(Note: this blog is NOT a place for arguing. If anyone starts harrassing me over this, I will delete your comment immediately. This is just me stating an opinion. If you have something intelligent to say, say it, but you’re not going to change my mind.)
Why is the book Twilight so popular? Rhetorical question, don’t answer it. I’ve read all three books, and I don’t understand what’s so great about them. But that’s not really what’s bothering me. What’s bothering me is that people get mad at me for not liking them! They think I’m just trying to be different (which infuriates me more, because people who do that drive me bananas), or something. In any case, it lowers people’s opinion of me.
Shouldn’t it be the other way around? Shouldn’t I be judging them for being so easily swayed by a pop culture book?
Anyway.
The book is poorly written. No, it is not descriptive. It says Edward is “perfect,” and I think it might’ve mentioned at one point that his hair is red. Also, the characters are so so so so SO SO flat. They’re not ever developed, which makes the lack of plot all the more painful. They’re not likeable, either. I hate Bella and Edward. Bella is whiney, useless, lazy, and a cookie cut-out girl. I really don’t see anything remarkable about her. Edward is possessive, borderline abusive, and boring. His only redeeming quality is that he plays the piano.
The only character I like is Jacob, because he’s real. He’s likeable, he’s charismatic, and he falls in love with Bella because they’re such great friends, not because her blood smells good or because he’s intrigued by the fact that he can’t read her mind.
I was going to list more reasons why it’s an insult to JK Rowling to compare Twilight with Harry Potter, but I’ve already wasted enough blog space.
(And yes, I’m expecting y’all to give me hell for this blog, but that’s your choice.)
NOTE: if you’ve read this and disagree, or whatever, go to this link. And leave me alone.
Twilight is the best book ever written. It totally throws Shakespeare and Thoreau off the map. By just writing this, you have totally RUINED YOUR LIFE.
I’ll see you Sunday for painting? Yes.
Hello? There are much better books out there. If Shakespeare had written a vampire/human love story, it would have been kick-ass, hard to understand, but still kick-ass. Shakespeare’s plays have an actual freakin’ plot. Twilight doesn’t. Personally, I think it would’ve been better if Meyer hadn’t made Bella a weak and annoying character throughout the entire series, and Edward an abusive, boring, and sparkly vampire. If she had added character development to this it would’ve been so much better. And why is it so wrong to hate twilight (doesn’t even deserve to be capitalized) but okay to love it? If you love twilight, go ahead. I won’t stop you. Like my friend Voltaire said, I don’t agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Speaking of Shakespeare and Twilight:
As much as I am a proponent of unfettered free speech, if I hear one more person compare the abomination created by Stephanie Meyer to Romeo and Juliet, I will personally have to eviscerate them.
I am a thespian. I have performed Shakespeare. I have seen this ‘Twilight’, and I assure you, it bears no resemblance in quality to Shakespeare’s work, nor, for that matter, in core plot. The idea that any ‘forbidden love’ is compared to Romeo and Juliet makes me ill. I don’t even really like Romeo and Juliet- Shakespeare has a plethora of far superior works- but comparing anything by Meyer to even the worst of Shakespeare’s works is an act of ludicrous ignorance and (though I am not a religious man) sheer blasphemy against all that is good and decent in literature. This is, for once, not hyperbole.
Also, Thoreau is an amazing writer and a visionary for pacifism, non-consumerism, and freedom. He is to the west as Tolstoy was to Russia- a literary father of revolutionary thought, and a proponent of civil disobedience. If there is any American author that ought to be required reading, it is Thoreau (shortly followed by Mark Twain).
I’ve never read the books, so nothing I say about them can be completely informed, but I definitely agree with you. From what I’ve heard, the whole thing sounds cliche to the point that no degree of good writing could overpower it. I’ve heard many stories where a vampire male falls in love with a girl but can’t control his need for blood around her. And whenever somebody can read minds, they are ALWAYS interested in someone whose mind they can’t read. I just feel like things could be more original. It’s just a vampire story aimed at the teen demographic through really getting the romantic nitty-gritty of the relationship every teen THINKS they want. It just gives teens what they want to imagine: a cool boyfriend who saves them. But what about a plot? I heard that Bella whines around for half the second book when Edward leaves. The best piece of literature ever? No. Probably not even the best teen-directed vampire romance novel ever. But it got popular because everyone wants knight-in-shining-armor Edward, who, as you said, may think he can be self-righteous and abusive because of his looks. This may be teaching teens the wrong things about life – give everything for the one you love if they’re hot, even if they abuse you. And I heard Stephanie uses the same 2 or 3 big vocabulary words and the same descriptions, so it can’t even be that enriching for young readers. Although I will check these books out, I doubt I’ll change my mind. It seems that teens just love Edward and crave love and lust rather than actually like the book, which would make it a shame that it’s a best seller. I mean, what kind of book has a bad plot and still makes the best seller list? One with subtle, “appropriate” eroticism, I must conclude. Because nearly everyone who reads the books seems to be reading to hope Edward will appear in front of them and like the way their blood smells.
/rant
Lol. 🙂
I mostly agree with you. I began reading the book and noticed also how it lacks such great descriptive (as JK Rowling or Holly Black). The characters do seem flat and really the only character there is to like is Jacob. I like the books, they’re not as amazing as everyone makes them out to be, but it’s not utterly awful. If anything, I think you are one of the only people in the world who see the book for what it truly is. Just some romantic words to make naive teenage girls swoon. Cheerio. =]
I think we might be twins separated at birth…:)
I completely and totally agree with you. I don’t understand why people like Twilight soooooo much. Every single person I know loves it, blogs about the wonders of Edward and Bella’s completely unoriginal love story, and will probably leave the house at one a.m. on the day the movie opens to get tickets. I was really excited about reading the books since my friends loved them so much, and was sorely disappointed when I finished reading them. What is wrong with Bella? She spends half of her time whining about Edward, and the other half saying, “I’m not hungry.” She is supposed to be fantastically beautiful and smart; I think she needs some Prozac and an attitude adjustment. All of the characters in the book are unoriginal except for Jacob, even (gasp!) Edward Cullen. You try telling this to people however, when they ask your opinion, and you would think you said you hated orphans. Just because a book is about hot vampires does not make it good, well-written, or original. Sad, but true.
Don’t worry, you are not alone in this world to think that Twilight is the most senseless as well as the most hyped series of all time. The two main characters are lame. Everything they do just revolves around how to express the (unhealthy) love for each other. I immediately get bored with Bella, a sluggish, vulnerable and intolerably fragile Mary Sue. Edward also pissed me off as much as his mediocre girlfriend did. It is strange to me that some people can worship such a josser who holds a contemptible hobby of soaking up people’s mind (a type of privacy violation) and seems very proud of it. The series gains such ridiculous fame because Ms Meyer has smartly targeted to the sensitive part of young girls: sex appeal. She uses “the perfect Edward” as the catalytic element to attract a huge fanbase of female readers who become obsessed with an ideal guy of their dream. This cheap tactics hits the jackpot out of the blue. What truly gets on my nerve is some diehard fans begin to compare Twilight to Harry Potter, another cheap (but vain) ploy to polish their own reputation.
I officially love you.You are completely and utterly right.I’ve read the whole series and CANNOT fathom why people go fanatic about them.Sure , they’re an average read on a sunday afternoon when you have nothing to do.But Bella pisses me off , what with her whole “damsel in distress -needs to be saved attitude” and her complete incapability to do anything.She has no dreams or anything and is disgustingly selfish.Edward is way too perfect , which makes his character completely bland.The supposed LOVE that they share is merely an infatuation.
Jacob is the only main character I actually like.He’s believable.And frigging Stephanie Meyer , on realizing that he became very popular amongst her sensible readers, went totally out of character on him in the third book.
Oh , and lets not forget the fact that some of the scenes depicted in the book make me retch.The ‘i love you ‘scenes (or similar) between Edward and Bella are downright corny.
In short , anyone who gets annoyed with you for not liking the books needs to have there head examined.
And comparisions with JK Rowling make me want to bang a heavy saucepan on someone’s head.Seriously.Harry Potter has characters , emotions and rocks.
I read the books about a year ago and have them now but i can see both sides. It’s definitely a page-turner but i can see what you mean about shallow characters etc. (except Jacob – wonder why that is?)
The thing i hate most is conversations between Bella and Edward on how much they love each other -_- it’s just a bit over the top sometimes.
Stephanie Meyer reads way too many romance novels lol.
I think the main thing that annoys people here, me included, is the perspective from Bella. I read the first chapter of midnight sun (Edwards pov. on twilight) on Stephanie Meyer’s site and i actually like it alot more than twilight, I’m looking forward to it being published – eventually.
Anyway I would never go to one of the conventions or whatever because all the fans now are stupid pre-teen girls with ‘i love Edward’ stamped on their face. But remember, there are always people ragging out harry potter as well saying that it was a stupid plot and all the rest.
Just my 2cents XD
I hate Twilight too. I just read it and I found myself being annoyed at the same descriptions being used repeatedly for Edward. Sadly I know adults who think this is an awesome book and have lent this book out to other people. After I was done with this book I was so infuriated that I, instead of throwing it at the wall, went to the resale shop and got a credit for it figuring that there would be someone else who would like to have this book. Sickeningly enough, there’s a waiting list for it to come in used.
I like what someone wrote about Edward once. They said that his attraction to Bella was because she smelled absolutely delectable. Now this is something similar to my liking the smell of fresh baked cookies. On top of that if a normal guy were outside Bella’s window in the middle of the night, wouldn’t that be stalking?
Bella is whiny and she is the epitome of a Mary Sue. She is perfect and beautiful though she admits repeatedly that she thinks she’s plain. She moves to Forks and people instantly like her for the most part for virtually no reason. Then there’s her clumsiness that makes her more pitiable rather than flawed. She has no flaws and that’s annoying.
On top of that, there’s the climax where our narrator is incapacitated during the main action and so we don’t get to see certain characters fight. I call this supreme laziness on the part of the author. In addition to that, Stephenie Meyer has a moment where she realizes “Oh, nothing’s gone on in my book so far! I need a climax!” What she delivers is a fumble on the final play.
I know what good writing is. Tamora Pierce, Eoin Colfer, Joan Lowry Nixon, LJ Smith come highly recommended. It may make up for the disappointment for reading this book. For what it’s worth, I don’t like the sparklies either.
Thank you sweet, sweet baby Jesus. I’ve been searching the internet and have started to think I was insane for not thinking Stephanie Meyer was ABSOLUTELY EFFING BRILLIANT AND TALENTED OMGEE! and maybe Twilight wasn’t so bad until I found this. I am still sane!
I read twilight before the hype and thought it was ok (suprised it got published but ok), it read like typical fanfiction. I got really confused when people started absolutely loving it. It got to the point where I was like, “hold on, maybe I judged the book too hastily” and tried to read New Moon. I have never been more embarassed for an author after I tried to read this book. I just did not have the constitution to deal with Bella anymore. If it was possible I’d probably buy a hand gun and shoot her just to put her out of her misery.
Anyone who actually reads knows that the vampire/werewolf/human girl thing has been done before (and better might I add). Maybe I wouldn’t absolutely abhor the books if it weren’t for the crazy fans and the people comparing it to Harry Potter. Stephanie Meyer’s books have no depth, hidden meanings, symbolism or layers. They are not even comparable. In the slightest.
lol that book is crappily written not to mention that cheesy. Sends bad messages about love to young girls and is just bad over all
and the fact that people are comparing it to wuthering hieghts, romeo and juliet (which i hate anyway) and thoreu
come on ppl. Where is the dept in twilight? unless its a book showing oyu how not to have a realationship
jacob gets annoying in the third book too i have to say.
Thank God. Finally, someone is making sense! I’ve never actually read Twilight, nor will I ever. And I too have gotten the hate comments from people I know because I said it sounded stupid. It really does. I mean, c’mon. A vampire who “shines” in daylight? They’re supposed to die! This Edward guy seems to have no actual weaknesses like actual vampires and that’s where I can see what you mean by saying the characters are boring. It may be that I’m a guy but I seriously hate this book, just for the fact of how annoyingly popular it is now.
And it’s worse now that they’re making a movie. I hope it turns out crappy so the fangirls will get mad at it.
Haha! I agree! I thought Twiligh was ok, but once I got to New Moon, well… I was reading it because I had nothing else to do for five hours, and yet I still quit.
“Oh, I love Bella, but won’t turn her, and will kill myself when she dies.” Barf. Get a grip on yourself.
Anyway, I’m googling “Twilight sucks”, lol. Had to leave a comment here.
stancesandstitches, get a LIFE, you idiot. If you mean by Shakespeare that it’s totaly illegable to a normal person, and has too much drama, sacrafice, and corniness, then, yes, it does throw him off the map. Completley.
Actually, you know wat else blows Shakespeare of the map? A bomb. A stink bomb. Twilight sucks. Live with it.
