{"id":1780,"date":"2008-12-06T19:21:09","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T01:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=1780"},"modified":"2008-12-07T19:35:16","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T01:35:16","slug":"finished-twilight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=1780","title":{"rendered":"Finished Twilight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left; padding-right:10px;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0316043125?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=lifeafter-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0316043125\" ><img border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41mqtX-NO8L._SL160_.jpg\"><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=lifeafter-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0316043125\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Finally, finished <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thetwilightsaga.com\" >the Twilight saga<\/a> (thanks to Jenni for the digital versions).  I read all four books in the span of two weeks.  Can you believe it?  I had just finished <u>New Moon<\/u> when we went to see the movie. I immediately attacked <u>Eclipse<\/u> the next day, and was finishing <u>Breaking Dawn<\/u> before I new it.  The books flow together really well.  Once you get started, there&#8217;s just no stopping until you are finished.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nHere are the books in my order of preference:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/jenni\/SM\/T4.pdf\" >Breaking Dawn<\/a> &#8212; definitely the best and longest book in the series; I would tell you more about why this is my favorite but I&#8217;m afraid I might spoil the your reading experience<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/jenni\/SM\/T3.pdf\" >Eclipse<\/a> &#8212; lots of action in this one; I think it will make a great movie<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/jenni\/SM\/T1.pdf\" >Twilight<\/a> &#8212; don&#8217;t let the movie mislead you; the book is a hundred times better<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/jenni\/SM\/T2.pdf\" >New Moon<\/a> &#8212; this is my least favorite because the beginning really upset me, so much so that I had to take a break from reading for almost two days; anyway, I won&#8217;t say anymore so I don&#8217;t ruin it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Anyway, I found out that Amazon is taking pre-orders for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0316043125?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=lifeafter-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0316043125\" >The Twilight Saga: The Official Guide<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=lifeafter-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0316043125\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> already.  I want to learn more about the characters so I think I might get it.  I don&#8217;t know.  For now, I think I&#8217;ll read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/jenni\/SM\/MS.pdf\" >Midnight Sun<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. I&#8217;m procrastinating from finishing my poker cruise book.  \ud83d\ude41  Maybe I can start working on it again after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brubakers.us\/jenni\/SM\/MS.pdf\" >Midnight Sun<\/a>.  That is, unless I find something else to keep me occupied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, finished the Twilight saga (thanks to Jenni for the digital versions). I read all four books in the span of two weeks. Can you believe it? I had just finished New Moon when we went to see the movie. I immediately attacked Eclipse the next day, and was finishing Breaking Dawn before I new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[180,17],"tags":[186,192],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1780"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1794,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions\/1794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}