The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer

[diamondlil]

There has been a lot of hype around recently about these books which are YA vampire fiction. With a movie of the first book due out in November, the hype is likely to only get bigger. The books so far in order are:

Twilight
New Moon
Eclipse
Breaking Dawn


There was supposed to be a book written that told of the events in the first book from the vampire hero's point of view (his name is Edward) but it is looking like that book which was to be called Midnight Sun is now going to be pulled because some early drafts of the first 12 chapters have been leaked onto the internet and then distributed around the place. More details on this can be found here (http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/)

[Judith]

Just finished reading the Twilight Series! :)

That's really to bad that something like that happened. :( I have to admit that I did go and save Midnight Sun! :)

[Divia]

I've read Twilight and nothing else. My students are all over my case to read the other books, but they forget that they keep taking them out so I dont get a chance to read them. :D

[cookie]

I'm reading Twilight at the moment.
My daughter has just finished Breaking Dawn.

[Judith]

How are you liking it, cookie? I just finished Breaking Dawn and thought it was good, some slow spots, but other wise good. :)

[cookie]

It's good - I'm reading very slowly though - so I'm frustrated with myself that I can't get stuck into it.

[SonjaMarie]

Internet leak kills series of vampire books
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/08/31/internet_leak_kills_series_of_vampire_books.html

SM

[diamondlil]

Here's (http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB122040471575293473-lMyQjAxMDI4MjAwMzQwMDM0Wj.html) Wall Street Journal's take on the Midnight Sun story.

[Divia]

Sometimes the internet is a thing of Evil. How sad that she won't publish the book now, but I can understand why she is doing it. And it doesnt shock me that her female fans are angry.

[xiaotien]

i've read twilight, and stopped there.
i found it very compelling.

we've been discussing the midnight sun
leak over on the blue boards at verla kay's,
and it's truly sad. i wouldn't wish that
on any author.

i find her success story truly
fascinating.

[Divia]

I agree its amazing that she was able to do what she did. Man, I wish we could all be that lucky!

[annis]

Stephenie Meyer has recently branched out into adult fiction with her novel 'The Host" (http://www.amazon.com/Host-Novel-Stephenie-Meyer/dp/0316068047)

How devastating for her to lose all that work. Even worse it sounds as if the leak originated with someone she knows and trusted.

[diamondlil]

The Host was an excellent read!

[Kailana]

I agree! I really liked The Host. Not so fond of her series, though. Breaking Dawn went flying across the room one night and I still haven't picked it back up.

[Divia]

oh my!

I didnt read the host becuase it just didnt interest me.

[diamondlil]

Here's an interesting quote from Robert Pattinson (http://www.robert-pattinson.co.uk/?p=809), the actor who is going to be playing Edward in the upcoming movie:


"When you read the book, it's like, 'Edward Cullen was so beautiful I creamed myself.' I mean, every line is like that. He's the most ridiculous person who's so amazing at everything. I think a lot of actors tried to play that aspect. I just couldn't do that. And the more I read the script, the more I hated this guy, so that's how I played him, as a manic-depressive who hates himself. Plus, he's a 108-year-old virgin so he's obviously got some issues there."

[Divia]

um ok wow. Thats an interesting take on the character. I wonder how Meyer feels about that, and how the fans will like it?

[diamondlil]

It is an interesting take isn't it.

[Divia]

well I think he has to take into account, and apprently didnt, that the book is for teenage girls. They did make Edward out to be some knight in shinning armor, but thats what they want.

I think he was being a little unfair to the teenage girls.

[SonjaMarie]

Meyer will be on Ellen Degeneres on Sept 17th.

SM

[Hoopking]

My 15 yr old daughter is in love with this series so I have read the first two books and am into the third. I can see why young girls are thrilled with the character, but for me the author is very repaticious in her adoration of the male character Edward. How many times can you say how gorgeous someone is. Also, the premise was a little hard for me to grasp after knowing the old vampire tales I grew up with.
So the book is definatley for the female of the human being but I have enjoyed it as much as I can. I think for myself I will enjoy the movie a little more because it won't have the girl say every sentence how beautiful and god like Edward is.

