Twilight
Normally, when a hit series comes out, I make my scorn widely known. Harry Potter, for instance, which I believe are probably great books but everyone and their mother and grandmother have read them. Someone asks me if I'm a fan and I sniff loudly and say I'm saving that series for retirement. I thought Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series would be the same. Massive hoopla surrounds this teen love story of a mortal/vampire love affair staged in the hallways of a rural highschool, and by November when the movie came out, I had already put on my smug face, ready to claim it didn't interest me, too mainstream you know. Then I read Manohla ...Read more
