Ting vi visste, men som det er greit å få bekreftet: Twilight for alle aldre

Twilight Examiner har en artikkel om at Twilight er universell i sin appell. Team Buffy sier seg enig. Jeg er bra lei av å finne Twilight i barneavdelingen - i går fant jeg The Host av SMeyer i bareavdelingen også, og den er ikke en gang markedsført som ungdomsbok - og SMeyer har selv sagt at hun ikke skrev Twilight for noen spesiell aldersgruppe...Aaaaargh!) Det blir leserbrev av sånt.

Her er utdrag fra artikkelen, kryssklippet med noen seriøst dårlige lavkvalitetsscans fra New Moonkalenderen (men hei, det er New Moonkalenderen). Og ja, den er veldig Bellavennlig, men jeg er fortsatt i godt humør. La oss skylde det på at "noen" lagde kaffe til meg i morges. Og det vil ikke gjenta seg for ofte:

"It may comes as a surprise to some, but the Twilight series is not all just sparkly vampires and motorcycle-making werewolves."



"While Twilight, the first book and film in the series, does center around a 17-year-old girl named Bella Swan (portrayed by Kristen Stewart in the films) whose main interest in the story is a vampire stuck in a 17-year-old’s body, there is much, much more to it than that. Bella’s “voice,” through which Twilight readers witness the story unfold (for the most part) in the Twilight series, is undoubtedly one of an old salt. Instead of being swept up in the teenage histrionics of pomp and circumstance, Bella speaks from a mature, rounded, and grounded position - despite the odd and, quite frankly, fantastic events that surround her. In other words, Bella’s sturdy thought process (as the story is told from a stream of consciousness perspective) keeps the reader grounded in an adult frame of mind, and negates the importance of her age or environment."



"The plot, too, is very adult. Beginning in a virtual non-quest for love, Bella Swan approaches her initial circumstance with abnormal calm and collectiveness, a self-assuredness that most could only dream of at her age. When confronted with the possibility of love, Bella is hesitant but overcome. Her trepidation is paramount to the reader’s understanding of the thoroughness of her consumption with her Edward (played by Robert Pattinson in the films)."



"As the story progresses, through New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn, the age of the protagonist, and her circumstances as well, take a new turn and shed a great deal of the niceties associated with being characterized as Young Adult literature.

While subtle and polite, the books take the reader through the various trials of human life - including sex, marriage, parenthood, violence, faith, fidelity, choice, reason, and love. The progression, one might say, coalesces nicely with the pace of the character’s growth. By the end of the stories, the reader is taken back to the beginning - the unshakable thing that exists between Bella and Edward, a binding which has only been strengthened by their journey." (Hallelujah! Trenger vi noengang å lese noen annen bok?)


Bildene fant jeg hos New Moon Movie og TwiCrack.

"Readers of the Twilight series range anywhere from single digit in age to their grandparents. The Twilight series’ following has no necessary discernation in make, model, or year of fellowship. Citing their ability to be taken back to the previously inexplicable experience of first love, heartache, and temptation, readers of the Twilight series are drawn to the story not because of its Young Adult title, but because it is an engaging, exciting, and self-propelling piece of literature."