Twilight (2005) (edit title/settings)
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Kimberly R
191 of 306 members found this review helpful.
* Rated 1 stars
“Fluff....that's what this book is. This book was CLEARLY written for young adult girls who fantasize about their knight, or in this case, their vampire, in shining armor. Blach..... So many things irritated me about it including how on earth could an OLD, and you would think wise, vampire fall in love with a goofy teenager. Give me a break!!!!! And, I thought the author was beating a dead horse with the constant talk from Edward about not wanting to put his human girl in danger and the girl's constant talk about not caring if she was in danger. Edward has all the power and control over his little woman. Ugh..... But, even after bashing this book, I still finished it!!!! So, I admit that I enjoyed it on a teenage girl level! If you want to read purely for entertainment, because we all need books like that sometimes, go for it. If you're looking for something that goes beyond entertainment and the usual male/female roles, avoid it. I would love to see young girls (and grown women!) reading books that empower them and challenge stereotypical male/female roles instead of upholding the status quo.”
Kimberly R wrote this review Sunday, January 11, 2009.
he Twilight Saga: Book 1
Twilight
by Stephenie Meyer
* Rated 3 stars
Alex wrote:
At the time I would've put it as my favourite book on earth but now, 2 years later, I realise that I would never be able to read them again
The Twilight Saga: Book 1
Twilight
by Stephenie Meyer
* Rated 1 stars
aquillinmypocket wrote:
Horrible book. Horrible writing, horrible plot, horrible characters. Twilight does not deserve even a fraction of the hype that it has received. Do yourself a favor and keep all your brain cells alive - don't read it.
Twilight
by Stephenie Meyer
* Rated 1 stars
sara hopkins wrote:
To all twilight fans, i am sorry, THIS BOOK SUCKS. I don't like the fact that they ruined the meaning of "vampires".
The Twilight Saga: Book 1
Twilight
by Stephenie Meyer
Rated 0 stars
Liz wrote:
I only read this book so I could make an informed decision on its quality. It is beyond atrocious. The worst part was all of it. Fans of this book should line up sensibly to receive their frontal lobotomy. I would rather spend eternity reading Dan Brown than read any of the subsequent books, and I have come to the conclusion that if there is a hell, it consists of a looped audiobook of the Twilight saga being read by Gilbert Gottfried.
The Twilight Saga: Book 1
Twilight
by Stephenie Meyer
Rated 1 stars
“I'm reading this right now because I've met so many adult women who are so obsessed with this book. I wanted to see what all the fuss is about.
And it's shit. Utter shit.
There are so many things wrong with it, I haven't time or space to discuss them all. But the worst part is the protagonist/narrator, Bella Swan. She's whiny, self-pitying, dull, and completely self-absorbed. She has no interests or passions to speak of until she gets caught up in her obsessive love for a vampire named Edward.
Edward, for his part, is obsessed with Bella because she's the one human he's met whose mind he cannot read. What Edward doesn't realize, however, is that there is nothing there worth reading. Bella may be mysterious to him, but the laughable part is that she's just a dumb, shallow, whiny teenaged girl; tThere is no mystery.
The plot is thin, the premise poorly-realized, and there are glaring lapses in basic logic to be found throughout the book. Other characters, settings, and situations are just flimsy backdrops against which the Edward-Bella folie au deux plays out.
The only explanation I have for Twilight's popularity--especially with fans over the age of 14 or 15--is that it offers up a fantasy in which a girl with all the personality, drive, and self-confidence of a clod of dirt can still be, singled out, above all other girls, to be the Eternal One True Love of a truly extraordinary young man. You don't have to be talented, or cool, or funny, or have any plans for your future; you don't have to be graceful or have great clothes or drive an expensive car; you don't have to have any friends or social skills or an interesting family--he'll sweep you off your feet and love you, and only you.
Trouble is, Edward is manipulative, controlling, and engages in the kind of behavior that would send any sane woman fleeing. When a guy lets himself into your house--without asking, without telling you--just so he can watch you sleep? That's not romantic; that's stalker behavior. When a guy makes it clear that he could easily lose control and kill you, even though he "loves" you? That's not sensitivity; that's horrifying. When a guy tells you that he knows what's best for you, and that you need his protection? That's not love; it's control.
In real life, the shared obsession (I'm not dignifying it with the word "love") Edward and Bella have would be considered an unhealthy, even abusive, relationship. It's not romantic, not in any worthy sense of the term. So when I see teenage girls and grown women say how they wish they could find their Edward, or that more men were like Edward, I can only cringe.”
Julian B wrote this review Thursday, July 17, 2008. ( reply | view 32 replies |
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The Twilight Saga: Book 3
Eclipse (2007) (edit title/settings)
by Stephenie Meyer (Author) (edit contributors)
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Mark V
2 of 2 members found this review helpful.
* Rated 1 stars
“By p. 310 I realized that the first 300 pages could be cut and the plot would never suffer.
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Here's my favorite AWFUL sentence: "All at once, everything was surreally normal." p. 367.
But then I found this WTF! sentence: "For one brief, never-ending second, an entirely different path expanded behind the lids of my tear-wet eyes." p. 529.
Easily, the worst novel I have read this year. What makes it so insidious lies in its perpetuation of the cult of youth: Bella longs to be immortalized, cemented in forever love with her vampire lover (or with her second best, werewolf back-up lover). The novel packages a frieze of teenage-surging hormones and its allure appears in selling a tableau of peak experience--the ecstasy of romantic abandonment forever encapsulated in the formaldehyde jar of brutish vampire conquest.
Next, I am disturbed by how strongly Bella wants to bed Edward before marriage; Edward is the chaste one of the two--but only because if he did act on his instincts, his sheer strength would brutalize Bella. Thus, Bella can never be fulfilled and forever longs to be Alpha's Beta. The goo of their dysfunctional relationship oozes out of the novel's excessive page-count. Bella's sexual urges being unfulfilled fuels the page-flipping reading like a gerbil running on its wheel and the promise of marriage extracted, ironically, becomes the Gotcha! that this is really selling traditional family values after all. Even the cover dangles the symbol of lost virginity by its red ribbon/sash being frayed past use.
Did I mention the inane, vapid, and jejune dialogue yet? Argh!”
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