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Oh my. Once again, I have been sucked into (pun intended) the Twilight fan-phase with newest movie coming out. I will admit that I read all the books in about two months but didn't like the adaptation of New Moon into a movie as much. We all have our own little imaginary worlds when we read, and thus our interpretations are different. However, I am jumping on the Team Jacob/Taylor Lautner bandwagon - he's gorgeous, and I'm obsessed with the fact that this movie was filmed prominently in my home province (British Columbia) and will let myself imagine Taylor running around as a werewolf just in the woods of my backyard. Lovely, just lovely.

There is so much critique about the films and book content, especially being badly written, but this is a sheer brilliance here. Author Stephanie Meyer has created an empire by making this story accessible to read, as there's nothing to figure out on the surface. But, if you read between the lines there is a whole other story going on within the text, and that can just be your extra treat. It's like my other favourite concept, about simplifying things to make them better and be successful (and to this day, I still believe that Pamela Anderson is a genius - she made a career on two fake boobs and acting like a ditz, and we still love her).

So let yourself go and fall into the fantasy world of the stories, and if you don't like it, don't read it or bash those who do. It's a good sign to writers out there, that there is still a passion for stories (how good or bad they are is an opinion "to every their own") and that people are still READING. Fifty years ago, it was thought that books and poetry would die out, but the Twilight phenomenon, along with the Harry Potter books and other smaller series, hopefully is showing that reading will always be here.

Still go see the movie because Lautner is a babe. End of Story.