find another book club.

Twilight is less entertaining than Harry potter, but its readable all the same. Interestingly its one of the few books that has you really annoyed withthe protagonist - New Moon, the sequel, is even worse.

Still they're good feel good romance books. They're aimed at 16 yr old girls, but still readable all the same and better than a lot of others. You should read it!

The target audience for Twilight is 14 year old girls who've already finished all of the Harry Potter series & now need a new fixation.

so it's not supposed to be high lit, thought provoking or original. in fact, it's a total rip off of the Swedish book/movie "Let The Right One In" (which is MUCH MUCH better in my opinion.) www.amazon.com/Let-Right-.../0312355297
and the movie trailer : www.youtube.com/watch

I was very reluctant to read it also, and had the same feelings about it you have & they're perfectly valid. so here's what i thought about it when i was done reading it.

*given that it's for tweens, it's not bad. for tweens. i'd let my daughter read it. it's clean, and suprisingly wholesome.
*it's probably not going to generate any thought provoking moments, but it's a fairly well written story & once i started reading it, it was hard to put down. and knowing that it's a tween book i enjoyed it for what it was. a decent tween book. nothing i'd recommend to my friends.
*the main character of Bella is tiresome & i found her to be downright unlikeable. she's whiney, dull, irrational & makes really stupid decisions. there was nothing about her that i found appealing and i most certainly didn't identify with her. she swings between being stupidly stubborn and stupidly self sacraficing. but, this is often times what 14 year old girls are like. so there are a lot of young girls who DO identify with her.
*there were parts of the story that just flat out didn't make any kind of logical sense. that was annoying.
*these characters are not role models. and they're not supposed to be. so yeah, there are a lot of women out there who are very upset because Bellas a whiney little sap & they think this isn't a positive role model. they're right, she isn't, but she's not supposed to be a role model. she's supposed to be someone girls identify with until they grow up & learn better.

so if you're down with revisiting your youth & remembering what it's like to be a young teen, then read it & take it for what it's worth. don't expect brilliance.

but yeah, like a poster mentioned earlier, if this is what your book club is reading, find a new book club. it would be one thing if they were reading it to do a review of tween books, but if they're reading this for a serious adult discussion, there won't be much to discuss. i can think of 10 better books to read.

one of my oldest dearest friends enthusiastically recommended twilight and the sequel. she gave them to me to read, with a grand flourish, stating "there's GREAT SEX in these pages!!!" I hate her now. Kidding. But really, she recommends crappy movies too, and I always know if she hates something, it is probably too heavy for her, and more than likely perfect for me. I could barely read a full chapter of twilight in one sitting, as the writing is completely pedestrian-- and truly if your tween has a brain, these books will be a serious disappointment. I don't think I've tried to read anything so bad since... maybe never.

Read the first book to humor my daughter...and got hooked.

They're full of teen angst and a bit unrealistic as far as the idea of true love goes...which sounds a lot like me my senior year in high school. But I loved them anyway. ; )

Read all of them and just started the book you can download from her site that will never be published because someone leaked the manuscript on the internet. It's called MIDNIGHT SUN, and is the story from Edward's point of view. I wish she'd change her mind and publish it. You can find it here...

www.stepheniemeyer.com/midnightsun.html

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No you don't have too. If you don't like love stories stay away.

I didn't want too either until my friend just handed me the book. Since I didn't need to invest money I thought I'd give it a try. I looked at it as more of a love story than a "vampire book" then I loved it. I do hate the crazy ass fans and the hell the actors from the movies are in. That's totally stupid. It has become a fad. Falling into fads does need to bear caution.