The first book would have been OK if it had been shortened by about half. It was way to long with pages filled up concerning Bellas thoughts about her beautiful Edward. It could have been a good book if it was faster paced and less mushy. With the first and second book of the series condensed into one shorter book. I read it but I am not crazy about it like I am Carmilla, or Dracula. I am reading my first series book. All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris author of HBOs TrueBloods and it looks pretty good.

Twilight simply is not all that. It is one of those wierd books were the moivie is better than the book. Jenefer should have stopped with one book. But she wrote more books to make money. The first book is way to long,blah,blah. Yup Twilight was sad. I had such high expectations. I guess because it made the New York best seller list. Then I read it and realized it needed an editor to edit out all the pages of boring crap. Twilight shold be about 1/3 the length it is and no sequals should have been written.

olala cary..
u'll be hate by all the fans of twilight.
they said that books are great!
but, it just the opinion btw

My intent was not to piss anybody off. But the topic is Twilight and I had to say someting honest. I enjoyed the book. But like I said it needed allot edited out to shorten it so it would keep your interest.

no offense to all the twiluvers here, but i personally think twilight is a big peice of crap

Cool because the Twilight people have there own group if you look at the different sections in Vampire Lovers. None of them here. There are a lot of books I hate as much as Twilight. All the teenage vampire in highschool books suck so bad. Anne Rice is only barely tolerable. Old school gothic short stories rule, Dracula, Carmilla, Sookie Stackhouse, and You Suck by Michael Moore. Those are the vamp books I like.

i need too read carmilla after im through with dracula... i just like the darker kinds of stories in general...

Yeah, me too. I suggest Salem's Lot by Stephen King if you haven't read it already. That's my favorite vampire book.

ok...

Carmilla is dark believe me. It is never reavealed how Carmilla became a vampire. She only says "It was because of a cruel love." So I would suppose some male vampire killed her and turned her. Carmilla is dark in a real classy kind of way. Salems Lot is not bad. But it's more gross than dark. The vamps become vamps to easy. They get bit once and they are a vamp. Hell the whole world would be overun with vamps if it was that easy. In Dracula it requires blood exchange. Dracula drinks from his victims and they in turn drink of his blood. So every one Dracula bites does not go runing off turned into a vamp, LOL. Certain ghostly laws apply in Gothic folk lore to create a vamp. You have to commit a sin deemed excommuntication by the Catholic Church or be turned by another vamp. Since accepting life eteranl is an excommuntiction. There you have it. Dracula raised himself from the dead. For doing which God turned Dracula into a vampire. Only God can grant everylasting life. If you read The Phantom World written in 1850 by Antoine Calmet. It has parts of the first book ever written on Romainian vampires called The Magia Posthuma, written 1700. It elaborates upon this point. Only God may grant everlasting life. Jesus raised Lazurus through the power of God. No one but God can grant everlasting life. To try to do so with the aid of the devil or black magic. Will cause God in heavin to lay his vengance down, and turn you Vampire.

kool... i just hope my mom wont look at me funny if i check it out from the library like she did when i checked out dracula... LOL
this might sound wierd, but thanks for the info, im trying to write a vamp story right now, but at the moment, im looking for like 'facts' i guess you could say, more than writting...

Yeah, I'm writing one as well. I guess I need to do more research. ^_^

You either do research or make up your own vampire mythos like the one in Twilight. You can see how far that flew. Like a rock! LOL.

well, id really like to stick w/ most of the facts, i mean, i really want to keep my vampires, well 'vampireish'... the main one is already slitting throats, and THEN drinking blood...

Yeah, mine have a pretty unique background on how the vampires came to be, and I kinda explained a few things. Like why vampires have to sleep in coffins, how they got their supernatural powers, and a few other things I forgot. ^_^

o wow, mines about a vampire serial killer in 1800's london!

That sounds really cool. :D

lol, ty, so does urs

Ok Dylan why do vampires have to sleep in coffins. In the early days most poeple could not afford coffins and were simply buried in a winding sheet in a hole in the ground. This is from the Phantom World by Augustine Calmet circa 1750 is a book concerning vampires and witchcraft and their relation to God and relgeon. The last part of this book is stright up a about vampires. The first part is about magic, daemons, Angels, and such other stuff and how it relates to God.