So I gathered my phone, headphones and wallet and headed to the Metro for a 20 minute ride in one of Madrid's slowest lines. The trip was uneventful (which is not always the case in Madrid's Underground) and I finally reached my destination.
I had to ascend the equivalent to 4 or 5 stories of a building (Since its very old, this line was built close to hell) and got to the surface, with the sun still there, I just had to cross the street and arrived at my destination.
After checking what was on every floor, I had to go to either floor 4 or 5, depending on what I wanted to read so yeah, I headed for the stairs.
The 4th floor had mostly miscellaneous books, not so much novels and the kind of books you read at night, it was more one the line of cooking, music, languages, computer, comics and foreign languages books. Given that what I wanted was a book to read, not to learn, the only area that interested me was the foreign language book section.
Browsing the books they had there, not many interested me... there were a lot of biographies and books for children.
Finally, when I was about to leave for the upper floor to see if any book in Spanish was more on the line of what I wanted, I saw it, in a small table close to a wall. The book everyone was talking about, Twilight.
I've had many discussions with my friends at university about the books (they're mostly girls, so yeah) and I promised to one of them that I would read Twilight so we could discuss it properly (I was the only one in the group that hadn't read the book). Thats what pretty much made me decide that was the book I wanted to buy.
Got down, bought it, left for my Residence (the sun was still there).
I got to my room and as soon as I left the wallet and phone, my friends here knocked the door... Dinner time!
10:30 PM, opened the book and read the first lines, 32 hours later I was done with the book.
I know the book is meant for younger teenagers, but I must admit I really liked it, its very cheesy at times, but overall it's very well written, the characters are well defined and the story drags you in until the very last moment.
Seconds after closing the book, I turned on my laptop and, in the very same chair I was reading the book, I started to watch the movie, which really, really disappointed me.
I've seen bad actors, but the guy that played Edward Cullen is by far the gold medal actor of the poo-poo actor Olympics.
So I decided to ignore the 2 hours the movie lasts and decided to just think about the book,
as I said, the overall impression is really good: easily readable, intense story, well-defined characters etc...
So I highly recommend it to anyone that has some spare time, Its really worth it.
Hola primo!! (perdona, pero paso de escribir en inglés)Aquí estoy viendo por primera vez tu blog.
ReplyDeleteWow, tengo que reconocer que eres el primer chico que conozco que haya leido ese libro. En mi clase se lo han leído muchas chicas y todas opinan lo mismo que tú (algunas incluso lo han leído en menos tiempo)
Pues eso, tomo nota de tu crítica literaria, y si alguna vez cae (accidentalmente supongo) entre mis manos, lo leeré.
Un abrazo grandullón
Si bueno, la verdad es que entre la absoluta indiferencia y el que le prometí a una compañera que me lo leeria pues...
ReplyDeleteDude the movie sucked so bad. and vivi is in love with it. she watched it like 10 times and cries every time when it gets sad. i fucking hate that movie so much. very bad makeup artists. you can literally see the white powder on his face, very cheesy indeed, extremely dumb superficial story line filled with love bullshit and very badly executed movie.
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