HAHAHAHA!!! I LOVE YOUR GUTS! your brilliant! Bella’s a shallow loser and Edwards just a typical romance novel freek. ick! who ever thot they cood make a romance novel out of vampires??!! what kind of idiot LIKES that kindof stuff?! i was googling TWILIGHT SUCKS! and found your site. brilliantness!!! and Jacobs pretty fawesome 2. but what about that movie?! its gonna suck worse than the book! and thats sompthing hard to accomlish! hehe. me and my friend (who hasnt read twilight cuz i wont let her, but hates it just as much as i do just cuz i hate it) are going to go see the movie in the theaters and try to get escorted off the premesis. HA! such fun! such fun! we’re still debating what to do: throw popcorn at the screen and boo, just complain to random people loundly, or make giant posters and start chanting about its suckishness like we’re on strike or sompthin. hehe. not sure yet. we’ll see…
-Lizzy-wa OUT! 😀
yessss i completely and totally agree with you! i read the first book and sure you know i liked it, but it sure as heck wasn’t something to obsess about! i mean really it is the people who write songs about this FICTIONAL book that drive me up a wall! i have a couple friends who are obsessed and me and my friends have basically stopped being such good friends because ALL they will talk about is twilight, twilight this twilight that, GET A LIFE PEOPLE!
I will admit that I love the books, but I respect the opinions of others, as well. I just wanted to post a comment saying how much the books have ruined my self- esteem. Im only 14, and this saga has me depressed to the extreme because it makes an absolutly PERFECT boy seem realistic. Once you are hooked to Edward, it’s hard to realize that you’re never going to find anyone like him. It basically ruined all of my hopes of having a happy future. I am now dead set on finding a guy who sees only me and never thinks about any other girl. It hurts to think that there isn’t a guy anywhere out there that can be half the guy he is.
wow, okay hostile, not that im holding that against you… whatever rocks your socks, but in a way dontcha think yr maybe falling into the whole trap? just in the oppisite way, i dont notice blogs about crap non famous books.. just the popular one, and something that struck me, they never said edwards hair is read, the word was bronze:) one thing i must say tho is BELLA IS ANNOYING AND BORDERLINE PATHETIC!! what does jake see in her, oh and edward isnt inlove with her because of her blood, thats just an initial problem… 10 bucks says none of u have experienced true love.
I respect everyone’s opinion, and you have a right to not like the books, but I just wanted to say a few things about your blog. Firstly, I’m very aware that the majority of Twilight fans are teen girls, but I’d just like to say that I am a huge fan and I am 25. Twilight is the first teen series that I have read since being a teen myself and I thoroughly enjoyed the books. While I agree that they are not going to win any major literary awards, I think it’s unfair to say that the books are poorly written. First off, they were written for a young adult audience. Secondly, I highly doubt that Stephenie Meyer set out to follow in the footsteps of other great young adult authors such as L.M. Montgomery, Philip Pullman and Tolkien. She wrote these books for fun, as a result of having a dream about her characters. I think that people are being too harsh on these books simply because they have become a pop culture phenom. Honestly, I think a lot of people don’t like the books because of the hype surrounding them. But you know, that might not be the case, some people might not like the books simply because it’s not their style. And that’s fine. I don’t understand how some people can go crazy for all things Starwars. Sex in the City has no appeal to me. And Tom Wolfe? Not interested. All three are huge pop culture icons, but there aren’t many people getting all up in arms about them. Personally I think Starwars were some of the cheesiest films ever made. Sex in the City is about a group of sex crazed super cougars with too many shoes and not enough brains. And I don’t care for books that are all gratuitous drug use. I’m getting long-winded here, but what it boils down to is that Twilight might not be your cup of tea, but why get all freaked out about it being super popular with the masses? In my opinion, I think the characters are lovable, engaging and witty; the writing style is exciting and well constructed; the relationship between Edward and Bella is realstic in the sense that it portrays the all-encompassing obsessive nature of first love; and finally, I think that Stephenie has taken a tired mythos (that is usually fodder for soft-porn romance novels)and made it into something fresh and new, where Vampires are not blood-crazed, mindless monsters but are rather far more human and accessible. Vampires have always been the most romantic of the mythalogical creatures, and Meyer has taken that even further with her Vampires by giving them a chaste quality that keeps them teetering on the edge of the sexual tension precipice.
ok.. now i’m so happy that am not alone on thinkng why do people give so much credit for this book… yeah… i hate bella and edward…
this book is completely cheesy and unrealistic and the views of love…
dont get me wrong the book is not crap at all… but i dont just get how big this became…
You are my hero. I mean, I will seriously print out this page and shove copies into all of my stupid bandwagon friends who insist it’s a good book. I agree with just about everything you’ve said, including how Jacob is the only one who rocks.
I love you. Please marry me forever. (Well, just kidding, but Twilight is about the worst thing ever.) Anyway, hooray for you.
I know! I have “friends” how won’t even talk to me because of my overall opinion of twilight. I’ll try to get my two cents in while the girls are having OMG Edward! moment, and they threaten to throw me out the window. They won’t even let me talk. And please, who else Robert Pattenson really is ugly? One friend of mine refuses to admit she even knows edward (an obbsesivve abusive freak) is fictional. The series was ok until everyone went whacko over it. I even have a ver done to earth friend that started a notebook so she could right her own endings to the series. I hope they all break up, or die trying. Bella is an idiot who doesn’t know what’s good for her and needs to get a life. Rawwr. I’m even relted to stephanie and i hate it!
Rawwr! Again. I’m happy thought there are accually people who agree with me. I thought that I was the only one and was drowning in the sea of twihard freaks. Love you guys!
thank you, GOD!
I’ve read all of those books and every girl I know is completely crazy about them. When I told them I thought it was a horribly written cliched excuse for a book, I got attacked.
That book follows the same plot outline as every “OMG I LOVE VAMPIRES!!1!!11” story ever written.
Hah, I googled ‘twilight sucks’ because I dragged myself through the awful first book and needed to find someone who shared my exceedingly low opinion of it. Good to meet you! Most reviews of Twilight seem to be about a book utterly different from the slow, badly-written, bad-fanfic-quality Twilight that *I* read. Not even in an ‘I can see how someone would think that, I suppose’ way, but drastically different.
I found this entry by randomly googling and I have to say I agree with you. It’s a light, fun read… once. Anything beyond that is bad. The obsession is insane, and as for the people who hold up Bella and Edward as examples of “good, true love” and as role models… ugh. Yes, it is entirely normal and healthy for the guy to stalk the girl, and tamper with her car so she can’t leave home.
Right now I am using Twilight etc. as my guide of “what not to do” when writing my own first-person vampire story. Task one: “give narrator a personality” is complete. 😀
I agree 10000000% with you. What irritates me is how after reading the series, all the teenage girls obsess over vampires, and find Edward the perfect guy. I like Jacob the most, too. But it sucks how most people hate him. But it’s so STUPID how people are reading it NOW when it came out like…3 years ago! I read it the first week it came out, thought it was alright, until everybody started to obsess over it.
Thank GOD there’s someone else who hates Twilight, too.
You are the BEST.
i haven’t read the book, but all my friends (guess which ones? the girls.) say its so romantic etc etc…
but i’ve read anne rice and she’s very descriptive 🙂
and edward cullen sounds like lois!! the whole i won’t eat ppl thing and how he LOVES humans….
just some thoughts, but twilight i won’t bother watching or reading :S
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I could not agree with you more. It’s a matter of preference, apparently some people like it…I however, am not one of those people. And when I say ”some people”, I mean squealing girls at my school who start fangirling if they happen to see you reading the thing, going “OMGYOUREEDTWILITE?!!ITIZSOGUDITZTEHBESTESTBOOKEVAR!!SOAWSUM!!” Only reason I read it is because people kept going on and on and on about how ”OMGSEXYANDROMANTIKKANDEPICLOLZ!!!” and I wanted to see it for myself…I don’t know what the hell I was thinking when I actually went and bought it. I don’t really have a problem with people who like it, it’s just the people who obsess over it and are intolerant of people who might think differently.
Hey,
I know no Twilight-hater is going to read this, but I still wanted to react. The thing that bothers me, is that some of you seem to have changed your opinion on the books after they became a hype. I don’t get it, how can you think a book is ok, and than suddenly go to hate it just because other people do like it? (And how can you comment when you don’t even have read the book -referring to Alli’s post.)
Seriously, how can you all (not all, I know, there are a lot of people who dislike it in a normal way and react in an acceptable way, I’m not talking about you) get so worked up about a book? (I would love to explain how a lot of the things that some people said in these comments, are wrong, but I think that would bore you all -if someone even read this)
(I will check back to see if someone reacted to this, I would like to discuss it)
Ashley
I read the first two Twilight books only to see what all the fuss was about — and because a friend on Facebook was raving about it, updating everyone with every little plot twist and her excitement for it. She, an adult, loved the book and, being an English major, I thought I’d take a chance.
I was disappointed because I didn’t feel the books were well written, I found the main protagonists unsympathetic (I really don’t like Bella), and I can’t relate to the plot. Who’d find cold marble inviting and sexy? Not me I guess. I love to read about things not in my life — Memoirs of a Geisha, Cane River, YaYa, et cetera. And heck, I loved the Harry Potter series too. However, this just isn’t for me. All tell no show. It has nothing for me, and I just don’t get it.
I’m so glad to see I’m not the only one who’s not really into the “Twilight” books. I’m 14, so as you can imagine, everyone I know is obsessed with it, which makes it pretty hard, sometimes. I feel very lonely and non-Twilight obsessed.
My problem is I just don’t like Edward. He just seems too…perfect. I was debating it with my friend and her opinion is that his “flaw” is being a vampire. I’m a writer and character development is a big thing for me, and personally, I don’t find “being a vampire” a flaw. If you took away Edward’s being a vampire, it makes me question whether he would be flawless. I know Edward probably has a lot of insecurities about the way he thinks of himself, since he is a vampire, but…I don’t know. I’ve never been into stereotypically handsome boys, so Edward just doesn’t “do” it for me. Also, some of the conversations between Bella and Edward just didn’t seem…realistic to me. I’ve gotten to the point where I really want to read the series again, because I’m sure I’m missing something, simply because it seems weird that NO ONE I know feels the same way about Edward as I do. Yet at the same time, I’m a writer, so my opinion must be at least a little valid…right?
I don’t have as much of a problem as Bella, although she does bother me some. I’ve seen people argue that one of the reasons she falls so hard for Edward is prior to Twilight, she has been very much the “adult” in her mother’s and her relationship and I guess after that she wants someone to take care of her. I guess that’s true, but it didn’t make Edward appeal to me. The other thing about Edward is that he seems really overprotective of Bella. I understand that he’s trying to take care of Bella and that the vampire world is a harsh one, but it just doesn’t attract him to me. I want someone who will support me on my decisions, not be like, “Oh, it’s too dangerous.” I mean, you could argue he has good reasons, but…he’s just NOT the guy for me.
What does bug me about Bella though is the fact that so many guys are interested in her. I know that’s really stupid, but it just felt…a little unrealistic (which I suppose is the point). Also, this is a pet peeve that goes far beyond Twilight, but I wish Stephenie Meyer hadn’t made Bella as thin. Someone argued with me that she is about the average, healthy weight for her height, but… *shrug* And with so much pressure on thinness in our society, I just wish that Bella, who gets these vampire that most people are obsessed with, were a little closer to “average” weight. But look, that’s not something I have any right to be criticizing Stephenie Meyer on. Weight is an issue that goes way beyond Twilight. It’s just a pet peeve I have in general.
The bottom line is, in many ways, Twilight is a fairytale. It’s an escape. It’s more of how people would like their life to be (chased by two boys, one who is a really handsome vampire with a supposedly cool family) than actually…real (another reason why Bella’s personality maybe isn’t that developed). Okay, I know that all fantasy is this to some extent. But I personally am more interested in books that aren’t necessarily about “the perfect life” and that do have defined characters than the “Twilight” series. And even if I was reading about the perfect life, Twilight isn’t MY perfect life. My perfect life is different. So Twilight wasn’t the same escape for me as it was for a lot of other girls my age, because my life would be…different.
Anyway, that’s that. I AM going to reread the Twilight books again before Breaking Dawn comes out because I’m still skeptical that I am missing something about them, because a part of me is sure that they are popular for some reason. Although then again, like I said…I might just have different standards in guys and real life that everyone else, who knows? It’s not an insult to the Twilight fans. I envy you guys, actually. It’s not always fun being the “different” one.
Anyway, Ashley I just noticed your comment, and I read Twilight 1 year ago, far before the “hype” started. In fact, I didn’t even realize they WERE so popular until Eclipse passed Harry Potter 7 on the Bestseller’s list for a little while. I can’t speak for other people who don’t like Twilight, but I didn’t like the series because it wasn’t my cup of tea. Not because I’m down on things in pop culture (I happen to love the HP series and Wicked, which is probably one of the most commercial musicals there is right now!). And no, I’m not “bitter” that some people like them better than the Harry Potter books. I honestly could not care. I wish I did like them better, because it would be something to talk to my friends about. And I’m 14 years ago, so I’m very much in the “intended” audience for the Twilight series (yes, not all people my age are obsessed with guys). But whatever. They just aren’t my thing. And that’s that. 🙂
These books suck!!!! That’s all i have to say, no discussion about it.
Finally! I have only met one other person who has read those books that hates them too, which I find horribly sad. They are horribly written, and I hated all of the characters by the end of every book (well, Alice wasn’t too bad, but that’s about it). What makes it worse is that the only reasons I’ve heard for people liking are Edward is hot and the romance between him and Bella is so cute. Edward is given no description whatsoever, so how on earth can he be hot? And the Bella-Edward thing is so cliche it’s not even funny.
