My vampire beats your werewolf!
September 24th 2010 01:52
When the phenomenon hit, I immediately turned up my nose and dug my heels in, refusing to even consider, considering it as prose worthy of the kind of attention it was receiving. I mean, it was about vampires, for Pete’s sake. So as I listened to everyone around me excitedly talk about the books and subsequent movies and watched grown women with teenage children fawn over teenage vampires, I was even more determined to not fall prey.
And then it happened; I had run out of reading material and begrudgingly took my father-in-law’s copy of Twilight and decided to use it just in the hopes it would be boring enough to help me sleep.
Well, needless to say, two months and four books later, I’m a self-confessed, Team Edward Twihard. That’s right all you Team Jacob people, I’ve drawn the line in the sand. Step over, I dare you. My vampire is tougher than your werewolf!
And I’ve figured out what it is exactly that's making middle-aged women swoon over these teenage vampires. The book isn’t just story of people who never sleep and would prefer a cup of blood over a Chablis, it’s a love story. A story that transports you back to that first time you had those butterflies threatening your stomach walls. A story about a time, before kids, before responsibilities where all you had to believe in the world was that love made it all better.
And apparently, most people would choose to forego their own mortality if given the chance at eternal love. A poll online showed that 82% of the people would choose to become a vampire if it meant an eternity with their love interest. Granted, most of these were probably teenage girls but it certainly goes to show, that if portrayed in the right light, you can make something that used to give kids nightmares make them instead want to be a part of the undead.
Now if we could just get Stephenie Meyer to write a story about vampires cleaning their rooms...
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