I borrowed this book from my sister and I have no direct need to own it, and yet... I know this is sort of pathetic, but I couldn't dislike this book. I've spend at least a year ignoring the hype and being sarcastic about it, but when I finally read it I enjoyed it. It is a bit fluffy and I surely don't think it deserves all the attention it has got, but it's a story that makes you want to read on nonetheless. And at least for a day it made me feel like I was a bit part of this whole world of Edward and Bella. I'm not sure if I'm going to read the sequels yet, but I might. ( )

this book was amazing everyone told me the end was the best but i disagree th beginning was interesting. i has saw the movie first and i still didnt get teh story but once i read the book the movie came to life. my friend dared me to read the book so i turned it into homework and chose it for english. i never liked reading butit only took me 4 days to read it. my favorite part is when bella finds out that edward was watching him sleep and how they took turn asking each other questions each day. the was d=good and even though it looks big its a fast read.

The book Twilight by Stephenie Myers was one of the best books I have read. During the beginning it was a little boring boring but i couldn't put the book down towards the end. The story is about an awkward teen, Bella, falling in love with a vampire, Edward. The couple faces many obstacles that try to end their relationship. The conflict of the story is when another group of vampires come into to town and their leader James attempts to kill Bella. I would recommend this book anybody who likes a romance novel and who doesn't mind reading a 498 page book. ( )

Stephanie Meyer has created a winning formula by injecting the popular mythology of the vampire into the coming age tale of stubborn protagonist Bella Swan. The characters may sometimes seem exaggerated and the style plain, but these characters are enrapturing enough to ensnare the reader into their tale of forbidden love and lurking danger. A light and entertaining read that keeps you hooked until the last page and leaves you hungry for more, of which there is plenty in the subsequent books of the series. ( )

Falling in love with Edward is a fun ride. ( )

Well, I thought it was good..I read it in 2 nights, but not so sure I'll read the rest of the series. Glad to see what all the hype was about, though! ( )

Lisez Anne Rice.

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Reviewed by Hillias J. Martin in
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First of the Twilight series. Quite good, the best of the four.

It was really exciting at the end. ( )

Just to see what all the fuss is about.

What can I say I read it 3 times. Loved it!!!!! ( )

I made the mistake and watched the movie before I read the book. The reason being I never thought I would have to actually read it until I took this class. However, the book is better than the movie. After reading it I can tell that alot of incidents in the movie are just added for dramatic effect.

Bella moves with her father in the gloomy town of Forks so her mother can spend some time wtih her new hubby. While there she falls in love with Edward, a vampire. Even though Edward wants to drink her blood they still seem to make it work, and my prediction is that in the next part of the series that I do plan on reading, Bella will probably become a vampire before the end. Just my prediction. One difference that I noticed is that in the movie they never really said the words "I love you", but in the book the say it several times.

This book is about Bella and she moves to a new town to live with her father. She makes friends including one who is a vampire. She must deal with the challenges and adventures with her new friend, Edward.

This is an AWESOME book about two hearts that were doomed to love each other from the start. One of them holds a deadly and dangerous secret that the other is determined to uncover. When she does, it only causes her to fall even more desperately in love with him. This thrusts her in to danger and leaves her forever changed.

I LOVED this book. I saw the movie first and I just hated it. I though it was the stupidest vampire movie I had ever seen (this coming from someone who devoured Ann Rice books and was addicted to Buffy). I had no intention of reading the book. Then I signed up for child lit and saw that it was on the curriculum for the semester and on the list of books required for the class. So I bought it and it sat in the office for weeks. One day i was bored so I picked it up to get a head start on the reading assignment due at the end of the semester. A week and 1/2 later, I finished "Breaking Dawn". It was THAT good.

I thought about how I would integrate this into the curriculum in public schools. I guess I could use it as a modern day Romeo and Juliet. There are a lot of allusions to the Shakespearian play in the book. I could ask the students to draw a parallel between the characters of the play and the book and also point out the contrasts between the two. In my opinion, the love between Bella and Edward is much deeper and less fickle than that which existed between Romeo and Juliet.

I want to tell everyone right off the bat why I read this book. I read this book 1st. Because it was one of two choices offered in my college level Children's Lit. class for review, and 2nd because my daughter (eleven) is gaga over the Twilight series (even though she has never seen ANY of the movies, or read ANY of the books.) So before allowing her to read the book I made it my choice for review and picked it up, already with some bias in my mind, thinking that it would be none other than a sappy pre-teen style romance.

