I stand alone...twilight-the book please tell me I'm not alone! (could have spoilers)

[Lace Neil Singer]

My main concern about the book is how abusive and controlling it shows Edward/Bella to be... and how it might get kids to read, but it also might get teenage girls stuck in abusive relationships cuz Edward acts like that so it must be OK! [sarcasm off] Plus the Jacob=Pedobear bit is seriously creepy.

[Amina516]

Ok, so..i just finished the PDF Twlight that I was sent by EQ.(Thanks, BTW)

Now, I saw the movie over Thanksgiving and really (surprisingly) liked it. I really only went to see that movie to have something to do Thanksgiving night and nothing else playing even caught my eye.

I get the book Monday and read over half of it at once. If I hadnt have had to stop to study, I wouldve finished the whole thing in just a few hours. It was a very easy read.

And...*drumroll please* I really, really liked the book.

I will now be buying the set of four to read over my christmas break to give me something to do. lol

Forgive me, all?

[depechemodefan]

Ok, so..i just finished the PDF Twlight that I was sent by EQ.(Thanks, BTW)

Now, I saw the movie over Thanksgiving and really (surprisingly) liked it. I really only went to see that movie to have something to do Thanksgiving night and nothing else playing even caught my eye.

I get the book Monday and read over half of it at once. If I hadnt have had to stop to study, I wouldve finished the whole thing in just a few hours. It was a very easy read.

And...*drumroll please* I really, really liked the book.

I will now be buying the set of four to read over my christmas break to give me something to do. lol

Forgive me, all?

Ok, until book 4. If you like that...oh, hell, I love Spuffy, I have no leg to stand on.

Today I decided to flip through Breaking Dawn (which makes me think of bad things happening to Dawn Summers) and damn it, no discriptive sex. Though Edward going all nuts over Bella the morning after, hee.

You know, the weird baby being born reminds me of Anne Rice's Mayfair(?) Mayflower (?) Mayfuck (?) series. With the witches and the freaking...uh, race of beings. The fact that share less DNA than a fruit fly shows Anne Rice should not write SF. Also, fucking crazy series. Talk about incest...

Oh yeah, and read: http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Twilight (NSFW!)

Ok, now I have a new favorite site. So there is really incest with Jacob and Alice?

[RetailWorkhorse]

I absolutely wouldn't compare it to Harry Potter, of which I am a HUGE almost obsessive fan.

That reminds me.... in the series, Harry and Draco pretty much obsessed about each other (which is probably why there's so many fanfiction about those two hooking up in some way). In the last book, nothing. Not a peep. What in the world happened? It's like that particular set of plot-flutters were just cut off and ignored.

[persephone]

I'm trying to work out if there are any fans of the works involved here in the CS community. Anyone want to defend it? I'm not talking all-out fratching, but I can't believe that nobody's really said anything in its defence.

Hi. My name is Persephone and I like Twilight, New Moon and Eclipse. Have not seen the movie nor have I read Breaking Dawn. I don't think it's the best book ever written, but I enjoy them for what they are.

But do you really think I'm going to jump into something that goes on for post after post after post saying how much it sucks? Everyone is entitled to their opinion. You don't want to like it, that's fine. But I just didn't see reason to throw oil on fire and play the troll.

But yes, I actually really enjoy the books. They're easy reads and they're fun. But, like I said, to each their own.

(And no, this does not make me a stupid snivelling fan like some of the teenage girls, nor does this make me stupid or an idiot. Just means I have a different opinion that some of the other people on the boards.)

[Amethyst Hunter]

You know, the weird baby being born reminds me of Anne Rice's Mayfair(?) Mayflower (?) Mayfuck (?) series. With the witches and the freaking...uh, race of beings. The fact that share less DNA than a fruit fly shows Anne Rice should not write SF. Also, fucking crazy series. Talk about incest...

Mayfair. I read The Witching Hour once. Gah, was that a long (and mostly) boring book...

Anne Rice just should not write, period. The ONLY book of hers that I've ever liked was The Mummy. Everything else she's done has just sucked. Although I've only read some of the vampire chronicles; just wasn't impressed by them to want to bother any more with the rest of her stuff.

[depechemodefan]

Mayfair. I read The Witching Hour once. Gah, was that a long (and mostly) boring book...

Anne Rice just should not write, period. The ONLY book of hers that I've ever liked was The Mummy.

I like her erotic Sleeping Beauty books (well, the first 2). And Exit to Eden. Oh, and Belinda though that is a really trashy book. But The Mummy, while ok, kind of ticks me off when Ramseys goes to a dinner party and he talks about aspirin (but like in it's original form) and people look at him because aspirin exists and so there must be something supernatural about him. And I kind of doubt the real Ramsey looked like an Anglo, with blue eyes (ok, I will go with the potion giving blue eyes), in real life. Oh, and Cleopatra, in real life, wasn't movie star pretty. Ok, must be the potion.

Hi. My name is Persephone and I like Twilight, New Moon and Eclipse. Have not seen the movie nor have I read Breaking Dawn. I don't think it's the best book ever written, but I enjoy them for what they are.

I'm glad you like them.

[Becks]

I like her erotic Sleeping Beauty books (well, the first 2).

