Twilight Discussion
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Here ya go ladies! This discussion is all about Twilight. Which I happen to be currently revamping.
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Permalink Reply by Kat on -
Iknow exactly what you mean ladies. i was up till 3am, last night re-reading eclipse I am almost done
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Permalink Reply by InannaIshtaar on -
Tonya (the Stampvamp) said:Welcome to Karen!! Glad you are here!
Cracklit....rofl....you nailed that one. I completely and totally agree. I have never had anything affect me the way Twi has. I think that those of us who've been married awhile "get" this book. And miss it. I could have spoken the words all of you ladies have written. I literally cried for three days after reading Twi the first time and it was a mixture of the beauty of the book and realization of where I am in my life. To quote someone earlier...Ah, to be young again. I guess with all the responsibilities we have at this point in our lives, Twi fulfills an area we are missing. And I, like everyone else, am completely absorbed.
Lia, I get where you are coming from. It's funny...I wonder what Bella's choice would have been if she were older. I definitely know there comes a point in life when you have to consider more than just passion.
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Permalink Reply by InannaIshtaar on
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I have to comment........................I cried too. I was profoundly awakened to new possibilities.And I think it is about wanting to feel that deeply in love again and where life takes us instead. I would give anything to capture those feelings again. I loved someone that way in my thirties, I dreamt of him as a young girl and then actually met him. That was 12 years ago, and it is like it was yesterday. He left me and is not coming back.
I have to say, it makes me mourn my youth, but somewhere deep inside, I still believe that eternal passion thing is possible. Am I wrong?
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Permalink Reply by Tonya (the Stampvamp) on -
I'm in complete agreement. I could've totally written this. I think I'll weep now...
InannaIshtaar said:I have to comment........................I cried too. I was profoundly awakened to new possibilities.And I think it is about wanting to feel that deeply in love again and where life takes us instead. I would give anything to capture those feelings again. I loved someone that way in my thirties, I dreamt of him as a young girl and then actually met him. That was 12 years ago, and it is like it was yesterday. He left me and is not coming back.
I have to say, it makes me mourn my youth, but somewhere deep inside, I still believe that eternal passion thing is possible. Am I wrong?
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Permalink Reply by momofour26 on -
For a week this book first consumed me in a STRONG way, I rethought my life and went through a seperation and almost divorce following reading this book, I felt weird saying so but knowing I am not the only one is empowering....now to be fair it isnt ONLY the book (and the soundtrack...gosh how Roberts voice intensified those feelings...and paramore songs.I had my zune in my ear all day) that pushed me that way, things had been bad for years but reading these words, feeling these feelings again brought everything to the surface and I bawled like a baby for what I wanted, for what I deserved to have in my life....the love that Stephenie Meyer writes about is powerful and convincing. It is possible to overcome whatever you need to to get what you need. I took all the steps needed and after two months I got what I wanted and my husband stepped up and changed completely and I am in love with him again...he is not Edward yet, but there is love in his eyes when he looks at me now and the same is reflected in mine. It became a happy ending for me and he has started reading the series and doesnt complain about my obsession with Twilight!
And all of the community of woman out there make us ALL stronger with our sharing and support! I have had a few woman come to me with the same stories looking to ME for guidance, blew me away!
Support each other ladies, and lean on me! Thanks for letting me share! group Twi hugs!
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Permalink Reply by Adena Surabian on
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Huge Twilight Junkie over here. Read all four books and I am re-reading that last two because I miss them so much. Dragged my 5 and 8 year to be the first in line at Target to grab the movie and I even own the Twilight Game. Almost called my husband Edward- Help!
Ashley said:I love, love, love Harry Potter. It's different from these books b/c it's a world that I love to visit -- not a vampire that I'm infatuated with. But still -- I take Harry Potter very seriously. Except for the Sorcerer's Stone, I have been disappointed w/every HP movie that has come out.... the first time I saw it. I've finally learned to love the movies as separate from the books. There's just no way to capture the magic of the written word on film. I've learned to separate my expectations and enjoy each movie on its own terms (eventually).
I'm hoping to do the same here. I like RP as Edward. He actually looks a lot like "my" Edward. As long as the spirit of the books is kept, I'll be okay with them fudging a few of the details for the sake of theater and time.
Don't you all wish -- just a little even -- that the movie is able to capture some of that feeling of reading Twilight for the first time? That's what I'm hoping for.
Lia said:I still haven't seen the movie The Davinci Code for that reason!
I didn't want the movie to ruin my love for the book and the story! It's been a while now, maybe I'm ready to see the movie now........ Steph, I know how you feel!
StephDC said:don't worry, you're DEFINATELY not alone this time :D i've never had a book do this to me. Even when I read HP. I loved all of those books but i was never as addicted as i am to Twilight. I pretty much live and breath twilight lol I really can't wait for the movie but i'm sort of scared about not liking it. Besides my family & friends, my two biggest loves in my life are movies and books.
And I love when they make my favorite books into movies but some of them haven't been that great and really puts me off.. The trailer looks great and i know they had to change it alot so it could fit into 2 hrs but i'm hoping it doesn't seem cheesy.. there is a little tiny part of my brain that is thinking that its not going to live up to all the hype like the book has.. but I think thats just the pessimist inside of me coming out.. i tend to do that lol..
