intervention

i leave in one month from today.  but we're not here to talk about that, instead, we are here to help me get over a horrible addiction: twilight. 

i was doing so well, being completely oblivious to it's existance on the other side of the planet, but then it was mentioned to me.  and i read the back cover of the first book and was intrigued by the whole vampire bit (why wouldn't i be?  after all, i read books about necromancers with bells, and books with alternate worlds and talking polar bears.)...and then read the first half of the book in the borders in wellington. 

i thought, wow, this isn't so bad, definitely not my favorite book on the planet but i can see why it's so popular.  ugh!  i thought too soon!  the more i read, the worse it gets.  the plot twists are cliched and predictable, the lovey-dovey romance bit is certainly not my thing (perhaps because i'm not a teenage girl and totally in love with the over-controlling edward or the drama-queen bella who is constantly having hysterics of one sort of another) and now, in the final book, every time anyone says the name "renesmee" i want to puke.  and the whole one-month gestational period thing?  really?  that is so star trek!  (no, really, i can think of at least two episodes where they used a quicker-than-usual gestational period for their characters and it was explained away FAR BETTER than just as a convenient for the plot...of course, aliens were involved.)  i have been doing a lot of eye-rolling and walking away, but i always pick it back up again.

i think i need help.  or some garth nix or phillip pullman.