In summery the book is about Bella, who goes to live in rainy, Forks, Washington with her father for the school year. Lonely as she is, she meets STRANGE Edward (of course he is the vampire). He WARNS her away (sorta) but is hopelessly attracted to her and does not stay away. Bella appears to be like a lost puppy without him, unable to survive or even manage on her own. Over half of the book is devoted to character development and then maybe about a fourth of the book is a decent suspense/action adventure with some real plot. I yawned my way through much of the book but found some value to the attention the author gave to fleshing out her characters (I felt like I really knew them). I really wish she could have been a bit more brief.

I thought the messages in this book were VERY unacceptable for teenagers, ESPECIALLY girls! I borrowed some of the bellow references from another (anon.) reader, so I cannot guarantee the page accuracy. I can vouch for the validity of the content presented, so I want to share with you the compare/contrast between Bella (our heroin) and Edward (love interest/villain/hero???)
Bella, Our Heroine:

Pg. 117: I tried to keep up better this time through the woods, so naturally I fell a few times.
Pg. 191: ”I fall down a lot when I run.”
Pg. 210: ”[I’m] so clumsy that I’m almost disabled.”
Pg. 212: ”Are you referring to the fact that you can’t walk across a flat, stable surface without finding something to trip over?”
Pg. 221: I somehow managed to hit myself in the head with my racket…
Pg. 231: The pressure made me more clumsy than usual…
Pg. 284: ”Bella, I’ve already expended a great deal of personal effort at this point to keep you alive.”
Pg. 442: I tripped several times, once falling.
Pg. 485: …I fell down a lot…

Ahh, my friends! my friends, take a gander, take a glimpse now at Edward, simplified:

Pg. 253: He wasn’t smiling at first….He laughed….He chuckled….He laughed again.
Pg. 256: …godlike creature…
Pg. 258: He smiled….He smirked....His smirk grew more pronounced.
Pg. 260: …literally sparkled, like thousands of tiny diamonds were embedded in the surface.
Pg. 285: …he simply bent his face to mine, and brushed his lips slowly along my jaw, from my ear to my chin, back and forth. I trembled.
Pg. 287: The light of the setting orb glittered off his skin in ruby-tinged sparkles.
Pg. 292: …godlike creature……dreamlike in his beauty, but no longer the fantastic sparkling creature of our sunlit afternoon.
Pg. 302: He laughed his quiet, musical laugh. He’s laughed more tonight than I’d ever heard in all the time I’d spent with him.
Pg. 306: I could feel his cool breath on my neck, feel his nose sliding along my jaw, inhaling….He chuckled, and then sighed….He chuckled.
Pg. 333: His smile widened over his brilliant teeth….He smiled.
Pg. 338: He chuckled darkly….He laughed.
Pg. 339: …he sighed….He smiled half a smile….he said, smiling.
Pg. 341: …a gentle angel’s smile lit his expression.
Pg. 344: He shrugged, smiling slightly……his smile faded and his forehead creased……a faint smile touched his lips.
Pg. 345: Then he flashed a wide, wicked smile….he chuckled….he grinned….he just laughed.
Pg. 346: …was still chuckling quietly….was grinning.
Pg. 349: He assured me with a grin….he smiled…he grinned widely.
Pg. 362 His nose drew a line up the skin of my throat to the point of my chin.
Pg. 473: His mouth looked as if it was chiseled from stone.
Pg. 486: He grinned, and then chuckled.

It concerns me deeply that Edward is described as "Godlike". As a middle aged woman I am all too aware of what happens when women/girls start looking at men/boys as little miniature gods! Boy are we/they disappointed, and think of the pressures we put on the men/boys. Anyway obviously this book is a fantasy to I could let SOME of that slide, but STILL, it is rife with sexual tension (don't teens have enough problems with sexual tension without having to be tempted by a BOOK). And lastly, I was very concerned about Edward who is VERY much older than Bella, pretending to be younger than he really is... he stalks her, hunts her and "dazzles" her... Seems very pedophile like and less animalistic/predator, which ultimately nauseated me to the point of choking down the last 100 or so pages!

Having said all of this; the ONLY reason I could fathom that teenage girls (my daughter tells me the boys could care less about this book/movie) would be interested in this book/movie is the BOY/MAN factor.. Which means ultimately that this book has just enough sexual tension to attract teenage girls (and younger) like little magnets. I will call it, ***The Vampire Factor***.
Final thought: I interviewed three girls age 11-15 about Twilight the book and movie. Never once did any of them talk about the story, the feelings, or any particular events or scenes... The entire conversation was "WHO WAS THE CUTEST."

