Amazon Kindle: Thomas Shepherd shared from Twilight
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“I decided as long as I was going to hell, I might as well do it thoroughly.”

I’ve never really been that enthusiastic to read the Twilight, but it has been a phenonemal success, and I do find its presense in the bookshops intriguing. Whether or not I would ever have bought a book, and I’m only really reading it now because it amounted to about $5 as an eBook on Amazon – and mainly because I wanted to give it a proper try try out reading it on my Kindle!

20% through it, and I wouldn’t say it was terrible. It hasn’t gripped me totally yet though – I was expecting more vampires by now. I’m only sticking with it because I know there are vampires to come but there hasn’t been anything to signify much out of the ordinary yet – just a so-so written American High School drama.

As for reading it on a Kindle? …I’m loving it! It’s obviously not the same as a ‘real’ book and it can never replace a real book for me, but its very comfortable to read. It also saves your position for you when you fall asleep in front of it at night.

It’s hard not to come at this book without preconceptions. It would scarcely have been possible to have not heard of either the books or the films. I am also aware that of the polarisation in views between those who love it and its characters to the point of excess and those who deride for the way that its written. I am going to try and keep an open mind with it and see how it goes. I’ve read the first chapte though, and its, okay. The one thing that I will say is that it hasn’t gripped me yet. For something that has been likened as Harry Potter for girls, I’m not so sure. From the very start of Philosopher’s Stone I was hooked; I was in there and compelled to read it (and that with no prior infomation at all about it!).

Twilight, so far, doesn’t dump you straight into any sense of magic or mystery or idea that its going to anything other than a teen romance or American High School tale of growing up. Which maybe its not. But it does have werewolves and vampires in it, I am led to believe, and so I would have expected some sense of the unordinary in it. Still, its early days…

From and eBook point of view, it reads well, and is comfortable on the eye, unlike reading journal entries on the old laptop. I like it!