My entire family and many friends got bitten this past year by Stephanie Meyer's Twilight saga. T-shirts, book club parties, homemade bookmarks, dressing up as the characters, and even a book signing concert at UCLA turned the saga into quite an experience. The morning after the movie was released a group of nearly twenty gathered for a lunch/movie date. Thanks Kelly for getting us involved in reading this harmless vampire love saga and planning all the fun events to go along with it.
Time Magazine has named the author Stephanie Meyer as one of the People Who Mattered in 2008. The following is the commentary that was published along with her picture.
"Maybe Americans aren't ready for a Mormon presidential nominee yet. But they're more than ready to anoint a Mormon as the best-selling novelist of the year. The hero of Meyer's Twilight series — and hit movie — is a vampire named Edward who doesn't kill people and declines to sleep with, or bite, his girlfriend Bella. Meyer's religious upbringing taught her something few writers grasp, that fantasies can be about restraint as well as excess. Sometimes nice girls do finish first."
—Lev Grossman
1 comments:
January 3, 2009 at 6:34 PM
Harmless??? You call a series of books about vampires and shape shifters harmless? You call two people who don't sleep with each other until they are married even though they are tempted beyond the dickens to do so, harmless?
ME TOO!
(And I'd add that they have a positive moral message about restraint and self mastery in an imaginative setting where fantastical (fantasy) creatures coexist with our human society as we know it. I've heard that not everyone agrees though...)
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