Comments on: Review: Twilight, Stephenie Meyer [TSS]

By: Nish

Nish — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:36:44 +0000

I too hated Twilight. I did end up reading the rest of the series but that was purely for “completeness” sake. Somehow, the whole thing was just too mushy for me.

My review is up at:

http://nishitak.wordpress.com/2008/11/08/twilight-book-review/

By: Garner Woods

Garner Woods — Thu, 21 May 2009 05:24:43 +0000

http://famouspick.blogspot.com/2009/02/stephenie-meyer-author-twilight-series.html

By: Garner Woods

Garner Woods — Thu, 21 May 2009 05:24:12 +0000

People often ask me for Stephenie Meyer’s favorite books of all time, now I’ve included her favorite books on my blog. Feel free to visit

Garner @ http://famouspick.blogspot.com

By: d24

d24 — Tue, 12 May 2009 04:53:42 +0000

Twilight is the shittest excuse for a ‘novel’.

By: Kooritsuki

Kooritsuki — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:09:40 +0000

I loved Twilight myself, but I can see where you are coming from. My biggest problem with the book was that I didn’t understand why or how they fell in love with each other, as I have wrote in my blog post for Twilight. However, I still love Edward. True, he is creepy, true he is a stalker to a degree, but I guess it’s just his unconditional love towards Bella that made me love him so much. Although, it’s not great writing by Stephenie Meyer, but she got me finishing the whole series in 5 days (I had 5 days off in a row), and that’s pretty amazing for me, whereas compared to Harry Potter, I couldn’t even finish the first book, or motivated to go see any of its movies past the first one. I’m not saying it’s bad, but it’s just not something I like… So I guess for me, it’s “yay” for Twilight and “nay” for Harry Potter.

Kooritsuki’s last blog post..Dark Desire by Christine Feehan

By: S. Krishna

S. Krishna — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:42:09 +0000

I think you are spot on about Twilight – I completely agree!

By: Nakki

Nakki — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:08:06 +0000

Hi Megs

Oh my all consuming dislike for the Twilight series knows no bounds. I first read twilight, new moon, and eclipse two summers ago while I worked at NASA. I was working my way through YA section at Borders after work and at the time the Twilight series was only tiny blip on my radar. I read it, found it passably entertaining with no re-readability, rather badly written and lacking decent characterization. But it was by no means the worst thing I had read so far, and only stuck out for the ridiculousness of Sparkley Vampires!

It was only when Twilight fever began to overrun all my livejournal communities later that year that I began to take notice of it again and it just disgusted me. To start off, Bella is completely ridiculous main character. She tells us she’s so boring and plain, and yet none of the boys can keep their eyes off her. And I can’t help but feel this character is a complete Mary Sue for the author (in the same way Anita Blake is for LKHamilton). And I feel a lot of the authors personal beliefs about “true love” come through in the Bella/Edward relationship which just seemed completely unhealthy and disgusting to me (you’ll see how unhealthy it is in the 2nd book).

My biggest problem with the series is the overall theme. “Girls, if you want boys to like you, you have to make a complete and irrevocable change to who you are.” Because that is what vampirism is: giving up everything that makes you who you are. I was really hoping that Bella wouldn’t become a vampire, that she’d live out her days as a human, find a nice human guy, and retain a platonic relationship with Edward till she died. But of course that wasn’t gonna happen Or if she chose to become a vampire because some aspect of the unlife appealed to her. but no, she changed for a guy and that was it.

And Breaking Dawn *shudder* I have never been so violently nauseated by a scene in a book. Which isn’t to give Meyer’s props for her writing, but for the sick and demented way her mind works. The fact that she attempted to Romanticize the scenes she did in Breaking Dawn is just…ugh.

Anyways, yeah. I’m sorry, I’m totally ranting on your journal I’ll stop now.

By: Kay

Kay — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:06:59 +0000

I love Twilight Nevertheless I think each is entitled to his/her own opinion so I am definitely not trying to show you that you are wrong or anything.

Here are my reviews of all the five books in the series (where I mainly state again and again how perfect Edward is ):
http://www.kaysbookshelf.com/search?q=stephenie+meyer

By: Eva

Eva — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 04:57:08 +0000

I didn’t like Edward either-their relationship felt abusive. I’m like you: I liked it but didn’t love it. And I have no interest in reading the rest of the series. So you’re not the only one!

By: Meghan

Meghan — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:24:11 +0000

I somehow never thought about Edward’s all-consuming love for Bella as being so attractive to teens – I mostly figured that it was his “bad boy” image. Can totally see that now, even though many of the ways he goes about showing that are very creepy. I guess I have never really wanted to be obsessed over; as much as I love the man I’m marrying, if I woke up to him watching me sleep I’d be freaked out and I wouldn’t want him following me around to make sure I wasn’t hurt. I see Edward as the kind of guy who sticks a GPS on Bella’s car to monitor where she is at all times. I definitely dislike being smothered and I think maybe that’s part of my own aversion to Edward. I don’t think I want to be anyone’s life. Never would have thought of that on my own. See, I knew I started this for a reason. Now I know even more why Edward isn’t my type! =) I can see how he would be someone else’s, even if that still bothers me (sorry Chayenne!).

I do think the book was enjoyable as YA fluff, it isn’t that I disliked reading it, I just didn’t love it. And it mostly got me thinking because it’s such an influence these days. Stephenie Meyer is now the favorite author of tons of teens. I mentioned to a doctor that I was a reader and he told me his 10 year old daughter was one, too, and that she was really into Twilight. Is this what reading is now? I see many, many people reading these books on the bus and the library has an undetermined wait for the books because there are so many holds. Since we all read widely around here, seeing your responses has been fascinating! I know we all wrote reviews, but just comparing what you think to what I think has definitely given me a perspective I’ll bring into the rest of the series. Thank you!