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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Not a terrible book, but also certainly not deserving of the majority of the blithering lauds it's received, either. Even if you haven't seen the movie, you probably already know what it's about, which is part of the problem; the first half of the book is a slow, slogging, interminable run-up to Bella's realization of what we already knew from page one. The second reel isn't much better; after a flash of plot, there's a brief interstate game of cat-and-mouse, an anticlimactic climax, and then...prom?To be fair, there are moments of genuine desire that benefit the otherwise toneless characters with welcome change to their essences. The fact that Edward acts like a dick for the first half, but learns to rein in the monster that he is for the sake of his feelings towards Bella.Meyer seems to be a capable storyteller and an inoffensive writer. But, seriously: Baseball? Sparkly vampires? Prom? (  ) conformer | Feb 9, 2010 |  I wasn't going to get this book, but my sister picked it up for me as a birthday gift, and since I didn't have to put any money into it, I read it. All in one night. I liked the characters and the storyline. I would do anything to play baseball with the Cullens (although they would kick me out for sucking...and being human...drats). I don't get why this took off the way it did though, I have read books that are better then this, that no one seems to know about. But it's still a good book. As you probably know because, like, everyone on the planet has read this book. So much better then the movie though, so if you watched the movie and were like wtf!?! Then read the book, because it's better. (  )1  OodsAteMyDingo | Feb 8, 2010 | This book was good!But the movie is better!!! This book is the best ever. I think if anybody reads this book they will love it. Like I did!!!!I love a good love story this book is a prefect example of that.I read this book faster than any other book. newfieldreads | Feb 8, 2010 | One of my favorite love-story novels. Edward is the best! (  ) hmmiller | Feb 8, 2010 | i cant get enough of the twilight saga i could read them over and over again ( )1 misterg5 | Feb 7, 2010 | 
 [L]et me say to you as a meat-eating, Entourage-watching, sports-loving (OK, I really don't love sports, or actually understand sports) — heterosexual man who can't sit through a single show on Lifetime television, let me loudly proclaim: I, Brad Meltzer, love the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer. I confess, I have joined the legions of the bitten and smitten.  The plot may sound rather comic and camp, but Meyer chooses to play it straight and serious. Vampires or not, what this novel is really about is a fatal attraction to someone or something dangerously different from yourself. The trajectory of the story is such that Bella's behavior and choices grow increasingly more disturbing, with irrevocable, self-destructive consequences. Meyer's debut is a gorgeous, passionate paean to first love with a dark core that's as bracing as a Northern Pacific breeze Starred Review. Grade 9 Up–Headstrong, sun-loving, 17-year-old Bella declines her mom's invitation to move to Florida, and instead reluctantly opts to move to her dad's cabin in the dreary, rainy town of Forks, WA. She becomes intrigued with Edward Cullen, a distant, stylish, and disarmingly handsome senior, who is also a vampire. When he reveals that his specific clan hunts wildlife instead of humans, Bella deduces that she is safe from his blood-sucking instincts and therefore free to fall hopelessly in love with him. The feeling is mutual, and the resulting volatile romance smolders as they attempt to hide Edward's identity from her family and the rest of the school. Meyer adds an eerie new twist to the mismatched, star-crossed lovers theme: predator falls for prey, human falls for vampire. This tension strips away any pretense readers may have about the everyday teen romance novel, and kissing, touching, and talking take on an entirely new meaning when one small mistake could be life-threatening. Bella and Edward's struggle to make their relationship work becomes a struggle for survival, especially when vampires from an outside clan infiltrate the Cullen territory and head straight for her. As a result, the novel's danger-factor skyrockets as the excitement of secret love and hushed affection morphs into a terrifying race to stay alive. Realistic, subtle, succinct, and easy to follow, Twilight will have readers dying to sink their teeth into it.–Hillias J. Martin, New York Public Library
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