Talk:Bella Swan's truck/@comment-4.68.55.4-20161003151531

This truck is the reason I never read past the first book. A 1953 Chevy would be a manual transmission that would have "3 on the tree." That means the shifter would be on the steering column, not sticking up out of the floor. Bella didn't even know how to drive a manual transmission. And even if she did, she would have jumped in the truck and said, "Where the hell is the shifter?"

There is ZERO probability that Bella would have known how to drive this vehicle without Charlie teaching her and then practicing at least a little bit. But Stephanie Meyer herself had no clue about this. Luckily, all of you, her readers, also had no clue, and thought it totally normal that Bella could just jump in a truck and drive off in it.

BUT, I don't blame Meyer, or any of you. I'm not the reader she wrote these books for, and you are. I'm not saying you should suddenly not like the books for something that, to you, seems like a meaningless detail. Just saying why I couldn't stomach them.