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So, randomly, I walk into Barnes and Noble today. One thing strikes me more than anything. That is the commercialization of Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series. I was rather astonished to find Pride and Prejudice and Romeo and Juliet with covers mimicking that of Twilight.
I also noticed a whole bunch of teenage vampire novels hanging around the kids section. Whatever Meyer did, she's left her imprint on the world of books.
I will admit that my experience of Twilight has been rather limited. Limited to around 20 pages. See, I started Twilight but put it down. I found it to be rather tiresome and uninventive actually. It wasn't that it was any worse than the average teenage girl book that one could pick up off the shelves. In fact it was probably better than most. But with no progressing story and no really interesting 3D characters, I ended up putting it down.
It's interesting though, because the name Twilight is actually very inventive, but now every time I see a book with the word Twilight on its cover, I immediately think Stephanie Meyer.
Very interesting...
And then, I bought myself a couple of books. I've been meaning to read The Gunslinger by Stephen King for a while, so I finally got my hands on that.
That's it for now :)
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