I think they are most famous because yes, it’s aimed at teens, and when teenagers read books about teenagers with problems (epspeacially when there’s love, and simple fantasy cliche’ they can comprehend) a little switch goes on. Then other people come to like it because the old people want to be younger, and the young people want to look more mature.
I personally enjoyed it ’cause Edward is HAWT- just kidding. But I’ll be open and say there were scenes in it I did enjoy, just because it was easy for me to see them. Although, Tayva was the one that gave it to me, so maybe I WAS influenced by the love I have for my sister. In any case, I never did end up finishing them, and I’m not bothered by that says a lot in itself.
i think you have every right to hate the book and the characters. Personally, i HATE Bella because of the exact same reasons as yourself, i also agree that there is little description PLUS the fact that nothing really happens! The only bit of action happens right at the end of eclipse with the fight scene and even that is lack luster. Pathetic! Its all too gooey gooey.
….
meh, i’ve said my peace.
I agree with you but i still read the books!:D
You go girl! I cant stand ppl who keep on talking about how great it is! I even read it! Ppl say its really unique! I am truly puzzled. Everybody acts as though she was the first person to write a book about vampires! When I found out they were making a movie……well, you can imagine…
Now as a reader i’ve seen both sides.
About two mounths ago i was pretty hooked up on the book and Edward. But the thing wsa that i didn’t read the book exactly. Instead i decided to read fanfics about it. Cause i enjoy plot twists and such and there are some realy good fanficsout there.
But on the question at hand. I thought that this Edward was very very overprotective and i hate that in a boy. And Bella seemed to fragile. So I decided to read the books carefully and discovered that the characters weren’t that which i had imagined them to be. Edward is really very overpotective and abusive. He alwsys sais that he will not affect Bella’s decessions but in one of the books Eclipse i think he had Alice GUARD her so she wouldn’t go to see her FRIEND Jacob. That’s not caring that’s abuse and taking of the free will.
Bella on the other hand is waaay to whiney. I mena she has a pretty good life and she just HAS to whine about something. I mena honestly how many girls would whine if their boyfriend took them to the ball. Sure they wouldwhine and cry if their guy DIDN’T take them but c’mon. She just whines all the time. No scratch that she whines half of the time. The other half is taken by the stupid and over elaborate describings of him. At least 50 times she describes him as god like ect… But she doesn’t mention even once about his personality. It’s “Edward is sooo perfect and handsome and adonis god” I mena it’s just stupid, and she herself sees her as a rag or something compared to him. Sure she is plain but that’s where her beauty shines. I think that Jacob sees her just for that beauty for herself and not just because her blood smells very delicious or because he can;t read her mind.
And she is really a Mary Sue. I mena no girl can stumble all the time. Shre is a human and has sense of balance. The stumbling is just inserted to magnify the fact that she ,,needs” protection. I fshe can ride a motorcycle then she’s not that fragile, because let me tell you not many people can ride that thing. It requires pretty good BALANCE. Get my point?
I can talk whole day about the books but after reading them and beeing confused over the characters now i can say honestly that they are pretty flat. No one really has a personality even the main characters. And the clishes are awful. Thedamsel in distress sure it’s nice sometime but not 50 times in 800 pages. And Edward seems like he has no life no personality ecxept for Bella. She can’t be everything for him. I mean before she was born what was he doing 80 years, sitting and staring at one point??
And never in all 3 books does he get injured. Ecxept for when that Voltury girl Jane hurt him and he was like up 3 seconds afterwards with no damage what so ever.
In my opinion the books are the clishe kind of romance and they give today’s female youth a pretty bad idea of what love is. I bet if they get an overprotective perfect guy for a boyfriend 99 percent of them would get annoyed and would break up.
Sorry for the typing my keyboard is acting horribly.
Yeah I really liked this series, but it wasn’t because of the writing. It was because I liked Edward, but NOT BECAUSE HE WAS HAWWTTTTANDSMEXXXEHLAWLLAWL!!!11!!!11
It’s true, Twilight has its flaws, but this book really hit the spot for most teenage girls because Edward is so perfect–excluding his overprotective trait, which most girls seem to have forgotten!
I mean, really! He had Alice hold Bella hostage! And he got SO angry when Bella went to see Jacob. I wanted to yell, “WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM?!” over and over again.
Some of Edward’s lines were so saturated with cheese as well. “Sleep, my Bella. You are the only one who touched my heart, it will always be yours. Sleep, sleep. Dream happy dreams.” Please! Stop!
Yes, he has no descriptions. Stephenie Meyer stated that she wanted readers to imagine him their own way. But this has just led to angry fangirls whining that Robert Pattinson “DOESN’T LOOK LIKE EDWARD!” And I hate Bella’s adjectives for him–“greek god”, “angel face” -puke-
But I hate the “my favorite crooked smile” line most.
You’ve just expressed my feelings on Twilight exactly.. thank you! 🙂
Bella and Edward aggravate me to no end! I don’t understand how people want an Edward Cullen of their own when he is overprotective to the point where he controls Bella’s entire life, and she’s too ‘dazzled’ by his good looks to seize it back. I also think it’s rather pathetic of the both of them that they spend one day together and are like ‘OHH I LOVE YOU SO MUCH AND WILL DIE FOR YOU’ and then when Edward leaves her, Bella acts like her entire life is ruined. If you are depending THAT much on one person, you’re probably better off to live without them-at least for a while so you can sort out your lost independence. They’re both two-dimensional idiots. 🙂
Yes, i really agree with you. I don’t see the point of all the obsession. The book is truly not as magnificent as people think it is… its just really, really SAD !
Here’s my review of Twilight. It sucks and its success makes me sick. Period.
“Twilight” – Stephanie Meyer
A (scathing) Review
Isabella (Bella) Swann moves from sunny Phoenix, Arizona to the gloomy town of Forks in Washington DC. Although Bella isn’t the most popular girl back home in Arizona, on her arrival in Forks she is surprised to learn that she has almost immediately attracted a crowd of loyal male admirers. But Bella’s attentions are captured by only one, the intriguingly beautiful Edward Cullen. Almost immediately, Edward and Bella fall deeply in love. Their foremost problem is Bella’s “alluring scent”, a fact that will initially see Edward struggle perilously to resist. Living harmoniously for a while, eventually throughout the story Edward and Bella’s relationship is thrown into chaos when they encounter more than one party determined to destroy their seemingly perfect world…thank god that’s out of the way. ‘Twilight’ I’m ashamed to say, is probably the single most wretched piece of writing I’ve EVER had the misfortune to encounter. I find it almost impossible to start, for there is so great a multitude of flaws in this book it almost defies logic. But enough of that. Let’s cut to the chase. ‘Twilight’ I fear, has few redeeming features and is in my opinion almost unforgivable. To begin with, the writing alone is at a completely unacceptable standard, and I consider it an insult to all of us out there who not only adore books, but those who are hoping one day to write one, that something so substandard could ever be published. Meyer’s poor, unintelligent prose didn’t strike me as “dreamy” nor “enticing” as one ill-equipped reviewer puts it – in fact I found it an absolute pain in the backside trying to stagger through the utter bullshit that Meyer postulates in this septic tank of a novel. On the flip side, perhaps we should take Twilight’s success as a good omen. If this piece of crap can get published and become a best-seller, those of us with even a gnat’s wing of talent should have nothing to worry about! But anyhow, let us move on to what really is the key issue here. Meyer’s (boring) characters. Let us begin with the protagonist, the grotesquely (and dare I say it, inaccurately) named “Bella Swann”, which literally translated means “beautiful swan”. Oh how far from the truth a name can be. Beautiful swan? Beautiful swan? Throughout the book I frequently had the urge, whilst sitting quietly on my couch in rural Australia, to leap through the page and bash her face in – those of us who are familiar with the term “Mary Sue” should have no trouble identifying with my rage. Mary Sue, the most hated character in the history of fiction (for those of you unfamiliar with the term, I must direct you to Pat Pflieger’s wonderful and informative essay: “Too Good To Be True – 150 years of Mary Sue”). Mary Sue is the embodiment of everything a true literature lover hates. She’s a stand-in, an avatar if you will, whose sole purpose is to fulfill every wish and desire of the author. Mary Sue is perfect, and if she does have any flaws at all (for example, Bella’s incessant and completely unrealistic, gravity-defying clumsiness) are created only to endear her more to the readers and to her fellow characters. Mary Sue gets to have all the fun, while us the readers, gawk on in disgust. Well I’m sorry to say it Steph, but you’re transparent and feeble attempt to make your character in any way likable completely backfired. Bella Swann is the ultimate Mary Sue, she completely dominates every page, and even when she’s not the sole narrator every other character is thinking about her! Whilst reading Twilight, one gets the uncomfortable feeling they’re reading some thirteen year old’s first attempt at fan fiction on livejournal.com. Awful. Word to the wise Steph, next time you even think of churning out something as utterly burnable as Twilight remember – an enjoyable book allows the reader to slip into the character, to see what he/she sees, feel what he/she feels. A skilled author will create a character who is realistic, or at the very least, believable. When reading Twilight I was most aware of the fact (and made quite ill by it) that this story wasn’t written to take the reader on an awesome adventure where Werewolves and Vampires rule the night – it was merely an opportunity for YOU, the AUTHOR to play out YOUR fantasies, YOUR wish-fulfillment. I’m aware that all fiction contains a certain degree of self-insertion, but please, next time (if there is one, although I’m sure there will be) have at least some consideration for your audience and don’t make it so blatantly and nauseatingly OBVIOUS! You are writing for your audience after all. If you wanted to play out some wicked child-hood fantasy you could have at least saved us a good $25 dollars and kept Twilight on your home PC. Stephanie Meyer acknowledges herself that Bella Swann is a nobody. She’s described as plain, she doesn’t think (unless it has something to do with how “perfect” and “completely flawless” Edward is. Yeah, we get it, you think he’s hot!) In fact, she is so bland and limp I, as the reader, didn’t WANT to slip into her character. Forgive me Bella, but there simply isn’t any room in our world for you. Of course this review would not be complete unless I spill my thoughts on the dull, lifeless and utterly revolting Edward Cullen. Now, as soon as I turned the second page of Twilight I knew that I disliked Bella Swann (as evidenced above). However, I pressed on, determined to get to the part everyone was talking about – the dark and mysterious Edward Cullen. Whoa! Rewind! Dark and mysterious? Edward Cullen is anything but. He acts, dresses and talks like a complete and total girl. I felt nothing toward him from the very start, and struggled to find anything, anything in this book at all that I could possibly like. Twilight was hyped so much that I desperately wanted to like it. I often enjoy teen fiction as I’m in my late teens myself, but as soon as Edward Cullen entered the scene, my stomach dropped. No. It couldn’t possibly be, I thought. Two in one book? Yes, that’s right people. Edward Cullen is a Gary Stu. Reader beware: buy ‘Twilight’ at your own peril, for this book should have been called not ‘Twilight’, but ‘Mary Sue & Gary Stu’s Excellent Adventures’. Basically, if you’re looking for a fictional vampire to fall in love with, Eddie’s not your man – he’s boring and totally unrealistic. I am totally aware that throughout the duration of this review I have relentlessly and mercilessly bashed what’s obviously Stephanie Meyer’s pride and joy, but what it boils down to is the right to be informed. For all of ‘Twilight’s’ hype and success, what it really is is ‘The Bella Swann Show’. Do not buy this book expecting troubled romance, suspense or darkness. But what you certainly CAN expect is to read all about how much every one in the entire world loves Bella Swann. Sound exciting? Didn’t think so.
C.E Christensen
ccelise@tpg.com.au
Twilight fans are not your average fans. No, Stephanie Meyer has a trained army that, when commanded, will lash out at you viciously with all the ferocity of a million vampires. Which is basically whenever you say one little thing against the book.
Why?
I just don’t understand it. The book itself is…*breathing deeply* terrible. Bella is a whiny mary sue who cannot do anything for herself – edward has to save her for everything, including her clumsiness. Which is not a fault, by the way – clumsiness is just how you are. Somehow this pathetic loser gets two hot guys after her, one being team werewolf, the other being team vampire. Edward. Oh, Edward. How much do I hate thee? Only words filling the space of years and years could profess my profound hatred. I don’t think he’s abusive – I think he’s obsessive and stupid, as well as obsessively stupid. Well, he’s not stupid, excuse me, he’s perfect (HOW could I have forgotten???). THAT’S THE PROBLEM. No one wants a partner – or even friend – who’s PERFECT. I think it would have been so cute if he had a few flaws that Bella complemented. Sure there’s some romantic tension between them – at least the author got that right – but wait. Why DO they like each other? Oh, yeah, because Bella needs a guy to save her butt and Edward needs a girl who boosts his self-confidence just by tripping over everything so he feels…oh, I don’t know, perfect.
Most of my friends like the books. I read the first two for them. They squeed over Eclipse. I gave up. I was sick of the characters and losers and all the attention the books were getting. Geez, you write a book about the perfect, ungettable guy and half the teen girls in the world flip out. ?!?!??!
But I could’ve gotten past that. I could have. Sure, she was rumored to come out with a book about Twilight from Edward’s pov (idiotic, i don’t want to read the same crap again), but I could have trained myself to ignore it.
Until the Comparison.
HOW, I fumed one day when i heard the news, could the respected readers of the world compare STEPHANIE MEYER to JKR?!?!? How do you compare BELLA AND EDWARD to HARRY, RON, AND HERMIONE??? Oh yeah – you DON’T. JKR created a whole new WORLD with Harry Potter – say what you like against it, I know some people don’t care for it. But you have to respect Rowling’s imagination and talented writing skills, even if you don’t care for dragons, wands, wizards, etc.
