Twilight is Awesomely Bad Teenybopper Trash

• I never understood the point of throwing in vampires into this horribly cliched high school romance. Or the werewolves that were obviously an afterthought of Meyer's.

• Anti-twilight Anonymous I respect your words. I WAS a serious vampire fan a few years ago that was destroyed from the instant that I have had the disgrace of reading the morbid creation Twilight. Can there be a vampire novel within a sappy romantic cliche hidden within? It makes me ashamed that there are entire groups of people (with their varying ages) who are such fanatics for something they obviously did not know much about. It makes me even more ashamed that I ever liked vampires as much as I did. Vampires Used to have a sexual allure to draw in their prey. They Used to be one of the ultimate predators. Now a days vampires are gentle and kind. In the end what has Meyer done? She has buried the fact that vampires were these vicious murderous creatures! Instead she has convinced everyone that the damned will love even the biggest fool. To rule out the only argument Twilight fans seem to have is that I HAVE read all the books. I study English and Literature, I know what I'm talking about when I say that some books are a pain to get through and Twilight is no exception. Opinions are different and you are free to to be freaks over Twilight to your hearts content. However, before you accuse all of us for our discontent for Twilight, it seems to you we all seem to have this strange ability where we do not know what a good book is. When you build an argument against a stranger how can you claim something like this as a fact? It is a good thing that I am not the only one who sees the negative impact Twilight has had, so the question is... Are we the ones who are insane? Or are we the only ones who are sane? I'd count down the days for the Twilight craze to end. We can only hope it will. Now the curtain rises to all the Twilight haters; I am not only female, I am also eighteen years of age, who detests Twilight with a passion. Not all teenagers are as blind as you would like to believe. My rant has come to a conclusion... if you read through all of it I am impressed. P.S. SANITY PREVAILS. Interesting enough, I like the name. Do forgive me for tweaking it to my own fashion.

• lost my g/f to this bull. actually watched the movie with her and i must say that the hospital scene when ol' eddie tells bella she should move away is some of the worst acting i have ever seen. her reaction was just painful to watch. just terrible. dont get me wrong, if ur a 14/f this will help you get though puburty no prob. but if your a SERIOUS vampire fan beware. and no i havent read the book, but have opened the book to random pages, and each time i wasnt impressed. girls get sucked in right away by the first few lines of the book and by the end they have that "butterfly feeling" and moist undergarments. BOTTOM LINE- TWILIGHT: THE WORST THING TO HAPPEN TO VAMPIRES SINCE GARLIC

• Anonymous: You're pathetic. (And the reason you must like the books is because you cannot speak/type proper English and thus cannot recognize it yourself.) Twilight Fan: You're pathetic, too. twilight fan: You're pathetic, but you're forgiven because your brainstem has not fully connected yet and, thus, you're too young to know better. Twilight fans everywhere, unless they're not rabid: You're all pathetic. Twilight, the book: It's pathetic. Characterization= none. Character development= none. Plot= substandard, cliche, etc. Need I go on?

