Okay, I finally read Stephenie Meyer's New York Times bestseller "Twilight". Yesterday I pushed through the whole entire book at one sitting almost. Since most of the book consists of teenage dialogue in simple language between the main characters Bella and Edward, it was a quick read. For the uninitiated, Edward is a vampire and Bella is a human. They fall in love and therein lies the conflict of the story.
Overall, the book was a page turner, especially towards the end when the tracker caught Bella's scent, but how realistic is it that Bella, a new girl, would suddenly become the hottest chick in town upon arrival? Come on! The vampire bit is more realistic. And also, who wears beige leather jackets? In one scene, the gorgeous Adonis Edward offers Bella his jacket, which is a beige leather jacket. How weird!
I still can't quite grasp why it is such a popular book, not just with teenaged girls, but also with grownups. It seems like any teenage romance story that many other storytellers could have written (but didn't). One thing that did amaze me was the thought that one person (the author) could become a job creator. It was because of her creativity and her ideas that a book was written, a movie filmed, which created tons of jobs for the stars of the movie, the publishing industry, etc. How cool is that? Does that mean we all have the power to be job creators once we discover our own brilliant idea?
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