Readers captivated by Twilight and New Moon will eagerly devour the paperback edition Eclipse, the third book in Stephenie Meyer's riveting vampire...
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Aug 31, 2011
James
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"You gave it three stars?" she asked me, biting her lip and holding her breath.
"Yes," I finally answered with my marble lips, cold yet strangely comforting, even warm. "Stephenie, don't forget to breathe."
"Oh, of course." A storm seemed to rage in her for just a moment.
"I gave it a three. It's good." I would never lie to her, could never lie to her. Yet, somehow, she felt it was a lie and brooded in stillness f More...
"Yes," I finally answered with my marble lips, cold yet strangely comforting, even warm. "Stephenie, don't forget to breathe."
"Oh, of course." A storm seemed to rage in her for just a moment.
"I gave it a three. It's good." I would never lie to her, could never lie to her. Yet, somehow, she felt it was a lie and brooded in stillness f More...
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Dec 18, 2007
Lucy
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I'm tempted to write a review for each of the Twilight books, but I really don't want to put myself through it. So this should do for all three books.
I understand the love for this trilogy. An unabashedly perfect, stunning, 'dazzling' hero who falls in love with an 'ordinary' girl; what teenage female wouldn't want to be in that situation?
Thing is, Edward is far from perfect, dazzling and certainly doesn't have a patch on Heathcliff - or even Michaelangelo's David, come More...
I understand the love for this trilogy. An unabashedly perfect, stunning, 'dazzling' hero who falls in love with an 'ordinary' girl; what teenage female wouldn't want to be in that situation?
Thing is, Edward is far from perfect, dazzling and certainly doesn't have a patch on Heathcliff - or even Michaelangelo's David, come More...
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Jan 27, 2008
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Oct 15, 2007
Veronica
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I had expectations for this book, but I found it to be a terrible disappointment. Where to begin with?
First of all, I have lost most of the respect I had for Bella as a character. Her obsession for Edward has really gone overboard, to the point of becoming downright annoying, even unhealthy. She worships the ground he walks on, and is all too ready to dump her parents and friends just so she can spend more time with him without growing old. She doesn't seem to have any serious probl More...
First of all, I have lost most of the respect I had for Bella as a character. Her obsession for Edward has really gone overboard, to the point of becoming downright annoying, even unhealthy. She worships the ground he walks on, and is all too ready to dump her parents and friends just so she can spend more time with him without growing old. She doesn't seem to have any serious probl More...
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Dec 17, 2009
Leanna
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I succumbed and read Eclipse. I swear this is the last time I will ever write about Stephenie Meyer. I really am sick and tired of her books. Fortunately, the next won’t be released for a year, so I can put the series behind me for at least that long.
After offending several people with my dislike for the series, I am starting to feel vindicated. Something about the third installment has pushed some Meyer loyalists over the edge. I have heard students at work complaining about how rep More...
After offending several people with my dislike for the series, I am starting to feel vindicated. Something about the third installment has pushed some Meyer loyalists over the edge. I have heard students at work complaining about how rep More...
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Feb 16, 2008
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Dec 17, 2009
Melissa
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My notes to characters in Eclipse:
Bella: I'm so done with you. You're a self-absorbed little snot. You're not a strong modern woman because you don't want to be a teen bride, and you're not cute because you fall down a lot.
Alice: You're so not cute either.
Jacob: What you did is called "date rape," buckaroo. And to think I liked you best until the middle of this book!
Edward: Checking the brood-o-meter... yep, you're still no David Borean More...
Bella: I'm so done with you. You're a self-absorbed little snot. You're not a strong modern woman because you don't want to be a teen bride, and you're not cute because you fall down a lot.
Alice: You're so not cute either.
Jacob: What you did is called "date rape," buckaroo. And to think I liked you best until the middle of this book!
Edward: Checking the brood-o-meter... yep, you're still no David Borean More...
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Jul 29, 2008
Larissa
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Stephenie Meyer should be sending handwritten thank-you notes to every sorry teenager (and masochistic adult) who continues to slog through her Harlequin romp of a series. Were it not for what I will generously term my ‘anthropological interest’ in this ever-popularizing series, I for one would certainly be leading a caravan out to the old country to demand that she return the four and half hours that I lost reading New Moon. Even skimming, I felt robbed.
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So why continue, you ask? We More...
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Feb 02, 2008
Sierra
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Okay, I gave two stars to this book because I kind of hate everything it stands for, but the facts remains the I've read ALL THREE books in this series cover to cover, and always feel a prick of glee when I get my hands on the newest one. I'm not sure what their diabolical pull on me is, and figuring it out would require the kind of self-analysis that would turn up things I'm sure I'd rather not know about. Here's the lowdown: Stephenie Meyer's books are hardcore teen romances with fangs-and-f
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Jun 12, 2008
Julie
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May 11, 2008
Denys L.H.
