Yes, I know a bunch of you are tired of hearing about this book/movie. The thing is, that the book is really good. I technically haven’t read it [fully..yet...], but I have listened to about half of the novel via listening to the Audiobook.

Anyway, there was a bunch of hype starting a few months back about this book. I know the novel been out since 2005, but it just recently has become popular.

I really didn’t think I’d be a Twilight fan. A bunch of my friends urged me to read it. But, I am a busy girl and I didn’t really have/made time to read. But finally, I decided along with my best friend Derek, to get the audio book. I had the audio book sitting around on Derek’s computer for a while, and since he’s not at my house at the moment, I kept meaning to ask him to send it to me. anyway, I eventually remembered and he eventually sent it to me, and I spent that whole night [until I fell asleep] listening to it. The first chapter or two went a bit slow, but all the hype of the book encouraged me to keep reading. Boy I’m glad I did!

I saw the movie late November and at that point I had only listened to about the first nine or ten chapters… but I had a good idea on what the book was about. [It has 24 chapters].

People said you have to read [or in my case, listen] to the book before you see the movie, or you can’t appreciate the movie the same way at all. From what I noticed, most of the stuff in the movie is the same as in the book, except one particular scene in the woods with Bella and Edward in the middle of the movie.

However, some scenes in the movie will seem awkward and is hard to appreciate unless you have absorbed the book. There is a decent amount of exact quotes from the book that are included in the film. There is only one scene that I know of that is prominently different than the novel.

Since I spent Wednesday and Thursday night [before seeing the movie on Saturday night] and some of Friday listening to the Audiobook, I noticed that a good amount of quotes were directly quoted in the movie. Obviously, the movie can’t be word from word to the book, but I think when the characters spoke exact quotes from the book, that it was fititng and appropriate in the movie.

All in all, I believe that people should take time to read to novel or listen to the audio book. The first two or three chapters I believe are a bit slow, but after that it’s a really good story and difficult to put down. If you haven’t seen the movie yet, I suggest completing the novel first, then watching the film. If you have already seen the film and disliked it [but have not completed the novel yet], I suggest you complete the novel then watch the film again.