Bookmark: A BOOK PAN. Fans of Twilight, do NOT proceed.

[elfie_elfie]

Twilight Fans do not want to read this note. Stop now.

I rolled my eyes when the Twilight craze hit mainstream news. It was "Buffy and Angel" all over again, to me. A couple of people I respect very much in my writers' group persuaded me to read more than a few pages selected at random in various parts of the book before I condemned it.

Comments

[krysanya]

Ah ha!

Good to know, about the book that is...I've been avoiding it, and now shall continue to do so. I was never a Buffy or Angel fan, and my last boyfriend was OBSESSED and HAD to go the get dvd's the night the were released. I snicker at them at Wal*Mart being under 20 dollars now knowing he paid 60+ for each season when they were first released.

I hope your test shows something helpful!

[heatherlayne_n]

400 pages to get to the ONE GOOD BIT?

You are not alone. This is exactly what I thought when I MADE myself finish reading it, too! *Disgusted-at-self-and-book-shudder*

The baseball game is where it started to get sort of interesting for me. And the whole chase thing was kind of good, and the end fight was cool. And then, yes, more whining, and no satisfying conclusion. (I know there are three more books, but the first one didn't even feel like it had an ending.) I do not understand the appeal of these books to anyone that is not female and fourteen years old! The writing is mediocre at best, the characters are whiny and one-demensional, and the Edward/Bella thing is more stalker/stalkee to me than boyfriend/girlfriend, and especially not soulmate/soulmate. (Although, and I hate to admit it, I would've eaten this up when I was fourteen. And yeah, I was into Buffy then, too. I agree that the Joss Whedon-ness did a lot for that show, which could have otherwise been really icky

[elfie_elfie]

Don't bother reading the other three books... unless you like cheese and camp. The copy I got from the writers' group buddy had the first chapter of New Moon included at the back... and that had a fantastic campy scene with Bella growling about how everyone was ignoring her wishes to have her birthday ignored (oh, PLEASE, who EVER whined about their birthday and wasn't secretly pleased to see everyone had done something really nice? Thou dost protest too much!), and she goes to the Vampires' house to unwrap her birthday presents and gets a paper cut. I instantly flashed to the scene in... FINDING NEMO, where Bruce smells Dory's bloody nose, and the other two sharks shriek: "INTERVENTION!" And then she crashes into something sharp, and gets a bigger wound that DRIPS blood, and they ALL go into a frenzy. It kind of makes me want to know how Bella handles her time of month around Edward.

[kaleetha]

If you want me to ruin the rest of the series for you, I will. Just let me know.

I hated the whole stupid series. The fourth book is the only one that was even remotely good, and that was remotely, because by then Meyer manged to move past the long monologues in Bella's head about how "god like/model like/whatever like" Edward was looking at that particular moment. :P And I only finished the series because I was interested in finding out what happens to Jacob. And I didn't have to buy the books. And because at the time I was moving and had nothing better to do and it was avoidance behavior.

And frankly, NeverEnding Story I (I know you said II, I've never seen it) and Dragonheart II were both far more interesting than Twilight the book. :P (I don't care for NeverEnding story so much though.) Haven't seen the movie, but since the book is so vapid it probably does translate well to the movie screen.

[elfie_elfie]

Whew... I am so glad I'm not the only one...

[elfie_elfie]

Psst... Is there any mention in the other books about Bella's period, and what that does to Edward? If so, tell me which chapter, and I'll read it in a bookstore.

[kaleetha]

Wow, I don't even remember a reference to it in the first book... I might have read right over it. I don't remember another reference to it later on. He gets pretty annoyed when she gets pregnant though. :P And the whole actual carnal relation bit in book 4 has essentially the same passive aggressive behavior that you were talking about above. He's a freaking vampire! He's supposed to be all controlled and everything... what else is being around for 100 years good for?