Twilight - there is so much wrong with it but why am I itching to buy the second one?

I'm close to the end of the second and have got the third one ready - there is no way I can take a break now!

OK - so I know I got shouted down for saying Edward was actually a very boring parent-friendly perfect boyf dullard...but he's played by the Tri-Wizard loser from Harry Potter?!

No, that's it, sorry. Iridescent skin or not, he's still spotty.

Look away now if you would prefer your Twilight un-mocked...

www.cracked.com/article_16878_if-twilight-was-10-times-shorter-100-times-more-honest.htmltwilight

I read twilight after my stepdaughter said i should (shes 15) i thought it started slow and not the greatest written but was totally hooked on edward and bella.
I found myself grinning like a cheshire cat at points and my dp thinks i have gone mad!

i finished the book after about 3 days just couldnt put it down and then got the second book which i have just finished today i was quite dissapointed with the lack of the "cullens" i found the whole jacob thing dull and was very happy it ended with them back together. Im def camp edward! going out 2mrw to get 3rd book as my sd assures me its better than the 2nd.

An although i dont think its the greatest written i absolutley love the way she describes everthing in great detail, i feel like i know where,when,and what everthing looks like so she obviously has great talent.! will def be reading all the books. Im looking forward to seeing the movie also apparently it is very close to the book which will be good and they are in the making of the 2nd books movie so i will def be following!

I would have one if they weren't so expensive and I am older than you Fleur

Ok, well maybe I would but I would keep it well hidden, only coming out at night .

Oh I wouldn't dare buy it. I am in my thirties fgs, no-one would ever take me seriously again. Just thought your daughter might like to take a look Evenstar.

I think the fact that the love is unconsummated has a lot to do with it, doesn't it? Fleur, I think dh would think I had lost my reason if I bought that!

Thanks for the link Fleur, I think I will have to wait until the prices come down a bit . Obsessed moi? We are all suffering from OCD (Obsessive Cullen Disorder) LOL

Evenstar - blanket here super scrummy Edward

I love it, well all the books actually. I saw the movie first and then got the books. I had a mad rush of remembering the feelings that I used to have as a teenager when you have crush on someone. Been many, many years since I felt like that and I think that is what makes it so addictive.

The writing itself is not great but somehow she really makes you "see" her characters even the places in the book. I am obsessed, I admit it.

Hi, Evenstar you seem nearly as obsessed with Twilight as me.

English lit grad too! And i think i am just accepting the writing too as I just really want to know what happens. Yes, it takes you back to a time where you had so much TIME to do nothing but contemplate, be depressed and loll about doing, well, nothing really. I did feel a little shamefaced when i bought the second yesterday and it does seem a little repeptitive. I need to go and see the film now, it is still on at our local on sat and sun, i'm def obsessed.

No I didn't get sick with the repetition because I became just as obsessed with Edward as Bella was. It was almost hypnotic and captured so well that obsessive element of teenage first love. I think I reverted mentally to being a teenager and didn't critique the writing which is quite something for an English Literature graduate.
I just love these books and Edward and from all the threads on here I don't think I am alone.

Aaaargh, have to admit I did read til the end of the first one, and plot-wise it's gripping, but didn't you get SICK of how repetitive it was? The whole book could have been edited by a third, to get rid of the endless descriptions of beautiful Edward with his alabaster skin (and alarmingly flowery breath) and been much the better for it.

Not that I'm in a position to complain, seeing as it was written for your average 15 year old and I'm 32!

My daughter and I are competing as to who is the most obsessed with Edward . Agree with everything others have said, I definitely think it is remembering teenage years when you felt an all consuming emotion for someone and it was your life, because you didn't have so many pratical things to think of as we do as mothers. Loved the film too, my daughter has been twice and I would have gone again if I hadn't been too embarassed, we can't wait till the DVD comes out. I really hope that Stephenie Meyer writes the fifth book Midnight Sun after all, you can see the draft on her website www.stepheniemeyer.com/midnightsun.html someone leaked it on the internet and she is undecided as to whether to write it at the moment.

oh god, i read twilight because i was bored. it took me back to my youth where i never knew if the guy i had feelings for liked me or didn't like me ... but new moon just got annoying and so far i hear the rest of the series just gets worse? does she actually get pregnant in the new one? while she's a vampire? really?

I lost months to these books, so so good, DH was sick of hearing about Edward Cullen then he read them too and hated them!

I liked that there were a lot of secrets that kept unfolding. Also, although it is a vampire book it wasn't the usual 'rules' as such so that was different about it.
Found the third one (I think) quite hard going, the pace didn't seem to be as fast. The fourth one was just a bit weird and I kind of felt as if I had grown out of Edward even if Bella hadn't. Will still probably read them all again though!

not read these, but I was similarly hooked on the Harry Potter books.These sound like the books a friend at work was telling me about,she said it made her want to have her own vampire, (she is 45)

I was near the end of the first yesterday and after going to the library to find that the 2nd book is reserved for 14 people, bought it today. I have just finished the first and can't wait to start the second. I too am completely hooked and am not sure why as yes, it is not a brilliant read but god so compulsive. I have been going to bed early and silently cheering when DH says he is going to take the girls out for a couple of hours

read the 4th one

LOTS of shagging

It is a little alarming that the girl is so submissive to him however I loved it!

I also liked The Host. She seems to write about her protagonist getting beat up a lot!

Sometimes you just have to get lost in the story.