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Has anyone read this, its not something I'd usually read, but I thought I'd give it a go!

Read it-you'll want to devote a whole day or evening!

read em all and loved them - not high brow in any way shape or form, they are total teen pulp fiction and i bloody loved every page of the 4 books

the quileute legend stuff is fascinating

the heroine is a terrifyingly passive and right-wing 'family values' type - read it and see what you think!

I will start reading it then!

Read them and enjoy them but dont expect anything special. Meyer may be a squillionaire since writing them, but they are a purely guilty pleasure--theres no skill in them at all!

I say this as someone who has read and re-read the books a lot, so dont think I dont like them!

Is it just me? i could not get into the first book at all my work mates loved the books and always talk about them.

The last one was dreadful. IMO they started OK (entertaining waste of time) and got worse.

The girls i work with are reading them over and over again why!

I'm 150 pages in and I am totally addicted to Edward. Well worth a read.

I'm reading the last one, just finished all the others.

Good reading, totally compulsive teen angst fiction - but I can't bear how passive Bella is and if any man tried to tell me what to do in the way Edward bosses Bella around I would not be impressed .

oh god. the are braincrack, utter rubbish but you have to read until you're done. I hated Bella with a passion, and didn't think much of Edward, the right wing family values bollocks made me feel queasy, and I found the final denouement of the last book a massive pointless anti-climax. Just horrible. And yet I could not put them down I hated myself.

I am a well documented Twilight Obsessive. I love them. Second one New Moon is the best imvho. They are said not to be very well written but somehow Stephanie Meyer has made millions of people fall in love with a character on paper and for me personally I "saw" all her characters. So she has done something right.

I personally thought it was crap, badly written, boring and repetitive and Bella is the most annoying character ever! But for some strange reason I enjoyed the film (hmm). Much prefer the True Blood books (I'd have Eric over Edward any day of the week!) or Lost Souls by Poppy Z Brite (if vampires are your thing of course )

Oh god, I loved them! I fell in love with Edward when I I read the first book and still love him now! It's so sad!!! I'm 30!!! Though, to my defence, I was pregnant when I read them and had quite a complicated pregnancy, lots of lonely stays in hospital with bleeds, etc, so I guess I was vulnerable...
At least that's my excuse, and I am sticking to it!!
Jen xx

I couldn't put them down (and read them all before my teenage niece!!). Most reviews have slated Breaking Dawn - but I loved it. Each to their own

I loved them too, definitely a guilty pleasure though. I thought they were well written and I loved the twists and turns of the plot but then I am no literary critic.

I watched the film before I read the first book, and really loved the film. The music, the casting, the atmosphere just hit the nail on the head. I just really enjoyed the idea of Edward and thought it was really well acted in the film.

Not too convinced about New Moon either book or film.

Eclipse was definitely my favourite of them all.

I tried the first one and found it trite and extremely dull. It's a long litany of cliches. In a word, crap!

I've just finished the third book, but now have to wait to borrow the last one (several colleagues all reading them one by one - only one set of books between us!).

I completely agree that the writing is pretty awful and the characters rather two-dimensional, but somehow they have sucked me in anyway! I do like Edward and feel sorry for him as he is such a worrier, although I'm sure he'd be intensely irritating in real life! Bella is so clueless all the time it is rather annoying, but hey ho. I found I liked Edward much more after reading Stephenie Meyer's rough draft of Midnight Sun (available on her website) - it gave me a better insight into his way of thinking, which made me sympathise with his point of view much more than I had been up to that point.

The writing is poor and the characters badly drawn, but all the same I am still impatient to get my hands on the fourth book! It is quite embarrassing to be this obsessive - DH has been laughing at me for several days now for having such a one-track mind! I feel like it should not have sucked me in so easily what with me being nearer 30 than 20, but evidently that doesn't count for much!

Is it worth watching the film? I suspect it could be really dreadful, but perhaps my soft spot for Robert Pattinson would help to alleviate that!

Worst. Book. Ever.

A disgrace to literature.

The only way this could be book of the month is if nothing else was released in said month.

It still wouldn't be book of the month.

Im now hooked on the Twighlight series and I am totally 'seeing' all the characters and I get totally absorbed. I read on my iphone with ibook store which makes it so simple to read all night in bed if i want so its become my obsession to finish the series! I would recommend these books as an escape from 'normal' life Just my opinion, not a saddo just a mum to 4 crazy kids

Read the first one, to see what DD was reading. I'm obviously in the minority here, but I thought it was a waste of a few hours of my life.

It had no pace, no plot, no characterisation. I'm happy to read trashy books, but they've got to have some kind of spark, and to me, this had none.