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

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BeckyBendyLegs · 30/01/2009 18:25

Can someone explain this phenomenon to me?

My 11-year-old niece persuaded me to read this book last weekend and I haven't been able to put it down since. Why? I don't know! Has this book had the same effect on anyone else? Do I just want to be 17 and fall in love again? Not that I met many vampires at my school.

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fishie · 30/01/2009 21:04

i have read the first three and cannot be bothered with the last one. i have not the slightest interest in that milksop edward. in fact they all need a slap or a good shag.

bea · 30/01/2009 20:59

it is horribley written.... blah blah blah... perfect smile... blah blah blah... marble skin... blah blah blah... but..... i daresay i did get hooked and read the whole lot....

it is that feeling of head over heels falling in love... makes me think of when i used to hang around the students union hoping to catch a glimpse of dh striding around planning radical and anarchic things!!!!

sigh! Go Team Edward!!!!! plus imagining robert pattinson in your head whilst reading helps of course!

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BeckyBendyLegs · 30/01/2009 19:01

Just been to Asda to try to get the second one! They were sold out! They had Twilight, the third one, and the hardback one but not the second one. Ahhh. Better try not finish the first one before tomorrow morning. I've got 100 pages of the first one left so will probably won't get the shakes for too long

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janeite · 30/01/2009 18:45

I finished the series though, as I'd already bought all four for dd1: I did quite enjoy the fourth one!

VampiresWalkin · 30/01/2009 18:33

ComeWhineWithMe - Janeite didn't like it either

TA - You're back! How was your trip? Just started your book and loving it

Alibabaandthe40nappies · 30/01/2009 18:32

I felt exactly the same. Bought it, started reading it and realised it was terribly written and a pile of poo - and got hooked. To my great shame I bought the second one last week and have already read it.

TrillianAstra · 30/01/2009 18:31

Because it's fun to remember being a teenager, when (even if your life was not quite this exciting) everything seemed so very dramatic and critical and life-changing.

sockmonkey · 30/01/2009 18:31

Just buy the whole lot... saves time waiting & waiting for Amazon to arrive...leaving days when you can't read any.

ComeWhineWithMe · 30/01/2009 18:31

I must be the only person I know who hated it ...I gave up halfway through .

I want to be in on it .

VampiresWalkin · 30/01/2009 18:29

has the same effect on the majority of people.

I think it is that whole completely in love thing. It doesn't matter about the quality of the writing etc, it is just that rush of love, and how besotted you end up with Edward.

You do have to buy book 2 so you can choose camp Edward or Camp Jacob/=.