[cookie]

So true hoopking !
It certainly is repititous and soooooooo boring !
I'm halfway through Twilight and skimming... there are some interesting passages, but it's far too much of Bella rabbiting on about the gorgeousness of Edward !!

[Hoopking]

soooooooo boring

It will get better in the final chapters if you can get to them, but it is very predictable.

[Misfit]

Here's (http://www.komonews.com/home/video/34396819.html?video=YHI&t=a) a video clip from a local station that just featured Forks and the upcoming movie.

[EC2]

I read the first one way ahead of the hype several years ago, and I loved it - really loved it. My publishers bought it for the UK before it broke big and when I was visiting them in London, I grabbed it off their new release shelf, said 'Hey, I've read this. It is going to be HUGE and it will sell in its millions.' They were hoping it would do well but at the time the buzz had yet to gather and they hadn't a clue how well. So now, very smugly, I can say 'Told ya so, nyaaa.' :p:D

[cookie]

It will get better in the final chapters if you can get to them, but it is very predictable.

The ending was okay - I reckon it would be a great book if it was cut in half !!!

[Hoopking]

The ending was okay - I reckon it would be a great book if it was cut in half !!!

I agree completely I am still struggling through the third book, boy what we do for our kids.:D

[MrsMorland]

I am about halfway through the first one and so far I like it. I certainly walked farther than I usually do on the treadmill while reading it because I was so engrossed!

[Hoopking]

I am about halfway through the first one and so far I like it. I certainly walked farther than I usually do on the treadmill while reading it because I was so engrossed!

There are not that many who don't really like it. I think she is a very good writer and I plan to see the movie as well. I just grew up on the old vampires and they had no trouble changing young teenage girls into vampires. That is why this appeals to the younger reader more that those of us not so young any more. Also it appeals to girls and young women more than us hardened men.:D

[LCW]

On a whim I picked up the first book in the series while browsing a bookstore. I always do the impulse buys in the store as opposed to careful research of the novels I purchase online. If I don't like it I can always give it to my 17 yr old sister, assuming she hasn't read it yet!

[Maggie]

I just finished the fourth book, and although I 'loved' the first three, I hated Breaking Dawn. :(

But I do want to read Midnight Sun, when she finally finishes and releases it and The Host.

[diamondlil]

I didn't hate Breaking Dawn, but I only liked it a bit. I had some serious issues with some of the content on this one!

[LCW]

I stayed up until 1 am to finish Twilight. It was a good book, definitely held my attention. I was wondering how I'd respond to a novel that wasn't HF but I really did like it. It was a nice change for me and a nice fun light read. I didn't think it had a lot of depth to it but maybe because it's a YA novel. Either way it was good! I'd give it four stars.

[EC2]

I stayed up until 1 am to finish Twilight. It was a good book, definitely held my attention. I was wondering how I'd respond to a novel that wasn't HF but I really did like it. It was a nice change for me and a nice fun light read. I didn't think it had a lot of depth to it but maybe because it's a YA novel. Either way it was good! I'd give it four stars.

That's exactly how I felt LCW. I could see there were a few flaws but it didn't matter. It still suckered me in. I think it definitely catches those first feelings of adolescent yearning in a very powerful way, and that is part of its success.

[LCW]

I think it definitely catches those first feelings of adolescent yearning in a very powerful way, and that is part of its success.

I agree, which is why it didn't bother that she went on and on about how perfect and gorgeous Edward was. I'm sure we all remember how it feels to love completely, without any caution and be swept up in a kind of love that completely envelopes you where you eat, sleep, and breathe it. Of course, this is before you've ever had your heart broken or know what it's like to be dissapointed by love!! The novel was about a teenage girl falling in love for the very first time so I thought her gushing over Edward was entirely appropriate.

[MLE]

Just finished this one, and to my surprise, I enjoyed it. I'm getting very hard to please as I get older, and I had the usual problems with suspending disbelief. But Twilight had enough going for it that it kept me turning the pages anyway -- much as the Harry Potter series did -- by the strength of the storytelling. You really were curious to see what happened next, and the ending had you on the edge of your seat.