I WOULD NOT CHOOSE THIS BOOK FOR USE IN A CLASSROOM OR FOR ANY REASON ASIDE FROM PRIVATE SELECTION IN A HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY. SO THERE ARE NO EXTENSION ACTIVITIES.

I rest my case. ( )

When I was fourteen years old I was really into the Flowers in the Attic series by Virginia Andrews. This, as far as I can make out, is the modern equivalent. I wanted to find out what all the fuss is about so I tried reading it. Twice.

The second time I made it to the point where Edward stood Bella up at the beach but it was just so... wet. I think Meyer has tapped into her audience beautifully. It's just that I am no longer an innocent teenage girl, so I can't help but be a little sickened by the sap, and worse, by the unhealthy messages: the erotics of abstinence. I think Judy Blume did a much better job of handling teenage female sexuality... back in the nineteen seventies.

Women's lib has regressed. I find that just a little bit sad.

Anyway, I watched the bloody movie, which saved me several hours' reading but bored me to tears in places, especially the bit where Bella declares her love for Edward in the forest while he says over and over how she needs to be careful of him or he 'might lose control' (jizz in his pants, or what?). So I won't bother finishing the book. The language is way too clunky and the frequency of unnecessary adverbs annoys the hell outta me.

I don't think I'll bother with the rest in the series either, now that I know what all the fuss is about. (I think.) ( )

After having heard all the hype about this series and reading the reviews, it made me curious enough to go out and buy Twilight. Since so many people seemed to either love it or hate it, I had to know what it was about this series that was provoking these reactions. So I bought it, but it sat on my shelf for a month or two because I kept thinking that I'd made a mistake, I wouldn't like this book. Well, after finishing a book I'd been reading, I decided that now was the time to read it, and I'm glad that I did finally pick it up.

The story centralizes around the development of the relationship between Bella Swan, a teenage girl who moved to the town of Forks, Washington to live with her father, and Edward Cullen, one of a family of vampires who are living in Forks, passing as humans. I found it amazing that Twilight has almost no real plot, but still the book enthralled me. Nothing really major happens until near the end of the book. This entire book is devoted to development of characters and their relationships with each other. There is not a single author or book I've read that has successfully pulled this off, and still kept my attention. It is one thing after another that keeps you hooked. For me it was, if Edward is a vampire, what is it that makes him different from the normal, run of the mill sort? Then it turned to interest in the way Edward and Bella interacted and how their relationship developed.

While I did greatly enjoy this book, there were a couple of things that bothered me. Edward's mood swings are one thing, and I see this complaint a lot. His mood changes are so abrupt, it made me feel like he was bi-polar. Though I did see the reason behind the sudden mood changes, I think that it could have been written a little better than him laughing one second, and the next he's angry. The other thing that bothered me was how obsessed Bella becomes with Edward. I kept thinking, "I know you love the guy, but come on!" I don't like that type of love that becomes "I can't live without you! Anytime I spend away from you is agony and you're all I can think about!" I mean, don't get me wrong, I love my significant other to death, but I would never consider offing myself should anything happen to him.

Twilight is truly wonderful. I did not put this book down for long while I was reading it, because when I did, I kept thinking about what could possibly happen next, and when imagined what it might be, it made me pick it up again to find out. I am very, very impressed with the character development in this novel, and I fully intended to continue reading the next in the series, New Moon. ( )

Worst book I've ever read. ( )

people say its good ( )

such a good book ( )

i luv this book it is real dtailed an d it gets you hooked into the series it is amazing how good they are. ( )

A story about a girl who leaves Pheonix to live with her dad in Washington state. She meets a vampire named Edward. With lack of better since, she falls in love with him. Edward saves her several times through the story and the end leaves you hanging until the next book. This series of books and movies are very popular with others.
I am aparently to cynical to enjoy it. It reminds me of some action movie were I notice how fake things are or how dumb the charecters are. However, I'm glad to read it so I can stay hip and relate with the kids.
Other lessons could be on different climates relative to the equator. How to kill a vampire is also handy to know, just in case. ( )

Highly sucessful for those seeking a teenage love story with vampires...due to the obvious success of this book series and the movies I guess there are many !