‘Twilight’: How a book touched a town
By Marjorie Kehe | 11.20.08
Tomorrow is the much-anticipated opening of the film version of “Twilight,” the first of Stephenie Meyer’s wildly popular vampire-romance novels. Teen readers, Hollywood execs, and countless marketers are eagerly awaiting the release – but none are more excited than the 3,000-some residents of Forks, Wash.
Forks is the setting for much of the “Twilight” series. This Washington state burg is an unlikely choice as a backdrop for a romance novel. Forks was built up once upon a time on the timber industry but it’s seen harder times in recent years. Until “Twilight,” that it.
The book was published in 2005. Tourists began trickling in shortly thereafter. A year or so ago the trickle became a stream. Stores began stocking “Twilight” merchandise, a van tour was launched, area motels began filling up, and suddenly the downtown was showing a new vitality.
Some truly devoted (or obsessed) fans even moved to Forks.
Who knows what Forks will look like after the film’s release.
Meyers herself confesses that she never saw Forks until after she wrote the first book. She chose it as a setting sight-unseen because she had heard that it was one of the rainiest places in America. (It averages 12 feet of rain a year.)
When she saw it, however, she says that she was much taken by the beauty of the scenery that surrounds it. She is also reported to have said that it seemed so like the Forks in her book that she kept expecting her characters to walk around the corner.
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3. SomethingOrOther | 11.21.08
I live on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington and I was very impressed with how well Meyer’s captured the feel and geography of the area. I only caught one small glitch in the last book, where Bella went to a restaurant on Union Lake. It should have been Lake Union. But that’s pretty darn nit-picky. She did a terrific job. It was better than the article above. Forks is just about as far west and north as you can get in Washington. It’s not in the center. “You can tell when it’s summer in Western Washington because the rain gets warmer.” “People in Western Washington don’t tan, they rust.” The jokes go on and on. I’m delighted that Forks is getting a new industy. It’s been pretty sad there since the logging stopped.
4. Stephanie | 11.21.08
This is the dumbest book that i’ve ever read.
I feel sorry for Stephanie Meyer and her fantasies.
5. Miron Lovric | 11.21.08
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1. Nicole | 11.20.08
People moved to forks thats sooooo cool i wish i could but were not moving any time soon so sad for me