Seriously now. I'm a 24 year old adult-- I should have better things to do than emmerse myself in stories of 17 year old vampires... but I can't. I really had no intentions to read the Twilight series, and I have all four of them now within arms reach. I'm fairly certain I have a problem.
It all started about a week and a half ago, when my Aunt Maureen sent me my token tag from Christmas in the mail. Included with the tag was the first Twilight book. Bekah had started reading the series over Thanksgiving-- at which point I was still completely uninterested in reading the series, much less watching the movie. Vampires... are you kidding me? The only thing the movie had going for it was some extremely attractive men. Mmmmm :)
Curious, I flipped through the first few pages of the book. Afterall, it WAS sitting on my desk. 500 pages and four days later, I had finished the first book. I probably would have finished it sooner, had I not had this stupid thing called work... and the need for food, sleep, and social interaction. Thank goodness I had plans to go home this past weekend, where I picked up the other three books in the series from my sister. I'm currently 150 pages into the second, and it's driving me crazy right now that it's too early to take a lunch break still. I'll read a bit on my lunch break.
It's just such a good series... and I say this with complete faith, because it's very difficult for me to get into reading. I read one book in its entirety this past summer-- and started, but didn't finish, about a half dozen more. I don't usually even bother in reading books. I get distracted too easily. If people are talking, if the tv is on, if it's noisy outside, count me out. Even my wandering mind gets the best of me and distracts me from my reading... but not this book. I can't put it down. I can literally touch the book I'm currenly reading-- it's that close to me.
In addition to my overwhelming desire to read the series as quickly as possible, I've read the summaries of the four books online (because I couldn't wait to find out when Edward and the rest of the Cullins would return to the second book, or when other important happenings would occur). I'm also currently listening to select songs from the movies soundtrack, and have searched all the main characters from the movie on IMDB. Seriously, I'm fully aware that I have a problem.
I've never been like this. I mean, I guess there could most certainly be bigger issues/addictions. Meghann thinks I'm crazy. Justin at least humors my addiction-- although I'm sure he'll get sick of me telling him I wish he was a vampire, and he'll probably (at some point) wish I'd talk about something besides the books, comparing everthing to vampires, and lusting over Edward Cullin.
What makes this series so capitivating, you ask? I dunno. Maybe it's that the actor in the first movie, Robert Pattinson, is insanely gorgeous. That probably has something to do with it. The book is so incredibly descriptive-- from the expressions on the faces, to the emotions, that I'm basically recreating a movie in my head-- with his gorgeous face as the star. But, outside of that, the book is just fabulous. It's like a forbidden love story-- but has pain, attraction, feeling, behind it as well. Not to mention, it's NOT like the Harry Potter series, or the Lord of the Rings series, at least as far as I know. Not that I read them, or watched the movies... but this is not fansical (is that a word?) like I envision them to be. Aaaaaaaa, it's just so good... to the point that I'm now blogging about it. I've lost my mind-- the vampires have taken it over.
Who knows what I'll do when I finish the books. Probably impatiently await the arrival of the second movie on the big screens. Maybe return to being a normal human being who does things outside of work besides shove her cold feet under her boyfriend as she reads all night long and he plays video games (don't even get me started on HIS addictions to video games-- currently Fallout 3, where he is talking about mutants in his sleep). Needless to say, one thing is for certain-- never in my life have I been so enthralled in something so silly... and I love it! Now, if only I could work on getting Justin to promise me that he'll become a vampire.
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