Twilight Series!

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

Ok, so I'm REALLLLLLLLY late to this party - but I just read these books last week, and I LOVED them. I read them all in about a week and a half - and when I was done, I really felt like I'd lost a best friend, it was that depressing to be done with them...did anyone else have that feeling?

Absolutely. You can read the first 12 chapters of Midnight Sun on stepheniemeyer.com It is Twilight again but written from Edward's perspective. Interesting literary idea.

[DolphinChicaDDD]

Haha, I was late to the party too! I completed the books about two weeks ago or so. I'm now eagerly awaiting the DVD so I can tear it apart and discuss the movie vs the book version with the other teachers who read the book.

Originally Posted by AGDee

Absolutely. You can read the first 12 chapters of Midnight Sun on stepheniemeyer.com It is Twilight again but written from Edward's perspective. Interesting literary idea.

I thought it was a great exercise in writing and found the story from his perspective more interesting than the one from Bella's. While I still shake an angry fist at the jerk who posted the story, I do think it would have gotten repetitive quickly.

I still can't believe someone would do such a terrible thing. I thought it was bad enough when someone took pictures of the Harry Potter book and posted the pages online, but at least that was completed, printed, and bound. This was an author's draft. That is sacred. I can't even imagine the horror and exposure she felt.

[AGDee]

I thought the story was more interesting from his perspective too, for the first book. In subsequent books, I don't think it would be as beneficial. We understand Edward more in the later books anyway.

[Thetagirl218]

Originally Posted by DolphinChicaDDD

Haha, I was late to the party too! I completed the books about two weeks ago or so. I'm now eagerly awaiting the DVD so I can tear it apart and discuss the movie vs the book version with the other teachers who read the book.
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That's why I started reading it! About 2 weeks before the movie came out my students let their teachers borrow the books and a bunch of us got addicted! Topics around the lunch table were often about Twilight much to the male teachers' chagrin.

[PM_Mama00]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

Ok, so I'm REALLLLLLLLY late to this party - but I just read these books last week, and I LOVED them. I read them all in about a week and a half - and when I was done, I really felt like I'd lost a best friend, it was that depressing to be done with them...did anyone else have that feeling?

I felt alone. I felt like I had no more goals to reach. I just felt... empty? Lol it took me 2 months to get through the series and I think the emptiness has a lot to do with having them be a huge part of my two months of life.

Originally Posted by DolphinChicaDDD

I thought it was a great exercise in writing and found the story from his perspective more interesting than the one from Bella's. While I still shake an angry fist at the jerk who posted the story, I do think it would have gotten repetitive quickly.

I still can't believe someone would do such a terrible thing. I thought it was bad enough when someone took pictures of the Harry Potter book and posted the pages online, but at least that was completed, printed, and bound. This was an author's draft. That is sacred. I can't even imagine the horror and exposure she felt.

She says she knows who it was that leaked it because of the different versions that were handed out. I wonder what happened to that person.