The perfection of Edward's looks was actually part of the plot (although I don't think it needed to be harped on QUITE so often) in that vampires are supposed to be attractive to their prey. And I could see the rationale for why a 17 year-old girl would attract a being with 100 years of life experience, once it was explained what was uniquely fascinating about her one anomaly. I wasn't totally convinced, but I was grateful that the author didn't just ignore that issue.

[EC2]

Glad you enjoyed it MLE. I felt the same way that you did. LCW also makes a good point about the repetition and gushing all being part of how it feels to be a teenager in love. If you read it in that kind of mindset you can see just why it's become so huge. For me it certainly recaptured those heady feelings, and for girls just going through those first crush phases, this book must be dynamite.
I am definitely going to catch the film!

[Volgadon]

I've recently been exposed to some bits of the book, being a 25 year old guy I'll probably be the dissenting voice here, though it did feel like it was written by a teenaged girl version of Walpole.

[Eyza]

EC:

I'd probably have read it, and loved it, the way I loved Harry Potter. But I didn't. If you want to know why, I just got really "bummed out" on the theme of vampires. I seem to have come across so many of them lately. But some of my young relatives are reading it, and they kive it! So what can I say? Nothing whatsoever!:D
Anne G



I read the first one way ahead of the hype several years ago, and I loved it - really loved it. My publishers bought it for the UK before it broke big and when I was visiting them in London, I grabbed it off their new release shelf, said 'Hey, I've read this. It is going to be HUGE and it will sell in its millions.' They were hoping it would do well but at the time the buzz had yet to gather and they hadn't a clue how well. So now, very smugly, I can say 'Told ya so, nyaaa.' :p:D

[MLE]

All right, I must admit that I just read the entire four-book series. It isn't great literature, more what my daughter refers to as 'brain candy' but it go me through a winter cold in good spirits.

Books two and three were starting to feel a little repetitive, writing-wise, so imagine my astonishment when Ms Myers re-invents her style in book four with the first-person voice of Jacob, the smart-ass adolescent poor-boy-off-the-reservation who has to deal with being part wolf and having to share the 'pack mind'. In spite of my sneezing and runny nose, his narration kept cracking me up; it was fresh, honest, and acted perfectly to give a better picture of the Vampire family as they must have seemed to outsiders: too rich, too good looking, and too cold. And the gender business with the female werewolf was a really good twist.

I was sorry to leave Jacob's head to go back to the POV of Ms. always-guilty, never-good-enough Bella, (who reads a lot more like the product of an abusive home instead of the daughter of a loving but harebrained mother) except that the action of the ending was compelling enough to keep the pages turning.

Good job, all in all. My dh is amazed that I've actually been engrossed in a teenage vampire romance. Go figure.

[Misfit]

Heavens, the things that can happen in beautiful downtown Forks that the Seattle media (http://www.komonews.com/news/local/37792149.html) picks up on.

[diamondlil]

Slow news day?

[Misfit]

Slow news day?

That would have been my first thought but the news guys had plenty to keep them going today. Big apartment fire, the young boy killed at the monster rally and a huge puppy mill busted but no, we need the latest news from Forks :o:):o:confused:

[MLE]

Hey, that area needs all the help it can get. Back when I was in the Coast Guard, I was stationed in Astoria and I used to drive repaired radios/radars/sonars to all the bases from Port Angeles to Coos Bay. I saw most of those tiny towns a lot, and there isn't a whole lot of business there.
I bet Forks thinks Twilight is the best thing that ever happened to them. Probably Port Townsend is wishing they had made it into the story!

[Misfit]

Hey, that area needs all the help it can get. Back when I was in the Coast Guard, I was stationed in Astoria and I used to drive repaired radios/radars/sonars to all the bases from Port Angeles to Coos Bay. I saw most of those tiny towns a lot, and there isn't a whole lot of business there.
I bet Forks thinks Twilight is the best thing that ever happened to them. Probably Port Townsend is wishing they had made it into the story!

Twighlight is the best thing to happen to Forks in years, that old logging town has not done well since the Spotted Owl (don't mention that word in town) controversy. They're making money hand over fist right now in tourist dollars.

