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Originally Posted by sabredog
So I am not complaining about the Vampire addiction currently raging as it enabled my daughter to discover books and reading.
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Exactly. Anything that actually gets young people into a book store is a good thing. Sometimes it takes a story like this to engage the imagination of a young reader. As a matter of fact I bet the author of Twilight is personally responsible for creating a whole generation of readers who hadn't ever -- before Twilight -- picked up a book for simple enjoyment. It is sort of like a so-called "gateway drug". Get a young mind started on Twilight, and soon they might be moving on up to more "hardcore" (better written, adult fare) selections.
It was exactly the same for my little brother and the Harry Potter series. He wasn't much of a reader before that, but once he saw that "all" his friends were reading it, he just had to check it out for himself. Now, years later, he is almost as big a book worm as me.
As a matter of fact, now that I think about it, this has affected my girlfriend as well. She used to read nothing but romance books. Then she read the Twilight series and realized that, even though it had a supernatural theme, she enjoyed it anyway. Now she has branched off into sci-fi and fantasy, and we've started reading some of the same books together (even reading to each other sometimes).
Odd how I never thought about it like this before.