Twilight: Don't Harsh My Buzz
Previous discussions about Twilight on this blog were about the movie and were before reading the book. The following was written just after finishing the book (about 3 hours ago, actually) and are my fresh impressions and this review was written without rereading what was already discussed about the movies. My apologies for any repetition in subject or opinions, I didn't want to cloud my book impressions with the discussion about the movie. I just wanted to be clear on the distinction there.
I've just finished reading Twilight. I'm going to do a little free association just to empty some of the loose chaff from my head:
Uncomfortable, teen obsession, shallow peripheral characters, I see the weakness of first person, lessons to me as an author, "throbbing" !!!!!!!!!!!!!, can't believe she didn't use "chortling", "snickering" not a good word, chuckling also questionable, but all of them way better than "giggling", thank god she didn't use "giggling", very annoyed by the expression "holy crow", Mormon, vampires still charming after all these years, like her version of vampires, palpitating very annoying, Romeo and Juliette without the suicide, hearing feminist annoyance ringing in ears, expectation versus reality, reality versus fiction, strong versus weak, weakness inherent, strength as affectation, perceptions out of balance, who we are versus who we wish we were, and adulthood is awesome.
First of all, I want to be very clear about this: I really enjoyed this read.
In order to fully appreciate it it's important to keep in mind at all times these three words:
I've just finished reading Twilight. I'm going to do a little free association just to empty some of the loose chaff from my head:
Uncomfortable, teen obsession, shallow peripheral characters, I see the weakness of first person, lessons to me as an author, "throbbing" !!!!!!!!!!!!!, can't believe she didn't use "chortling", "snickering" not a good word, chuckling also questionable, but all of them way better than "giggling", thank god she didn't use "giggling", very annoyed by the expression "holy crow", Mormon, vampires still charming after all these years, like her version of vampires, palpitating very annoying, Romeo and Juliette without the suicide, hearing feminist annoyance ringing in ears, expectation versus reality, reality versus fiction, strong versus weak, weakness inherent, strength as affectation, perceptions out of balance, who we are versus who we wish we were, and adulthood is awesome.
First of all, I want to be very clear about this: I really enjoyed this read.
In order to fully appreciate it it's important to keep in mind at all times these three words:
Teen + Vampire + Romance
If you forget those three things you will develop expectations you have no right to have. Because the whole world read this book before I did I couldn't help but read it with everyone's criticisms in mind. People were annoyed that Bella wasn't a stronger person, that she seemed to be so happy to be dominated by Edward; a real feminist's nightmare, a regression of our modern standards of womens independence; and obviously she's obsessive. Then of course there's all the criticism of Edward who is domineering, moody, a creepy stalker, obsessive, and treats Bella like a fragile being. Obviously these are all big no-nos. It's never okay to suggest that it might be normal for teens to obsess a lot over their first love or for women to be anything but superheros.
WHAT?!!
I have discovered in my life that people have a great capacity to rewrite their pasts as they cross from one chapter in life to the next. Mothers are notorious for claiming that they barely remember the pain of giving birth to their children, that "it's just such a blur". Likewise, grownups have a tendency to completely repaint their youths in tender colors and to look back on only the joyous bits while completely blocking out all the horrifically embarrassing parts where they sprouted boobs during science class in the seventh grade right in front of 27 other wild-eyed hormonal teens, or that humiliation is (for most) a near daily ocurrance and the cause of humiliation need not be visible to the naked eye. In fact, sometimes humiliations occur simply by imagining them and then reacting as though they were real in front of a herd of other youths imagining, but not admitting to, having the same humiliations played out on them.
I am very envious of this ability so many people have to shut out of their memories what being young REALLY felt like. The first time I heard an adult claim that being sixteen years old was the best time in their life I had two simultaneous thoughts 1) this person must have the most miserable life on earth for 16 to have been their best year and 2) this person has had the frontal lobotomy I've always dreamed of having.
So any adult who claims not to have, at least once, completely lost themselves in a semi-obsessive adoration for another person when they were a teen, is (in my opinion) most likely lying or has completely forgotten it because remembering it is much too humiliating. I don't care to dwell on this as an adult myself and unfortunately, being a budding writer as a teen, I recorded EVERYTHING. This is why I demanded that Philip not bring them back to me from the fire clean-up team if they hadn't been destroyed*. I don't want to read my old journals because they are absolutely drenched in teen angst. The usual kind, the suicidal kind, and the "literary" kind. Why would anyone want to have to relive exactly what they were thinking about all the time when they were sixteen?
