I've only read the first book, so I'll give my thoughts on it. It's a fairly sappy romance involving an ordinary high school age girl as the protagonist and the biggest fucking mary sue I have ever seen, Edward Cullen. Half of the time I spent reading the book was spent laughing at how ridiculous he is as a character. Did you know he can read minds? Did you know he can run 12736876 times faster than any human? Did you know he's 128736875 times stronger than any human? Did you know that he's SOOOoooOO gorgeous? Did you know that he can play piano like he's the next Mozart? Did you know that he's the perfect athlete? Did you know... You get the point, I hope. I guess this explains why every girl who's touched the book is a teenager, and why they have also consequentially fallen in love with it.

Looking at it from a literary point of view, its plot is fairly dull once you get deeper into the book. The exposition and the end are probably the most interesting, and even then it only held half my attention. It's basically mediocre, which isn't at all surprising, given that it's Stephanie Meyer's first. So don't look to be at all impressed by the movie if you happen to be dragged on by a girlfriend or something.

Sprite

United States1015 Posts

November 17 2008 01:32 GMT

#23

Some girl in my class wont stop talking about the books it makes me go crazy sometimes.

Heyoka

Katowice25012 Posts

November 17 2008 02:01 GMT

#24

I've never heard of this shit either and I would stop talking to someone if they acted like I was out of the loop by not being in on this.

On the other hand, my roommate has romance books about vampires and they're all way more absurd and ridiculous than regular romance novels so maybe there is merit to this.

Fzero

United States1503 Posts

November 17 2008 02:04 GMT

#25

This series delayed the Harry Potter movie release until next summer. GG

Tensai176

Canada2061 Posts

November 17 2008 02:06 GMT

#26

Its like the next harry potter for women.

arb

Noobville17918 Posts

November 17 2008 02:11 GMT

#27

On November 17 2008 09:48 Frits wrote:

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I think there was no right choice.

You didnt commit suicide so you didnt make the right choice

Guss

Sweden712 Posts

November 17 2008 02:14 GMT

#28

Kristen Stewart is in it. Thats enough to make me go

Orlandu

China2450 Posts

November 17 2008 02:16 GMT

#29

Assholes.

I agree it sucks, but seriously now, going to see a movie like Twilight with your girlfriend is like watching Sex and the City with her. Yeah, it sucks big time while you're watching it, but think of what's gonna happen afterwards.

Anyway, I'd take a sappy romance movie with vampires over a bunch of kids dancing and singing any day. If I had to make that choice (which I did), that is.

Spike

United States1392 Posts

November 17 2008 02:17 GMT

#30

All the guys in here are looking at this the wrong way.

How do you think your GF will be during/after the movie?

Even if this movie sucks, this thread proves guys are assholes

Plus, how much worse can it be than Harry Potter?

Falcynn

United States3597 Posts

November 17 2008 03:25 GMT

#31

awwww guys, wtf with the 1star

I didn't say I liked Twilight or even anything hyping it up, just asking what it was.

zoLo

United States5896 Posts

November 17 2008 03:29 GMT

#32

All my friends who are girls are insane over this book and they're all anticipating the movie. Even people some of my guy friends even read the book because they were curious to what the fuss is about.

MidnightGladius

China1214 Posts

November 17 2008 03:53 GMT

#33

I thought it was cute. Not well written, and certainly not something I'd recommend outside of as a joke, but I can understand why it appeals to a certain demographic. It's also not much of a surprise that the first-person completely alienates most heterosexual males, but hey, what do you expect

Im-JaY

Canada69 Posts

November 17 2008 04:14 GMT

#34

sounds dumb, vampires should be killing people, not falling in love
anyways, underworld>twilight ez

Spike

United States1392 Posts

November 17 2008 04:19 GMT

#35

On November 17 2008 13:14 Im-JaY wrote:
sounds dumb, vampires should be killing people, not falling in love
anyways, underworld>twilight ez

Selene fell in love too

Im-JaY

Canada69 Posts

November 17 2008 04:33 GMT

#36

On November 17 2008 13:19 Spike wrote:

Selene fell in love too

true, you make a good point, i wasn't thinking about that, its been a while since I've seen that movie. I was just thinking along the lines of people getting owned.
At least it happens with violence

Samurai-

Slovenia2035 Posts

June 20 2009 15:12 GMT

#37

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Well, i have just read all 4 books from twilight, and well, Stephenie Meyer, you fail miserably.. Its the last book i ve read from her thats for sure, and the last book ( 4/4 ) is a complete crap, specially the ending.
It was a waste of my time but at least i worked on my english.