovely and I recommend everyone to read it (boys and girls) but boys don’t try to stop a moving van using your handsJ
Enjoy reading….
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