First Sight

My first few steps up the mountain are complete, and so far it's as cold and blustery as I thought it was going to be.

Poor Bella. Being 17 and able to choose where you want to live has to be downer. On top of that she's got a loving, caring, close mother, a distant but doting father, and a new truck. And it's just not fair that she's making friends so fast at her new school while guys fawn over her. Why did this have to happen to her, God? Why?

This is the main character Meyer has saddled the reader with? This chick makes Robert Smith look like Fred Schneider. Put on My Dying Bride and I bet she'd ask what Brit-pop band you're playing.

Actual passage from the book (conversation between Bella and her father):

"Do you remember Billy Black down at La Push?" La Push is the tiny Indian reservation on the coast. * "No." "He used to go fishing with us during the summer," Charlie prompted. That would explain why I didn't remember him. I do a good job of blocking painful, unnecessary things from my memory.

She's right! Fishing's INCREDIBLY painful! Especially when it's with your dad and his friend! All that fishing! And being on a boat! And water! And...fishing!

Look, Bells, unless Billy Black popped some quaaludes into your Capri Sun and Polanski'd your ass, I'm pretty sure those fishing expeditions were tolerable.

This is going to be harder than I thought. I don't think it's a coincidence that the movie studio doing the film versions is called Summit Entertainment.


*Gee, I wonder if La Push comes into play later in the book/series? No spoilers, please, Twi-hards. Let me see if SM sucks at forshadowing as much as I think she does.