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Julie
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Jan 15, 2008 02:34PM

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I'm treated to the reading journals. You know. The usual sort of thing in America: Girl falls for vampire. Girl falls for werewolf. Girl must make a bloody choice. Girl creates a hairy situation. And so forth.
Vampires are hot in YA, that's for sure. I try to tell them Bram Stoker's DRACULA is a great book, but who has time for THAT when there are so many hot (apparently) vampires and werewolves loping around in YA circles?
No one said teaching is easy (checks window for full moon...).



I really liked the series. I finished Eclipse a few months before Breaking Dawn came out, so it was good timing.
Now the movies are a different story. I can enjoy the movies as long as I forget about the books. To me, the books are so much better.



The rights have been sold to SHIVER, too, and I don't know what I think about that. I actually liked that book more than TWILIGHT and while I enjoy the Twilight movies, they are not the books. A screwed up movie version of SHIVER would just be a total crime.

I used to be a proud skeptic of Twilght when a read it a year ago, but after I saw Vampires Suck (a great movie) I decided to try them again. Now, as impossible as it might have seemed to me a year ago, I love them. I can see the flaws in it clearly, but I am only a teenage girl, not a 58 year old book critic. The movies are horrible when compared to the books. I think it was mostly Kirsten Stewart's fault though. But the bottom line is, can someone ship me the rest of the series because I love it!

Vampire Sucks was pretty funny. The actress who plays Becca Crane definitely had Kristen Stewart down.
What it comes down to is that there are so many great YA books out there. If Twilight leads them to other books, great. But the people who are obsessed to the point where they think its real need a wake up call.
She did definitely got Kirsten Stewart down. I mean the whole twitchy thing, and putting the hair back, how she talked and her expressions, it was perfect.

As Newengland said it is your typical: Girl meets boy, girl falls for boy, boy turns out to be blood sucking vampire, but don't worry he only drinks animal blood so it's okay.
Personally, for me, the last book was an outright disappointment. It lacked a good fight scene, non of this wishy washy 'oh nevermind, we'll leave you alone then'.
For what they were (angsty teenage romance) they're okay. I was dragged to see Twilight, now there's two hours i won't get back, maybe in a few years when the world has forgotten the Twilight Hype i might watch the next one's, but for now... theres only so much self inflicted punishment a person can take!

The problem I had with her series was that with each new novel published, the more I found myself disappointed. I also worried about losing my eyesight from all the eye-rolling I was doing.
Frankly, there are tons of better written and solid YA series out there to enjoy, but the first Twilight novel holds a small spot in my heart for being what it was, at a certain time in my life, 6 years ago.
Well I think we can all agree, whether we liked to books or not, that the movies were terrible and far worse than the books.

The movies are worse than the books, but what movie can possibly capture the intricate story weaved in a book.

Twilight is like a gateway book for people to get into YA!


But did she constantly lick her lips? jk:)

Tracy you took the words right out of my mouth.


Oh yeah. I read Midnight Sun, and I loved it.



I'm trying to bury it back into the recesses of my brain.

I'm trying to bury it back into the recesses of my brain."
Ha! I feel your pain Wendy :)

Twilight is like a gateway book for people to get into YA!"
I truly hate the book. It turned me OFF of YA until my co-worker suggested some good titles, now I'm hooked again.

I would appreciate any book that brought so many people to a love of reading as Twilight has even if I didn't care for it myself.

I actually had a woman come in last week who liked Twilight b/c she usually reads books in a different language. Twilight was easy enough for her to understand that she wanted more like it. Her son and I had a wonderful time choosing some more simplistic YA books out for her with lots of dialogue.
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Brittany (finally graduated and can once again read for fun)
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As much as I despise Kristen Stewart I will still be at every opening night screaming along with the teenagers. Sigh.





… I guess I have kind of an odd view on the Twilight books. But in a strange way, I do like them.

Still, I wouldn't wipe them off the shelves, lol. I do not believe in lit censorship. It's just an opinion.

Haha same. I hate censorship :P

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In the book, this scene is completely skipped. I might actually watch the movie after all.
No, I'm joking.
But... Damn, it looks like he's going to break everything in there. Adn when you think his skin feels like marble.

I think most, if not all, are real. Summit started removing them claiming copyright infringement.

The movies are quite bad but that doesn't stop me from owning all of them :)