But who had the imbecilic idea to compare that WORLD to…sparkly skin?!?!
There are so many moronic plot holes – that are gaping, let me add – that I’m surprised the books got published in the first place.
I’m sorry, Stephanie Meyer. I don’t mean to criticize you – I really don’t hate you. Perhaps I don’t even hate your books. I just hate your fan base and how it’s taking over the world. I will die (by my own hand) before joining the EdwardxBella worshippers.
-ChalkxDino
P.S. The movie casting is surprisingly accurate. I hated Cedric Diggory in the HP movies (not the book character). In fact, you could say I hate Robert Pattinson, despite my friends’ sighes of delight. So good job – the movie got one thing right – a disgustingly perfect boy in a disgustingly perfect movie role. Although I must say, what a shame Kristen Stewart is Bella. I saw her other movies when she was younger, and I did expect better from her.
Oh, forgot to add – Jake the Werewolf is not a realistic guy. I know some of the haters actually like his character, but keep in mind that anyone as normal-sounding as him (forgetting his werewolf heritage for a moment) who falls in love with “Beautiful, Perfect Bella” obviously has a few screws loose.
-ChalkxDino
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i’ve never read the books, and i’m not an author (yet), so i can’t say anything bad about how the book was written, except for the cliches. he’s been alive for a century and he still couldn’t find a girl to fit the bill? come on…
i’ve got more of a complaint, however, with the people who obsess over this series. my girlfriend is one of those people. she told me, “you’re nothing compared to edward cullen.” i immediately explained to her why i’m nothing like the creep. one, i don’t need a shiny silver volvo to prove im a man. two, i have flaws and that makes me a more interesting person. three, I’M F***ING REAL, G_D D*** IT!
now i’ll admit that i do hold grudges for a long time, but i still haven’t forgiven my girlfriend for saying this to me, and it was about 8 months ago.
her friend told her to drag me to see the movie, and i used coarse language to describe my contempt for such melodramatic romantic garbage that i wouldn’t wish upon my worst enemy. she got the point pretty quick, but she said “geez, it’s just a book.” it seems someone forgot this little tidbit of information, hmm? how handy the facts are when they suit our ends.
so, getting back to my dislike, as opposed to my possibly boring stories about my dislike, what’s this i hear about a perfect boyfriend? perfect is a subjective term, and should not be used to describe someone in a book. besides, wouldn’t perfection be kind of boring? i would hate being amazing at everything. life would have no challenge. i love my flaws, and i think everyone should. a perfect person isn’t a person.
i’m glad i’ve found a place that i can at least put my emotions out there in a healthy way. thank you very much for existing, everyone.
I can’t tell you how good it is to read this. I totally agree. My friends are all crazy about it, and I can’t see how. If anything, I find it demeaning to women; Bella always needs Edward for EVERYTHING. I could go on about how I don’t like it and agree with you, but the book’s not even worth it.
One more thing to add, anybody looking for empowering, well written books for women, pick some Tamora Pierce. If you didn’t like Twilight, you’ll probably like her books.
I googled ‘Twilight sucks’ and this came up XD
I honestly tried to read the first book this summer when I had nothing to do, but I got so ridiculously bored that I just stopped. I don’t think I’ve ever put a book down so fast after reading only three chapters.
Why are these books so popular? There’s better YA lit. out there that gives teens a good message. I’ve even read the author being compared to Emily Bronte (because Edward and Bella’s ‘love’ is so similar to Heathcliff and Cathy’s) and Jane Austen! JANE AUSTEN, practically the mother of romance for young women! I’ve even heard her call Edward a Mr.Darcy (!) And Wuthering Heights is my favorite book ever– At least Bronte got the point across that Heathcliff and Cathy’s all-consuming relationship was unhealthy, self-abusive, and abusive to others around them. Meyer glorifies it and says it’s the stuff of fairytales. Really Meyer? REALLY?
I remember reading an interview with Meyer where, in order to not make Bella seem utterly pathetic for becoming a zombie after her man leaves her in New Moon, she names male characters from great novels (Wuthering Height, Anne of Green Gables, Sense and Sensibility, Gone With The Wind) who abandoned their lovers and yet the women got over it. Then Meyer says that the female protagonists were strong enough to get over the pain because they’d “Never lost an Edward.”
This woman honestly thinks she’s better than these classic writers.
I totally love you.
I mean I don’t get why is al the hype about… The book is plain, boring, the characters are Mary Sue and Gary Stu, thething have no plot, it’s poorly writting, too much purple prose etc etc…
I totally hate them! And if you think that the fangirls are crazy… you need to know the TwilightMoms… The are CREEPY!, I mean it’s like if Edward were really alive and if you said something mean about him you are dead… They don’t accept criticism and their reason for liking the books are stupid “TH BOOZ R AMAZING CUZ EDWARD IS HAWT!!!1”
Well this is just a link if you want to check it
http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/books/anyone-else-can-t-stand-twilight
Oh sorry i mistake the link :S
The correct one is
http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/books/anyone-else-can-t-stand-twilight/t.24736495_1/
Oh, thank God! I thought I was the only one who hated the book! I bought the first two books of the series on the recommendation of a coworker who thought we had similar tastes in reading. I started reading Twilight and ,honestly, after the first chapter I burst into laughter. I couldn’t believe how badly written the book was. Previous commenters here are correct: Bella Swann is a total Mary-Sue. I will acknowlege Meyer’s genius in making Bella enough of a blank slate, description-wise, so that the reading audience can insert themselves into the character and imagine themselves as the sole recipient of the undying love of perfect, superhuman, gorgeous vampire Edward. That’s as far as my admiration goes. Twilight is dreck – boring, banal, badly written, plotless dreck.
Needless to say, I will be returning the second book as soon as I can. No sense in throwing good money after bad.
I am so deeply thankful for this blog post. I had no idea this Twilight thing was going on until I saw news reports about the midnight release of the final one, and happened to catch a trailer for the movie the same week. Then all of a sudden it was everywhere. “Its better than Harry Potter!”
Um, no. I mean, think the idea of the book could be kind of cool, but the execution, well… lets just say, I found your blog post by googling “twilight sucks.”
I have no problem with Ms Meyer – she’s a first time author, who wasn’t planning on being a writer. Ok. Learning is good. And, hey, nice to get paid to learn. And I have no problem with the publishers making a buck off this stuff. That’s what they are in business for. What I’m disappointed in is the reader response. These are like old school harlequin novels with better cover art. And a bazillion women are gaga for them? These are better than Harry Potter?
Sigh. I can’t even begin to articulate the issues I have with this book. Only read the one. Don’t know if I can stomach three more. Do they get any better? Ugh!
So – thank you for this post and for all the comments.
Oh, not to mention the complete TRAVESTY they called Breaking Dawn.
Seriously, I think SM used it as a social expirament.
“Hey, people love my books so much, particularly mindless teenage girls, I bet they would still love me even if I wrote a book that was complete crap.”
And they did.
I hate Twilight so much. Especially the romance. She likes him because he’s beautiful, he likes her because she smells nice. And they just sit around all day saying ‘I love you.’ Urgh.
Basically, four books about a girl drooling over a guy who’s “beautiful”.
Message to guys: You have to be beautiful or girls won’t like you, period.
Message to girls: If you see a cute guy, then you have fallen in love, that’s the real meaning of love, get knocked up.
Four books… About that…
And coming soon, the same books but from the vampire’s perspective.
Fangirl: she’s innovative.
Someone with a brain: …Bram Stoker is turning in his grave right now and Anne Rice would commit suicide except that now she’s a Christian…
I a billion percent agree with you! Don’t you teens listen in health? They tell you that likeing someone because they make you feel good is not a reason to think your in love.
This book is not a love novel. They are in puffed up and fluffy infatuation. I am 15 and I know this. The only reason they “love” each other is for how “hot” they are. Don’t believe me? Well when did Bella say she was in love? After… like 2 days. What was her reason for loving him? Nothing but his hotness! She never even knew Edward.
And what the heck? Is Edward a robot? Where’s his personality? -.-“” I mean I can understand why people love the books.
Because most of the teens have too many hormone issues so they end up thinking that super fast omg feeling they get is love when you see how hot some person is. Well, I don’t know what love is but if it was that then we wouldn’t have a 60% divorce rate in the U.S.
NO offense to the people who like this book but its comepletely shallow. Plz think about it deeply and you might understand. True its fiction. But you might get disapointed if try to compare your boyfriend or girlfriend to the characters of this book. This books just way too unrealistic and describes too much about how shallow and vapid teenagers are now. >.>”
Twilight was decent, but several larger aspects of the plot were unbelievable. It is light; I honestly couldn’t put it down, but I do realize how poorly planned and written it was. Redundant, dipped in and out of logic, but what really got me worked up was New Moon.
I cried when Edward left Bella, but not for the obvious, assumed reason. It was for the reason she was so helpless, that she didn’t finally just snap and fire back – I was literally crying because Bella didn’t seize the opportunity to hate Edward, to get angry at his perfect little face for once in her entire time with him. He deserved it.
So I started to daydream a little, where Bella began to hate Edward, develop some character, and like Jacob. Edward returns and bam! He gets a hold of himself and fights with a reason to win Bella back, but in the end, Bella either goes with Jacob or doesn’t go with either and is a normal teenager.
I like the series, but New Moon wasn’t the best. She is undeniably whiny and Edward is just so unrealistic, but you can’t put the book down, or at least, not me. It was interesting, a contrast to all logical and good in the world, and here Stephenie Meyer goes up against all of this, defies the rules of literature, and it is popularized. She’s fortunate – but I guess I support her a little for the distraction from reality.
OK. I do get it. Someone says that loving someone because they make you feel good is wrong. Another is jealous. Others say Bella is a Mary Sue. Obviously Bella is not a Mary Sue. She isn’t perfect.
She does make her own decisions. Obviously she becomes a vampire completely against Edwards wishes. Would she do that if she was a push over for him? NO.
Some people think that an independent woman doesn’t wish for someone that can benefit her life and solve some of her problems. Or that she must argue, not give in too easily. That she shouldn’t just fall in love. You are very wrong. Its perfectly reasonable to love someone because they make you feel good. Arguing is a sign of immaturity more then anything else. And only insecure women wait to let themselves love. A secure woman gives in to love when she feels it. If its at first sight, then thats OK. And there is nothing wrong with accepting your partners money or expertise. Thats why they call it a partnership.
But, I do understand how a less secure person might judge this enjoyable, light little book harshly and let it simmer.
stancesandstitches wtf? shakespeare and twilight are on opposite sides of the universe. SHakespeare is really truely deep and meaningful and beautiful where as twilight well….the only way it could get more shallow is is you make 1/2 the width of paper very sorry.
~ Twihater and pround
I. LOVE. YOU. You deserve hug!
I used to feel so alone in the world because I couldn’t stand Twilight. And then I found this blog. Honestly, how could anyone read that drabble? And ACTUALLY like it? I actually had to force myself to read it, ad even then I couldn’t finish it because nothing happened at all for the first gajillion pages of the damned book!
There are countless things I didn’t like about the series. I tried to read the first book when all my friends were like, “Ooh! Twilight is the best book ever! Edward is so hawt!” Um, I didn’t think he was. He is the epitome of perfection. And quite frankly, that kills his entire character. If he had some flaws (major or minor, who cares by this point) than it would have made the “love” between him and Bella more realistic. Plus, it doesn’t help that I’ve never been a vampire fan at all. I probably never will be because Twilight has brutally murdered vampires for me. Anywho, because of his perfection, Edward if flat, flat, flat like day old soda! Not even remotely interesting. I feel like the only female in the world who isn’t swooning over his fictional pheromones.
Ah, Bella. That whiny, obsessive, stalkerish bitch. She annoyed me to no end. Writing the whole entire thing was a BIG mistake, especially since she made it hella boring than what it might have been. Not only that, but she takes a high school crush and sugar coats it to the point were teeth rots and makes all the female fan girls believe it’s actually true love. Plus, I heard she becomes SO shiny in the second book when Edward leaves.
As if the characters weren’t bad enough. But the story itself?
CHAPTER ONE: Edward is hot.
CHAPTER TWO: Edward is so hot.
CHAPTER THREE: Edward is so incredibly hot.
CHAPTER FOUR: Edward is so incredibly perfectly hot.
CHAPTER FIVE: Edward is so—
SHUT UP! *punches Bella in the face*
Dear God, I don’t know why I tortured my brain for that long. Granted, this probably sounds more like an opinionated rant than anything else. But thats honestly how I feel. I couldn’t stand the serious because the characters were too flat an unattractively perfect, the plot was as boring as hell, and the writing… the writing lacked such so much description it was terrible. “Edward was beautifully gorgeous.” Okay, what else? “Edward was incredibly attractive. …Okay, what else? “Edward was drop dead sexy.” Somebody shoot me.
I have no problem with people liking it. I don’t know WHY anyone would like the series, but if they do good for them. However, it’s those hard core fan girls I want to punch in the face. “Oh mah gee, how could u hate edward?! he’s soooo hawt!!!!!1111oneoneone! u suk i hate u!!!!111” Ugh, cry me a river. But the fans who do like the series, but have no problem with people who don’t like it I can live with. They’re the sensible ones after all.
