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Sep 03, 2011

Sarah rated it:

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Feb 08, 2012

Chris rated it:

I actually had to give this book three separate reviews by three sides of my personality. My three-star rating is the median of the three:

Review 1, by My Inner Fifteen Year Old Girl (5 stars):
Bella is smart, funny, well-read, pretty and yet misunderstood by most of her peers (just like me). Then she meets a cool, hot guy who turns out to be a good vampire, and he can do really cool things, like run fast and stop cars with his hands, but he's still sweet and wonderful. It's ultim More...

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Jun 07, 2007

Nicola rated it:

I really enjoy lively details. There's nothing better than knowing an author has really thought about her characters and situations, and come up with some surprising and delightful detail that makes the whole reading experience fuller. Lively details, you understand -- pointless details are a nightmare to read. I don't need to know that Bella ate a granola bar for breakfast. I REALLY DON'T. (Notice that I remembered the granola bar. I think this is partly because I was fervently hoping it would More...

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Jul 09, 2009

Joe rated it:

Save your time: here's the entirety of Twilight in 20 dialogue snippets & a wiggedy-wack intermission.

First 200 pages:
"I like you, Edward!"
"You shouldn't! I'm dangerous!"
"I like you, Edward!"
"But I'm dangerous!"

Next 50 pages:
"I'm a vampire!"
"I like you, Edward!"
"But I'm a vampire! I'm dangerous!"
"I like you, Edward!"

Next 100 pages:
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Aug 31, 2011

James rated it:

It turns out we don't need Dr. John Gray to tell us that men are from Transylvania and women are from Venus. We just need to read Stephenie Meyer books. For example, from this book we learn that the millions of women who have wolfed down the Twilight series (pun intended) want men who:

1. Talk about their feelings. Either Meyer's husband is the single-most communicative male on the planet and she doesn't realize how unusual he is, or she, like most of her female readers, is using her More...

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Feb 13, 2011

Chelsey rated it:

I hate this book. I will read the rest of them and I know that already, but simply because I want to be able to keep backing up my hatred of this series against people who think they can convert me if I just keep reading.

In short: the writing mechanics are atrocious. The dialogue is stilted and absolutely wretched. The characterization is bad-- loose, jumpy, and the progression is occasionally senseless. The main characters themselves are not compelling: selfish, shallow, lacking the More...

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Dec 16, 2009

Trin rated it:

Let me give you an idea of how much my opinion of this book changed at different stages of reading. When I was about a third of the way through, I was so into it that I immediately put my name on the library reservations list for the sequel, and wishlisted every edition on BookMooch. Now, having finished, I doubt I'll bother to read any further in the series. The opening is really quite interesting: Bella moves from sunny Arizona to rainy, gloomy Washington State to live with her father (her som More...

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Feb 09, 2012

Stephanie rated it:

Actual rating: 1.5 stars. Believe it or not, there are actually a few books that are worse than Twilight.

Ok, funny story. I was sitting on my couch with my husband last night finishing up Twilight. I slammed the book shut and began rubbing my temples. Then, my husband goes, "So you finally finished, huh?" "Yes. I can't believe I used to like this book," I said. "Hahaha! Yeah, I remember you were on Twilight's balls hard." Yeah, yeah, yeah...

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Nov 23, 2008

Julia rated it:

Nothing happened in this book. Especially editing.

53 comments like (761 people liked it)

Dec 10, 2009

brian rated it:

my name is bella. bella swan. here's what stephenie didn't tell you. it's super-duper-important.

on the morning after it rained, it was rainy outside and i frowned at it being so rainy all the time. i chuckled to myself, darn weather! i stared at the rain outside, which is where they usually keep the rain. there was never any rain in phoenix. i love phoenix. i hate rain.

i tripped over a large air pocket on my bedroom floor and bashed my skull into the corner of my bookc More...

255 comments like (1375 people liked it)

Jul 28, 2011

Kelly rated it:

I will forever curse the name of my local art house theatre for having sold out the showing of the movie that we wanted to see this weekend. Because, you see, to pass the time until the next showing, we went to Barnes and Noble to read for an hour or so. And you see, this unfortunate circumstance lead me to pick up Stephanie Meyer's Twilight to "pleasantly" pass the time.