Somehow I'd hate to think of vampires and werewolves running lose in Victorian Port Townsend. Too urban anyway, not enough trees to swing around in :o:)

[SonjaMarie]

King Not A Fan Of Twilight Author

3 February 2009 5:25 PM, PST

Horror writer Stephen King has served up a fright for Twilight author Stephenie Meyers, insisting she "can't write worth a darn". King, the writer of classics like Carrie and Misery, has gone public with his critique of in-vogue Utah-based novelist Meyers in the upcoming issue of USA Weekend magazine.

He starts by complimenting J.K. Rowling on her Harry Potter books, and then slates Meyer.

He says, "Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people... The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.

"It’s very clear that she’s writing to a whole generation of girls and opening up kind of a safe joining of love and sex in those books. It’s exciting and it’s thrilling and it’s not particularly threatening because it’s not overtly sexual.

"A lot of the physical side of it is conveyed in things like the vampire will touch her forearm or run a hand over skin, and she just flushes all hot and cold. And for girls, that’s a shorthand for all the feelings that they’re not ready to deal with yet."

----

SM

[Divia]

ummmm. Ok.

So was there sex in the HP series? If so maybe I need to read them.

I wont lie Twilight was a romanticized version of love. But it was also a fantasy land that a lot of girls need to escape into.

Personally I think both Steve King and Meyer have their place. This isn't a pissing contest.

[EC2]

I wont lie Twilight was a romanticized version of love. But it was also a fantasy land that a lot of girls need to escape into.

Personally I think both Steve King and Meyer have their place. This isn't a pissing contest.

Right on Divia, especially that last sentence. Harry Potter wasn't perfect. Some readers might quibble at the ending and the choices Hermione makes. What does that say for women?
Just accept it for what it is. Meyer has drawn millions of readers into her world, not all of them teenage girls. If you can suck people in and get them reading and talking then that's great.

[Leyland]

He says, "Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people... The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.


Because King can get into the psyche of a contemporary female tween/teen so successfully as to know exactly what type of writing is 'worth a darn' to them! I wonder if he thinks Hannah Montana can sing 'worth a darn'. Hey, Steve, it works - don't knock it. Meyer didn't write it for you! Or me for that matter, but I loved the story anyway.

[LCW]

Because King can get into the psyche of a contemporary female tween/teen so successfully as to know exactly what type of writing is 'worth a darn' to them!

Exactly what I was thinking!! Ever since I was a teen I've tried to read King's novels but they just never grabbed me. He's made a fortune and I think it's in pretty bad taste for him to trash a new up and coming novelist who I'm sure will improve with time. I agree her writing wasn't perfect but it was a good story and I, who rightly or wrongly do consider myself somewhat intelligent, enjoyed it and plan to read the sequals.

[Volgadon]

Can't say I like any of the above writers, but glass houses come to mind. Stephen King had one or two alright-ish ideas, entirely let down by the absence of skill or style. Intimacy and sex are not necessarily the same thing even if Stephen King might not be able to tell the two apart.

[nona]

my niece has read and re-read the twilight saga and has begged me to read it with her but I can't get passed the whole teenage vampire/werewolf love triangle :confused:. To me Anne Rice will always be my vamp queen if you know what I mean, I loved her Vampire Chronicles and have each and everyone of them, the character were so complex and you fell in love or hated them. So I'm one sided for now but who knows I might read them yet.

[LCW]

OK, I'm in the middle of New Moon and I'm sitting here wondering where the heck Edward is?? He was in the first dozen pages and then dissapears! I am liking the whole Jacob storyline but I wanted more of Bella and Edward. WTH?? :mad:

[EC2]

OK, I'm in the middle of New Moon and I'm sitting here wondering where the heck Edward is?? He was in the first dozen pages and then dissapears! I am liking the whole Jacob storyline but I wanted more of Bella and Edward. WTH?? :mad:

That was why I partly went off the Outlander books - when the focus got taken off Jamie & Claire. I had a reader hissy fit - LOL!
I haven't read New Moon yet, but I think, knowing myself, I'll probably have the same reaction!

[Divia]

:D Reader hissy fit. I like it. I have those every once in a while. :(

[Leyland]

OK, I'm in the middle of New Moon and I'm sitting here wondering where the heck Edward is?? He was in the first dozen pages and then dissapears!
Patience! He'll be back - Ed's the man! At least Jacob is more interesting at this point than boo-hoo-breaking-down-Bella. Now that phase was annoying! But she is a teen .... and they must have their angst.

