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<blockquote data-quote="Unregistered" data-source="post: 490401">And I thought I was the only person who does not like this book. The main character, Bella, is boring and has no personality, ambitions, hobbies, goals, no FUTURE. Her life revolves around Edward, a man who&#039;s not only secretly a vampire, but also secretly manipulative, controlling, and emotionally abusive. The same words are used repeatedly to describe Edward&#039;s &#039;perfect&#039; body, Bella&#039;s noisy truck, Forks&#039;s rainy weather, et cetera, continuously. There is a difference between repeating something for emphasis, and repeating something only because the main character has an empty, shallow mind. There are so many minor characters who are so completely unnecessary to the plot. Trust me, once you start reading the story, you&#039;ll get all of Bella&#039;s classmates mixed up with each other. You won&#039;t be able to differentiate one from the other unless you go back and read it over again. By the way, these vampires sparkle...for no reason. The author, Meyer, did not put any effort into explaining certain aspects of this novel. And she didn&#039;t do any research either on the lore of vampires. As a matter of fact, she has admitted to never having read ANY kind of vampire books. &#039;Vampires&#039; is definitely a misnomer for these creatures she has created. I only recommend this book to teenagers who want to read magazine-level type books where you don&#039;t have to think hard while you&#039;re reading and to those people who like gushing over cute &#039;romantic&#039; scenes.Stephenie Meyers&#039; books, while better than most teen fiction, doesn&#039;t live up to the hype. There&#039;s something insanely unbelievable about the romance between Bella and Edward in fact, it&#039;s at times more strikingly false than the fantasy world the characters inhabit. On top of that, characters compare themselves to classic heroes and lovers instead of leaving it to the reader to do so, a thing I find pretentious and hurtful to the reading experience.If Meyer has talent, it certainly doesn&#039;t show through in the Twilight series. The plotline is agonizingly cliché and the characters are simple and dramatized to a point where I could hardly stand it. I mean, come on. Everyone in the story is perfect! The girl&#039;s only real flaw is her clumsiness, and Meyer merely uses that to create some warped “protect the princess” garbage with Edward. And Edward literally has no flaws whatsoever. Where is the interesting characters? Where are the twists and turns? Please, there are so many better vampire books out there than Twilight.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Unregistered, post: 490401"] And I thought I was the only person who does not like this book. The main character, Bella, is boring and has no personality, ambitions, hobbies, goals, no FUTURE. Her life revolves around Edward, a man who's not only secretly a vampire, but also secretly manipulative, controlling, and emotionally abusive. The same words are used repeatedly to describe Edward's 'perfect' body, Bella's noisy truck, Forks's rainy weather, et cetera, continuously. There is a difference between repeating something for emphasis, and repeating something only because the main character has an empty, shallow mind. There are so many minor characters who are so completely unnecessary to the plot. Trust me, once you start reading the story, you'll get all of Bella's classmates mixed up with each other. You won't be able to differentiate one from the other unless you go back and read it over again. By the way, these vampires sparkle...for no reason. The author, Meyer, did not put any effort into explaining certain aspects of this novel. And she didn't do any research either on the lore of vampires. As a matter of fact, she has admitted to never having read ANY kind of vampire books. 'Vampires' is definitely a misnomer for these creatures she has created. I only recommend this book to teenagers who want to read magazine-level type books where you don't have to think hard while you're reading and to those people who like gushing over cute 'romantic' scenes. Stephenie Meyers' books, while better than most teen fiction, doesn't live up to the hype. There's something insanely unbelievable about the romance between Bella and Edward in fact, it's at times more strikingly false than the fantasy world the characters inhabit. On top of that, characters compare themselves to classic heroes and lovers instead of leaving it to the reader to do so, a thing I find pretentious and hurtful to the reading experience. If Meyer has talent, it certainly doesn't show through in the Twilight series. The plotline is agonizingly cliché and the characters are simple and dramatized to a point where I could hardly stand it. I mean, come on. Everyone in the story is perfect! The girl's only real flaw is her clumsiness, and Meyer merely uses that to create some warped “protect the princess” garbage with Edward. And Edward literally has no flaws whatsoever. Where is the interesting characters? Where are the twists and turns? Please, there are so many better vampire books out there than Twilight. [/QUOTE]

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