I don't need the journals to remind me of what it was like being a teen. It's just a lot more humiliating to have actual proof that my memories are not wrong. I also haven't forgotten the complete absorption most of the other teens I knew had in the opposite sex (or the same sex in some cases, the point remains the same either way) and the very dramatic way teens experience first love.
I have no issue with Bella being obsessed with Edward or of Edward being obsessed with Bella. The real test is if they ever calm down about each other. If these two grow up together (in the only way that fictional teens and teen vampires can) the real question is if they will develop themselves more, will they grow to include the rest of the world in their lives? Obsessiveness in adults is questionable at best, but in teens it is par for the course and 100% bona fide normal behavior.
As far as the criticisms of Bella not being a stronger female...I have some perspective on this that may be skewed and I'm pretty sure we discussed this here right after I saw the movie. No matter what I hope for in a grown woman, no matter what I consider the ideal kind of character for a woman to aspire to, I have few expectations of teens. Teens are growing, exploring, inexpert, untried. Often they are clumsy both physically and emotionally. Everything they feel is BIG. They are still working on their rationality and critical thinking (and many never fully develop either into adulthood) and so their judgment is arguably much less sound than an adult's can be expected to be. Strength is relative and it's also interpretive. What one person thinks of as strength may seem like a weakness to another.
You want me to give examples, don't you?
When I was growing up my dad taught me that strength is being tough on people, it's being tough on people even it if hurts them, it's about not giving in or backing down, it's about winning. I always believed, and still do, that real strength is a much cagier beast than that and is more about the ability to be compassionate in tough situations and to not be afraid to say what you think or to follow your heart. The most incredible strength of all is to be willing to be hurt yourself to protect another person. Whether that means stepping in between two brawling people to keep them from killing each other, or rushing into the middle of the street to push a kid out of the way of oncoming traffic.
I think Bella has that kind of strength. She's clumsy and always falling into trouble from which the classically heroic Edward continues to "save" her, but in spite of her fear of him which she works hard to hide (they totally pretended in the movie that she never actually had any fear of him) she will not back down from him because she loves him and she is the kind of girl who would rather die than let anything happen to Edward or her mother or her father.
I relate to Bella in that she's obviously had to parent her own mother and she's essentially taking care of her father when she moves in with him. She's been independent and basically had to be her own strength. Until she meets Edward. With Edward she is submissive and compliant in so many ways, acquiescing to his moody demands. Yet not. She will not give up on the questions and simply picks up the thread when his mood changes.
Bella finds she's being protected by Edward and as I said in the last discussion (in spite of myself I'm referencing the movie discussion), when I was 17 I would have given almost anything to have a protective strong vampire boyfriend so that for once in my life I wasn't the one taking care of everything and myself and finally being able to relax for a few minutes.
As far as Edward treating Bella like a fragile creature goes, I think you have to take the cues Stephanie Meyers throws out that he has never loved anyone before and is overwhelmed with the need to keep her safe...and also he's very concerned about his own ability to KILL HER HIMSELF.
I think his behavior is sweet rather than creepy. I think he's experiencing what it's like to care about someone outside himself for the first time and it's terrifying.
So they get all melodramatic.
But here's what I found tedious: the constant "heart stopping" "heart racing" "throbbing" !!!!!!** "hyperventilating" "pumping heart" and "breath taking" palpitations that Bella is constantly having. Stephanie Meyers really piles it on. It's appropriate to include some of this in a love story, sure, but she could have halved the number of times Bella says her heart "stopped" when Edward touches her and I would totally have appreciated it.
I love a good romance but one of the reasons I stopped reading actual romance novels (I read many of them when I was a teen) was the tedium of the whole routine of ripping bodices, throbbing body parts, constant palpitations, and not enough plot to sustain and support my interest.
I think the peripheral characters deserve a lot more development and attention. I think Bella's relationship with Edward would seem more natural if we saw more of the relationship she has with her parents. I think this book is lacking in richness. I can't help but compare this vampire book to the Anne Rice Vampire books and find that it isn't a fair comparison. Rice isn't writing for teens. Her writing is rich and round and colorful and observant and complex. Meyer's story lacks a lot of that. But maybe she develops it more in the next book?