[nona]

New Moon doesn't focus on Edward but our much loved vamp shows up don't worry.


I'm reading Breaking Dawn now......my oh my I had no idea it could happen

[cookie]

Actually I was only thinking yesterday that I must read New Moon before the movie comes out (November apparently).. so I'll start this as soon as I can.
Although there are other books I'd prefer to read :)

[LCW]

OK, I finished it a few hours ago. Can you tell what I've been doing all day, lol?? I ended up really liking it. Now I feel bad for poor Jacob. I'll take him if Bella doesn't want him anymore :p ! I just hope the next book doesn't turn him into a mean vengeful warewolf who's pissed because Bella is now with Edward again.

And yes, Bella when in full on teenage angst mode was slightly annoying but I wonder if I was reading it as a teenager I would feel the same way. I asked my 17 yr old sister and she was like, "What??? Bella is the coolest ever!!!" :D

Now I just have to wait until Monday when my other sister gets back in town so I can get the last two books from her. If I had them here now I'd dive right in!

[MLE]

LOL! Glad to see I'm not alone -- for years, I poked fun at the "teenage vampire books", only to find myself reading them one after the other, disbelief completely suspended. Only weeks after finishing them did I find my critical faculties back, shaking my head because the biology definitely would not have worked, noticing the holes in the plot...

The DIL is reading them now, it gives us something to talk about besides diapers. So my hat's off to Stephanie Meyers. In the end, reading novels is about fun.

[LCW]

In the end, reading novels is about fun.

I agree! I enjoyed the second novel even more than the first because I wasn't so critical. I found myself critiquing things more in the first rather than just chilling out and letting myself be lost in some brain candy for a while. I can't seem to let myself do that with HF but it's pretty easy to do with "fun" books like these, HR as well.

[Divia]

Thats the thing with YA books. So much angst. But ya have to look at it from a hormally, moody teenager. :D Although, to be fair, there are times even I can't suck it up and read something becuase its just too much.

[chuck]

I'm not a fan of the "Vampire Fad Thing".....got my fill of it by reading the Ann Rice novels....AR will probably try to release them again with new Sexy covers and somebody famous to endorse them....Sorry about the rant.....BTW I can see "Interview with a Vampire" being re released"....Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt...Ye Gads.....

[Divia]

The vampire fad isnt going away either. It seems that a new type of novel is hitting the shelves. Though there is a zombie one and there are a few about ghosts. Urban Fantasy, as its called really seems to be hot right now.

[nona]

I agree chuck I loved AR vampire chronicles and swore I'ld never read Meyers but I go sucked into watching the movie and well, curiousity got the better of me. Though must admitt the first is by far the best it's kinda down hill from there for me.

[Misfit]

Saw this (http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11380864&whse=BC&topnav=&browse=&lang=en-US&s=1)at the book shelf at Costco today. Just under $45 in store.

[diamondlil]

2560 pages - that's a lot of book!

[nona]

it's four hardcover books, that is exactly what I bought from amazon for $32 however they have gone up in price since I bought mine thre-four weeks agao.


I finished Breaking Dawn the other night, good series. I was expecting the fall out vampire vs. vampire/shape shifter war and well it defused! c'mon, they can't be that big of cowards.

[MLE]

Well, you have to grant that the ending was a surprise!
In retrospect, Twilight was a fun read, but it doesn't hold up well. When I think back on it, I keep thinking that the biology just wouldn't work -- little stuff like, "How could you spend hundreds of years as a doctor lithout a normal temperature or a pulse? Wouldn't at least one of your colleagues have noticed, seeing that is so basic to their specialty?" Also, let's face it, this is, on average, a group of mass murderers. How do you get past that in the other vampires? "Oh hi, you're one of the good guys, just go kill a couple of states away." Why didn't they use donated blood? How hard would that have been? And completely non-lethal.
Had a hard time buying into the sudden self-willed stupidity of the father.
How come, if creating a vampire was so difficult for their self-restraint, Victoria seemed to have no problem with it?
What about the sudden switch from werewolves to shape shifters? If that was the case, and they were so unique, why did all the Cullens in book two know all about how volatile young werewolves were?
And lastly, "How romantic would it be to snuggle up to somebody who was cold and hard?"
And on and on.

