Comments on: Quasi-Review – Twilight By Stephanie Meyer

By: MrsB

MrsB — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:49:16 +0000

I know this is an older review, but it always pleases me so to find a review of Twilight that is so realistic.

I read the entire series, and though I didn’t hate it, I certainly don’t get the huge response to it. Edward is basically a stalker, and Bella is a clingy, needy, weak character.

The vampire/werewolf love triangle is not a new concept and has been done before – and way better – by Laurell K. Hamilton and others.

The comparison this series gets to the Harry Potter series makes my brain bleed.

By: UT

UT — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:28:56 +0000

From my count, twilight sucks as a story, the relationship within it sucks and so does the vampire part, and the author isn’t even an auothor she’s jusyt someone who had a dream about a vampire and the author’s never read a single piece of vampire litreture in her life

By: UT

UT — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:14:55 +0000

Ok, I really don’t care about the religious or sexual aspects of twilight, I never really considered the whole, I love you stuff cause I only saw the movie and I thought, obviously they need to fall in love at some point in the nxt 2 hrs, seeing the post and its responses, I don’t even want to read the books anymore, BUT, I do have something to say about “THE VAMPIRE ASPECT” of the movie, I myself am a vampire fanatic since I was 10, I’ve seen it all, Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, Angel, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Interview With A Vampire, Queen Of The Damned, Blade and a lot more others, each was just as good as the other except for this one, Twilight is fake, vampires are supposed to be harsh blood thirsty sexy beasts, not animal eating vegans, vampires have an incuurable blood lust, that thirst is inquencheble, they do not glitter in the sun, they burn up, but that’s not the point, the “HOT” factor lies in the fact that they come out at night and stay indoors during the day, they are “CREATURES OF THE NIGHT” not creatures if the day, that’s not sexy, not hot, “LAME”, they especially do not play sports, the only thing a vampire would use a baseball bat for is to bash someone’s skull in, and seriously, they are a family of vampires in a family baseball leauge, it dosen’t get DISNIER that that, “TWILIGHT IS AN INSULT TO ALL VAMPIRE MOVIES, COMICS AND TV SHOWS EVER MADE, ITS SIMPLY A JOKE “, Hanna Montana, The Jonas Brothers And High School Musical have a new partner, another one to add to the stockpile of garbage shown in the world today.

By: Kia

Kia — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:12:02 +0000

I heard one of the fans say “it doesnt need to be realistic because its fantasy”.
Well kid even in a fantasy novel you have to be a little realistic!! Just because its “fantasy” doesn’t mean you put in absolute nonsense and expect people to find it sane. As far as it goes for the fantasy part, its fine, but the rest of it is utter crap. How would people react if they saw this kind of a scenario in Lord of the Rings?? They would be aghast, friend, AGHAST.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:01:14 +0000

Yay! Other people who think Twilight isn’t good! (in nice words)

I’m still (barely) a teenager, since I’m 18, yet I despised this book. People say Meyer has talent? She didn’t bother to research the locations and got everything (or nearly everything) about those locations wrong. -_- I like traditions in legends/myths, and she disregarded nearly every single mythological aspect of vampires, including the fact that (as some have pointed out, including the original poster) they are fated to eternal damnation.
The ‘plot’ mostly consisted of Meyer (in Bella’s p.o.v.) telling the reader how wonderful Edward was, and it bored me as well as irritated me. But apparently younger girls love it. And saying “I love you” after barely knowing each other for a few days? That’s not love. It’s infatuation/lust. >.< I'm young yet even I know the difference. I also know that it's NOT romantic in any way for someone to stalk their crush. -_-
There were so many typos in it that it was ridiculous. I kept wondering if an 8th grader edited it or if Meyer was so rushed in finishing it that she didn't care about the grammar errors and the typos.
Nearly all of the characters are "flat" characters. (This means they aren't very well developed and have only one noticeable trait… or none at all.) In the book it was like "everyone loves Bella because she's so perfect" when she's clingy, abusive (badgering Edward to turn her into a vampire and it seems like she's forcing him to be with her), and is only attracted to Edward because of his looks and not because of his qualities like real love is. (after all, love doesn't see ugliness or beauty. Love sees the person for who that person is yet you love that person anyway, despite the flaws.) The actual plot (minus the "Edward=God" parts that make up a huge chunk of the book) had potential, but that's all I can say. ._.
I've been writing since the 2nd grade and am now an aspiring author who has quite a gift of writing, and I could've written this better as my 13 year old self.

