"Harry Potter is all about confronting fears, finding inner strength and doing what is right in the face of adversity...Twilight is about how important it is to have a boyfriend."
- Andrew Futral
All my friends know this. I hate the Twilight series so much. The movies are bad and the books are the worst thing of print history. It has no plot, 2D flat characters and the writing is atrocious. I'm not being a grammar nazi or book snob here, but it's a really bad book. And I have tried reading it.
I guess I'm at the age where I wonder about having kids. And if I ever become a mother (however unlikely XD) I wonder about how I'll bring my kids up. At this point in my life, I can see clearly how my mother has damaged me, but has also shaped me to whatever I am now, the parts I'm ashamed and proud off. It kills me to think that my kids may end up reading Twilight instead of books with actual proper writing.
Reading was a large part of my childhood and till this day I love to read. I love losing myself in a good book, anytime, even today. It pains me that some people will grow up not knowing the best most simple books but know the entire cast of Twilight and how much hairspray the Robert P guy has.
"I live in two worlds. One is a world of books. I've been a resident of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, hunted the white whale aboard the Pequod, fought alongside Napoleon, sailed a raft with Huck and Jim, committed absurdities with Ignatius J. Reilly, rode a sad train with Anna Karenina, and strolled down Swann's Way. It's a rewarding world, but my second one is by far superior. My second one is populated with characters slightly less eccentric but supremely real, made of flesh and bone, full of love, who are my ultimate inspiration for everything."
- Rory's valedictorian speech, "Those Are Strings, Pinocchio"