wednesday_10_00 | Twilight, round 3972

I finished Breaking Dawn before I even had a chance to post about Eclipse. And, BTW, I freaking LOVED it. I...am not sure it was entirely in a snarky, ironic way. >.>

What was funny about finishing Eclipse was that it was fairly late Thursday night. I could barely keep my eyes open near the end, but I really wanted to just finish and I was so close, and I did, finally, finish, but I fell asleep so soon afterwords that it didn't really feel like I had finished, and I woke up thinking I still had the book in my hands (I didn't) and feeling angry at myself for falling asleep before I finished.

Most of the book was just plain boring, honestly. And then the last...100? 200? or so pages of the book were...painful is putting it mildly. I mean, I knew all the nonsense about Bella realizing that she was in love with Edward AND Jacob (except she loves Edward more, of course!), and, frankly, that was what kept me from reading the series for a long time. I mean, just...ugh. That's not what I want in my sappy romance. (Much like I don't want the hero to be compared to the statue of David. And by that I mean in that he's cold and marble-hard. Ugh, ugh.) And, even knowing what was coming, it was worse than I expected. I think

cleolinda says it best:

Jacob was right. He'd been right all along. He was more than just my friend. That's why it was so impossible to tell him goodbye--because I was in love with him. Too. I loved him, much more than I should, and yet, still nowhere near enough. I was in love with him, but it was not enough to change anything; it was only enough to hurt us both more. To hurt him worse than I ever had.

Sometimes I just hate everyone.

So, anyway, that part, I knew was coming. But the reactions after the big battle? Just...ugh. Can I say "ugh" a little more in this post? Yes? UGH. I'm sorry, but that's how I feel about the whole damn triangle business. It just made me want to throw things. Probably I would have, if I hadn't been so damn tired by the time I finished it. (Honestly, I think the series as a whole would have been just SO much better if the middle two books had been combined into one, and the love triangle had been handled a little differently.) I think the one bright spot in the book was Seth, one of the new werewolf characters. He was freaking adorable, and secretly I'm a little sad that there wasn't really anyone around to slash him with but Edward and Jacob.

But Breaking Dawn...oh, Breaking Dawn! Okay, it was definitely too long, and was still chock-full of Bella's nonsensical narration that makes me roll my eyes ("Edward's and Jacob's faces were almost identical masks of horror, despite the fact that one of them was an animal"). But I don't even care, because it was so utterly cracktastic and over the top, and MY GOD, Bella and her family are the biggest bunch of Mary Sues to exist outside of fanfic and I kind of love them for it. And, frankly, the Cullens' Vampire Army of Awesome is WAY more interesting to read about then the Epic Love Triangle. (side note: is it because I read too much manga that I think Jacob and Renesmee are more cute than creepy? I mean, yeah, Quil and Claire, a little weird, but Renesmee clearly has more of an idea of what's going on.) And Bella is a million times more interesting as a badass vampire than a whiny "average ~~adoraklutz~~ girl." I'm pretty sad the series is over, actually. I'm telling you, if SMeyer wrote a book about the Cullens actually going to war with the Volturi, I would be all over it.

P.S. to

mereflair: This is a link to the wank about the fanfic I was talking about. Only skip most of the stuff in the entry itself; the comments is where you'll find most of the fun, see especially this thread. (See also: Charlie the Unicorn.)

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Don't ask me where it came from, because I have no idea. I am still avoiding the books, myself. But yeah.

Um.

That's hilarious, I love it! The look on his face is the BEST. Thank you!!

(Why avoid the inevitable? THEY'RE CALLING YOU. "REEEEAD MEEEE, REEEEEAAD MEEEEE," they call, in their SPARKLIEST voice.)

It was going to be Nosferatu. But Bat Boy is better, don't you think?

(someday I will probably be weak and give in. But....I don't want to pay for it. And the waiting list at the library will be forever)

Yes, definitely. The screaming expression is what makes it. I like to imagine he's just making a really crazy "a" sound in dazzle. ("Do I dAAAAzzle you?")

It took me about a month and a half, I think, to get the third book from my library. So...yeah, not something you can pick up on a whim.

Twilight, round 3972

I maded you a thing.

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