the edwards and the christian greys..

Damon-might-be-Christian vs Edward

Nope, at this moment I'm starting this post I haven't yet watched the final twilight movie.  But of course I would watch it.  How can I miss out on extreme cheesiness?  I feed on that.  Haha.

I admit I am a closet twihard.  Embarrassing as it maybe for adults like me, I rode the bandwagon.  I read (and bought) all the books.. and read even the rewritten twilight book in edward's pov.  Forgive me, cheesiness runs through my veins.  For a hopeless romantic as I am, twilight is a great read.  Except that the girl lead is the worst characterization of what a 21st century girl should be.  She's weak, needy, and irritating.  Thus a whole lot of gag is made mainly on her.  Which relates to the other half topic of this post, Anastasia Steele.  In my opinion Isabella Swan = Anastasia Steele.  See that parallel based merely on their names?  In fact they are similar in most ways.  You would definitely get it if you've read both sagas.  I can't help but postulate that Edward Cullen - vampire = Christian Grey - quirky sex life.  Both handsome, rich, powerful men who fell in love and seems can't resist plain janes who are almost always helpless. What isn't a ripoff nowadays anyway.

I'd probably take Edward Cullen - vampire over Christian Grey - quirkiness given a choice.

The fact that I  bought the twilight books meant that I planned to loan it to my younger cousins.  In fact since I only borrowed the first book way back, I bought them a new one and hard bound at that since a copy is hard to get at that time. My only disclaimer then was that the narrative is poorly written grammatically.  In fact a site is dedicated to mocking the book's text and doing corrections.  I guess it's written in slang or maybe conversation language much the same as how I write in this blog.  I try as much as I can to follow the rules of grammar but trying to sync your thoughts to your typing skills is a quite a challenge.  In short I'm lazy like that.  (Note to self: Fix your writing skills!)

The 50 Shades series I never bought.  One, because I discovered the awesomeness of a gadget and ebooks put together and also because I felt it was not worth it.  I haven't even finished half of the series ( also because the gadget gave up on me..)  My sister had prior knowledge about this book before me.  That is because she works with adult thinking adults while I work with kid thinking kids and adults.  She dislike the book saying it's too much like porn.  This coming from a married person I was hesitant to get in the bandwagon.  Curious as I was though I had to gauge it myself so I dive in.  My first impression is that it is actually porn literature.  Then in my head I instantly correlated it to twilight.  What struck a cord on me though was the fact that teens dig this.  This definitely is adult literature!  50 more shades darker than twilight.  To think that S.Meyer admitted then that she wrote twilight for adults like her and not teens.  EL James probably wrote 50 shades for married women , therefore I shouldn't be even reading it.  And yet the kids?! I see posts like "Christian Grey ♥ " and hear kids compare their boy classmates to him makes me see red.  What kind of men would they be attracted to?  What kind of expectations would they have on relationships?  Christian Grey is definitely not the ideal.  He's the flaw.  But teens see that as a good thing.  I fear for this would-be-adults.  My younger cousins knows about my dislike to which this book caters.  I threaten to tell their parents what it is about, hence they continue reading it and talking about it in secret.  Damage I guess is done.  This is how social media tricks issues of morality and righteousness.  See, this is how affected I am of the situation I turn preachy.  

Anyways I managed to just be sensitized about it and vow not to have children if these things I can't control.  Haha

Back to twilight.  Since the books and the movies were such huge phenomenon, production had money to spend on great add-ons.  And the soundtrack is something to rave about.  Check it out.  The most iconic of which would probably be Christina Perri's A thousand years.  I heard this over the radio and thought this would be a great Edward song for Bella.  Then I discovered it was in fact written for breaking dawn and with the Edward-Bella wedding in mind.  Hence I liked the covers sung by guys better.  It makes oit more meaningful that way because you kinda think of Edward.  Haha cheesy...

So with that note, I end this post with by far my favorite cover.