Oh. And how could anyone compare Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight to J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter? Harry Potter was actually good with realistic characters, wonderful writing, and a creative world that had a good plot to go along with it. Sorry Stephenie Meyer. You’re going to have to do a lot better than that before you can even be considered REMOTELY as good as Miss J.K. Rowling.
Well, that’s all I have to ramble about. You are officially my new friend.
umm i really hate that you don’t lyk the boo!! THE BOOKS ARE EFFING AWSUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you need to leave the earth now. Twilight has changed my life!!! I usually never read a book over 150 pages,but ever since Twilight i look at a book under 300 pages and feel pitty! haha u needc help! I bet thatt u and every one else who hates twilight only say thatt cuz it makes you feel lyk a reble or that ur really cool and awsum. WELL IM TELLING YOU NOW: UR NOT COOL OR AWSUM, U ARE PTIFUL!!! btw Stephinie Myer discribes EDWARD CULLEN in almost every chapter. nd did u ever thinkmaby that she wanted the reader to make up their own picture of EDWARD CULLEN?? huh did u evr thein bout thatt?? no i bet u ddnt!!! I LUV TWILIGHT!!!!!
These comments are so funny.
I read the first book because I worked at a bookstore and someone who worked there recommended it. Was 25 at the time and really didn’t want to read any YA. Then all of a sudden the book started popping up everywhere and more people started recommending it. Finally, two years later, one of the people in my graduate lab recommended it, so I gave it a shot.
The book was a fun read, it was entertaining and took me back to my first love and how stupid we all get. But I couldn’t for the life of me see what all the hype was about!
What is all the hype about!!!!
I ended up reading all four, the middle two could have been left out entirely, or turned into one book. I liked the last book the best.
I still do not get all the hype. The love stuff was annoying, but I can understand why a teeny bopper would love it.
All in all, fun read, but thats it. No magic.
My lord, thank you for someone finally posting something on this horrendous trash. For me, Twilight was a series I read (and I liked it when I read it), but after I was done with it, I began to see how everything just seems to go Bella’s way. I don’t know if anyone else noticed that, but it’s that that really annoyed me throughout the series. Not that Bella is a completely flat Mary Sue with a Gary Stu and an underdog on her tail, not that the plot is extremely overused, not even how horrifyingly fanfiction-y it is. It seems like every time something goes wrong, and it’s this huge event that no normal (much less clumsy) human being would be able to handle, either
A. Mister Edward saves the day, or
B. Bella somehow has some stroke of luck and everyone’s happy again. Except the bad guys, of course.
Because Bella has to be this tantalizing, enchanting harpy that goes around inadvertantly seducing vampires and werewolves. Because she is just so darn cute, amirite? No. As some other commenters said, Twlight is just a sip for the (pun intended) bloodthirsty teenage romance fanatics that seem to confuse being obsessive and possesive with love. It seems to me that after this literary blunder’s time is over, the world will not go back to books that are at the very least tolerable, but continue to read this shallow smut.
And now I’ll comtinue on to a book-by-book rant. c:
Book one: This book was alright, but no two people fall in love that fast. This was the only book I could even remotely stand. Bella is introduced as an attention-seeking brat that’s (shockingly) all-too clumsy, but adorable all the less.
(I have to go; I’ll finish this later.)
I agree. Very poor, immature writing. Unimaginative–Hello, Anne Rice, Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Juvenile. No character development. Predictable. Bad reading!
Ok first of all i have to admit i am one of those obsessed fans who cant stop thinking about edward and how i want to be bella and such…but THATS THE PROBLEM, its wrong..so very wrong. I have friends who lock themselves away and pretend they are sick so they can stay home and read twilight…. for the 76th time. although i am bad i am not like this. i find it hard to concentrate in school and not let my mind wander to twilight and edward. All my friends are the same..i hate it!!!!
Recently it got soo bad that now i am trying to MAKE myself hate it. Just so i will stop thinking about…and yeah i suppose its kinnd of working…slightly. I now realize that it completely gives us teenage girls false hope that an ‘edward’ will come to our school and not be able to read our mind and whisk us away to have mutant-babies when we are barely legal to have sex. Its NOT FAIR the way bella gets EVERYTHING she wants..no debate…. :
BELLA GETS EVERYTHING SHE WANTS IN THE 4TH!!!!!
1.its ok charlie understands you’ve become an evil vampire that wants to kill him..he’s just fine with that!
2.To make sure edward and you have the perfect conventional life .we’ll give you a beautiful child, who too never dies!
3.loophole!! Bella you dont have to choose your own immortality and feel guilty no we’ll make it that you nearly die and edward *GASP* saves you again.!
4.You can become a beautiful statuesque woman vampire …breathtakingly amazing and very agile and strong so now you dont even have the ‘flaw’ of being clumsy..ohh spare me!
5. you can have your own special power of protection aswell!
6.okk you can STILL have jacob as your best friend , and now he’ll always be with you ( molesting your infant daughter)
7. no wars , its grand, just strict words and Aro will reallly llike you and renesmee(peice of crap name b the wayy!!)
8. You and edward can just keep going at it like rabbits because ‘OMGIJUSTCANTGETENOUGHOFHISBODY’ and quote’ how will we ever stop??!’ and ‘i love edwards naked body’ and lets not forget her big hissy-fit of ‘ the only human experience i want is sex!!!please edward??!!’ omg you little wh*re!!!!
9. you dont EVEN have to worry about killing people because you have some extra self control…omg WTF??!!
take me now ! That is the longest rant i have ever had but not to discourage people to read the books…decide for yourself. i have to say i am quite addicted to the books but you people have also made me see some sense!! im soo confused…
and i also agree on what everyone said about bella being a peice of sh*t character who is soo ‘plain’ but all the guys want her and edward being tooo perfect . their love blossoms in what..2 days? give me a break . how are any of us teenage girls to believe in normal flawed guys?? thanks for ruining us stephanie meyer!! yeah thanks ALOT!
HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-Xo
Whenever I get into a conversation with people at school about Twilight I always end up being extremely frustrated. People never see the Twilight series for what it is: three books of meaningless words.
People (even my friends) think that Twilight has good characters and a good plot (just because it is also so disgustingly lovey-dovey). But it does not. The characters are seriously underdeveloped and and the plot is almost nonexistant.
One thing that I noticed in the books was the lack of the sense of time. At least 2-3 years, I think, had passed from Twilight to Eclipse but it felt like only what, a month? I think that is because of the lack of plot line, since everything centers on Bella and Edward.
Seriously…………….ughhh………
At least in Harry Potter you actually feel a passage of time. The reader sees how the characters GROW and MATURE, which is the very thing lacking in the Twilight series.
Whenever I ask someone why they like the series, they give me these lame answers like, “Oh! I love the characters!” or “Bella and Edward’s love is so mesmerizing!”. However, if they even took the time to look and analyze the books, they could possibly see the series for what it really is.
The only good book in the series was Twilight. It showed the power of attraction. I had always fantasized about what it would be like to see someone and to want to know about them and then to fall in love with them. That part was okay. In fact, I read Twilight at least twice (though I am ashamed to say). However, the other 2 books (since I have not read the fourth) are nothing but a waste of time.
I like books that when I finish reading them leave me with some kind of nostalgic feeling, like Harry Potter. However with the twilight series, that feeling is missing.
Now don’t get me wrong, Harry Potter series wasn’t perfect either. The middle books began to get boring and repetitive at one time, but the final books made up for that. Twilight is nothing but a redundancy throughout!
There is a LOT more that I could say, but I should be doing my homework now. Though I am really glad to find someone out there who can express their hatred for Twilight in such a good way!
*P.S. to Caroline
Most of the people that do not like the book are NOT rebels. Take me for example. I know myself very well, and I am not a rebel. I simply have read MUCH better books by MUCH better writers than Twilight and Stephanie Meyer. And please, let’s not be so over dramatic. A petty book such as Twilight cannot “change” your life.
And how does S.M. describe Edward??? Hmm? All she says is that he is attractive and has bronze hair and orcher-eyes that turn black when he is thirsty for blood. Does she go beyond that? No. And it’s alright not to use that form of characterization. But she does not employ any other forms of characterization either. Edward’s speech is always the same.
And finally, we are not pitiful. It is you who are pitiful for devoting yourself to a book like that. Stop dreaming of an Edward all for yourself and focus more on the realistic things, since life is not Twilight.
My favourite person in the fourth has GOT to be Seth..=] , he’s a happy outlet who doesnt take anything too seriously like everyone else, even jacob starts to get all het up about everything . andanother thing:
edward and bella dont have fun. they arent friends at all they only have passion. Have you ever read about them messing around and just having a laugh? does bella EVER have fun? didnt think so. Relationships should have some amount of fun and adolescence in them. They are so serious ALL them time. *sigh* im sure i’ll come back to this rant later…=]
Thanks
-Xo
PLuus Rob pattinson is sooooo fiine!!!
I luurv him
Thank you, Thank you. Like most f the people here I read the first book, but unlike must people I honestly think that it utterly and completley SUCKED. Twighlight is a book for desperate teenage girls to read an unoriginal story about characters who, i agree with yu, have no depth. And besides this, the people that read these books are usually people that don’t read. Bella is whiny, annoying and helpless, (noone wants to read a book about a fangirl) Edward is stupid and is a horrible character its like; I am strong and i eat meat. Good for you! Seriously, The author got bored with the two main characters making out s she thought “hmmm, what if I made him suck a different part of her body?”. Twighlight fans just love to lash out @ ppl who are not completley obsessed, if you aren’t going around saying “EDWARD CULLEN IS SO SMEXY!!” then your lesbian. I mean to be honest ALL of the characters in this book SUCK. I mean, even Jacob is in love with Bella and whats the big deal with Bella anyway? Why do all the characters love her? I mean she’s helpless, whiny and stupid and thats what everyone loves? Thats just sexist.
All of Stephanie Meyer’s books a disgrace to vampire books. There are so many good vampire books and this is the one that everyone loves? Thats just sad. And the fact that people even compare it to Harry Potter and other amazing books is emabarrassing because Twighlight doesn’t even deserve to be on the best seller list never mind being compared to books like those.
I can’t even imagine what the movies going to be like besides the constant ” i luv u” “i luv u 2” “I might eet u” story line.
Get a life and God help the poor readers that read this crap.
caroline
umm i really hate that you don’t lyk the boo!! THE BOOKS ARE EFFING AWSUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you need to leave the earth now. Twilight has changed my life!!! I usually never read a book over 150 pages,but ever since Twilight i look at a book under 300 pages and feel pitty! haha u needc help! I bet thatt u and every one else who hates twilight only say thatt cuz it makes you feel lyk a reble or that ur really cool and awsum. WELL IM TELLING YOU NOW: UR NOT COOL OR AWSUM, U ARE PTIFUL!!! btw Stephinie Myer discribes EDWARD CULLEN in almost every chapter. nd did u ever thinkmaby that she wanted the reader to make up their own picture of EDWARD CULLEN?? huh did u evr thein bout thatt?? no i bet u ddnt!!! I LUV TWILIGHT!!!!!
Next time, please include points on why you like twilight, not just some random ‘OMG I LURV DA TWILIGHT SERIES ITS DA BOMB.’
OH MY GOSH. EXACTLY!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! i wrote a similar entry just last night about how lame Twilight is compared to HP.
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I heavily resent the fact that some Twilight obsessed fans (“Twilighters”) have the audacity to compare this series to the Harry Potter saga. My stand on the issue is that the Twilight books are basically badly written fan fiction with dry narration, sappy dialogue, sex-infested scenes, and poor character development, all wrapped inside a novel with practically a nonexistent conflict (which materializes just at the last few chapters). The books aren’t that bad, really, but it infuriates me when they compare it to Harry Potter, for that series is pure magic. Since J. K. Rowling wrote the whole story backwards, little tell tale details strewn across all the books leading to the climatic end gave so much flavor to the Trio’s adventures and mishaps. She developed the story for years, such that their world of magic was so well-thought-of. Harry Potter was definitely better written than Meyer’s books, and it does not give Rowling any justice for us to compare the believable Harry to the extremely unreal Edward.
I believe that the Harry Potter saga is better than the Twilight series because while its setting may be less believable than the modern setup in the latter, the characters in Harry Potter are more relatable, which makes the saga more “real” to its readers. The Twilight books offer a contemporary setting of which its inhabitants are caricatured personalities, making the series unappealing because of the characters’ failure to connect with the attitudes of real people, the very ones the author was trying to portray.
To try to ease the tension between these warring fan bases, I say that the Harry Potter saga was written for a different audience, as was Twilight. The former was made for people who wish to escape to a world full of magic, while Twilight was written for those who believe that wonder exists even in the most unconventional of places. It is not right to compare the two for they exist in different categories of amusement, though it must be pointed out that they each enable their readers to explore a world unlike their own.
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oh my gawd, THANK YOU. i swear. as a consumer who has every right to complain about a product she did not like, i say that I really hated Twilight.
I freaking love you.
I don’t mean that in a weird way! I promise. LOL.
But yeah, I’ve got a friend who’s obsessed with Twilight, and I took a great dislike to it just *hearing* about it, because anything that gets her obsessed is generally ridiculous fluff (with the exception of Harry Potter, because that was just good stuff).
Anyway, I do some book reviews for Parahub.org (yes, it’s a shameless plug–I’m so sorry), and I have to say that this has helped me make up my mind as to whether or not to do a review on it. So thank you. I guess now I have to…*shudder*…read it now.
