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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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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/=.

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 .

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.

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.

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.

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

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!

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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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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!

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.

TwoIfBySea · 30/01/2009 21:05

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.

LurkerOfTheUniverse · 30/01/2009 21:32

read the 4th one

LOTS of shagging

saramoon · 31/01/2009 15:49

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

tootyflooty · 31/01/2009 15:53

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)

fizzpops · 31/01/2009 16:11

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!

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BeckyBendyLegs · 31/01/2009 17:16

Glad I'm not the only one going to bed early because of these books! I take my copy (nearly finished first one now) to the loo, to the Spa, to school and back when I take DS1, everywhere. I made DH go to Sainsbury's today to get the second and third books for me as they are selling them relatively cheap there. He thinks I am bonkers. I read all the HP books too but there is something so much more compulsive and compelling about these even though the writing is so corny. Better go now, I should be finishing Twilight so I can start the next one!!!!

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sherby · 31/01/2009 17:18

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!

eandz · 31/01/2009 17:24

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?

Evenstar · 31/01/2009 20:58

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.

Lulubee · 01/02/2009 00:39

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!

Evenstar · 01/02/2009 01:17

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.

saramoon · 01/02/2009 09:03

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.

Fleurlechaunte · 01/02/2009 20:45

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.

Fleurlechaunte · 01/02/2009 20:54

Evenstar - blanket here super scrummy Edward

Evenstar · 01/02/2009 21:11

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

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