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 enlarge | Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1883 reviews
Sales Rank: 27
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Young Adult
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Pages: 512
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.9 x 1.7
ISBN: 0316160172
EAN: 9780316160179
ASIN: 0316160172
Publication Date: October 5, 2005
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 To understand you really have to just read it. July 25, 2008
You know, there just isn't anything except if you're considering this book because of all the hype, you won't be disappointed.
It's so much more than a vampire book, a vampire romance, a guide to future boyfriends and husbands.
My only critique of it is it has created an internal dilema within me as I have long shared the belief that Jane Austen's Mr. Darcy is literaries greatest hero who all men should aspire to.
Edward Cullen, our vampire hero in Twilight, has given him a very thorough run for his money!!!
JUST READ IT!
Great read July 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is so riveting that my wife read it in under 48 hours and made me go back to the book store for book 2.
Twilight Never Ceases To Amaze Us All July 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I think that, no matter how many times you've read it, Twilight will always stick something that you've forgotten about it in your head. Every time you read it, it's a different experience. It has tons of literary genres all packed into one book; romance, drama, mystery, action; you name it! I would recommend Twilight to anyone, anywhere, at any time. It will always be the first thing that pops into my head when someone says 'favorited book.'
I know some people say 'vampires? you've got to be kidding.' Okay, make that most people, before they've read the book. Stephenie Meyer does such an exceptional job making it all believable. No, more than that, she makes it REAL. Sometimes I feel like there really is an Edward Cullen, a Bella Swan, a Jacob Black. And we all find ourselves wishing that there really was.
I will always love this book, and it will always be my favorite along with the other three.
It's called fiction for a reason... July 25, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm not usually one to write reviews, but after scanning over some of the others, I felt a special need to this time. I just wanted to point out to some of the fans and non-fans of the book, that the book is categorized as fiction for a reason. Some of you are taking it and it's "messages" much too seriously. When I read Twilight, it allowed the side of me that can feel lonely and depressed and all of the other negative feelings that teenage girls like Bella can feel at points, to fall in love with a "man" who is "perfect" and loves me just the way I am. The book allowed me to laugh and love and, if I were the type, to cry. It allowed me to escape to another world. Then, I come back to reality feeling refreshed and grateful to Stephanie Meyer for giving me the trip. I didn't dive into this book to find out what a real man is like or how to behave in real life or how to fight the vampires living down the street. I read it for the fun of it. Anyone who reads a fiction book for anything other than pure, simple (sometimes silly) enjoyment is reading the wrong genre of books. That applies to those who love the book and it's characters to the point they confuse the book with reality and those who go looking for the rules of life and good, clean messages in a book about vampires. Just lighten up a little. Personally, I loved the book, every bit of it.
a diamond in the rough July 25, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
First things first, I loved this novel and the ones that followed in succession. The way Stepeneie Meyer writes brings out the best and the worst in both her characters and the reader themselves. I saw a huge range of emotions fly across the pages and lives of Edward, Bella, and their respective friends and families. In addition to their emotions, the reader is given the opportunity to fall in love and immediately become viciously angered with the characters Meyer produces. Any piece of literature that can bring out the emotions of the reader so strongly makes a difference in the reader's life. It is something that the author strives for, and I think that the books that make you love, laugh, cry, and even become enraged with hatred are the best kind, because it means that they meant something to you or made you think.
Many people criticize the characters of Edward and Bella, but I find their thoughts to be rather superficial instead of looking past the surface. You do hear thousands of readers exclaiming that they are in love with Edward Cullen and will not fall in love with any other man, but I can understand where they come from. I can honestly claim that it is not the superficial aspects of the beautiful creature that draws me to him, but what Edward stands for, chivalry, care, protection, and loyalty that is so redeeming. Those are all things that a girl wants to find in a man she loves, or will come to love, even if he admits its all about being selfish.
A few reviews I read claim that Bella is the epitome of all that does not exist, that she should be instated into a mental hospital for being so clumsy. Being a rather clumsy person myself, obviously not up to her standards of getting hurt every day, I find that slightly mortifying that people dismissed her character because she does not flow and glide over all surfaces. I agree with one review I read about the fact that to a 17-19 year old girl, depending on which book you are reading, her first love is what her whole life revolves around. I have seen it happen time and time again to friends of mine and myself as well, although I'd like to think I never took it to that extreme.
There is a lot more to this story that what appears. You have to look deeper into the relationships of the characters and occurrences. Many, but certainly not all readers, who criticize this book as being about the superficial never take the time to look deeper and look past the obvious. It's not all about good looks and living forever, as Edward puts it nicely, but about what you do with your forever or whatever time you have. He, as well as the rest of the immortals in this novel, makes it perfectly clear that choices are what shape a person and I believe there is a lot to learn from that.
This novel is one of a kind and I would recommend it to anyone and everyone who likes to read, as well as those who don't to maybe inspire them to look deeper and explore a world they didn't know existed.
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