[nona]

I must say I didn't like the wolves either, I trudged through those parts. Twilight was the best and it went down hill from there kinda like PG's books. I predicted the end maybe not as detailed but in general and I hate being able to predict the end of a book or series. She left it as if there might be more...what do you think?

[MLE]

I think that the publishing industry is in a world of hurt, and their tried-and-true method of breaking even is to crank out more of what sold last time. They'll keep publishing Twilight and Harry Potter-themed stuff as long as they can get the writers to cooperate.
Too bad for them, when it's that popular, the writers don't need the money any more. Then they can slough off the old stuff and go write whatever they want.

[LCW]

I can't seem to stop myself! I've been in vampire warewolf land for a week! I'm now half way into the last book, Breaking Dawn. Eclipse, the third book, was my least favorite. Bella was at her most annoying. I kept wanting to scream at her but then I'd catch myself and wonder if I wasn't like that as a teenager. Probably to my parents I was! I admit to a having a bit of an angst fest for a few years, LOL.

But the story is compelling and it keeps me turning the pages, flaws and all! After this though I'll have to read something more "serious". ;):p

[nona]

honestlly I think Meyer and her publishers should let Edward and Bella rest in peace though I loved the characters the story plopped at the end but I guess tere is always Renesmee.....


Have you read her book The Host?

[nona]

I agree LCW I need history like I've never needed it before.

[Divia]

I think that the publishing industry is in a world of hurt, and their tried-and-true method of breaking even is to crank out more of what sold last time. They'll keep publishing Twilight and Harry Potter-themed stuff as long as they can get the writers to cooperate.


Urban fantasy for teens right now is hot. There are so many books about vampires, ghosts, werewolves, and even zombies now. Fantasy doesnt seem to be that strong though.

And I still dont know if she is going to write that one book from edwards POV. It would sell, of course, but really who needs a book to be redone like that?

[nona]

personaly I've read 20 or so pages of Midnight Sun online and I have to say I'ld love to read it, Edward is so interesting and it would be totaly different in his pov rather then Bella's don't get me wrong but afterwards she seemed to react/respond in the typical teenage fashion to most situations or at least a teenager in love.

[Divia]

Well she was a teenager in love ;)

[diamondlil]

honestlly I think Meyer and her publishers should let Edward and Bella rest in peace though I loved the characters the story plopped at the end but I guess tere is always Renesmee.....


Have you read her book The Host?

I've read The Host and absolutely loved it, more than I enjoyed any of the Twilight books.

My biggest issues with this series were with the last book. I really struggled with a couple of things


*****SPOILERS*****

I really hated that Bella ended up covered with bruises on her wedding night. I hated that having the baby nearly killed her, and I thought it was a huge cop out to have Bella adapt so easily after being turned.

And the other thing - Renesmee! I get where it comes from but seriously - what kind of name is that!

Oh, and I liked Jacob a lot, but having him bond with Renesmee was another cop out IMO.

[Leyland]

I completely agree with your spoilers, diamondlil. I thought Meyer went down the too-weird-for-me-Anne Rice-road at times in the fourth novel! So different from the previous three, anyway.

The Host was really well done and I hope a sequel comes out of it this year but haven't checked her website, etc.

[diamondlil]

I haven't heard anything about more about the sequel other than that there will be one! I am waiting for it very impatiently though!

[Vanessa]

I think it definitely catches those first feelings of adolescent yearning in a very powerful way, and that is part of its success.

I've just finished Twilight and enjoyed it more than I thought I would. It's very easy to read. I agree with EC's comment - I can see the appeal to young teenage girls. Edward is a 'bad' boy but such a hero, too! It's not literary - I don't think it's supposed to be - it's just a jolly good fun read! I think the author achieves the chemistry between Edward and Bella so well without being sexually graphic. No bad language either and that's a plus!

[Misfit]

Found a review on GoodReads that you might find amusing. 70+ comments, you can read it here (http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27439719).

[Miss Moppet]

Twilight doesn't really look like my kind of thing but I might succumb and read the first book at least out of sheer curiosity. It certainly has some loyal fans - my friend's 13 year old daughter has read the whole series four times and one of her friends has read it sixteen times.