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This book just made me hate the Twilight series even more. It made me hate Bella and Edward more. Hell, it even made me hate Stephanie Meyer for not double-checking her stupidity all in 629 pages. But I do love Jacob ever so much now. He rules. They suck. End of story. I read the third novel because of my curiosity, and we all know, curiosity killed my brain. This is my review of the novel and my opinion. Anyone who is unhealthily obsessed with Edward or the novel should not be reading this unle
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May 23, 2010
Elizabeth
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I imagine Stephenie Meyer at the high school party of the year; someone's parents are out of town for the weekend, and everyone is going. There she is, leaning against a wall somewhere, holding a cup of what has to be sprite, holding it in front of her like a defense; See, I have something to do. I'm chill. I don't mind that I'm standing here alone. She watches other people talking. There's Robert Louis Stevenson chatting up Mary Shelley, who is watching the door, hoping he will come in. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Dec 17, 2009
Jenne
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Agh. What is the point of any of this? Edward is so dull and controlling and creepy. I think even a seventeen-year-old would need more than unearthly beauty and a nice car to inspire this epic, world-ending love.
Jacob is the only real character, and even he keeps forcing himself on Bella in unsettling ways.
The whole story is endless repetitions of
Character: I'm going to do X.
Other Character: I will not allow it.
Character: (does it anyway)
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Jacob is the only real character, and even he keeps forcing himself on Bella in unsettling ways.
The whole story is endless repetitions of
Character: I'm going to do X.
Other Character: I will not allow it.
Character: (does it anyway)
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Dec 17, 2009
Rachel
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I was very disappointed in this book. I liked Twilight and enjoyed New Moon, but this installment felt like a dime romance novel to me. She didn't introduce any new characters and spent the whole book on the love triangle between Edward, Bella, and Jacob. I felt like the love scenes were cheesy and tiresome. I also felt that Bella was whiney and initiating. Doesn't she understand that she can't have 2 boyfriends? This seems to be a foreign concept to her. In addition, Meyer has taken Bella
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Dec 07, 2011
Lissa
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**spoilers for Wuthering Heights, Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn**
"From the Pride and Prejudice-like coming together through a series of misunderstandings and misinterpretations of feelings keeping the pair apart in Twilight, to the Romeo and Juliet star-crossed lovers story and close-to-tragic moment in New Moon, to the love triangle in Eclipse and its parallels to Wuthering Heights, the Twilight saga is an homage to these great love stories and works of literat More...
"From the Pride and Prejudice-like coming together through a series of misunderstandings and misinterpretations of feelings keeping the pair apart in Twilight, to the Romeo and Juliet star-crossed lovers story and close-to-tragic moment in New Moon, to the love triangle in Eclipse and its parallels to Wuthering Heights, the Twilight saga is an homage to these great love stories and works of literat More...
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Feb 16, 2008
Holly (2 Kids and Tired)
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It's finished. At least until the next, highly anticipated book. That book that is the beacon of hope to every disillusioned, silly, teenage girl who believes Edward really exists. Here's a bit of education for you: he doesn't. And even if he did, he wouldn't be interested in a selfish, self-absorbed, teenage girl.
My reviews of Twilight and New Moon still stand. Neither one was stellar, let alone worth the hype. I also think it's as if she wasted two books to get to this one. Ecl More...
My reviews of Twilight and New Moon still stand. Neither one was stellar, let alone worth the hype. I also think it's as if she wasted two books to get to this one. Ecl More...
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Jul 07, 2011
Jessica
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I tried to like "Eclipse." I really did. However, I just couldn't get into it. First, it's way too long. Major events don't really happen until the last fourth of the book. The rest is basically a love triangle drama. Additionally, it's patently obvious to the reader that Victoria is behind the killings in Seattle from the beginning. I mean, are the characters in this book really that shortsighted?
This book also solidified my complete dislike of Bella. One of the incredibly More...
This book also solidified my complete dislike of Bella. One of the incredibly More...
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Feb 01, 2012
Beth F.
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I would like to have children at some point. And if they are female children and if Twilight is still popular when they become teenagers (one never knows) I’m going to pull a mean mom act and forbid them from reading anything from this series UNTIL they’ve read “I Capture the Castle” first, which I think is one of those books that every girl who is or any woman who ever was a teenage girl must read. Fantastic, fantastic book. If you haven’t read it, I urge you to do so.
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Feb 25, 2009
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Jul 20, 2010
Pandasurya
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Eclipse,
Adakah takaran yang pantas dalam cinta?
Kau mencintaiku lebih dari yang pantas kuterima (h. 559)
Love is Forever..(Muse, Neutron Star Collision)
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Hanya mereka yang mau membaca dengan fair dan tanpa pretensi menghakimi lebih dulu akan bilang bahwa ini novel bagus. Yup, sekali lagi, novel ini cukup bagus. Silakan saja buat mereka yang sudah baca Twilight Saga dan kecewa berat dengan cerita sosok vampir di buku inih. Mereka yang berharap menemu More...
Adakah takaran yang pantas dalam cinta?
Kau mencintaiku lebih dari yang pantas kuterima (h. 559)
Love is Forever..(Muse, Neutron Star Collision)
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Hanya mereka yang mau membaca dengan fair dan tanpa pretensi menghakimi lebih dulu akan bilang bahwa ini novel bagus. Yup, sekali lagi, novel ini cukup bagus. Silakan saja buat mereka yang sudah baca Twilight Saga dan kecewa berat dengan cerita sosok vampir di buku inih. Mereka yang berharap menemu More...