The thing that made me even more uncomfortable than encountering the word "throbbing" in a book after not having been so assaulted for years, is the constant rapturous descriptions of Edward's physical perfections. What made me uncomfortable was the feeling that the author herself should get a room with her under-aged hero and get on with it. Seriously! I realize that the book being in first person from Bella's point of view means it's all as Bella is experiencing things and obviously she's not going to go on and on about her own physical perfections and obviously she thinks Edward is hotness incarnate, but there was some serious overkill in the rapturous descriptions of Edward: Greek-god-like, chiseled features, iron strong, beauty that slays you, perfecty-perfection-personified, Adonis-like, statuesque, perfect-o, heart stopping (oh god- the heart stoppingness of his perfect body), gorgeousness that makes you hyperventilate, and don't forget the 50,000 different ways they locked eyes and we got yet another description of Edward's topaz eyes.
Jesus!
So here's the deal. I like that Edward and Bella love each other and I like all that protective crap that women with finer ideals than me might scorn as a weakness, and the story is sweet. But if I start in with book two and have to go through the same overkill with Bella's palpitatin' ways and Stephanie Meyer's obsession with Edward's hotness, I might not be able to read the rest of the series.
Brief Update: I have read spoilers for the next books and have decided that my enjoyment of Twilight will be much better if I don't continue to read the series in which such things as: werewolves, witches, babies that only take a few weeks to fully mature and be born, and many other very silly things co-mingle with breezy dis-concern for credibility. I really enjoyed this read which is why I don't want it spoiled. Thank you Stephenie Meyer and sorry I keep spelling your name "wrong"!****
*But Philip couldn't bear the thought of the record of my humiliating early life being destroyed and so he brought them home to me anyway. This is all in reference to the house fire we had in 2003.
**I am so embarrassed for Stephanie Meyer's to have use this word in her book!
***Is it my imagination or do Mormons like misspelling common names more than the average American does? You know: Morgann, Breeanna, Tailer (I made that variation up, why not? Everyone else is doing it!), Madisen, Madisin, Maxx, Jessika, Natalee...Stephenie. And you accomplish what by misspelling common names on purpose?
Previous posts in which I discuss Twilight the movie which I saw before reading the book:
Edward Is My Doppleganger
My Weekend With Edward And Bella
WHAT?!!
I have discovered in my life that people have a great capacity to rewrite their pasts as they cross from one chapter in life to the next. Mothers are notorious for claiming that they barely remember the pain of giving birth to their children, that "it's just such a blur". Likewise, grownups have a tendency to completely repaint their youths in tender colors and to look back on only the joyous bits while completely blocking out all the horrifically embarrassing parts where they sprouted boobs during science class in the seventh grade right in front of 27 other wild-eyed hormonal teens, or that humiliation is (for most) a near daily ocurrance and the cause of humiliation need not be visible to the naked eye. In fact, sometimes humiliations occur simply by imagining them and then reacting as though they were real in front of a herd of other youths imagining, but not admitting to, having the same humiliations played out on them.
I am very envious of this ability so many people have to shut out of their memories what being young REALLY felt like. The first time I heard an adult claim that being sixteen years old was the best time in their life I had two simultaneous thoughts 1) this person must have the most miserable life on earth for 16 to have been their best year and 2) this person has had the frontal lobotomy I've always dreamed of having.
So any adult who claims not to have, at least once, completely lost themselves in a semi-obsessive adoration for another person when they were a teen, is (in my opinion) most likely lying or has completely forgotten it because remembering it is much too humiliating. I don't care to dwell on this as an adult myself and unfortunately, being a budding writer as a teen, I recorded EVERYTHING. This is why I demanded that Philip not bring them back to me from the fire clean-up team if they hadn't been destroyed*. I don't want to read my old journals because they are absolutely drenched in teen angst. The usual kind, the suicidal kind, and the "literary" kind. Why would anyone want to have to relive exactly what they were thinking about all the time when they were sixteen?
I don't need the journals to remind me of what it was like being a teen. It's just a lot more humiliating to have actual proof that my memories are not wrong. I also haven't forgotten the complete absorption most of the other teens I knew had in the opposite sex (or the same sex in some cases, the point remains the same either way) and the very dramatic way teens experience first love.
