twilight

this is a little more for the teens, but

twilight by stephenie meyer

its my latest obsession. any agree??

I read Twilight a year and a half ago. It kinda got ruined when every teen girl realized how much it's their passion and how much they love love love Edward Cullen and this and that and the other thing.

I loved it a lot more when it was my own personal thing I could enjoy on my own. But that's how it works for everything, I suppose.

YES! I love that book. i have yet to read New Moon and the others, though...are they any good?

And, soccerchick, I hate it when I find a amazing book or song and within a week or year or whatever it becomes popular. I read Twilight right after it was just published. I got it at a book fair because it looked interesting. No one had heard of it then. A year later, it became oober popular. EVERYONE had read it, and it just wasn't the same. Now they are having a midnight release party for the last one, and I am awed at the popularity.

I LOVE THAT BOOK SO MUCH!

I'm going completely crazy waiting for the fourth one..

I completely LOVE twilight. The movie is pretty good...I love Robbert Pattinson..hehe. and I am in the middle of the 4th book right now...they definately beat Harry Potter %100..not even a competition.

:-D!

I read the entire series and just like any movie, the book is 10 times better. They changed so much stuff, the scenes and everything where some stuff happened. The actor who played Edward Cullen looked like he wanted to cry the entire film.

Can't compare this series to Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings because they are completely different.

I give the book 4/5 stars... last book was just lame. The movie 3/5 because they changed all the good stuff and added in some random stuff. They didn't even take the time to explain the characters, they just tossed them in there and only people who read the books knew them. My husband saw it with me, he's never read the book, and he agrees. I had to explain stuff to him... =/

Edit: I felt the same way about seeing "His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass". The book was so much better.

I just started the Host, also by Meyer.  It's pretty good (but not part of the series.)

I both adore Twilight and abhor it. The prose is hypnotic and you can't stop reading once you start. Edward Cullen is the exemplary man and the love story is fanciful. This is what I enjoy about it. Conversely, reading the book saddens me that no man is as perfect as Edward, and the mania surrounding Twilight is bothersome. I understand the obsession- the books are good, Robert Pattinson is gorgeous- but I hate being one of a zillion fan girls. It takes away from the enjoyment realizing that there are other girls with the same fantasy, especially when a big part of the appeal comes from relating to Bella and feeling as if you could be that unique girl the smouldering vampire selects. Merely thinking about the Twilight mania gives me a headache- yet at the same time I'll be one of those girls buying the merchandise and lusting after Robert (he's not the Edward my imagination conjured; he's a better version).

Im only on the second book so no spoilers please!

The author did a good job with dialogue. The witty banter between Edward and Bella is fantastic. "Do I dazzle you?" "Frequently."

But I have to say Im a little bit miffed by all the soul and hell references. Plus, for two teenagers madly in love, E and B seem to have zero hormones. Im glad its not a steamy bodice-ripper...but the whole abstinence undercurrent seems old fashioned. I feel like the author is trying to convert me or something o_O

my friends raved over these books, and basically shoved them at me and told me to read them. i thought i would like them, since there seemed to be a big hype going on, but i found i really did not. i surely can see the appeal, but the writing style and story line did not appeal to me. the writing sounded like it was coming from someone very young. i read through the others thinking maybe it would grow on me, but it didn't. i got to the last book and couldn't even bear to finish it. i'm not sure what's wrong with me, considering the rest of the teenage girl population...

I read the first three books, then quit.  They were way too childish for me.  A lot of it seemed very repeative (like constantly repeating the poor-accident-prone-Bella saved by perfect-Edward) - basically I just thought it was cliche non-sense.  

My sister loves the books and currently hates me for my thoughts on it  

I read them, but like alle, I got a little frustrated at the emo teen vibe and cliches running through them.  And then I found the Southern Vampire Chronicles (also called the Sookie Stackhouse novels) that the HBO series True Blood is based on.  Written years before Twilight, they have everything I thought was fun about Twilight, but far more interesting characters to me.   And sex.  A lot of really hot sex.

Trade up.  :D

I tried to like them.  A friend of mine is so into the books and made them sound insanely awesome.  As a literal vampire, I love a good vampire story.  A good one.  I did not find any of the story lines of the series to be good.

I think I just hold vampire stories to a higher standard after all of the vampire books and movies I've seen and have fallen in love with.  Husband and I are both big vampire buffs, so if there's fangs in it, we see it and read it.  Just.. not Twilight.

I read it to find out what all the fuss was about.

I seriously was not impressed.

The prose was awkward, romance cliche and repetative. I mean honestly, all Bella talks about is his porcelien skin and cheekbones and muscular body.