I might borrow a copy, that way all is not lost if I am not enchanted.

[nona]

I must say I was a huge Anne Rice fan as a teen, read them all at least a few times. I read Twilight and honestly it was ok but it went down hill after the first book, it's the best in my opinion, and don't get me started on Breaking Dawn.

[LCW]

Found a review on GoodReads that you might find amusing. 70+ comments, you can read it here (http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27439719).

OMG, that just made my day! Hilarious! And so perfect for a Twilight book! :D

[robinbird79]

Came late to this thread but just forced myself to finish reading the first Twilight book for a book club and all I have to say is yick. I could not get into it or find anything I liked about it. I went online to find reviews of the others thinking maybe they'd be better...everything I read really turned me off from even considering reading the other 3. I really don't see the draw to these books but to each his own, I suppose. :)

[Miss Moppet]

Had to share this - Edward Cullen meets Buffy Summers. Probably more for non-Twilight fans as Edward comes off worse, but I thought it was really clever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyCot4ORdOA

[nona]

lol, he did an awesome job editing it to look some what realistic.

[EC2]

That was fun Miss Moppet - thanks!:D

[Lady Macbeth]

My teenage daughter loves these books so I had to have a read to see what the fuss was all about. Twilight is a good book - the story and characters are very compelling. It is an easy read but it's really not got the depth of the Harry Potter novels which I was kinda hoping for given that they're the biggest buzz in 'kids' novels since JK.

I found the lack of Edward in New Moon a bit of a drag and I really found him oppressive in Eclipse and, sadly, didn't enjoy Breaking Dawn.

BUT............I think the novels have really revived my daughter's interest in reading which had waned somewhat of late and she now devours everything in the supernatural romance genre.

Her favourite book besides these is Evermore by Alyson Noel, if anyone is looking for what next to read.:)

[diamondlil]

I really enjoyed the first book, thought the second book was pretty good (I really like Jacob!) but yes, totally agree about the fourth book!

[diamondlil]

It has been announced that there is now going to be a manga/comic version of Twilight coming out soon. It's a very popular step in publishing these days.

[Miss Moppet]

While reading about the WH controversy I came across this:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books (http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/aug/05/stephenie-meyer-plagiarism-claim)

So author Jordan Scott thinks SM plagiarised her book. I never got to Breaking Dawn - the recaps at http://cleolinda.livejournal.com/630150.html (http://cleolinda.livejournal.com/) were more than enough for me. But the similarities between the Scott book and Twilight, which her lawyer claims prove SM plagiarised her, are just laughable:

Among these are that both books include an after-wedding sex scene on a beach, that both contain a scene about a woman who is sick because she's pregnant with a child with evil powers, that both feature a scene in which the pregnant wife is dying, that both include a scene in which the main character sees their baby for the first time, and that both see the main character turn into a vampire. Scott also points out that in both books the main character refers to his wife as "love".

Pregnant with a child with evil powers...Rosemary's Baby, anyone? And I can think of a few other books where 'the main character sees their baby for the first time' - a few hundred, probably.

[Curiosity Shoppe]

Scott also points out that in both books the main character refers to his wife as "love".



LULZ

Seriously? No, seriously?

[Miss Moppet]

LULZ

Seriously? No, seriously?

Seriously. Here

http://www.tmz.com/2009/08/04/twilight-author-accused-of-biting-vampire-story/

is the original story from TMZ with a link to a pdf of a letter from Jordan Scott's lawyers detailing the alleged similarities between her book and Breaking Dawn.

The woman must be nuts, and she's going to waste a fortune on lawyer fees. There is really very little similarity, apart from a few cliches to be found in probably every wedding night/pregnancy/birth scene ever written.

Lulz indeed.

[Vanessa]

I've just finished New Moon and found it very entertaining! I did miss Edward in the middle, though. Glad he's back.:rolleyes: I'm looking forward to seeing the film now when it comes out on DVD, which I believe is in March.

[Divia]

Ms Meyer will be publishing a NEW book come June 5. It is called: "The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner" and will be a novella. Even more exciting is that people will be able to read the story for FREE from June 7 at noon and until July 5, the entire story will be available at www.breetanner.com