I have no issue with Bella being obsessed with Edward or of Edward being obsessed with Bella. The real test is if they ever calm down about each other. If these two grow up together (in the only way that fictional teens and teen vampires can) the real question is if they will develop themselves more, will they grow to include the rest of the world in their lives? Obsessiveness in adults is questionable at best, but in teens it is par for the course and 100% bona fide normal behavior.
As far as the criticisms of Bella not being a stronger female...I have some perspective on this that may be skewed and I'm pretty sure we discussed this here right after I saw the movie. No matter what I hope for in a grown woman, no matter what I consider the ideal kind of character for a woman to aspire to, I have few expectations of teens. Teens are growing, exploring, inexpert, untried. Often they are clumsy both physically and emotionally. Everything they feel is BIG. They are still working on their rationality and critical thinking (and many never fully develop either into adulthood) and so their judgment is arguably much less sound than an adult's can be expected to be. Strength is relative and it's also interpretive. What one person thinks of as strength may seem like a weakness to another.
You want me to give examples, don't you?
When I was growing up my dad taught me that strength is being tough on people, it's being tough on people even it if hurts them, it's about not giving in or backing down, it's about winning. I always believed, and still do, that real strength is a much cagier beast than that and is more about the ability to be compassionate in tough situations and to not be afraid to say what you think or to follow your heart. The most incredible strength of all is to be willing to be hurt yourself to protect another person. Whether that means stepping in between two brawling people to keep them from killing each other, or rushing into the middle of the street to push a kid out of the way of oncoming traffic.
I think Bella has that kind of strength. She's clumsy and always falling into trouble from which the classically heroic Edward continues to "save" her, but in spite of her fear of him which she works hard to hide (they totally pretended in the movie that she never actually had any fear of him) she will not back down from him because she loves him and she is the kind of girl who would rather die than let anything happen to Edward or her mother or her father.
I relate to Bella in that she's obviously had to parent her own mother and she's essentially taking care of her father when she moves in with him. She's been independent and basically had to be her own strength. Until she meets Edward. With Edward she is submissive and compliant in so many ways, acquiescing to his moody demands. Yet not. She will not give up on the questions and simply picks up the thread when his mood changes.
Dudes, the guy is a TEEN VAMPIRE.
(I just thought you might need reminding)
Bella finds she's being protected by Edward and as I said in the last discussion (in spite of myself I'm referencing the movie discussion), when I was 17 I would have given almost anything to have a protective strong vampire boyfriend so that for once in my life I wasn't the one taking care of everything and myself and finally being able to relax for a few minutes.
As far as Edward treating Bella like a fragile creature goes, I think you have to take the cues Stephanie Meyers throws out that he has never loved anyone before and is overwhelmed with the need to keep her safe...and also he's very concerned about his own ability to KILL HER HIMSELF.
BECAUSE HE'S A VAMPIRE
I think his behavior is sweet rather than creepy. I think he's experiencing what it's like to care about someone outside himself for the first time and it's terrifying.
So they get all melodramatic.
But here's what I found tedious: the constant "heart stopping" "heart racing" "throbbing" !!!!!!** "hyperventilating" "pumping heart" and "breath taking" palpitations that Bella is constantly having. Stephanie Meyers really piles it on. It's appropriate to include some of this in a love story, sure, but she could have halved the number of times Bella says her heart "stopped" when Edward touches her and I would totally have appreciated it.
I love a good romance but one of the reasons I stopped reading actual romance novels (I read many of them when I was a teen) was the tedium of the whole routine of ripping bodices, throbbing body parts, constant palpitations, and not enough plot to sustain and support my interest.
I think the peripheral characters deserve a lot more development and attention. I think Bella's relationship with Edward would seem more natural if we saw more of the relationship she has with her parents. I think this book is lacking in richness. I can't help but compare this vampire book to the Anne Rice Vampire books and find that it isn't a fair comparison. Rice isn't writing for teens. Her writing is rich and round and colorful and observant and complex. Meyer's story lacks a lot of that. But maybe she develops it more in the next book?
