Folkloric masterpiece? I think not.

So I finished the book Ashley lent me last night. I handed it off to Shannon, because that's how we do and told her it was the book that we've been seeing all the ads for the movie based on it lately, with Cedric Diggory and whatnot. She asked me if it was bad or spectacular. Oh, it's both, my friend. One might say it is spectacularly bad. Although I have to say, I want to read the others now. I just read a review of it by a Paperbackswap member who claims that Bella has the verbal skills of a 35 year-old MENSA member. I think maybe she read a different book. Or she has the verbal skills of a 3 year-old. The dialogue was definitely not something to write home about. Of course, that review was preceded by a review wherein the writer claimed she would be defiantly dragging her husband to see the movie. Oh, people who cannot type the word definitely. You definitely crack me up.

Also, the cover of the book reminds me of nothing so much as Snow White. What does an apple have to do with anything? Is it a reference to temptation? Man's thirst for things he should not want and should not know? Or is it just there because the people are all pale and it's red like the blood the vampires drink? Maybe I'm reading too much into this. And if any of you are former viewers of Buffy the Vampire Slayer,(I used to watch it while I was getting ready in the mornings because it came on at 6) their vampire canon deviates rather a lot from Joss Whedon's vampire canon. Interesting. Pretty much the only thing that is the same is the paleness and the blooddrinking. All the other rules are different (like what can kill them, special abilities, the whole sunlight thing, the invitation to enter a house, etc.).

I am such a nerd. I just looked up the movie on IMDB so I could put a link to Cedric, for clarity, and was all excited by things I saw in the cast list. Also, it's directed by Catherine Hardwicke. So of course, Nikki Reed is in it and Luke from Joan of Arcadia (remind me to lend that to you, Rachel-I really think you'll like it)and, on a less awesome note, Sharkboy from the worst movie ever made, The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl in 3D. Although, he was just a kid, so maybe that's not entirely his fault. But still, completely terrible. Worse than that live-action sequel to The Jungle Book that Zoe used to watch all the time.