Here is the gist of my commentary of the 200 pages of the book that I actually made it through:
(fi More...

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Oct 13, 2010

Ceridwen rated it:

Two things happened in my household, shortly after I started reading it, that seem germane to a discussion of this book. First, I was in the kitchen, dealing with the endless in-and-out of the dishwasher, and I became aware of a small, soft, wet noise coming from the back bathroom. This made my mom-ears perk up, and I went back to find my daughter, who is about 2 ½, tearing off strips of toilet paper, wadding them neatly, throwing them into the toilet, and then flushing. She looked up at me with More...

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May 27, 2008

Shannon rated it:

Oh my. This book, to me, is like chocolate: a delicious, sinful, addictive indulgence which you convince yourself has beneficial qualities (zinc, calcium, keeps me quiet at that time of the month...) in order to justify your addiction.

By "beneficial qualities", I mean that it's reading, and since when is reading bad? :) Let me say quite clearly that I'm a sucker for romance, especially the intense, passionate, tragic kind. I don't read romance novels*, though, because to me More...

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Jun 14, 2008

Hilaire rated it:

my original critique: http://icantthinkofanythingrightnow.blog...

Twilight is stupid and lame-o

I think everyone knows that the characters are essentially the ones who make up the book. It’s through them that the plot is developed, the conflicts are carried, the climax is revealed, stuff like that. And when you’re writing in a first person POV, you have to make that “first person” interesting and observant. Bella, our first person, is about as interesting as a rock.

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Jul 24, 2011

karen added it

spoiler alert: he's a vampire!!!

has anyone heard any press on this book yet?? i think that once the teens hear about it, the author will be quite successful. definite cinematic potential here.
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pop - there goes my meyer cherry! and with it my integrity.

this, sadly, isn't one of those twilight reviews that is going to get a zillion votes. it isn't going to be particularly insig More...

256 comments like (131 people liked it)

Jan 24, 2008

Melissa rated it:

About a month ago, a student let me borrow a book. Well, she actually didn't let me borrow the book. She pretty much thrust it upon me and insisted that I read it.

So I let it sit in my classroom for a month.

Yesterday, she left me a note about reading it. Feeling guilty, I stuffed it into my bag at the end of the day. I had been wanting a fun read anyway. Might as well try this. Even though the plot--girl falls in love with a vampire--didn't interest me much.

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Jun 05, 2011

Bird Brian rated it:

"…Babylon System is the vampire."
-Bob Marley

Stephanie Meyer is a crafty one! Just like L. Frank Baum (The Wizard of Oz ) before her, she tells two stories at once. For over a century now, kids have adored Baum’s dancing Munchkins, and freaked out over his flying monkeys, but how many people know that he wrote The Wizard as an allegorical commentary about the important economic issues of his day? While kids read Oz for a great story about a talking More...

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Sep 16, 2010

Denys L.H. rated it:

When you're looking for a novel that has no plot, no common sense, jibber-jabber about pointless love, how hot someone is, and the climax thrown together three-thirds of the book, Twilight takes the cake! I don't even know what made me "unconditionally and irrevocably in love" with it in the first place! But then again, I was a hopeless romantic trying to find love, and I thought Twilight would cheer me up for my lovesick... ness...

Unfortunately, I was WRONG. When I first r More...

30 comments like (78 people liked it)

Jan 15, 2008

Matt rated it:

there are so many problems with this book that i can't even begin to address them all. but i will say this, 'twilight' is probably one of the worst, if not THE worst, books i've ever read. the writing is amateurish at best [cliches, stereotypes, purple prose--how anyone can applaud meyer's prose is puzzling]; the editing--or lack thereof--is appalling [this is a 200 page novel, no more and probably less]; the grammar and syntax are unforgivably bad; the plot is onion-skin thin; and the character More...

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Aug 04, 2011

Kira rated it:

On April 28, 1945, Italian resistance fighters cornered Benito Mussolini and shot both him and his mistress. Then they hoisted his body up on a meat hook and hung him upside down at a petrol station in Milan, just to prove that yes, that bastard is dead, and we capped him. We capped him good and proper.