The thing that made me even more uncomfortable than encountering the word "throbbing" in a book after not having been so assaulted for years, is the constant rapturous descriptions of Edward's physical perfections. What made me uncomfortable was the feeling that the author herself should get a room with her under-aged hero and get on with it. Seriously! I realize that the book being in first person from Bella's point of view means it's all as Bella is experiencing things and obviously she's not going to go on and on about her own physical perfections and obviously she thinks Edward is hotness incarnate, but there was some serious overkill in the rapturous descriptions of Edward: Greek-god-like, chiseled features, iron strong, beauty that slays you, perfecty-perfection-personified, Adonis-like, statuesque, perfect-o, heart stopping (oh god- the heart stoppingness of his perfect body), gorgeousness that makes you hyperventilate, and don't forget the 50,000 different ways they locked eyes and we got yet another description of Edward's topaz eyes.
Jesus!
So here's the deal. I like that Edward and Bella love each other and I like all that protective crap that women with finer ideals than me might scorn as a weakness, and the story is sweet. But if I start in with book two and have to go through the same overkill with Bella's palpitatin' ways and Stephanie Meyer's obsession with Edward's hotness, I might not be able to read the rest of the series.
And I remind myself of these three factors:
Teen + Romance + Vampires
And that pretty much says it all.
And that pretty much says it all.
Brief Update: I have read spoilers for the next books and have decided that my enjoyment of Twilight will be much better if I don't continue to read the series in which such things as: werewolves, witches, babies that only take a few weeks to fully mature and be born, and many other very silly things co-mingle with breezy dis-concern for credibility. I really enjoyed this read which is why I don't want it spoiled. Thank you Stephenie Meyer and sorry I keep spelling your name "wrong"!****
*But Philip couldn't bear the thought of the record of my humiliating early life being destroyed and so he brought them home to me anyway. This is all in reference to the house fire we had in 2003.
**I am so embarrassed for Stephanie Meyer's to have use this word in her book!
***Is it my imagination or do Mormons like misspelling common names more than the average American does? You know: Morgann, Breeanna, Tailer (I made that variation up, why not? Everyone else is doing it!), Madisen, Madisin, Maxx, Jessika, Natalee...Stephenie. And you accomplish what by misspelling common names on purpose?
Previous posts in which I discuss Twilight the movie which I saw before reading the book:
Edward Is My Doppleganger
My Weekend With Edward And Bella
Comments (4)
I haven't read the book nor seen the movie. Nor do I plan to. Nor have I read the feminist criticism of Bella being a "weak" character. But, as you explain it, I think I understand that criticism.
I believe that as young readers, we look for reflections of ourselves in the characters of the books and movies we consume. In much of the literature we read in the classroom, the characters are men and/or written by men. So it's important to have alternative views. And it would be nice if those alternative views were positive--something to emulate--something to help us find the best in ourselves.
At 16 my favorite fictional character, the one I most identified with, was Jane Eyre. I still consider her a remarkably strong character. Stronger than I am. Even when confronting a willful man and falling in love with him, she never suppressed herself or gave up any of her inner strength.
As a child my favorite character was Nancy Drew. She was a fairly flat, goody-good character, quick to judge and always smug. But on the plus side, she was smart, not easily intimidated, tried to help others, and her life did not revolve around boys (although she had a devoted boyfriend who always came second to any mystery). She was interested in the world first, in solving problems, and helping people.
So I think the disappointment of some people with Bella is that she spends too much time living for someone else. Personally, I don't find anything romantic in that. I wouldn't want a daughter like that and can only hope my son never falls for a girl like that.
Why can't a clever, strong girl also find romance?
Posted by mss @ Words Into Bytes | May 15, 2010 8:46 PM
Posted on May 15, 2010 20:46
I'd say that you and I largely like the same type of female characters. You just named two of my earliest and favorite women characters from books. Though I outgrew Nancy, I still re-read Jane Eyre every couple of years. (I'm still working up the nerve to watch the Toby Stephens version of the film, based on our conversations about it)
I would say that in general I find stories of obsessive love pretty tedious. The biggest comparison I can come up with for this story is Romeo and Juliette. No one ever seems to criticize Shakespeare for his Juliette and how once she meets Romeo she spends the entire play obsessed with him. Do people excuse him because he wrote it in a time period where that was more expected? (That a woman would become singly focused on a man?)
I have actually always been really annoyed by Romeo and Juliet. Most especially because at the end of all that inventive rhapsodizing about each other they both die.
