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Twilight

By Stephenie Meyer

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| Paperback | 9781905654345

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Grade 9 Up–When Bella Swan moves from sunny Phoenix to Forks, Washington, a damp and dreary town known for the most rainfall in the United States, to live with her dad, she isnt expecting to like it. But the level of hostility displayed by her standoffish high school biology lab partner, Edward CullContinue

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Twilight

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12 people find this helpful

Anne Rice still rules!

This is a total waste of time. You're better off reading Anne Rice's books if you're interested in the vampire genre of literature. She at least has the decency to give her characters some strength of character, and not be all needy like Bella.

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guiltlessreader aka screamingbanshee said on Mar 1, 2009 about the Hardcover edition | 2 feedbacks

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"OMG! My boyfriend is a Vampire!"

Maybe I'm just too 30 for this...but I found almost all the book deadly boring. Until the last pages (or - as I was listening to the audio-book - the last chapters) almost nothing happens: Bella understands things the reader guesses from the beginning with a painstakingly slow pace. Half of the dial ... (continue)

Maybe I'm just too 30 for this...but I found almost all the book deadly boring. Until the last pages (or - as I was listening to the audio-book - the last chapters) almost nothing happens: Bella understands things the reader guesses from the beginning with a painstakingly slow pace. Half of the dialogues of the book consists of lines like "I love you - No, you shouldn't - My love is dangerous - But I love you all the same - But you shouldn't, I'm a monster"...aka, the same things you told (or were told) to that girl/boy (presumably not a vampire) you were just not that into in your highschool years.
The characters are not bad, and the vampires have always their lot of charm: what it's missing here is a proper plot and, above all, a bit of humor. All this romance with a touch of b-movie/pulp-ishness ("OMG! My boyfriend is a Vampire!") could have been real fun.
Let's hope for the next ones..

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ishmael said on Nov 11, 2008 about the Audio CD edition | Add your feedback

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I am a high school teacher

Since I teach high school, I felt obligated to read this series. I never would have paid for them (the box set is RIDICULOUSLY expensive), and they are never available in the library... BUT I have a dear friend in the publishing business (she gives me ALL my books!) who hooked me up with the collect ... (continue)

Since I teach high school, I felt obligated to read this series. I never would have paid for them (the box set is RIDICULOUSLY expensive), and they are never available in the library... BUT I have a dear friend in the publishing business (she gives me ALL my books!) who hooked me up with the collector set. I read them so as to be better able to relate to my teenage students.
It was easy and sort of fun to read, though I found the descriptions tedious at times. I also loathed the main character. She happens to be the exact one that my female students so strongly relate to. Well, I guess I am almost 30 and the teenage angst seems melodramatic and overdone to me.
Oh well... I read all 4 in the series. If you like vampires and wish you could date one, then this is the series for you.
Also if you think secretly you are NOT actually a boring, average human with no special skills or talents, then you may relate to Bella. Ugh.

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Tisha808 said on Jan 20, 2009 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

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di certo non è un capolavoro della letteratura mondiale..

.ma che dire?!?!?!
mi ha inchiodata al mio tablet, ho passato una notte intera a leggere, non riuscivo a smettere..e per di più sentivo le farfalle nello stomaco..insomma..mi sono sentita una quindicenne, rapita in modo assoluta e perdutamente innamorata di Edward

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Oletta said on Feb 6, 2012 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

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Non mi ha mai entusiasmato Twilight. L'ho letto su consiglio di un'amica che era rimasta folgorata e sinceramente non ho capito il motivo di tanto entusiasmo. Ok, il vampiro è affascinante, bellissimo, aristocratico, perfetto in tutto e per tutto (a parte l'ansia da "protezione" che diventa oggettiv ... (continue)

Non mi ha mai entusiasmato Twilight. L'ho letto su consiglio di un'amica che era rimasta folgorata e sinceramente non ho capito il motivo di tanto entusiasmo. Ok, il vampiro è affascinante, bellissimo, aristocratico, perfetto in tutto e per tutto (a parte l'ansia da "protezione" che diventa oggettivamente asfissiante). Ma Bella? Io non la sopporto. E' passiva, indecisa, la sua unica fissazione è Edward, non ha sogni, ambizioni, passioni. Si insiste sulla goffaggine e sul fatto che rischia di morire ogni santo giorno finché non viene da esclamare: "E basta, falla finita!" Insomma si capisce che l'autrice ha giocato sulla seduzione del "vorrei ma non posso", "se mi avvicino ti uccido", colpendo proprio nel punto giusto: il desiderio e la paura del sesso negli adolescenti. L'ha fatto con stile e furbizia, certo, quindi si capisce perché tanti ci siano cascati, rendendo questo libro la summa del romanticismo nel nuovo millennio. Ma se si prova a leggere il romanzo con un minimo di oggettività, si scoprono tanti di quei difetti che non possono passare inosservati. Non ultimo, lo stile a volte davvero ripetitivo della Meyer, che usa dieci frasi per esprimere un solo concetto: che Edward è bellissimo. Molto intrigante invece l'atmosfera di Forks, con il mare e la foresta, intrisa di significati simbolici. E ottima l'idea di riprendere la mitologia dei vampiri reinterpretandola in una chiave teen.

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Meri said on Feb 2, 2012 | Add your feedback

Si bien es elogiable la tecnica con la que cuenta la autora para escribir y para empalmar los hechos que se narran,la historia es pobre,los personajes son,por momentos,hasta bizarros y las situaciones son puramente cliches.

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Marce Picon said on Jan 31, 2012 | Add your feedback