However, the hype over a fascist dictator who held his own people hostage and fought (in a limp-dicked way) with the Axis Powers died out gradually over the twentieth century. Isn't it More...

66 comments like (92 people liked it)

May 29, 2011

Stephen rated it:

Welcome to Part II of the Vampire Compatibility Test (VCT). Before we continue, let's briefly Recap Part I of the VCT. Your score in Part I should have given you a good idea of how critically you judge vampire fiction and should have placed you in either Group A or Group B based on overall points scored.

Group A: A fairly harsh to extremely harsh critic that requires in a vampire story that it be: (a) well written or at least highly engaging prose; (b) tightly plotted wit More...

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Jun 06, 2011

Ceridwen rated it:

So, fair warning, this review is a museum piece of a conflict on Goodreads, and is not a very informative review of the book, if that is what you are looking for. And seriously, why are you even reading Twilight reviews? If you haven't read the book, you are unlikely to at this point, and if you have, you know what you think. I suppose I could take the review down, but I like how dated it is, and I like the comment thread below.

Sorry I keep floating this review. Stuff keeps changing More...

132 comments like (51 people liked it)

Aug 16, 2008

Meghan rated it:

This is a joke, right? This is some Truman Show-style business, with the legions of fans and the movie and the this and that omgwtfbbq, yes? Okay you guys can jump out from your hiding spaces now! And yell SURPRISE! Good one you really got me...guys...guys, come on. I mean fine let's just say that this is a real book and people seriously like it, let's say for argument. So what is their favorite part, I just want to know? Is it the part where Bella has some super bizarre outdated diction going f More...

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Jan 10, 2012

Anila rated it:

ATTENTION
Pictures have been fixed, hopefully for forever.

Right. This is going to be totally tongue-in-cheek, or at least mostly, because I don't feel like saying what's already been said about this book. If you want to know how I feel about the technical/storytelling aspects of this book, go read any of the numerous articulate, well-written one-star reviews. The one thing I will say is: I still like Alice. She was my favorite character when I liked the books and the o More...

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Jan 25, 2008

Saya rated it:

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Feb 25, 2009

Julie (Mom2lnb) rated it:

Reviewed for THC Reviews
I have to admit that I haven't read a great deal of young adult literature during my adult life, so I wasn't quite sure what to expect from Twilight. There was also a great deal of hype surrounding this book, which can sometimes mean a really great book and other times can be a big letdown. Now that I have finally read Twilight, I have to say that it definitely lived up to the hype for me. I absolutely loved this tale of teen love between a human and a vampire. With More...

33 comments like (74 people liked it)

Jan 17, 2009

Kevin rated it:

We're going to try this, and we're going to try to be open-minded about it. We're going to try not to gawk terribly at some of the sentences that have rumpled our eyebrows so far. We're going to just forget that on p 12 the modern teenage narrator is said to have donned her jacket. We're going to just read the book, that's all.

--(Later)--

--OK here's my review. --

If you come to this book looking for things to like, you will find things to like. Star-cross'd lo More...

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Feb 09, 2012

Cait added it

Since this book has already been reviewed from hell to high water, I thought that I could treat you all to what this whole book (and small part of New Moon, as well) was in a simple little gif nutshell. Enjoy, all:

And that's pretty much it.

4 comments like (33 people liked it)

May 22, 2008

Natalie rated it:

My roommate has been telling me for years that I like to go contrary public opinion. If the world likes a movie, I will hate it. If the world hates a television program, it will quickly become my favorite. I don’t agree with her over all analysis, I mean I love Harry Potter, The Office, and many other popular things. Of course I also thought that The Da Vinci Code wasn’t as good of a book as everyone else thought it was and I am still not sure if Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip should have gone of More...

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Nov 14, 2009

Siyuan rated it:

Where to even begin. Books like this (along with the Da Vinci Code, that Eragon series) infuriate me. I have never seen any reason to shun any genre or plot devices, because good writing and narrative talent can make reading anything a pleasure. That said, Meyer's series is dull, at times laughable, unstructured, unoriginal, and just badly written, hopelessly falling short of realizing any of fiction's potential. to be fair, her writing isn't as atrocious as that of dan brown's and whatever that More...

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