Not really looking forward to that, although out of morbid, demented curiosity, I want to read the sex scenes. I bet they’re full of old Harlequin phrases like “heaving bosom” and “thrusting loins.”
I think the book is written by a Thesaurus Raping Amateur – I know exactly how you feel.. Believe me, I go to an all girls school where 90% of the population has read the book. I know exactly how you feel. Not only that, Meyer has ruined my favorite piano song ever by using it in the film.
The fame doesn’t exactly frustrate me, it is the story itself. I just sorta disliked Bella’s outlook on life -how she had no goals set for herself, how she was always rejecting those that cared the most about her for who she was as a person, and her shallow relationship with Edward.
I felt no love coming from the two -Edward only liked the smell of her blood and thought it was interesting that he couldn’t read her mind. Bella -only seemed to like Edward because he was a vampire and that he happened to be attractive. I don’t even think that either of them had anything in common aside from the fact they were music junkies -but other then that, I didn’t see any chemistry between them. It was very superficial -yet in a way it is both very much fantasy as well as realistic.
I can see why it is probably popular with teens. It’s about a girl who has low-self esteem, a frustrating family life, and she’s a bit of a klutz. All of a sudden, she finds a boy who is “hott,” thinks she is in love, and believes she must give up everything for him. Even though she knows the boy is probably dangerous -she still wants to be with him. Pathetic, shallow, and unhealthy? Yes, but I’m sure the story isn’t unfamiliar among teenagers in the real world and maybe we experienced something like that ourselves.
So is Twilight bad literature? I would certainly agree, Stephanie Meyer has many irritating kinks in her writing style and character development, and needs to use something besides a thesaurus to improve herself. But something worth getting upset over because of the hype? Not really. Anyway, I do agree that Twilight fans should not get angry because someone has a transcending opinion and I’m sorry the fans have troubled you so much.
I agree with you. People need to stop obsessing over Bella “Fantastic” Little fantasy life and get their own REAL tangible life. D<
Finally i’ve found some people who haven’t been swept up in this “twilight fad”. How can such immature, childish writing be classified as litrature. People please read something with some substance, pick up a copy of hamlet or othello.
twilight is shyte.
what i don’t understand is how a group of pale white stiffs not get noticed in a town with a hundred or so people. how these stiffs only hang around their relatives during school…thas a bit weird…and yet they remain unquestioned…CMON PEOPLE OF FORKS WAKE THE FUCK UP…
I hate the book Twilight. Last year, I read the series just to see what the fuss was about at school. It sounded like an eight-year-old’s fanfiction or some sort. The characters are boring, the main “heroine” (if you can even refer to her as that) irritates me with both her pathetic personality and for the fact that she’s a self-insert of the author. The plot is common and did not impress me one tiny bit.
What Stephanie Meyer calls love, is an obsession. Bella isn’t in love with Edward, she’s obsessed with him. What kind of realistic woman allows a stranger (who might as well be a perverted teenager) watch them as they sleep? None. No one in their right mind. I believe Edward isn’t in love with Bella, either. The only reason he’s attracted to her is that he can’t read her mind and that her blood smells “delicious” to him (along with a billion other vampires).
There are no major developements in the characters (unless you count Bella becoming even more of a Mary-Sue than she already is) and they are simply flat.
Once Edward left her side, she became depressive and destroyed her life. When Stephanie Meyer described her as “mature” and such, you don’t expect a “mature and adult-like” person to act this way for such a long period of time. She was merely obsessed with him and she’s only in high school. She might as well just have killed herself and saved me the trouble of enduring the rest of the series. She’s a clutz (which isn’t a major flaw) and superficial considering she cares more about Edwards “perfect-ness” and crap rather than Jacob who spent time with her and became her “rebound boy.” Manipulative and unhealthy.
I mean I understand if she went through a break-up and needed time to get over it… But jumping off the cliff after hearing his voice inside your head? For your first love (Meyer didn’t mention any one else that Bella had been together with) in high school?
The book was a waste of time and I want to smack the girls in my school for reading such a thing and bragging about it so much. “Oh, I want Edward to be real!” If Edward was real, I would go Van Helsing and kill all the vampires. Get real.
I’m sure the phase will pass over soon… Hopefully. Maybe they’ll read a book worthy of praise when they get older.
… Isn’t it sad that you’re hearing this from a twelve-year-old?
Thank you. People like you make living in this twilight obsessed universe easier. I’m losing faith in the human race.
I am one of the many who agree with you that the “twilight” series is overrated.
I read the entire series ( know. ) because a friend of mine who is otherwise possessed of literary taste told me how much she enjoyed them. She, like many of you, disliked Edward and found Bella a tad bland but the plot kept her reading.
I, personally, would have much rather read something, anything, else.
I will give Mrs. Meyer this, the references to sense and sensibility, wuthering heights, R&J (puke), and other classics might actually give young girls an impetus to read them. Of this I am a fan. Also, the use of Bella reading these books to foreshadow the ‘plot’ or ‘conflict’ in these books was well and subtly done.
I, like many of you, adored Jacob. In general I have found that older audiences that have moved beyond the all-consuming nature of First Love That Lasts Forever and Ever and Ever and have graduated into real life find Jacob to be a charming character.
I kept hoping that Bella would grow as a character the way that other serialized characters have a knack of doing. Even Harry was not the deep, complex boy I came to love in the first book. I saw such potential in this series; what with the parallels between Bella and Eve and the twist on the vampire mythos I kept waiting for the characters to become 3D.
The most enraging part of it all is that the rest of the characters are so much better! Jacob is well written (except for when she was trying to make him like Edward) Alice is charming, Rosalie is interestingly flawed, the Volturi I think could have been made chilling but she put them right on the edge of comical and menacing. Bella and Edward were the only static characters, the only stagnant characters.
Perhaps this is beyond the pale but I wonder how much religion played a role in the books. Mrs Meyer is a mormon as I understand and the family dynamic in that particular subculture might go quite far to explain the way Bella was written. Modest and humble to a fault, smart but not proud of it, a good cook, unimaginative, co-dependent on her significant other, and totally uninterested in being alive – it’s the life after death that is important.
just a thought.
okay. maybe not SO much better but b&e don’t put the bar very high.
i have read the books- the 1st book was a grabber, i liked it in a way that a 14/15yrs old girl would. im no where near my teens- i read the books after a coworker of mine was going on and on about how wonderful this book is and the raw love storyline is so touching and so on and so on.
the 1st book i did read it from a teenagers stand point- as the story went on to books 2,3,4 i began to become sick of the whiney poor me act that bella had, and that i must control you behavior of edwards. i have one question to ask- did anyone when they were 17/18 know that they wanted to spend the rest of life with that highschool boyfriend? all i know it that life isnt always so cookie cut- you dont meet that boy, fall in love and live happly ever after- sadly a lot of these teen girls feel that there life will be perfect if they meet that “edward” and he will make it all better. how about “Bella” making it all better for herself, and not rely on a edward to always save her. no im not bitter, just sad to see a whole generation of young ladies think that a knight in amour will save the day for them.
Thank you so much for posting this. I have never seen anything so pathetic as the twilight series. lemme first tell you guys that i am a HUGE harry potter fan and so freakin outraged that its movie release date was moved to july and should realy be coming out friday instead of dumb twilight. twlight is so unoriginal and cliche and just plain stupid! i read the first few chapters and stephanie meyers is a horrible writer! shes like” bella looked out the window, she watched the snow, she was sad” i mean really? is that what JK rowling-worthy material has come to these days? all the characters are boring, and the whole book they just obsess over how hot edward is supposed to be and how they all have to bow dow and kiss his feet. you get sick of it after three pages. all they do is run around, fight the occasional vampire fist fight, bella and edward talk about how much they love each other…and then they have a baby…thats about it… so enjoy twilight fans, your childish cliched romeo and juliet “masterpiece” that teaches girls to kill yourself over a guy you think is hot and wants everyone to know it 24/7. Me, i think i’ll stick with harry potter, thank you very much!!
Ooooooook Im gonna have to agree with several points made.all i have to say is if you wanna read this book go for it — but if you seriously think that this is the best book ever get your face out of the book and find a real guy and try a real relationship. Edward is just a fantasy dream, made perfect, perfect, perfect, cause he is hot hot hot. Im just getting tired of hearing from girls who love this book. There are is a lot better literature out there. Frankly as much as you want to Edward isnt gonna marry you.
Thank you for speaking my mind exactly. I don’t see anything extraordinary about the Edward-Bella relationship… it has absolutely no substance and is absolutely boring. Jacob was much more real. The fourth book was horrendous.
I think the Washington Post summed up my views on Bella’s character:
“…there are constant reminders that she’s not responsible for the effect she has on Edward or Jacob. This bland passivity has been excused as a way of allowing female readers to project themselves into Bella’s place, but the overall effect is a weird infantilization that has repellent overtones to an adult reader and hardly seems like an admirable model to foist upon our daughters (or sons).”
You know, I really hate it when fans (in my opinion, idiotic, rabid fans) say that Meyer is greater than that of Shakespere.
Makes you want to shoot some bullets, doesn’t it?
But you make good points. I myself don’t understand why this is a huge hit. No understandable plot at all and in the book is just full of factors, of what I like to call, a mary-sue.
You are my new favorite person.
haha. first thing i would love to say is. grats on the success to meyers. lolz. she obviously got what she wanted. i mean think about it. a crap load of people already bought her books. no returns. lolz. she’s gonna be if she already isn’t, loaded. lolz…makes me sad though…such a crappy story.
anyways. on with the rant!!
A couple days ago, my mother apparently volunteered my best friend and I to go to a childish Twilight b-day party. The point to the party was to have a goose-chase treasure hunt thing and then go to the midnight show of Twilight. wooo. The worst night i’ve had in a long time. Crappy dangerous driving followed by a crappy movie. sigh. i coulda been sleeping!! lolz
anyways. i watched the movie. and i don’t know how ma.ny of you saw it but i was astonished. i’ve never read the books, but i plan to. i want to form an educated analysis of everything i guess. lolz
anyways. through the whole movie i could not believe what the main characters were doing! jacob didn’t show up a whole lot in the movie. guess they were afraid the audience would like him better than the creepy stalker type edward cullen.
aside from that, it was rated b! omg b rated movie. i’ve seen better on the sci-fi channel. when the “vampires” ran in the woods it looked as if they took a truck, hooked an end of rope to the truck and the other end to edward and cheesed it up hill and edward just flailed his legs aimlessly. lolz.
even worse was. they weren’t vampires lolz. they were just teenagers with raging hormones. i mean. the only thing about them different from them was their shiny skin. lol….and they all lived together out in the woods in some home. its almost like a freakin leper colony! so my conclusion. they aren’t vampires. they just have a strange skin condition and are teenagers with raging hormones.
the love scenes in the movie where they just stared at eachother…gag. corny.
worst part of the movie though. not edward or the rest of the cullens (they actually added a little life/character to the movie believe it or not). it was belle. lolz. i can’t believe the actress playing her. i watched her in the movie speak. some lifetime special about some depressed chick who got raped. she was the perfect actress for the role in that movie. played it very well. but this movie. omg. she needs to quit acting now. her reactions are so….bland. emotionless almost. it was like in the whole movie, she was being forced to act the part or something. like she didn’t wanna do it. lolz.
for those of you who read the book. is the book as bad as i make the movie out to be?? i’m really in for some disappointment aren’t i?
Dude, you totally get me. What’s worse is that all my friends are like, “OMG!! I LOVE EDWARD!!!” and hate me for thinking the books are awful…
I’d just like to add that even though I was annoyed at every single character, I did really like Alice. She just had this charm that made me happy-filled.
I have to say I agree completely with you. All of my friends were like, “READ IT! YOU HAVE TO!” I’m on page 269 and I can’t go any further (this is the first book).
I’m a fan of Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer series. Buffy, the vampire slayer, is a lead female character who is assertive, intelligent, and confident in herself. Sure, she has her flaws and her times, but she’s always learning and doesn’t oggle men in the series. I feel that Bella is always oggling and waiting for Edwards every move.
I don’t sit well with the stereotypical weak, insecure, “gorgeous girl who doesn’t know her real beauty” characters that writers like Stephanie are writing these days. It’s pretty pathetic.
Oh, and thanks for mentioning the borderline abusive part of Edward. I’m a women’s studies major, and I’ve picked up on some pretty bad issues of temper and patronizing (and I’m only on 269). I’ve heard she refers to have his baby even though it will risk her life? what??!
I meant to say above…
I’ve heard she insists (and he insists) on having his baby even though it will risk her life? what??!
Ah…the female role models for the Sarah Palin generation I assume.
lolz. yea. i’m not big into the whole women’s rights thing. i agree they should have every right that any dude should have and stuff like that. but this book. i dunno…exaggerates the whole damsel in distress thing too much. and its way too emo. lolz….the movie made me wanna slit my wrists for realz
down the street not a crossed the road.
i love you for posting this.
reading this blog entry has greater sense than reading the book series itself.
hahaha…
Twilight is dangerous. Not only does Bella Swan (the name alone, geesh) spend the entire first book talking about how she’s not good enough for her perfect, god-like Edward, she has absolutely no interests except for him. The only other thing she does (outside of school) is cook and clean. She takes care of all the men in her life. She puts all the men before her.
