I feel somewhat embarrassed to admit this but, I am listening to Stephanie Meyer's Twilight.
Yes, it is a young adult book. However, I have an extreme weakness for vampire fiction. The Anne Rice vampire series books are some of my favorite all time reads.
I decided to read the Twilight series months and months ago, before I heard they were making a movie out of the first book. Then an office mate, who isn't a big reader, told me how obsessed she was with the books a few weeks ago. She read all four of them in a week. So, since I had already picked up the first one on CD I decided that now was the time to listen to it, before going to see the movie.
Twilight is a truly engaging book. It's not 'fine literature' by any stretch of the imagination. However, I can't wait to get back in the car to listen to the next 50-60 minutes of the story.
I have already picked up the next title, New Moon. Books three and four are on my Amazon wish list for Xmas. And, I'm already anticipating Stephanie Meyer's next book, which tells the story from the vampire's point of view (the first four tell the tale from human Bella's point of view).
I periodically allow myself a foray into young adult fiction. The last series was James Patterson's Maximum Ride books. Those were pretty good, but they seem shallow and poorly executed in comparison.
So, if you like a good vampire story and aren't too embarrassed to be caught reading a YA book, I highly recommend Twilight.
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Heh. My blog post today is a list of non-Twilight vampire fiction.
Oddly, Shadaughter really liked the first one and then became so disenamored of the second one that it ruined the first one too. So beware.
See also io9's rant about the series: http://io9.com/5096310/twilights-hidden-morality-plays
I've read a few Laurel Hamilton books but not any Twilight books. I'll borrow them from my 13 year old niece.
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