I too was curious about the book that turned nearly illiterate girls into bookworms and so tried it. I even read to the end of the series... and nearly collapsed out of boredom.
Why I hate Twilight
1 B is a Mary-Sue character with no faults.
2 B is clearly Stephanie Meyer.
3 SM tries to get round this by making Bella really clumsy. This is not a fault as E can catch her all the time.
4 A vampire, if my mind serves me correctly, is an evil creature with fangs who sucks human’s blood, only comes out at night, gets burned by the sun and is scared of garlic. You only have to read Dracula to check this. But SM’s vampires do none of this. Therefore, they are not vampires.
5 There is something very creepy at Carlisle only making teenagers vampires.
6 Vampires sparkle? Seriously?
7 B and E are not in love. A relationship that is solely based on one person finding another attractive, and the other person thinking that she smells nice is not a relationship that can ever last.
8 E is over 100. B is 17. Anyone spot the problem?
9 With the number of old-young romantic relationships, SM clearly has some issues.
10 E hasn’t looked at a woman twice in 100 years – he has some problems.
11 We are supposed to empathise with B, but in reality everyone hates her. Boys hate her because they would never touch the book with a bargepole; girls hate her because they stand in the way of E.
12 E’s chest is perfect. Yes. We know. NOW STOP TELLING US.
13 The reason the book is addictive is because it goes so damn slowly. Every single mundane action is explained in the tiniest detail, which ends with everyone tearing their hair out at the end because they’ve spent hours reading a book that could be summed up in one sentence.
14 The story is the classic yet unimaginative tale of a woman who meets her perfect man who, by some miracle, loves her back. That’s all that happens.
15 New Moon is a blatant and obvious copy of Romeo and Juliet with a happy ending.
16 E is a perfect, beautiful, generous, talented man. Another Mary-Sue.
17 SM gets round this one even worse than B – by making him a vampire.
18 This isn’t really a problem because he’s a ‘good’ vamp.
19 The only character who is ‘real’ and I can actually believe in is Leah. She is portrayed as an arrogant cow.
20 SM wrote four books about nothing. Really.
21 SM’s grammar and writing style are appalling.
22 Not to mention her overuse of her favourite word “chagrin”
23 Her fans seem to have inherited her bad grammar.
24 E and B are in lust, not love.
25 Eventually, B nearly dying and being saved by E just gets boring
26 I have written 25 flaws about Twilight very easily.
27 The reason why every girl loves it is because B is a useless, unmoulded character and anyone can imagine that they’re her.
28 And that every woman in the world is in love with E
29 During the first half of the story, we’re supposed to guess what’s so ‘wrong’ with E. Fine. If you’re doing that, DON’T put ‘E was a vampire’ on the back of the book.
30 E crawling into B’s room at night before they’ve barely spoken is quite disturbing.
31 Come to think of it, there’s quite a lot that’s quite worrying/disturbing in the series, but guess what? None of it is to do with the scariness of the vampires.
32 E is controlling and possessive. It’s a book that centres on male dominance.
33 SM is very clever. She invented a way to get rich by creating a perfect couple who do nothing. Oh, wait, she didn’t invent that. She nicked it from someone else.
34 SM hasn’t made anything original. It’s all taken from something/someone else.
35 Hundreds of people have written on the internet that they hate the series. No-one ever bothered writing a list of why they like it.
36 Twilight fans verbally (and sometimes physically) abuse everyone who doesn’t say that the books are perfect and E is the best man that ever lived. I wouldn’t mind, but they can’t even use correct grammar. This is a genuine quote: “hi!!!!!!!!!!! ugly i know you hate kristen stewart!!!!!!!
all people hate you too!!!!!!!!!!!
kristen stewart is more beautiful than you!!!!!
you look like a dead cat!!!!!!” – this was delivered to a model. Who looks ‘like a dead cat’.
37 The films, which deserve a list all on their own just for being so awful, but I’ll have to make do with this list.
38 Kristen Stewart can’t act. Biting your lip to look innocent and looking as if you hate being on camera is not acting. She was only chosen because she looks like Bella. If the love of my life told me he loved me, I would not look indifferent and slightly grumpy. But Stewart does.
39 Kristen Stewart can’t act (part 2). Robert Pattinson has been signed up for many other films since Twilight – and before. Stewart hasn’t. Why? Because she can’t act.
40 None of the actors in Twilight can act. They were all chosen because of their physical appearances, so they looked just like the characters in the book.
41 That’s what happens when the author gets directly involved with the filming.
42 The directors keep leaving. There’s been a different one for each film so far. Was Stewart’s grumpy face too much for them?
43 6 montages in one film is just a teensy bit over the top.
44 It’s full of goofs, bloopers and grammatical errors. Just like the book. [B had been in Forks 1 month whilst E had been watching her for 2 months. See?]
45 A woman divorced her husband (leaving several children) because she hoped her E would come.
46 The above is proof that Twilight will destroy the earth.
47 It was so bad I bothered to write this many reasons why I hated it.
