Is what Stella said after I ranted for the umpteenth time about how stupid the book "Twilight" is. (For those who may not know, Stephanie Meyer is the author of Twilight.)
This book has been my life for the last 16-ish hours. I wasn't sleepy at 2am so I began it. Like The DaVinci Code, another book that makes me want to scream, Twilight turned me into an obsessive compulsive. I couldn't stop until I was finished. I took a few hours off to sleep, walk down the street to the cafe and the Chinese grocery, drop off some laundry at the lavanderia and to shower. Other than that, I've been reading this piece of crap.
Poor Stella. She HAD been reading it, and now I've ruined it for her. I told her, her life was more valuable than to be spent reading Twilight. It's like watching the movie Armegeddon or fulfilling a craving for Chinese Food with some cold beef and broccoli from the food court in the mall. Horribly trite and unfulfilling, yet you sit there and endure because you are a weak, weak human.
Today has been the most beautiful day yet on our trip, so I was able to combine the painful experience of reading Twilight with laying out in the park across the street from our flat, so there's that.
Tonight Stell and I return to our tango class and then are to meet a friend of a friend for drinks and/or go out with these girls we met in class yesterday. After running around non-stop since we landed Wednesday, it was nice to have a day off, even if I chose to spend it enduring my now-least-favorite book of all time.
(My beef is this: the heroine is boring, annoying, stupid, and hasn't an ounce of inner strength or self-possession. All she does is whine, complain and shudder. Unless she is marvelling on how beautiful her vampire boyfriend is. I know she is a teenager, but holy christ! The teenagers I know have far more depth to them than the rain puddle of emotion this protagonist explores. What's wrong with having a hero that girls look up to?? This girl argues incessantly to become a vampire so she can stay with her boyfriend for all eternity. She passes off college as "Plan B." All I saying is, can't you have your vampire-boyfriend for eternity and get a college education, too? C'mon Stephanie Meyer, don't make me hurt you.)
This book has been my life for the last 16-ish hours. I wasn't sleepy at 2am so I began it. Like The DaVinci Code, another book that makes me want to scream, Twilight turned me into an obsessive compulsive. I couldn't stop until I was finished. I took a few hours off to sleep, walk down the street to the cafe and the Chinese grocery, drop off some laundry at the lavanderia and to shower. Other than that, I've been reading this piece of crap.
Poor Stella. She HAD been reading it, and now I've ruined it for her. I told her, her life was more valuable than to be spent reading Twilight. It's like watching the movie Armegeddon or fulfilling a craving for Chinese Food with some cold beef and broccoli from the food court in the mall. Horribly trite and unfulfilling, yet you sit there and endure because you are a weak, weak human.
Today has been the most beautiful day yet on our trip, so I was able to combine the painful experience of reading Twilight with laying out in the park across the street from our flat, so there's that.
Tonight Stell and I return to our tango class and then are to meet a friend of a friend for drinks and/or go out with these girls we met in class yesterday. After running around non-stop since we landed Wednesday, it was nice to have a day off, even if I chose to spend it enduring my now-least-favorite book of all time.
(My beef is this: the heroine is boring, annoying, stupid, and hasn't an ounce of inner strength or self-possession. All she does is whine, complain and shudder. Unless she is marvelling on how beautiful her vampire boyfriend is. I know she is a teenager, but holy christ! The teenagers I know have far more depth to them than the rain puddle of emotion this protagonist explores. What's wrong with having a hero that girls look up to?? This girl argues incessantly to become a vampire so she can stay with her boyfriend for all eternity. She passes off college as "Plan B." All I saying is, can't you have your vampire-boyfriend for eternity and get a college education, too? C'mon Stephanie Meyer, don't make me hurt you.)
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