I was bored. I saw the movie, and I liked it. Robert P is gorgeous and unlike the book the movie didn't bore me.

I tried to like it, but just couldn't. It was just so incredibly badly written.

I love the books, but honestly thats for my own personal reasons. Bella, well...the things she said in the books, the way she talked about herself as not being good enough for Edward, well..the similarities between her and myself is downright scary.....even the accident prone parts, I am constantly hurting myself, tripping over nothing, breaking a bone, falling on my face....LOL

it got to the point where i had a friend of mine read a part of the book and she comes back with "good lord, she sounds like you!' Which, I guess showed me just how pathetic I can be...I mean, she got on my nerves with all her self-loathing...so I kinda had to take a closer look at myself and the way I act....

the accident prone part of me is here to stay tho...LOL

The movie is good, but they cut sooo much out, the connection between Edward and Bella is so much more, in the books...so much deeper, I don't think they got it right. But, I've seen it 8 times, just the same :)

I really enjoyed the books. (Read them all in four days, in fact, when I should have been studying for finals) A lot of the repetition did get on my nerves, especially the stuff about Edward's physical appearance. I wanted Bella to move on, or at least come up with different adjectives to describe him.

Despite that, I literally could not put them down, they're like the literary equivalent of Twinkies. I think part of the draw for me was the eerie similarity the characters in the books had to characters I made up when I wrote stories back in my young teens. I felt like I was reliving the years when I was 13-15, and it was kind of fun.

I agree with the others who said the rabid fanbase creeps them out. I feel the same way, and it makes me not want to admit how much I enjoyed the books for fear of being lumped in with them. My sister is has already gone over to the dark side, and since we live in Seattle she's been trying to get me to go visit Forks with her and some friends. I fear I'll give in and that will be the last I see of my dignity. ;p

I first heard about them from my lil bro(16) cause he was buying them for his then girlfriend. I want to see the movie now that it's not opening weekend I hoepfully won't be annoyed by hundreds of teenage girls' screams. That guy is cute ;-)

Original Post by hanifashizzle:

twilight by stephenie meyer

is bad

Original Post by curvesaregood:

 Edward Cullen is the exemplary man and the love story is fanciful.

 There is nothing exemplary about a boy who breaks into your room to watch you sleep...it's called stalking. How about when he locks her in his house to keep from seeing her friends? If I met this man in real life, I'd run very fast in the other direction...

However, with that said...I enjoyed the books. The writing is easy and fun, but I really worry about the girls that think Edward is the perfect man. There is a very thin line between love and obsession in these books, the trick is to recognize it for what it is.

My brother lent me his copy of Twilight and told me it was a guilty pleasure to read it. He has never let me down with his book picks.  Except this time.  Perhaps its because I am old, but I thought it was awful. 

What would a vampire, several centuries old, find interesting about a 17 year old girl? It was just unbelievable.

Why didn't Edward, just run away with Bella when they first knew the other vampires were coming and avoid the confrontation altogether? They knew they were coming well before they came across them. And they said they wouldn't hunt in their territory.

Why did he have such a hard time resiting eating her when he was a "vegan" vampire? He didn't eat people!

I found the writing immature, horribly cliche and just very bad.  The sentence structure was often clunky and the story plodded on in simple linear way: and then this happened and then I did this and then I did this.

Also, enough with the smoldering looks already! For over half the book they did nothing but look at each other. Move along! I imagine it would appeal to young teens because it seems to be about romance without the threat of actual sex. Which is a good thing, but better books to read than this.

And Bella, her bitchiness did not ring true. She just seemed unnecessarily unpleasant much of the time.

One sentence from the book really bothered me.  She says at one point, "I opened up my favorite search engine." This is bad for so many reasons. She goes on to tell us step by step  then I clicked enter and then I put my mouse on...

Honestly, this is some of the worst writing I have ever read. I finished the book only because I am looking forward to discussing it with my brother. I really want to know what he saw in it. 

Salems Lot = best vampire story out there so far.

~K

Original Post by ignayshus:

Original Post by hanifashizzle:

twilight by stephenie meyer

is bad

I concur. I also wanted to like them. Especially since they were "the next Harry Potter."

Meh.

Too much Teen Angst for me, thankyouverymuch.

It also, as katonick points out, felt it was way too cliched and way too unbelievable.

AND, from what I hear, it got WORSE. Ms. Meyer listened to her fans about how things should go, which to me is a hugely rookie mistake, and was shocked to find out she hadn't pleased them.

And this was the best vampire book ever >;D