I don't think Bella presents an ideal to aspire to but I do think she represents a slightly exaggerated view of what many teen girls really are like when they fall in love for the first time. So in that sense I think Stephenie Meyers has captured a very real snippet of what many girls have gone through. Which makes her relate-able, though not necessarily admirable.
It is easy to criticize an author, artist, or musician for not being a better role model to young people when they become popular enough to have influence in that sphere, but I don't think it's fair.
I don't believe it's the job of artists and authors to be role models. Their job is to express the world they see in new ways, or to remind us of different view points, their job is to entertain or to make a statement with their gift and their medium. Sometimes they show us our worst human sides and sometimes our best. Sometimes they incite hope and joy, sometimes they open up the dark and force us to go inward.
What's wonderful about the current period in literature is that there have never been so many women authors getting published and getting recognition. This means that the previously limited tapestry of women characters in books is growing richer and more varied. There are Bellas, sure, (and I agree that if I had a daughter I wouldn't particularly wish for one like Bella), and then there are the Hermiones (I'm just pulling another female character from contemporary junior fiction) who are not at all obsessed with boys and who are smart and independent and evolve and grow in good ways and who can have romance without it being the only thing in their lives.
I read everything as a kid. I read a lot of romance novels along with well respected literature and in spite of being thoroughly exposed to women characters whose sole object in life seems to have been to have their bodices ripped off their bodies, I chose to emulate Jane Eyre and Nancy Drew. I enjoyed aspects of the romances that made them entertaining to read but ultimately the characters that stuck with me were the ones who had a lot more dimension.
I'd like to think that young girls out there reading the Twilight series will similarly find entertainment in Bella's romance, but find real aspiration in other richer female characters in their reading.
You're right though, the criticism of Bella is totally understandable. I just couldn't resist an effort to answer your thoughts and observations in return.
Nancy Drew had, actually, a strong enough influence on me that when I moved to San Francisco when I was 18 years old, I had her very much in mind and still wanted to be plucky and smart and fearless while also dressing well. She really was a bit of a goody-goody, but I loved her all the same.
Posted by angelina | May 15, 2010 9:54 PM
Posted on May 15, 2010 21:54
I love having conversations with you. You make so many good points please forgive me if I don't address them all, or focus on our points of departure instead of our points of agreement.
Regarding Romeo and Juliet: as a tragedy I see it as a cautionary tale more than anything. Some people use it to romanticize suicidal love pacts but I don't think that's generally taught as the ideal. I don't think any of the characters have enough dimension to really stick in my mind. What sticks out is the theme of how family taught prejudice can destroy what is most precious.
To answer your question. Yes, I do give Shakespeare "pass" because he wrote 500 years ago. He couldn't write about ordinary women who could choose their own adventures. (I have much more trouble with "Taming of the Shrew". I think Kate was more interesting before she was tamed.)
Do I believe artists should create role models? I don't know if I actually thought of it in those terms but, yes, I suppose I do. I expect artists to help me see the world with new eyes so that I can understand things I've never thought of before. (You do that for me many times which is why I like talking with you.)
As a result, I think Twilight's a missed opportunity; it plays the same tired tune. When I was a child I hated Disney movies and the "Someday my prince will come." characters. Still I think they influenced me because I spent many years of my life waiting for something to happen, for someone to come along and make my life happy--rather than acting on my own. Young American girls have more freedom and choices than any girls in history. They deserve stories of exploration (internal or external). They deserve to be the heroes of their own stories. They deserve goals and aspirations. They deserve to see how others face struggles and overcome them. They deserve, as you pointed out, stories that reflect the real world they live in.
It's not that I hate Twilight. I'm just disappointed that out of all the wonderful stories with amazing characters that such a bland old story is the one that became popular.
And yes, Hermione is wonderful.
Posted by mss @ Words Into Bytes | May 16, 2010 7:01 AM
Posted on May 16, 2010 07:01
"I am very envious of this ability so many people have to shut out of their memories what being young REALLY felt like. The first time I heard an adult claim that being sixteen years old was the best time in their life I had two simultaneous thoughts 1) this person must have the most miserable life on earth for 16 to have been their best year and 2) this person has had the frontal lobotomy I've always dreamed of having."
Thanks for that...I've been thinking the same thing lately!
Posted by Misty Skye | May 17, 2010 9:08 AM
Posted on May 17, 2010 09:08