Her whole goal in life is to become a vampire so she can be with Edward forever. She is willing to give up her family, friends, and her humanity, for him.
I forced myself to read all the books (and the writing is so bad that it was absolute torture) because my goddaughters are reading them, and after reading the first one I had to be sure someone was there to talk sense to them. Here are just a few of the more annoying parts of the Twilight series:
The second book: Edward leaves Bella for her own good. She lays down in the woods to die – literally. She curls up in a ball and goes comatose. Then there are blank pages. Four months of blank pages where she simply can’t cope. She is uninterested in her friends, school, her family. She can’t function, until… she starts hanging out with another guy – Jacob. Then she begins engaging in risky behavior just to try and hear Edward’s voice in her head.
Bella does insist on having Edward’s baby even though she almost dies. But is that really a suprirse? She’s ready to die for Edward throughout the entire series. Her life is worth nothing without him. It’s extremely gross.
The whole werewolf imprinting thing is really messed up. A wolf sees a woman and decides that she is his soul mate. It doesn’t matter how old she is, in fact two of the wolves imprint on babies. The girl has no choice. The wolf decides she’s the one when she’s born and she’s stuck with it. It’s like a supernatural arranged marriage. Jacob imprints on Bella’s baby and she’s a little annoyed but not once does anyone suggest that maybe, just maybe, she’d like to choose for herself.
I think that it’s dangerous for teenage girls to read books where the female “heroine” has no spine, no sense of self, and no self-respect. Bella is a loser. Edward is creepy. He’s been around for 100 years or so and he wants to date a 17 year old girl because she smells good? Yikes.
You can’t compare Meyers flat, unoriginal, corny writing to JK Rowlings. Hermione Granger was smart, she didn’t take any crap, she fought with the boys for a cause that was larger than herself. She is a good role model. Bella is so pathetic she makes me want to cry.
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Twilight definately sucks. Seriously, it’s horrible, or at least it should be for anyone over the age of 12.
It’s a very basic book. Basic characters, basic theme, basic vocabulary, basic writing all around…probably written at the grade 4 or 5 level I’d say. Anyone who loves this book must not be a reader because there is really nothing to appreciate in this novel. Is this the first book the kids of the teen generation have ever picked up? Someone must have been paid to brainwash these kids in to believing that it’s the best book ever?
What is this world coming to?
yea i actually tried to follow through with what i said. i tried to read it. i really did. my buddy told me it was an amazing read and the movie didn’t do it any justice. i literally had to stop reading. i was getting so angry reading it. the movie did it justice alright. crappy book. crappy movie. i couldn’t even finish. the funny thing is. i get to hang out with people who love the story. and i don’t care what i say on the subject of twilight in front of these people. they make mean faces and its great. what’s even worse, is everything about the book being dangerous as mentioned above, seems to be true because the majority of people i know who are twilight fanatics end up being the lonely girls with no boyfriends or anything. or girls that try to fit in. its quite sad. i really wish i was a jerk and didn’t care so i could say “your edward does not exist” lolz.
I’m of an opinion that NOTHING separates this book from typical half-baked vampire-love-story fanfiction. There are actually several elements in this book that make it less intelegently written. For one, stephanie meyer went with an existing already well established genre (vampire love….dracula anyone?) and furthermore destroyed it. Hmmm… I think anyone who has heard the word vampire before twilight associated it with nasty, cold, undead beings, devoid of emotion (they do NOT sparkle in the sun) who’s only desire was draining humans of their blood. If Stephanie Meyer wanted to differentiate from this archetype, fine. But AT LEAST give us a little more in-depth explanation and development (something she seems ever more incapable of accomplishing). I’m sorry, but anyone who loves twilight probably agrees with the heroines common themes. She is a shallow, mostly emotionless character who is submissive in almost every way to her various lovers (and there are several). Edward is domineering and masterful and does whatever he pleases to bella (including controlling every aspect of her life) which she doesn’t care about at all. Basicly, this was written by a Mormon who personifies her ideal girl within these books: plain (like her) submissive (mormonism again) and perfect in almost every way except being unaware of how boy in school is falling for her. Harry potter was good, we experienced a well developed cast of characters with rich descriptions and an ever-changing plot. Twilight, unfortunately, shares none of this and will fall down the pop-culture pit in a few years.
i have to agree, they really f***** up the movie and books. I heard the book was good from all the tweenies and was convinced to go see it with my mates hoping that it was good considering how everyone was so fussed about the dam thing! The plot line sucked, the vampires sucked, the actors sucked, the effects sucked, the only good thing i could say that was good was the clothing and even that could have been better. But seriously, who writes a book about vampires who don’t grow fangs when they feed on people, vampires that are ‘vegetarians’ and ONLY feed on animals, vampires that sparkle in the fucking sunlight!!! and all the rest. Please just someone please educate this writer on what the fuck a vampire is. To all the rest of you people who hate twilight, thank god some people actually still have brains. k im done
I agree with you. I don’t like twilight (not just twilight…THE WHOLE SERIES). I dont get it why people like this story. There are a lot more stories better than twilight and I think other people like twilight just because it’s ‘in’ and because robert pattinson was in the movie. Argh I hate it when people talk about twilight. Many people force me to read the book but I will NEVER read it.
I do agree with you but I want to see one scene of the movie: The one where Edward shows his form. I really want to know if he really does just sparkle or it’s something else that has been exaggerated by the online community. And also I wanna see the scene where he’s driving and she talks. I do because I want to see their lips. If Edward’s are darker/redder than Bella’s I’m going to instantly say this is stupid.
i agree with you… im not a big reader so i did not read the books.. but i did see the movie.. i so much liked it but i would not go see it again… lol… and the whole vampire falls in love with teenage girl is getting kind of old… change the story please…. make it interesting too.. make a vampire that falls in love with a fat midget who is also a man…. and the vampire as to be gay odviously…. and he has to be rascist(no offence) and sexcist (no offence)p.s. im not gay… im just a little boy that likes humour…. lol
To be honest, I have to disagree with most of the posts here. I started reading the series before I knew of the popularity or any movie, and it was okay. Not the best I have read, but not utterly terrible. But I do have to admit that the Edward – Bella – Bella – Edward thing gets old. My favourite book, was the first one, As it doesn’t drag as much as the others, but unlike other dubbed “Twilighters”, I quite enjoyed New Moon. If you havn’t read the series, you would not be aware that in New Moon Edward leaves Bella, as he thinks it would be good for her. Apart from the fact she basically turned into a Zombie, Her and Jacob’s relationship would of been much better than hers and Edwards, in my eyes. Also, in Eclipse, they go into each of the Cullen/Hale’s backgrounds, and that made me quite not like Edward, I like Jasper more [ slightly for lashing out at Bella, literally ]. Edward is the type, who is just a lonely saddo who just waits for a tasty-smelling human girl to come along, so he can be the over-protective boyfriend. Jasper actully did something in his “life before Carlisle”, and then finding Alice, my favourite character. Also, you have covered the Harry Potter/ Twilight issue, and all i can say that it’s stupid. Harry Potter is pure genious, way out of Twilight’s league. Oh, and the movie was rubbish. The best part was the small part when they forgot about Bella and played Baseball. Love Muse. So, that’s my point of view, not from a screaming fan girl, but from a reader.
i had friends who read this book. they loved it. this was right before breaking dawn came out. so i basically had nothing to do. the camp i went to ended and i sat bored at home. i forced my mom to buy it for me. i read twilight and frankly, i was pretty frickin annoyed. yes im 14 and was annoyed. not all tweens or teens LOVE the book. but since i read twilight i was hungry for more information on what wud happen to bella and edwards relationship. after reading new moon, eclipse, and breaking dawn, i was in love with the books, despite it being poorly written. i fell for this crap. but soon after i fell in love commercials for twilight the movie came out. all these crazy fan girls, who knew nothing bout the book were somehow in love with edward. slowly twilight began to turn me off. and soon i began to hate it. the movie was horrible. i cudve made a better movie. wtf was that sparkling. it looked like he put glitter on. while reading twilight i began to see that in some ways edward is a potential abusive boyfriend. and seriously to through away ure parents so carelessly? where did her morals go? if midnight sun comes out which it will because stephanie meyers will make money i will read it. i read about 250 pages of it on stephanie meyers website and i fell into my old ways and liked it.
Twilight haters unite! Hahaha. TWILIGHT SHOULD NOT EVEN BE CONSIDERED LITERATURE. Sacre bleu. Why does Meyer even have fans???
TWILIGHT SUCKS. What is it about some emo looking kid who is a fake vampire who doesn’t suck blood or whatever, and falls for some mortal chick who risks her life to be with him? Sounds like some 6 year old made that plot. Sorry but this whole fad is crap and the movie looks retarded. Like some teen drama episode like Gossip Girl or Gilmore Girls but darker and with vampires. Piece of crap book/movie.
WOW, haters have got it all wrong. The book of Twilight is the 1# best seller and im sure the movie is doing terrific too. Haters of Twilight realllyyyyy suck. Honestly,it is without a doubt the best movie i have ever seen.ever. And that doesnt mean that im a low person who has nothing else to do. It means we have class and good taste.!
Heyyy!! i Read Twilight and fell A-b-s-o-l-u-t-e-l-y in love with it! It was right about the most addictive thing, i have ever read in my life! i think it was really awsome but ofcourse some people have there opinon , well, heres mine!
-demiiiiiiiiii 🙂
Throws Shakespeare off the map?
You disgust me. I hope you go and get 800 paper cuts from your Eclipse.
Twilight can go die.
I’m so glad there’s one sensible person in the world. I absolutely hated Twilight, and nobody ever believes me – like you, they think that I’m just saying it to be different or whatever. No. It just sucks.
Please, don’t waver! Twilight is NOT the best piece of fictional literature to grace us with it’s presence. PLEASE! I felt like I had totally wasted my time after reading it.
I was a sap, too. “Maybe it’ll get better in the next book.”
FAILED. It didn’t, in fact it got progressively worse for each book.
To be honest, the only part I truly enjoyed reading was when Edward left Bella and everybody was miserable. Talk about morbid. That’s the only part I derived enjoyment from? That’s kind of sad, don’t you think?
To the commenter mini: please read something a little bit more tasteful (not a pun). Like, say for example….”Lord of the Rings.” Oh, you want vampires? “Dracula.”
Anyone who frickin compares Smeyer to Shakespeare is absolutely pathetic. Shakespeare is the King of Literature. No one can possibly beat him in writing. -_-;;
And WHO COMPARES TWILIGHT TO HARRY POTTER?! I consider that an insult.
While overall, I find Twilight okay because mainly I skip the boring parts and read the funny parts (which is like 50 pages), but still, I mean, it’s got the worst characters ever. I love the Cullens (excluding Edward) I can even stand Rosalie, although she’s a complete bitch. I can understand her. I love Alice and Emmett and Jacob, they’re the only FUN characters there. =D
prediction came true.
the movie totally sucks. Seriously! I mean just look at Edward!i hate his hair style and his chin. they could totally have found someone better, and even a friend of my (who is a twilight fan) agreed with me. She said it just washes you illusion of the ‘perfect edward’ away. if you have any.
what’s more is that some annoying girls from my class keeps on yelling ‘edward is sooo hot!!!’ to scare people. Yeah it sure scares me! then they spend the whole music lesson search on the internet for pictures of him, which was NOT what you are suppose to do in music class.
Guys in my school are beginning to complain as well. just imagine you girlfriend comparing you to eward (or you boyfriend comparing you to bella, etc.) I am a girl but can understand how they feel.
But I don’t think the books are that bad…I simply loved the first and third book, it was so addicting to read them. =) I was just angry for comparing SM to Shakespeare T_T.
Did somebody seriously just compare Twilight to Shakespeare? Wow, I think I’ve exposed myself to enough internet for the day. 😐
I’ve been sick in bed for the last 2 days and finally got bored enough to pick up the copy of Twilight that’s been beside my bed. I impulse bought it a while ago, and I nearly bought all 4 books, but I am so glad I didn’t. I don’t know why I’m soldiering through the book, I guess so I can mock it appropriately.
BTW, I found you by googling “I hate Twilight”
I’ve read excerpts. Horrible prose. Flat, lifeless language. There isn’t any poetry to it. Just the very base description of something.
I mean… look:
The girl was a wreck. She halfheartedly brushed back her dark, matted locks, wishing it wasn’t so grimy from the trip. Her pale reflection mocked her relentlessly, and she turned away. < Something based of a sentence in the first book
or
I brushed my damp hair back from my face. I was more pallid than normal, and I felt ugly. < My approximation of said sentence
Absolute swill.
lol okay. well I read the books like a few years ago and thought they were good before all teen girls were obsessed with them. now i agree with what you are saying. However I think the intensity of my hate for twilight has been with how many teen girls swoon over it. It’s pathetic. I thought twilight was a good book but now it’s just a marketing piece of trash. The movie was even more disapointing and more shallow. Seriously people there are better books out there read them!
Thank you! My friends turned into “Because of Edward Cullen I’m staying single till I meet a vampire!” And I have seen little kids in love with twilight….It’s sick! If I could I would burn all the twilight books in the word, kill Rob P. and be happy for doing it. People always get freaked out at me. I lost my best friend and my other best friend is starting it. Know who ever claims to “Love” Edward I have the right to call emo loving guyliner freaks! Come on! Guys who sparkle are G-A-Y!!!! I say get rid of twilight now or it may cause you to go crazy or goth when they find out Rob is dead!!! PS Thanks all you guys who hate twilight and all those other books as much as me! I have proof to show the girls at school!