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Permalink Reply by InannaIshtaar on
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I must say that I saw the movie first, then read just Twilight and have since read New Moon. As incredible as it sounds, it has changed me. I feel as though I am healing from the damaged person I have been for 12 years. I know this is suppose to be that all encompassing young love, but I never felt that kind of love in my teens. I had this kind of passionate as an adult. We are told that we outgrow those feelings. Call me an idealist, but I don't believe we have to. Twilight has changed me, and RP is very much a part of that effect on me. I don't know how to explain it either. I have searched for the thing to bring me back to life for a longtime now. How strange that it would be a shy, 22 yr old in the budding stages of his career as a 17 yr old vampire that would re-awaken that deepest part of me. Part of it is also that Vampire world. I have always hung onto the magic in life, or at least the possibility of magic, and here it is. I want to be a Cullen, I want to experience the joy of running lightening speed through a damp, ethereal forest with my mate, completely and utterly absorbed in the physicalness of it. I think it a most human desire, to be cherished and to be seen.
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Permalink Reply by Jess Lobus on -
Okay...not to sound horribly twisted, but reading your stories has made me feel LESS insane. I felt much the same way after I read Twilight the first time. However, I wasn't unhappy in my marriage, but I was unhappy in a lot of other ways. We're living with my in-laws currently, about 800 miles away from the town I grew up in, my entire family, and all my friends. Reading Twilight almost intensified those feelings for me, and, for awhile there, I was feeling unhappy in my marriage BECAUSE of Twilight, if that makes sense. Like...I was comparing my wonderful, but all-too-human husband to this fictional vampire. At first, I thought there was something totally wrong with me, to be so obsessed with this character in a book. After I read it, I had to literally put it away, because it was causing some serious issues with my hubs and I. I know, crazy, right? But...since then I've been able to point out exactly what it is that I was wanting my husband to have that Edward has...dont get me wrong, there has never ever been a doubt in my mind that my husband loves me. He adores me, in fact. But, sometimes, I just needed more than the "usual" I love yous, etc. So, I told him. It's not that Edward's immortal, or a vampire, or absolutely gorgeous...it's that fierce, protective, raw emotional core that I was missing. Hubs and I used to have that, then we had kids, moved in with his parents...and it got lost. Now, thanks to Twilight, it's slowly coming back. DH still laughs at my silly obsession, but he understands it, and it helps that the books make me more than a little "excited", if you know what I mean.
But yeah...at the risk of sounding crazy, that's my story...
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Permalink Reply by InannaIshtaar on
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If we don't absolutely fight to hang on or develop that connection, who will? And quite frankly, life is hard, what would be the point of a dull and mediocre life? I don't think any of us start out thinking, "I can't wait to be average". So why should we settle for it.?
I think you are very fortunate to have a wonderful husband who wants the same things you are envisioning for your relationship. The world needs more of it.Most of all, It is so great that you are willing to fight to get it. Your husband might not know exactly how to get there, either. But something tells me, he is gonna figure it out. How fortunate you are. Ahhhh, an Edward in the making. Don't forget, Edward might be 17, but he has walked the Earth for 107 yrs. That gives him a bit of an advantage. Hmmmmm.....
Jess Lobus said:Okay...not to sound horribly twisted, but reading your stories has made me feel LESS insane. I felt much the same way after I read Twilight the first time. However, I wasn't unhappy in my marriage, but I was unhappy in a lot of other ways. We're living with my in-laws currently, about 800 miles away from the town I grew up in, my entire family, and all my friends. Reading Twilight almost intensified those feelings for me, and, for awhile there, I was feeling unhappy in my marriage BECAUSE of Twilight, if that makes sense. Like...I was comparing my wonderful, but all-too-human husband to this fictional vampire. At first, I thought there was something totally wrong with me, to be so obsessed with this character in a book. After I read it, I had to literally put it away, because it was causing some serious issues with my hubs and I. I know, crazy, right? But...since then I've been able to point out exactly what it is that I was wanting my husband to have that Edward has...dont get me wrong, there has never ever been a doubt in my mind that my husband loves me. He adores me, in fact. But, sometimes, I just needed more than the "usual" I love yous, etc. So, I told him. It's not that Edward's immortal, or a vampire, or absolutely gorgeous...it's that fierce, protective, raw emotional core that I was missing. Hubs and I used to have that, then we had kids, moved in with his parents...and it got lost. Now, thanks to Twilight, it's slowly coming back. DH still laughs at my silly obsession, but he understands it, and it helps that the books make me more than a little "excited", if you know what I mean.
But yeah...at the risk of sounding crazy, that's my story...
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Permalink Reply by Tawanna Browne Smith on
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Ah! That is totally it! I had to sit and think a while back WHY so many older women like reading this series. My BF and my sis were discussing it and we summized that it totally had to do with the exuberance of youth, and falling in love and not really knowing much about your future or carefully planning for it either so to speak. I mean, Bella isn't really fully grasping the consequences of being in love with a vampire and eventually ending her human life to become one (i.e. consequences of her family relationships, having a baby -in a normal way, etc. etc.). She just lives in and for the moment which is fun and liberating. And for us with experience, husbands, kids, bills, work, responsibilities, it's nostalgic and also a nice form of escapism. **sigh**
Seriously, whenever I need to mentally get away, I take a trip to Forks. By myself. ;)
Tonya (the Stampvamp) said:SIGH. I think you're right. On all counts.
Ashley O'Neill said:I have not listened to the audiobook...
How funny that we're at the same part of the book! I just love that scene. I'm anxious to get farther in to the scenes where he stays the night. Ahh, to be young again!
I read an interesting article about Twilight that asserted the novel's popularity comes from its ability to mimic the feeling of falling in love. I think that's a good assessment.
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