By: Cats

Cats — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:56:17 +0000

…and don’t you just hate how she is so ”depressed” when Edward leaves her in the second book.

By: izzi

izzi — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:05:34 +0000

well, i totally agree with asha
=)

By: Asha

Asha — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:12:20 +0000

Oh and one other thing hello they saved it for the honeymoon! So there goes your religious beliefs…

By: Asha

Asha — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:09:55 +0000

OK i don’t see your problem seriously if you’ve got so many problems with the books don’t read them. They inspire heaps of people and show that having an imagination is worth something where as you just prattle on about the so called “problems” i mean i like being alone with boys but i don’t do anything and if your so religious you should know it is easy to avoid the temptation and hello love doesn’t have an age or time limit does or did i somehow miss the parliamentary bill on that one? I totally agree with Will on his point of view and who are you to say she’s an ‘okay’ writer i don’t see you name famous and hundreds of screaming fans or are you totally delusional? Get a life! i mean girls all over the world are now striving for something. Either to be a writer or to be just like Bell a and go after what she wants or to fall in love. I mean love is great and who died and made you high priest of the church of love? Why shouldn’t people of seventeen years old experience that,huh? Your review is seriously funny you know cause let me think about the problems with your writing…..
FIRST your reviewing a serious that you haven’t even finished reading
SECOND when was religion ever mentioned? The only mention of it was by Edward (the VAMPRIE if you don’t know) who was getting all religious about not forcing her into eternal damnation and hell. Explain that!
Third your complaining about how Edward is so perfect. Do you not realise that Stephanie makes him point out his flaws. Like how he’s a monster, a killer, overprotective and let me think….he tried to kill himself! Oh wait you don’t know that cause you didn’t read the second book.
Finally…your writing and pathetic and immature. Who are you to say that people can’t feel the way they feel. Oh and its a story (a narrative ,made up) so stop getting all this isn’t right or this can’t happen. Vampires don’t even exist so how can you know how it would be if they did and what religion they would be. Stephanie Meyer has just tried to portray that for young and old to give them a little adventure, romance and fantasy in their lives.The excite their mind which your writing doesn’t it just kills the imagination.
When you can explain the meaning of life you may be just as famous but until then keep your remarks to yourself this isn’t your story so write your own and see how easy it is OK….

By: lexi

lexi — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:23:39 +0000

i’m a twilight fan, but, i think twilight is the worst book in the series. and it’s funny because i read twilight more for the characters that aren’t edward or bella. occasionally i like bella, but often she’s an idiot. but i’m not going to dislike an entire book simply because i don’t like a character.
but edward’s a stalker, we never hear about much of bella’s personality, and she all-too conveniently has no ties (friends) other than her mother back in pheonix after she movies.
but i like jacob, and i like the family. the baseball scene in the movie was good, but the action scenes in this book were a little lacking. this book would have been much better written from someone else’s point of view, such as alice, jasper, jacob, or mike. even edward’s point of view was interesting, only because we got to hear everyone else’s thoughts.
oh yeah, and bella isn’t saving herself for marraige – in book 3 it’s Edward (fag) that’s saving himself for marraige.
the book had its funny moments, but maybe if she had’ve made edward NEVER ‘watch her sleeping’ before she knew about it, gave them a few more conversations, a few more likes and dislikes (edward had some: cars and music, but we never hear much about it, do we?). maybe the beautiful talk should have been cut down. like, when i see a hot guy i don’t go on about it endlessly like that. yeesh.
new moon, and particularly eclipse were better. breaking dawn was okay – the part from jacob’s point of view was best.
for those people who hadn’t read breaking dawn, please do. jacob’s writing is much better.