Oh, and I haven’t read twilight but it’s like I did since my x-best friend told me all about it
salvation! i googled ‘i hate twilight’ and your post was exactly what i needed! people should know that the book is pure trash with no depth, full of undeveloped characters and superficiality.
You are so right! Twilight SUCKS big time! I used to like the books until all these obsessed moronic girls would not stop talking about it! It irates me!
There’s someone who feels the same way?! I love you (though this has already been said by everyone else here).
And you addressed what I really HATE. I’m a novelist and description is my first and foremost favorite tool, whether it’s imagery or emotional, it’s what drives a book. I read the first Twilight and I didn’t… get it. It’s terribly written, I hated the characters, and there’s a chapter for DRESS SHOPPING. Where’s the plot? Why do they sparkle? WHY DO THEY PLAY BASEBALL?
Anyways, back to what I hate: when they get mad at me for not liking it. They tell me I must not be a decent writer, which is greatly insulting, because I can’t “appreciate” such a wonderful book…
Anyways, I’ll leave to puzzle over why the fuck girls are so crazy over a 2-D douche with no fascinating qualities…
Very, very true. If Meyer was not allowed to indulge in how gorgeous and perfect all the “men” are in this book, the books would be about 50 pages long. I have a million reasons why I hate Twilight but I won’t bore everybody here.
The fans are the one thing that I hate more than the book itself.
I hated Twilght BEFORE it got uber-popular. Yeah, it’s that bad. They’re all like : “OMGZZZ UR JUST S00000 JELOUS!!!!!!”
or “B3LLA IS MOAR BETTAR TH4N YUU!!!!”
First off,I can write better than Meyer or the ones who acuse me of being jealous (They usually write really, really crappy fanfic of them and Edward.). Second, I couldn’t give a darn about Bella. Okay if you really want an abusive stalker controlling your life, or if you’re as accident-prone as an elephant walking a tightrope.
Why would anybody want Edward as a bf/husband? He’s a 117 year old virgin!!!!! What kind of girl would NOT think he’s a total loser when he talks about himself?
And don’t forget the book reasons, which I can’t say in one sitting.
Other than that great job on the blog. Well written and educated.
You’re quite the trooper for having read more than I could of the crap series that is Twilight. I couldn’t even get past the first paragraph—it was simply that terrible, and not in the “awesome” way. Though what little I read, I would have to disagree about the book lacking descriptions; it was choked full with them but all of it was superfluous. That and poorly written.
I’ve read better fan fictions.
Hello I’m Fran and I’ve read the twilight saga. I needed to tell someone. its embarrassing to have read the twilight saga, all four, to think what i could have done with that time, such as watching paint dry, surf the net for photos of ghost , used my gym membership(okay thats never going to happen but i could have used the time to think about going to the gym) and any of the above would have been less degrading ( expect maybe going to the gym).I know, i could have put it down walked away but it started off out of curiosity, i could quit anytime i wanted , just a read a bit, what was all the fuss, and then before i could say edward cullen is perfect i was buying new moon.For GODS SAKE I’M AN ADULT! sneaking it up to the cashier praying no one would see me, secretly reading chapters. But why am i writing here? I sound like a fan but no, no. I was addicted to finding out how bad the books were going to go, reading the exchange between edward and bell would cause me to laugh out loud, hearing his voice in her head , well i nearly had to change my pants! but now that thrill has passed its no longer funny, no fun at all, all that’s left is deep shame. i tell myself thats why i read the books but to be honest i think i had a problem. i was addicted to finishing them. i took a break from reading for awhile after. I recently read a sweet valley high book, elizabeth kidnapped!i think i’m going to be okay. books like twilight should come with a warning.I don’t even know who i am anymore, i used to be able to put down a bad book, but now, i can’t trust myself. Twilight sucks!
Okay, you might guess that from my name I love twilight. NO!
I was actually starting to think that teenage girls have no sense of reality and fiction … honestly. What’s all the Twilight craze? It’s totally unrealistic…I just don’t get it.
All right, perhaps a little Twilight might be nice, but when you overdo stuff and things become out of hand…..well, that’s when I start hating stuff.
And it’s a really poorly written book as well. It’s just plain fantasy and romance stuff and it will NEVER be a classic. I personally don’t believe that anyone is perfect – the author simply made Edward ‘inperfect’ by making hima vampire…….which is exactly out of question because everyone now wants to be a vampire….
Which is totally unrealistic.
I agree with you. Twilight. Sucks.
It is an insult to vampire stories.
Awesome…
I’m not going to rant or rage at you, just explain a different point of view.
I understand that the Twilight books have their flaws, and it’s quite understandable that you hate the book because of them but some people love the books for the underlying messages and themes. The people who like the books (at least me) like the books not for the characters (which yes, are stereotypical) or the plot (which could be stronger and link better) but for the romance and the love. I may just be a romantic person, but the idea that even if things are stacked against the odds you can still fall in love and have something special appeals to me.
I mean, come on, most relationships that focus on people around Bella’s age (16-18 years old) in reality DON’T work out. It’s nice to believe that maybe we could have something special as young as we are. That’s one of the biggest reasons why I like the books – because it lets me hope and believe and carry on being optimistic. It’s nice to get away from reality and give in to fantasy, no matter how flawed the said fantasy may be.
About the characters… well, we like the perfect characters because they’re perfect. Edward (apart from the little controlling issue) is a gentleman, and it’s hard to find those kind of guys. Bella is someone who people like and want to be around – she’s popular, and as much as I hate to admit it, for teenage girls, popularity usually seems to be high on a priority list. And Jacob – okay, that guy is real as and I love him to bits and pieces.
I totally respect the fact that you don’t like the books, but there’s just another point of view so you could perhaps see why some people do like the books so much. I like them because they’re an escape from reality which can be harsh and unforgiving. Twilight is like a fairy tale, except for once the female can actually do more than swoon… although it takes a while for Bella to stop swooning and start acting. Meh. What can you do?
If you read this, thanks. If not, well, sayonara!
Okay, first of all, I love everyone here, you all deserve a great big hug (except for the occasional twihard).
Anyway… I just want to say… whatever happened to the very wise saying, “nobody is perfect” and “it’s what’s on the inside that counts”??? Even the movie, 300 (in all its disturbingly brutal glory) had a good value. But Twilight? What are you supposed to learn? If you can’t find a sickeningly perfect vampire to love you, don’t find anyone at all? Please…
And Stephenie Meyer basically destroyed the wonders of REAL VAMPIRES. Like vampires in True Blood, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Buffy the Vampire Slayer… I mean, “sparkling in the sun”? They’re supposed to MELT IN THE SUN!
Plus the fact that people are comparing this piece of overrated crap to J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter (which is a piece of pure genius). It’s an insult! To JKR!
And Robert Pattinson? He’s not even CUTE! Let alone drop dead gorgeous! He’s got greasy hair (it doesn’t even seem like he washes it at all), he hates to shave, and he’s got beer belly. What’s attractive in THAT?
All right. Vent over.
I believe you have a great point and i totlly agrre with you. Good literature isnt defined by what the characters looks like, but what makes them seem closer to reality or based on reality. I trully hate the book nad one of the reasons that i think it is so popular because it is written by bellas point of view which makes the readers feel the stupid feeling and becuase of the sexual tension between edward and bellas. Since they cant be together everyone wants them together.
it is also very unoriginal and there is NO TRUE PLOT!
why dont all of you people that are going against her give her a break? she is just stating her opinion like i will right now
I dont like twilight
i have read almost all of her blogs about twilight along with the twilight series and the movie and i dont really know what to say besides if you thinks shes just trying to be different, how do you know you are not trying to be different by liking twilight?
The reason why Twilight-likers get so mad over people not liking Twilight is because it’s sort of become a pop-culture NOT liking it. Not liking Twilight is getting equally mainstream as liking it. Me, I’m currently reading the second book, and I can’t say that it’s the best book I’ve ever read, but it was exciting at times, and it gets bad in no. two I think. I’ve not come far though, so I can’t really make my opinion yet, but it’s almost so that I don’t want to not like it, just because it’s so mainstream doing just that, and I don’t want to be identified with people bringing up Twilight, just so they can step on something many people actually like. I don’t care for the extreme fangirls/boys either though. Freedom of speech is a human right, but so is living without fear of harassment. I respect opinions, but the people who step on the people liking Twilight should respect opinions too.
Lol I’m doing a presentation in my computer apps class on Why Twilight Sucks and I hope I can use this as a pwnage reference. Lol btw a gr8 website is twilightsucks dot com
If you hate the books soo much, why did you bother continue reading the other books after the first one?
Did you not read what I wrote? I thought it was a good concept, and I was hoping it would be better. Similar to how the first Harry Potter novel isn’t that great (took me nearly a year to read), but I definitely enjoyed the rest of them.
I agree with you.
But you forgot something. Edward ain’t borderline abusive, he is EXTREMELY abusive.
Nice blog. 🙂
i liked the books cause your brain turns off while reading but i don’t understand all the hype. i mean, i just… closed the book and went on with my life. seems like some people just can’t do that. lol
LONG LIVE HARRY POTTER
I really hate twilight. The book is boring, the characters (except Jacob) are bland, the writing is bland, the plot is bland, and the female heroin is a stupid damsel. She gives up all her dreams and goals for a vampire who only likes her because of her blood and unreadable mind.
List of reasons why Edward isn’t a vampire: he doesn’t die from light (or anything for that matter), he reads minds, he impregnated Bella even though vampire’s body fluids are venom, he’s not pale white, he has little bloodlust, vampires don’t kiss they bite, vampires are supposed to be near uncontrollable at full moon (almost like werewolves), and the list goes on.
The worst part is I’m a guy, and at my school if you hate Twilight then all the girls hate you. To people who think it’s better then Harry Potter, they obviously have poor taste in literature. I’m not saying you have to like Harry Potter, I’m saying no matter what it’s better.
I read the first book, threw it down half way and now can’t be bribed to read anymore. My friends are all ‘HOW COULD YOU HATE IT?!’ Simple, it’s a load of bull that irritates me. I bow down to whoever can actually read the rubbish and live to tell the tale.
And may I add anyone who compares this to Harry Potter should have their brains checked. Harry Potter has an actual plot, which is more then twilight can say, and half decent characters.
I nearly cried when some people compared Twilight to The Lord of the Rings T_T
An epic high fantasy novel which took a decade to write during a war…created an entire new language…created a different world…won several relevant awards…considered a classic…set an entire genre for literature…
Against a cheap, poorly written Vampire Romance novel with a vocab of about 150 words that gives us the idea that chauvinism is cute and whining about every little thing is okay… with shallow, two dimensional characters to top it off…
Hmmm, I wonder which one I should choose?
I DON’T FUCKING GET IT! I’m in the middle of learning about shakespeare. i’ve read all the twilight books. i’m not a native english speaker, meaning that i didnt “grew up” with shakespeares works and didnt read them until two years ago. and i can tell you one thing: DON’T COMPARE THEM! how can you compare twilight – honestly!!- and shakespeare??!?!?! thats the MOST stupid thing to do. shakespeare has, after all one thing meyer has not: a message. it may be hard to find and you may be have to start using your brain, but if you do you will find SO MUCH in his works. he understood and wrote about things that were seen 100 years after his death. he was great. he knew how to write. and if you knew just a little bit about his work you would know that at his time his works were enjoyes not only by “upper class” people but also by those with nearly no money. he knew how to entertain everybody, put a deeper meaning to his works, critize things and still have a clear structured plot. and all that with rhyming! and you go on comparing shakespeare with freaking twilight?! i mean – hello??? twilight it nothing – absolutely NOTHING – in comparison to even one sentence of shakespeares works. or do you think it could ever be as popular as “be or not to be”? no way! and it won’t last 100 years and more! it will be vanished from sight as soon as the teeniegirls grow up and are too ashamed of admitting that they read that crap when they were young.
*still angry about that ignorance*
I read Twilight.
Not because I think it has any real plot….
Not because I aBsOlUtElY <3333333333 EDWARD!!!!!
I read it for laughs. I think it's hilarious how Edward is like "I'm 108 years old and I like to watch you sleep. (translation: I'm a pedo!)" and then Bella is like "I still love you! I don't care that your a pedo! I mean, a vampire!"
Edward goes out into the sun… "See what I really am?"
Bella's eyes get huge…. "PRETTY PRETTY SHINY SHINY…"
Though I do agree with you on Jacob. He rocks because he's a furry… errm, because like you said, he's real and likeable. And it's kind of scary when I hear MARRIED WOMEN ranting about Edward. I personally prefer body heat and huggability over cold and rock-like body.
You rock for disliking Twilight. I read it because it's just too funny to resist and then make fun of it in front of fangirls.
Bookmarked your website. Thank you for sharing. Definitely worth the time away from my workload.
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As someone who enjoyed twilight , I agree with this post. I liked the premise but there ARE flaws with the series (such as Bella being whiny , Edward being creepy Jacob becoming a pedophile in breaking dawn :P). I don’t care for Stephenie Meyer’s writing style TBH. I liked the series but I wish it had been written by an author who could do it justice.
The comparison to wuthering heights? Come on. Wuthering heights is a FAR superior novel in contrast to twilight. I bookmarked your BTW 😉
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