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I've never even picked up the darned book until now because I don't get to go to book shops as much as I like. Just hearing about it from two of my friends set my against it for two reasons.
1. Logic dictates that anything loved by huge masses of teenage girls is not good.
2. Sparkley Vampires
I am a bit of a Vampire purist. I like it when Vampires stick to what vampires are. Now I do agree with the fangirls when the say "Vampires are fantasy, you can do whatever you want with them." Now that is only partially true. You can only edit them so much. If you edit them to far you basically saying a mouse is a lion.
Now, I could go on to list every little thing that makes the books annoying and evil but I'm not. I just view it as an all around disgrace to literature and Meyer as a disgrace to Authors everywhere.
Seriously, her book get's leaked on the web and she throws a gigantic fit. I've never heard of a best selling author doing that.

Like Nara, I do prefer adult books, have done since I was ten years old reading Stephen King.
But I love my vampys so I picked up Twilight and like Rayne, fell madly in love.
But after reading the third book, I really began to wonder. Jacob forced himself on Bella and...just everything became clear after that when the author made it seem like it was all right for him to do that.

Then I realized how crap the series was. I took the last book out from the library for a laugh and skipped most parts it was that boring.

But special babies don't interest me at all... confused

Being a writer myself, it offended me that something this crap can get published.

Soooo yeah, the Black Dagger Brotherhood wins hands down talk2hand

Dont worry about this chick ^^^^^ shes just plain lame.... lol xd

I only read the books because two girls i like said they were good and I had previous good recomendations from them. Now I read these books and even thought they were good because i skipped over any part about them being sparkley(?) but when I got done I was, and am, so disappointed with the series that I want to burn the books everytime I see them. One problem is that the Borders I go to has a whole collection set up in the front and I actually have to look away.

This is the main thing that scares me. To see all of this continue, going stronger than ever. I wanted to lock a 22 year old in a closet for driving up to where they are shooting new moon. Instead of spending easter with family, she just took of on her own to Canada. Granted its bout 4-5 hours away, which ain't bad, but she had been trying to convince me for weeks to go with her. I made the mistake of showing her the pics I had seen of the cast chain smoking and she read where they were doing the shoots. Yep, the craze is sickening and horrifying. I cannot even fathom what could be running thru their veins but cold, black sludge for all the ink of the pages they've injested to become so deranged. Yes I think some of these girls sleep with their books like bibles, holding it close to them as they fantasise of being the "luckiest girl in the world" with "the best undead man ever".
So I am reading the series after all the horrid things I have heard. I watched the movie, for the most part I pick it apart for the director being a ditz, but overall have that side in me that does enjoy Romeo and Juliet stories. After making it half way thru the first book, I do see the bad writing but do also see where it is drawing in all the hopeless romantics. Yep, as I read I turn to see my man next to me and know that the words in front of me are a far fetched hope in bliss that even with the hardest attempts will never be fullfilled.
I do hope that they hurry, pump out the rest of the movies, and meyer stays away from continuing this with the "thru Edwards eye's" saga crap. I beg she just takes her money and vannishes. ( I doubt it will ever happen crying )