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Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

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Add message | Report | Contact poster By Wed 14-Oct-09 10:43:19
I couldn't put them down (and read them all before my teenage niece!!). Most reviews have slated Breaking Dawn - but I loved it. Each to their own grin
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Wed 14-Oct-09 10:38:25
Oh god, I loved them! I fell in love with Edward when I I read the first book and still love him now! It's so sad!!! I'm 30!!! Though, to my defence, I was pregnant when I read them and had quite a complicated pregnancy, lots of lonely stays in hospital with bleeds, etc, so I guess I was vulnerable...
At least that's my excuse, and I am sticking to it!! wink
Jen xx
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Wed 30-Sep-09 12:46:51
I personally thought it was crap, badly written, boring and repetitive and Bella is the most annoying character ever! But for some strange reason I enjoyed the film (hmm). Much prefer the True Blood books (I'd have Eric over Edward any day of the week!) or Lost Souls by Poppy Z Brite (if vampires are your thing of course )
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Tue 15-Sep-09 17:09:44
I am a well documented Twilight Obsessive. I love them. Second one New Moon is the best imvho. They are said not to be very well written but somehow Stephanie Meyer has made millions of people fall in love with a character on paper and for me personally I "saw" all her characters. So she has done something right.
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Sat 08-Aug-09 19:50:21
oh god. the are braincrack, utter rubbish but you have to read until you're done. I hated Bella with a passion, and didn't think much of Edward, the right wing family values bollocks made me feel queasy, and I found the final denouement of the last book a massive pointless anti-climax. Just horrible. And yet I could not put them down grin I hated myself.
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Sat 08-Aug-09 19:41:20
I'm reading the last one, just finished all the others.

Good reading, totally compulsive teen angst fiction - but I can't bear how passive Bella is and if any man tried to tell me what to do in the way Edward bosses Bella around I would not be impressed grin.
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Fri 10-Jul-09 14:52:24
I'm 150 pages in and I am totally addicted to Edward. Well worth a read. smile
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Fri 10-Jul-09 12:59:34
The girls i work with are reading them over and over again why!
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Fri 10-Jul-09 12:22:54
The last one was dreadful. IMO they started OK (entertaining waste of time) and got worse.
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Fri 10-Jul-09 12:19:51
Is it just me? i could not get into the first book at all my work mates loved the books and always talk about them.
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Wed 08-Jul-09 16:44:13
Read them and enjoy them but dont expect anything special. Meyer may be a squillionaire since writing them, but they are a purely guilty pleasure--theres no skill in them at all!

I say this as someone who has read and re-read the books a lot, so dont think I dont like them!
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Wed 24-Jun-09 23:04:31
I will start reading it then!
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Wed 24-Jun-09 19:07:56
the quileute legend stuff is fascinating

the heroine is a terrifyingly passive and right-wing 'family values' type - read it and see what you think!
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Wed 24-Jun-09 19:05:19
read em all and loved them - not high brow in any way shape or form, they are total teen pulp fiction and i bloody loved every page of the 4 books
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Wed 24-Jun-09 19:02:12
Read it-you'll want to devote a whole day or evening!
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Wed 24-Jun-09 14:48:49
Has anyone read this, its not something I'd usually read, but I thought I'd give it a go!
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