Excitement! I have it but haven't been able to watch it yet. Bloody exams. Still, it's burning a hole on my laptop, just calliiiing to me... *floats over in blissful anticipation*
Yeah, they had to have the service the same day because everything is chaotic and with businesses shut down and power outages and that, they can't exactly get funeral parlor people to hold onto the deceased. Not that anyone enjoys funerals but it's an important part of the grieving process, I think, and having to rush through that is a shame.
Lol, you haven't read Twilight but you know it's horrible? Very astute, you! I had the misfortune of receiving it as a re-gift and felt obliged to read the whole thing through. GAG. But for a truly hilarious read, try Cleolinda's recaps (http://cleoland.pbworks.com/Twilight#Bookdiscussionentries). A minimal exposure to the crapitude of the series with a healthy dose of teh funnies. It makes it all better! I actually thought I would die laughing.
And because I am irrepressible, I will quote one of my favorite parts [from Midnight Sun, the book from Edward's POV]:
--- Okay, so. We are approaching the part of the chapter that made me scream out loud, I am not even kidding you. Edward goes hunting to make sure he's sufficiently fed and less likely to suck the marrow from Bella's bones, and then he "realize[s] that [he's] going to go find the girl" like this is news to him and beyond his control, you know, because that free will thing is working out so well for him, so he climbs up to the upstairs window chez Swan and GASP! IT IS HERS, FAIR BELLA'S, WHAT SNORE FROM YONDER WINDOW BREAKS:
It was her room. I could see her in the one small bed, her covers on the floor and her sheets twisted around her legs. As I watched, she twitched restlessly and threw one arm over her head. She did not sleep soundly, at least not this night. Did she sense the danger near her?
I was repulsed by myself as I watched her toss again. How was I any better than some sick peeping tom? I wasn't any better. I was much, much worse.
BUT THEN:
"Okay, Mom," she muttered.
Bella talked in her sleep.
The hell he's letting an opportunity to penetrate her mind like this get away! AND THEN:
I tried the window, and it was not locked, though it stuck due to long disuse. I slid it slowly aside, cringing at each faint groan of the metal frame. I would have to find some oil for next time...
Next time? I shook my head, disgusted again.
BUT DOES THAT STOP HIM FROM CLIMBING INTO HER ROOM? NO IT DOES NOT, WHAT? WHAT? WHAT? Here's how trusting, how naive I was when I read Twilight: he's got super-amazing vampire sight and hearing and strength, right? So he could totally just hang from the window ledge or maybe sit up in a tree and watch through her window every night, right? He'd still be getting a pretty good show, right? It never even occurred to me that Edward would actually climb into her room, CLIMB INTO HER ROOM, OH MY GOD.
I wanted very much to go read the titles of her books and CDs, but I'd promised myself that I would keep my distance; instead, I went to sit in the old rocking chair in the far corner of the room.
And an actual shriek of "JESUS H. CHRIST!" rang through the Jones house, and I thought I would never stop screaming. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? DID SADAKO SCOOT OVER TO MAKE ROOM FOR YOU THERE IN THE CORNER? And then Bella starts murmuring his name in her sleep and his "dead, frozen heart" feels like it's going to beat again and it's like the SUN is rising in the middle of his "unending, unchanging MIDNIGHT," if you see what Meyer's doing thar. And I am still screaming.
And O, What a Change This Moment Hath Wrought in Him: "Always watching her, I began to plot." WAY TO DIAL THE CREEPY UP JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE THERE. (You know, I think this would actually be a fantastic book/series if it were openly, straight-up about a psychotic obsessed stalker vampire and the girl just kinky enough to get off on it. Like, if the actual tone and/or theme of the book was that the whole thing was sick, but it was sick in a way that totally worked for them and that's why they were perfect together, rather than Our Love, It Is So Epic and True.)
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Date: 2009-10-05 09:54 pm (UTC)Yeah, they had to have the service the same day because everything is chaotic and with businesses shut down and power outages and that, they can't exactly get funeral parlor people to hold onto the deceased. Not that anyone enjoys funerals but it's an important part of the grieving process, I think, and having to rush through that is a shame.
Lol, you haven't read Twilight but you know it's horrible? Very astute, you! I had the misfortune of receiving it as a re-gift and felt obliged to read the whole thing through. GAG. But for a truly hilarious read, try Cleolinda's recaps (http://cleoland.pbworks.com/Twilight#Bookdiscussionentries). A minimal exposure to the crapitude of the series with a healthy dose of teh funnies. It makes it all better! I actually thought I would die laughing.
And because I am irrepressible, I will quote one of my favorite parts [from Midnight Sun, the book from Edward's POV]:
---
Okay, so. We are approaching the part of the chapter that made me scream out loud, I am not even kidding you. Edward goes hunting to make sure he's sufficiently fed and less likely to suck the marrow from Bella's bones, and then he "realize[s] that [he's] going to go find the girl" like this is news to him and beyond his control, you know, because that free will thing is working out so well for him, so he climbs up to the upstairs window chez Swan and GASP! IT IS HERS, FAIR BELLA'S, WHAT SNORE FROM YONDER WINDOW BREAKS:
It was her room. I could see her in the one small bed, her covers on the floor and her sheets twisted around her legs. As I watched, she twitched restlessly and threw one arm over her head. She did not sleep soundly, at least not this night. Did she sense the danger near her?
I was repulsed by myself as I watched her toss again. How was I any better than some sick peeping tom? I wasn't any better. I was much, much worse.
BUT THEN:
"Okay, Mom," she muttered.
Bella talked in her sleep.
The hell he's letting an opportunity to penetrate her mind like this get away! AND THEN:
I tried the window, and it was not locked, though it stuck due to long disuse. I slid it slowly aside, cringing at each faint groan of the metal frame. I would have to find some oil for next time...
Next time? I shook my head, disgusted again.
BUT DOES THAT STOP HIM FROM CLIMBING INTO HER ROOM? NO IT DOES NOT, WHAT? WHAT? WHAT? Here's how trusting, how naive I was when I read Twilight: he's got super-amazing vampire sight and hearing and strength, right? So he could totally just hang from the window ledge or maybe sit up in a tree and watch through her window every night, right? He'd still be getting a pretty good show, right? It never even occurred to me that Edward would actually climb into her room, CLIMB INTO HER ROOM, OH MY GOD.
I wanted very much to go read the titles of her books and CDs, but I'd promised myself that I would keep my distance; instead, I went to sit in the old rocking chair in the far corner of the room.
And an actual shriek of "JESUS H. CHRIST!" rang through the Jones house, and I thought I would never stop screaming. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? DID SADAKO SCOOT OVER TO MAKE ROOM FOR YOU THERE IN THE CORNER? And then Bella starts murmuring his name in her sleep and his "dead, frozen heart" feels like it's going to beat again and it's like the SUN is rising in the middle of his "unending, unchanging MIDNIGHT," if you see what Meyer's doing thar. And I am still screaming.
And O, What a Change This Moment Hath Wrought in Him: "Always watching her, I began to plot." WAY TO DIAL THE CREEPY UP JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE THERE. (You know, I think this would actually be a fantastic book/series if it were openly, straight-up about a psychotic obsessed stalker vampire and the girl just kinky enough to get off on it. Like, if the actual tone and/or theme of the book was that the whole thing was sick, but it was sick in a way that totally worked for them and that's why they were perfect together, rather than Our Love, It Is So Epic and True.)