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Jul 08, 2010
Morgan
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Nov 16, 2007
Amber
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Despite what I'm about to say - let me first start off by saying that all three of the Stephanie Meyers books are probably worth of a quick read. The first two Twilight and Eclipse are easy to obsess over. Plus because you get hooked on the first two - you'll probably just need to finish the series....
In the first two books the crush you develop on Edward so intense and pungent that it blinds you to the mediocrity of Meyer's proficiency as a writer. It's even enough to allow you to o More...
In the first two books the crush you develop on Edward so intense and pungent that it blinds you to the mediocrity of Meyer's proficiency as a writer. It's even enough to allow you to o More...
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Jul 13, 2010
Amanda
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Disconcertingly engrossing.
Why disconcertingly? Let's start with the engrossing and work back from there.
I'll give it to Meyers for getting into the plot much more quickly than she has in the past. I mean the plot that actually has something to do with the climax. This time I felt like there was quality build-up to the big ending; whereas in the last two books it felt as though she got two-thirds of the way thru and said, "Oh crap, I need something to actually More...
Why disconcertingly? Let's start with the engrossing and work back from there.
I'll give it to Meyers for getting into the plot much more quickly than she has in the past. I mean the plot that actually has something to do with the climax. This time I felt like there was quality build-up to the big ending; whereas in the last two books it felt as though she got two-thirds of the way thru and said, "Oh crap, I need something to actually More...
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Mar 28, 2008
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Nov 14, 2011
I drive past a church on my way to work and they always have a poster up with something breezily Biblical, and today's poster said this :
THE SON'S SHINE ECLIPSES TWILIGHT
Genius!
I was speechless all morning.
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Lost Photo Opportunities No. 87 : yesterday me and Georgia were walking to town to watch The Karate Kid (which was pretty good, but I digress). We come up to the church where this damned poster is STILL sh More...
THE SON'S SHINE ECLIPSES TWILIGHT
Genius!
I was speechless all morning.
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Lost Photo Opportunities No. 87 : yesterday me and Georgia were walking to town to watch The Karate Kid (which was pretty good, but I digress). We come up to the church where this damned poster is STILL sh More...
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Dec 07, 2011
i watched the film version of this the other night, and i have to say that i was impressed. i kept the sound off because the dialogue didn't seem too great, but i could still see that this was a very positive and open-minded film. i love how much time Bella spends with her best friend, the pec-tastic gym boy who turns into a friendly gay wolf. and it's awesome that a film for teens can include a group of constantly shirtless gay kids running around in jean shorts, flexing and showing off their c
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Apr 22, 2011
Becky
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Alright, I admit it. I'm hooked. Yeah, I'm surprised too, because I said that I was going to keep my "Reserving Judgement" hat on. But, oddly enough, in the 6 days that I was forced to wait for Eclipse, I couldn't stop thinking about the story. Try as I might, it lodged itself in my head and just stood there, daring me to try to read something else, even something as exciting as I usually find Grisham. (Sorry, Grisham.)
Those 6 days also convinced me that as many issues as I More...
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Jul 26, 2008
Sarah
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polyamory (and a big dash of feminism) would solve these people's problems like THAT!
seriously though, this book is ridiculous and pretentious (CONSTANT wuthering heights references, anyone?). what is WRONG with bella? is it *really* necessary to make her so stupid just so that we'll "relate" to her? it's insulting. also, for an idiotic book, i actually really liked jacob (notice the deliberate use of the past-tense, here). he was the only *real* character in the entire tom More...
seriously though, this book is ridiculous and pretentious (CONSTANT wuthering heights references, anyone?). what is WRONG with bella? is it *really* necessary to make her so stupid just so that we'll "relate" to her? it's insulting. also, for an idiotic book, i actually really liked jacob (notice the deliberate use of the past-tense, here). he was the only *real* character in the entire tom More...
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Oct 12, 2007
Britt
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I just finished all three of the books in this series and I loved them. They connected with me on a very personal level, considering they are about vampires and werewolves. :) There were so many little details that I appreciated and could relate to about being a teenager, it kind of brought me back there. It was fun to look at that from an adult perspective. The intial infatuations and giddiness that come from first love and the intense feelings and confusions that it causes in a teenage mind a
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Dec 17, 2009
Melissa
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As an avid fan of both Twilight and New Moon, I found Eclipse a little disappointing. I appreciate the new perspective Meyer was going for, but don't think it was achieved.
Yes, we get new stories straight from Jasper's and Rosalie's mouths. But what was the point? After investing however many pages to both stories and developing those characters, they don't speak or have any significance to the plot for the next 400 pages. It was wasteful.
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Yes, we get new stories straight from Jasper's and Rosalie's mouths. But what was the point? After investing however many pages to both stories and developing those characters, they don't speak or have any significance to the plot for the next 400 pages. It was wasteful.
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