Twilight

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@ Edward – TRUE. possessiveness is a sign of abuse. BUT the book states, more than once, WHY he is so possessive! Edward is very old, and indestructible. he has waited years and years and years to find Bella, and to him she is SOSOSO fragile, he is terrified he will lose her. In later books, Edward grows to accept that Bella has to have freedom and she is able to go to play with her little werewolf fried – the vampires greatest enemy – without issues. I myself would be pissed at Micah should he treat me as Edward did Bella, but for the story, if he had acted in any way other than how he did, it would have made it a lot less believable for me.

@series – I agree, a book in a series should be able to stand alone, and most do. Twilight does to a certain extent. there is a beginning, middle and end – but the “end” is just to the main conflict within the first book. To get the final “end” of the story,m you have to read the whole story, and this is true with any series. If the story does not continue on in later books, it is no longer a series, ya know?

I also agree about the experience issue. I am not sure if twilight was her first book, but as the series goes on, they do get much more involved, there is a lot more action and it’s just…smoother(?) in terms of reading reading.

I wish there were more people who have read Twilight in here commenting. I’m loving the different view points!

I did notice issues with her writing style, and in particular, the first few chapters of the book. I got the books emailed to me in PDF format and honestly assumed that the first few chapters of the book had not been sent – i believed this up until I bought the books yesterday afternoon- The story simply starts, there is no back ground, nothing, you are just dumped into the middle of the book, or so it seems. In later parts of the story, you are brought up to speed, but I did feel the intro could have been better done.

Hubs will not be reading this series simply becuase the first book drags. I told him honestly, that while the series is great, he will have trouble getting into it at first due to the slowness.

I first heard of twilight online, over night it seemed that everyone was talking about it – mostly great things, but a few “I don’t like the book, its juvenile” comments were there too. When I started reading twilight I was in the same boat as you, I was not enjoying it. I did not start enjoying it til close to the end of the book, at that point, I was excited to read the second book, and that’s when I really got hooked on the series.

I can understand how you are not willing to read the rest of the series, becuase if you cannot “get into” the first book, there is no guarantee you will like the rest of them!

(I actually forced myself to continue reading Twilight after the first few chapters just so that I could bash twilight on BPR. That backfired on me, obviously!! LOL)

BPR - I’m so glad you can at least see the writing issues, that is my main problem and I know it’s there and even if you liked the story more than the writing style I am glad you saw it. It’s funny you read it to prove people wrong, I suppose I could have been proven wrong. So far I’ve been right about Twilight and Harry Potter.

Gemini - We are all entitled to our opinions, unless it’s a negative one about Kevin Spacey…or Ewan.

Gemini - I saw the movie.

Run, don’t look back and just run. Run for your life!

Sorry, I didn’t mean to confuse things. Gemini kept saying how great both HP and LOTR were so one day I saw Harry Potter and was like, eh…kinda boring. I’ve been telling her for a while I just don’t do fantasy stuff and the more I try the more I realize it’s true. So therefore I realized I in fact really don’t like the fantasy stuff. I didn’t mean to link it in with the book, I do agree…the books are always better.

Okay. I loved Twilight. I hated the second because it was so sad and depressing. I liked the third. I am having a very difficult time finishing Breaking Dawn because I just don’t like it. (But, I simply can’t NOT finish the book because it would drive my OCD nuts!)

I have to say that if the movies are done right, this is one series where the movies may actually be better than the books.

As for HP (heh, that’s my initials too) you really can’t judge them on the movies because the books are so much better and you miss so much information from just watching the movies.

Robin, I found I especially agree with your comment on waiting for something real to happen in the first book. I distinctly remember realizing with a shock that I made it past the halfway mark, and thinking, “When, exactly, is this book supposed to get into it’s groove?” I honestly felt like that entire issue of Bella being hunted by the rogue vampire was so disconnected and out of place that it was simply thrown in there so that there could even BE an ‘ending’ to the first book in the ‘saga’ (snort).

And by the end it was painfully obvious that there absolutely *had* to be another book. Which in turn made me feel robbed and resentful towards Meyer, because it felt like a deliberate attempt to profit off of the trend Rowling started and milk me of all of my disposable income, not provide me with the pleasure of reading a good book. Twilight felt more like a gimmick than an actual book to me. And the short amount of time she took to churn out all of those other books kiiind of backs up that feeling.

I also agree that there were no surprises, I could see the Werewolf/Vampire/Human love triangle coming from the first book. I think the only reason I read past the first book was that I was daring Stephanie Meyer to do it. You know, turn the Native American into a werewolf. In that sense, she didn’t disappoint, I guess.