Every time you cross the red line, my tracks go tangling

[burnblack]

So, without realizing all the hype surrounding it, I started reading Twilight last week after picking it up on sale at Target. The writing tends toward the teenage girl demographic (okay, we get it, Edward Cullen is beautiful, we don't need a reminder of how Bella is affected by this in each paragraph), but it's pretty intriguing so far. I'm

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[j3]

Twilight was a SLOW go for about the first 300 pages and then, suddenly, it was over. It didn't live up to all of the hype I'd been hearing about it. New Moon was ridiculously tedious. I can't understand why it had to be so long when so little actually happened. The story only really starts about 100 pages before the book's end. I can say the same thing about Eclipse. I don't know how these books managed to become so damn popular when so little happens in them. They are all pretty fast reads that don't require any thinking on the part of the reader whatsoever, which makes them pretty inoffensive pieces of fluff, but there's very little in the way of plot movement, character development and action to justify their length. I finished each one thinking that I had just read a whole lot of nothing. It also doesn't help much that Bellla is one of the most tedious characters ever committed to paper.

[burnblack]

I agree re: Bella. I was just thinking last night how much better things would be if the story were written from Edward Cullen's POV. I've wondered what exactly he finds so fascinating about her and how it's possible for him not to be able to read her mind, because she's pretty plain and pedestrian. Maybe this kind of book just isn't suited to a first person perspective, I dunno. I am pretty curious to see how a movie is going to be made from this book, though, since the bulk of the "action" that's occurred so far would take up about 20 minutes on film.