Writing - Good & Bad - Edward Cullen?

[zanooda2]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "P. Alexis Nguyen" <alexisnguyen at ...> wrote:

> You didn't understand how an old vampire could stand to go to
> high school, but within the context of the story, I think this
> explanation of why the Cullen "kids" were in high school was one of
> the few things Meyer did well


zanooda:

My understanding is that Steve didn't read the book, he only watched the movie :-). You know how they change things in screen adaptations :-). The lifestyle of the Cullen family was probably not explained well enough in the movie. 

I don't know for sure, because I didn't see it yet, I only finished the books recently, but I heard that they skipped practically all their family history, Carlisle's life story etc. Also, I watched several trailers of the "New Moon" and I can tell that they changed some things, so this is probably the reason why it is not very clear from the movie alone why poor Edward is stuck in high school :-).



> Ali wrote: 
 
> Let's just all read Jim Butcher or Dumas, pere


zanooda:

I was thinking of starting reading Butcher (I've read almost all of Dumas books when I was still a kid :-)), but I'm beginning Jane Austen at the moment, because I was always a little embarrassed that I haven't read any of her books. Only I don't know where to start - "Pride and Prejudice", maybe?


> Geoff wrote:

> I have a mobile - as do millions of folks in the UK :-)


zanooda:

Hehe, being all British, aren't we :-)? But they use "mobile" over here too, you know... :-).