So I watched the movie and wondered what the big deal was with why all my friends and my friends kids were so enamoured (sp) by the series. I kept hearing read the book read the book, it's much better than the movie.

Ok so I bought the book and found I couldn't put it down. It's an easy read and I was done rather quickly. It was very enjoyable and dipicted an interesting twist on the vampire/werewolf fantasy world. I'm currently reading the second book New Moon and finding myself even further engrossed in the series. It's probably more of a "chick" book than something most of you guys would enjoy but that doesn't mean you won't/can't/might not enjoy it too.

I was very skeptical at first but am glad I gave it a shot. I like the author's writing style as she leaves some to the imagination of her reader's rather than describing every single minute detail down to the character's shoe soles. I loathe it when the author doesn't let me imagine the characters and instead shoves their images down my throat. Anyway, just tossing it out in case someone else is interested.

I watched the movie going in very skeptical as it is like some teeny bopper chick flick. I ended up enjoying the movie and will be less skeptical next time until I actually check out the film.

I actually enjoyed the first two books I've read of the series. It is indeed a very fast read. Sure it's a little bit more emotional than i prefer but I found it helped fill out the characters and made them a bit more...human? ;P

I have a 11 year old girl so I OFCOURSE have the books.. She nearly passes out at the thought of Edward. Wife loved them... I read the series. For being teen lovey crap it's not bad. Not great but it not torture me to read through it. Book 2 and three are the hardest ones to get thrrough, at lest for me. I am interested in how they think they are going to make book 3 into movie..

I *tried* to read the first one of these on a long cross-country flight - talk about overwrought! This is some of the most turgid, heavy breathing and melodramatic (in that adolescent way) prose I've ever read in my life and leaves the Harlequin romances in the dust in that regard. While these books hold great appeal to the 'True Love Waits' crowd, they're the encapsulated object lesson as to why abstinence-based sex-ed doesn't work :).

I admire those of you who stuck with these; but this read very much like those regressive '50s romance dramas, heavy with all the 'danger' associated with sexuality, and after about 200 pages of the female protagonist dying to reach out and touch Edward (in the darkened classroom, in the car, in a box, with a fox, all while the spectre of UNKNOWN DANGER lurked and which, him being a perfect gentlemen, he sought to 'protect' her from), I found that I didn't have enough Maalox on me to continue :).

Different strokes for different folks I guess, but I don't see these as terribly revolutionary, just more of the same twisted-mirror paternalism and barely-repressed teen hormones...

Regards,
Nydia

Nyd are you feeling ok? Your reply to this thread was much shorter then I would have thought it would have been. You forgot to tie in all aspects the suffrage movement to thte 60's Women Lib movement in your answer. Why were you expecting these books to be anymore then they were? They were not terribly great that's for sure but I think, yet again, you over thinking it. Take them for what they were.. Drippy icky teen love crap sprinkled with some decent vampire stuff. Nothing more.. Nothing less.

Twilight - what can you say? Either love it, or hate it.

For some messed up, odd-ball, utterly unthinkable reason, I can't help but love it. I usually read the books inside a hard-back history tomb while on the train, and finished up the series in a couple weeks. Yes, it's corny, cheesy, teen-angst love crap, but I'm still relatively young and remember those days (not climbing up trees and biting people, well, almost not). Every guy wants to be Edward, and every guy wants to bed Bella. Let's face it.

The movie? The first hour was good, the second was not. I think if they had a bigger budget (reportedly only had something like $40m) it would definately have been a better movie. Nonetheless Robert Patterson and Kristin Stewart undoubtedly had chemistry, which IMO carried the movie.

I'm looking forward to New Moon. The books were good, and though gripping at the time I don't think it's a series I'll revist, say like Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter. I'm hoping for more from the movies, and now they've gotten rid of Hardwicke as director, New Moon looks set to be good.

Here's hoping, 'cause I really think it could be a successful movie franchise, not just for teenage girls.

I didn't really enjoy the little bit I read of it. It had a lot of sexism and male domination combined with shitty writing. I just could not get into it.

Clearly it's a either love it or hate it kind of series :D

I guess like Halo I'm not so old that I've lost touch with the teen angsty side of things but I still climb trees and definitely bite!

'and definitely bite!'

- So I've heard :P

Biting is a bad thing?

I did not consider reading this series due to the target audience being so far removed from what I consider my reading pleasure.

As far as the movies, I have seen too much about the male lead becoming a prima dona with his hordes of adoring fans, that I don't expect the second and third installments to be anything near the first one, because he will now be playing to his fans, rather than the director.

I will maybe check it out when the three movies are released as a set for $9.95. :D

I've heard that the actor complain about the fans to the point of him saying he's actually afraid of them. They are rabid.

Patterson is notoriously timid and shy, though. At the premier of Twilight, at the opening credits, he ran out of the theatre into his car and had a panic attack.

In reality, he's very much the Little Englander.

Normally when I see a movie I try not to act like an ass. But Twilight was the best unintentional comedy I've seen since Aliens VS Predator. It's just so, so, so dumb.

http://www.collider.com/entertainment/news/article.asp/aid/11686/tcid/1

- New Moon footage. I just can't stomach that guy they've got as Jacob.

Someone told me yesterday that Twilight was literally the best books they ever read. Their words, I was crushed...so sad. Enjoy them great, thats wonderful. I read and enjoy lots of pulp literature. But I also recognize what they are, and am able to appreciate vastly more many of the classics I have read and enjoyed.

I just finished New Moon and am on to Eclipse. Very fast reads and a captivating story to me. I would hardly say it's the best of anything I've ever read but certainly one of the more enjoyable things of late.

Started the last book this weekend, I'm completely hooked =\

*Sparkles*

Lol Fil, quick conversion :P

Yes, and I'm craving red meat rare and bloody.