Comments on: Twilight Book Review

By: Hanh

Hanh — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 02:35:52 +0000

Simone, though it’s true that people who never touched books unless they had to for school are suddenly now reading because of Twilight, keep in mind that these people are ONLY reading Twilight. They SAY they read all the time now but what they’re really doing is rereading the Twilight books over and over and over again. They never branch out, therefore, they’ll never learn or develop in anyway.

By: Emma Tarlishman

Emma Tarlishman — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:35:25 +0000

Well done you!

wait til you get further into the series – they just keep getting better and better!
unlike a certain young adult vampire romance novel we all know

this link is hilarious – read it.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:17:34 +0000

You’ve admitted the main shortcoming of the book already. It could never happen. What some seem to call “love” is better defined as “lust.” Love at first sight does not happen, and it never will. Even in Romeo and Juliet.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:13:21 +0000

The biggest problem with that? You’re blatant stereotyping of girls.

Not only do not all girls feel such pain and agony in their lives, but the one that do should probably grow up. I myself will willingly admit that I have no true idea as to the meaning of those words. Any teenaged who claims to know pain and agony is, with a few exceptions here and there, lying. Relationships are but “the fripperies of man’s soul,” and not the true source of vitality in life.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:04:02 +0000

Well thats good. Saves you the torture of reading through the rest of it ^^

By: SilverDemon

SilverDemon — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:01:11 +0000

Edward did try to comit suicide in the end, and as Bella was running to save him, she said she wasn’t going to leave there alive if Edward died. She was trying to think of ways to kill herself before Alice could drag her back home.

By: Jonathon

Jonathon — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:46:05 +0000

I forgot to mention — Thank you for the spoilers in the final book of the series. Don’t let any snide comments about giving away plot points of the books get you down. Your review has saved me (and anyone else who finds your review) from having to plod through any more dull books in this series to know the conclusion of Meyer’s story. Here’s a happy ending: after finishing Twilight, I moved onto the Harry Potter series, again to learn why the series was so wildly popular. Last night I finished Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. I’m finding these books to be much, much more enjoyable. :)

By: Jonathon

Jonathon — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:37:23 +0000

Christina,

Thank you for this reveiw of Twilight. I myself have just recently finished listening to the audio version of this book (the first one in the series) because I was curious about its popularity. I was expecting either to be imildly mpressed with the gunuine quality of the book or to laugh myself silly at how abysmal it would be. To my great dissapointment, I found the book to be neither a good read nor unintentionally hilarious. As I listened to the narrative, I found myself reviewing the book much the same way a high school English teacher would review a creative writing assignment from a student. The sentence structure was noticably dull and repetitive.

The only favorable trait Edward seems to exibit is his stunning good looks. Time and time again Bella comments on his unearthly beauty. Meyer, however, does little to give readers a detailed description of even this one quality, falling back on vague comparisons to magazine models. This left me thinking that Bella must be a very, very shallow girl, which did nothing to make me sympathize for her as a character.

Given the undeserved popularity of this series, I went online looking for reviews of this book that didn’t gush with fan-based bias. Yours was the first I came across and II was glad to read it. Your views match my own very closely. I have several Twilight fans among my friends and family and reading your thoughts on the books made me realize I am not as alone in my opinion of the book as I felt. Thank you for that.

By: Christine

Christine — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:44:36 +0000

To Jealous of Edward,
If you’re going to try and argue with your intellectual superiors, at least try and make use of more sophisticated language. But that’s beside the point. I’m just going to guess here… you’re a teenage girl who’s either never had a relationship with a boy (or girl, whichever you prefer, it doesn’t matter) or has only gone out with pathetically shallow boys who can’t differentiate the feeling of love from the sensation of sexual attraction. The fact that you have a limited (at best) understanding of human nature, particularly the nature of the average male led me to this conclusion. Not that I have problems with teenage girls, some of them (myself included) are realtively intelligent and mature. As I was saying, no snesible boy would EVER envy Edward Cullen, because he has no interests or talents and chooses to exist for the sole purpose of “serving” his soul-mate. Men don’t live only to protect, and women don’t exist just so that they can submit to the wills of their chosen mates (even if it is “for their own good”). And by the way, none of Edwards physical characteristics, save his eyes, hair and “rock harndess” are described in the novel, so his “hotness” is all in your tiny little head.
As to your rhetorical question, people who hate Twilight generally wish to find like-minded people on the internet, with whom we can converse about the book’s pathetic attributes.
My appologies if my words were too big for you to comprehend, here’s a translation for you. . .
“Go f*** yourselves Twi-hards, you a**holes are all f****** idiots!”

By: bklepzig

bklepzig — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:52:27 +0000

what is your opinion on jacob?
(not an insult or anything like that!!)