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 enlarge | Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2060 reviews
Sales Rank: 3
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 544
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.4 x 1.7
ISBN: 0316015849
EAN: 9780316015844
ASIN: 0316015849
Publication Date: September 6, 2006
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 SOO GOOD August 19, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I didn't think i would like this book (even though it was constantly suggested to me on Amazon) because i never was a "vampire" fan.
I was completely wrong, and if you are trying to decide whether or not to get the book and read it, JUST DO IT.
Trust me.
 It might not be Shakespeare, but... August 18, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Maybe Stephanie Meyer isn't the next Shakespeare or Anne Rice, but I think her series has a charm all of its own. I admit that Twilight is my guilty pleasure, because it isn't the most profound thing I've read literature wise, but I can't put the books down. I'm reading them for a second time, because it is easy to immerse yourself in a world that you can relate to. I live in Washington, I'm clumsy, and I am a hopeless romantic. The relationship Edward and Bella have is something that I think everyone wants out of life, a love that transcends all boundaries. Even though he has a "natural" urge to kill this girl, Edward finds himself more enthralled to protect her because she is to him everything he's never had. He's been alone so long, and he finds in her something extraordinary because she is unlike anyone he has met. I think that we all, deep down inside, strive to feel like Bella does when he tells her he loves her: Lucky.
The sad thing about most of the people who don't like these books is that they have let themselves become jaded. I don't know anyone personally who doesn't like Twilight, and I could see why they may not enjoy how the story is written, but it's sad to be so critical of such a beautiful story. What more to life is there than love? Pure love, something so rare? To deny the very instincts imbedded in your body to love someone that is "taboo" by your society's standards? Their relationship is about trust, because they both have many things to lose if anything goes wrong.
I recently heard of a group on Amazon that is trying to protest the last book of this series, and I think it's ridiculous. They think that Stephanie Meyer's is trying to send a political message through her story
of Edward and Bella, and yet it seems like only people who are overly critical are the ones who support that theory. I believe most people in Bella's shoes would do the same thing, and while I won't ruin the story for anyone who hasn't read it, I think it's incredibly childish for people to return the book because they don't like how it's written. Would you return Titanic because you wanted a happy ending? Would you take back the Bible because you don't agree with its content? Would you get pissed by The Notebook because it doesn't end like the movie? No.
Why protest a book that so encourages people who never read to pick up a book and do so? Or to give people like myself, who normally read things like Jordan and Brown and Austen, a break from a ramble of words to a clear and concise story of pure love? It's simple, and simple is beautiful.
A page turner you can't wait to re-read August 18, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I remember easily how it felt when I first read Twilight in June 2007. The book had already been out for quite some time, and a friend referred it to me knowing that I was intrigued by vampires. This book had me interested by the end of the first chapter, and hooked by Port Angeles. I've recommended this book to all of my friends, and the 5 that has read it, enjoyed it.
 Loved the book, but Breaking Dawn Killed the whole thing August 18, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
i loved this book and for me it should have ended here. SM killed the series with Breaking Dawn.
Awesome! August 18, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I love this book!!!I have not read any books as intresting and not being able to put it down in years! I have read all 4 books and I have to say it is the best series I have ever read in my life! Thanks Stephenie!!!
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