I read all 3. Borrowed them from a coworker. (A few of us took turns reading them.)

I can't understand why they thought they were *good*.

[depechemodefan]

I read all 3. Borrowed them from a coworker. (A few of us took turns reading them.)

I can't understand why they thought they were *good*.

porn=good. Though the last book showed AR ran out of ideas. It's not literary classical reading, but since this was before fanfic on the internet, I enjoyed it.

I got lot a crap load of Twilight bookmarks (it's the pic from the movie). Maybe I'll sell the lot on ebay. Oh, and why in that pic of Edward in the movie, he is so white? He's wax white. He might be the defintion of white for Tudor England or Victorian England (and other societies that believe in the white) but this is not attractive. Granted, I just see some pics. Maybe in the movie he isn't as white as a corpse brought up from middle of a lake.

[Becks]

porn=good. Though the last book showed AR ran out of ideas. It's not literary classical reading, but since this was before fanfic on the internet, I enjoyed it.

They were OK, IMO. Just not as good as I expected, having heard from the ones that read them before me.

Or maybe I'm into different porn.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Hi. My name is Persephone and I like Twilight, New Moon and Eclipse. Have not seen the movie nor have I read Breaking Dawn. I don't think it's the best book ever written, but I enjoy them for what they are.

I will say this; I'm not against people liking the books, despite appearences... ^^;; If you like reading fluff and recognise it as being fluff; then fine. No puppies are being killed just cuz someone reads Twilight. XD

However, it's the crazed fangirls who shriek, "OMG!!!11!!1!eleventy! This is the bestest book ever written since the dawn of time!!1!!! And Bella is the best heroine eva and Edward is soooo hawt and I laaarrvvveee him and all you haters deserve to die painfully and messily you horrible puppy murderers!!!!!11!!1!" who give all the people who read the books a bad name. There's no point in saying that Twilight or any of the other books in the series are the best examples of the written word ever, cuz that simply is not true. It's like saying that the actors on Eastenders are the best actors ever and the storylines are the best scripts ever. O_o

[depechemodefan]

They were OK, IMO. Just not as good as I expected, having heard from the ones that read them before me.

Or maybe I'm into different porn.

Oh, I get it now; yeah, it's a bit flowery, what I remember.

[Thuringwethyl]

I'll be honest: I started out liking Twilight. Then I got to New Moon and got so frustrated with the characters that I couldn't even start Eclipse. Then the series began getting really popular and every other teen would come in talking about. Finally there was this explosion where every other person in the store wants the books, wants to talk about them, thinks they're great, etc.

The same thing happened with Laurel K. Hamilton's Anita Blake novels. The first four were interesting (though a bit light on the story). Then she began adding in more and more sex, which wasn't what I signed up for -- I wanted scary monsters getting their asses kicked by a little woman . But I kept on reading because by that point I'd already invested time and energy getting to know and love certain characters. The stories grew weaker and weaker and the porn got more and more prevalent until I had to stop with Incubus Dreams (Anita didn't even solve the mystery! A group of unknown vampires took care of it themselves and left an anonymous note! Come, now ). Laurel K. Hamilton betrayed me.

If I didn't originally like both these storylines I wouldn't feel so upset by them now. The problem with Twilight is that it's everywhere; I keep on having it shoved in my face and getting reminded about how irritated I was with it. Also, I used to love vampire fiction and was made fun of in school because of it. Now, all the preppy kids who would have made fun of me have taken a genre I used to love and twisted it. *Sigh*

At least Terry Pratchett is still safe.

[persephone]

However, it's the crazed fangirls who shriek, "OMG!!!11!!1!eleventy! This is the bestest book ever written since the dawn of time!!1!!! And Bella is the best heroine eva and Edward is soooo hawt and I laaarrvvveee him and all you haters deserve to die painfully and messily you horrible puppy murderers!!!!!11!!1!" who give all the people who read the books a bad name. There's no point in saying that Twilight or any of the other books in the series are the best examples of the written word ever, cuz that simply is not true. It's like saying that the actors on Eastenders are the best actors ever and the storylines are the best scripts ever. O_o

I'm a fan of the books and even I hate those girls. It's fluff. It's meaningless nothing easy reading. I like that sometimes. Bella isn't a great wonderful heroine, but I also don't think she's quite the Mary Sue some people want to make her out to be (a fratching topic, probably, so I'll just leave it at that! ). I just think she's a pretty standard teenager -- rather self absorbed and focused on whatever sparks her interest and dealing with a (admittedly, odd) first love. There are a lot of passages and moments with Bella that I'm like "Uh..........yeah. I remember that well.)

But yeah, those girls and fans get on my nerves too, so I understand completely where you're coming from. Which is why I say we're all entitled to our opinions. You (collective you, those who don't like the series) and I probably have a good bit of common ground on these kinds of people.

[RetailWorkhorse]

"OMG!!!11!!1!eleventy! This is the bestest book ever written since the dawn of time!!1!!! And Bella is the best heroine eva and Edward is soooo hawt and I laaarrvvveee him and all you haters deserve to die painfully and messily you horrible puppy murderers!!!!!11!!1!"

I laughed so hard I started to nose-bleed.