• <p>With the growing number of copies sold and the newly produced movie based on the book, the Twilight series has stirred up the literature world and entertainment circle with its popularity and fame. So much applauding and cheering heard, has anyone ever pondered on the negative effect the Twilight series may have on our young generations � the future of tomorrow�s world? Has anyone ever questioned our media on where it is leading our young adults to?</p> <p>As an ordinary mom of a twelve year old daughter, I am very concerned and astonished by the fact that the Twilight series have been promoted among and embraced by young girls with a wide age range from under 10 to up to 20. Even though the author is very effective in setting the story plot and suspense (the whole story is full of rises and falls, enticing readers to continue), I feel it is very much lack of literature beauty. If you look at all the descriptions of the main character, vampire Edward Cullen, it�s basically a pile of pretty words used repetitively. The author simply strings together ornate phrases to promote a so called beautiful image. Even my twelve year old daughter thinks the author is lack of vocabulary in this aspect. And I also think it�s bizarre and offensive to describe a vampire as �godly� and �angle-like�. Not to offend the actor in the movie, but the image of Edward portrayed on the screen � the icy cold and deadly look, the gloomy and shadowy face, etc. � is definitely not the kind of uplifting and bright model we want our young adults imitate and follow. Unfortunately, our media has lured our young people into believing this is called �cool and attractive.�</p> <p>The lack of literature beauty is also shown in the fact that the books merely use intensive descriptions to stimulate readers� senses and imagination of possible sexual sensations. Young readers are crazy about this so called �love� story, where as it is not love at all. An analytical look at the two main characters easily tells that it is more of pornographic desire, lust, even though sex is not explicitly and directly depicted. Edward is originally attracted to Bella by her blood, a pure animal attraction. Later, without any foundation, he �fell in love� with her � was it her appearance? We don�t know. The author intends to promote him as a heroic character by describing how hard he tries to refrain him from having sex with Bella. But he controls his desire because he is afraid he ends up tearing Bella apart and eating her flesh and blood. There is no moral lesson taught here. A look at Bella, she is much worse a character for our young adult readers. She is drawn to Edward by his appearance -- telling people outside appearance is more than inside beauty; she does not care that they are not the common type, even when it means forbidden, dangerous, and dark relationship. Is this something we want to teach our children about love? She looks up to Edward in a way that makes herself inferior (he is godly, angel-like, so beautiful�) and she can barely control herself from having sex with Edward -- totally lack of self confidence and lack of self respect, and a victim of lust for pornography. If the Twilight series is trying to tell a love story, it is a VERY UNHEALTHY and dark love relationship, let alone to speak about the later development of a triangle love relation involving vampire, werewolf and human. Unfortunately, young adult readers, especially pre-teens, still have a difficult time separating real life from fantasies, and can easily accept the wrong messages and/or subconsciously follow the wrong models from this book series and the movie.</p> <p>I give a thumb up to those publishers who have rejected this book, as some of them must have thought about the moral responsibility they shoulder. Our media is a very important educational tool for the mass population, especially our young people who are the future of our world. You are responsible for shaping the future of our world by influencing our children today! It is shocking to see that the Twilight book series have been translated into so many languages and are gaining world-wide attention among young readers, this can only mean one thing: our world is sick! It is the media that can spread the disease or cure the disease. And this is the reason that I would like to share my concerns and my voice, and hope my sharing can raise attention and concerns for our children.</p>

• I can't wait for this disgusting Twilight phase to end. (The movie contains lines like "You're like my own personal brand of heroin.� (Unreal is ashamed that we could not remember this bit of immortal dialogue from the book.)) After you see enough bad quotes on IMDB, you get to learn the exact line from the book is "You're exactly my type of heroin". Ugh. That's sick. I would never want a boyfriend like that. I like my people with personality, thank you.

• Many females claim to know beauty but they certainly will never find it in these books especially not this movie, You go on reading your trashy novels fulfilling some sordid fantasies then you impose a set of rules on your male partner which you extracted from the entire collection of weak stories such as this, And when you�ve weeviled like a little bug around a relationship eating anything that resembled that man before But you never devote your self to the this one you must eat another once you�ve had your fill of this man and he is destroyed you continue on destroying real emotion replacing it with your pathetic thoughts of what an emotion should be when to feel it and how to feel it from your ridiculous notions you created from the collection you have on your shelf, Some of you may not even get this far setting a standard so high that no one can even get close to you that it becomes even impossible to have a conversation because your to busy asking if they have read this book and are completely fanatical to the point of you cut your self and identify the pain as your emotion with a physical presence and then your dye your hair black buy black clothes and live in a 1 bedroom apartment by your self then you hit 30 buy a cat become increasingly overweight working the same job you�ve been in since High school blaming men for all your problems tho not really knowing any men and people laugh at your weight problem which then increases your need for more food so haha

• Well a female person i know who be 28 and i the same said come see come see so i did, I fell asleep 2 times this is its not an adult movie unless your just a teen girl on the inside, FACTS 2 out of 2 guys will fall asleep watching this movie 2 times Its all about girls getting more than over protected and what they want and treated nicely really fast its like a takeaway of niceness and it made me sick females want to much how about a packet of razors and a warm tub of water, All females only think of is them selves i care not for your superficial intentions liars

• Well my house mate who be 28 and i the same said come see come see i did i fell asleep 2 times its not an adult movie unless your just a teen girl inside 2 out of 2 guys will fall asleep watching this movie 2 times its all about girls getting more than over protected and treated nicely fast its like a takeaway of niceness and it made me sick females want to much how about a packet of razors and a warm tub of water and all females only think of them selves i care not for your superficial intentions liars and whores

• Well can I just say that there is a reason that the book is under the catagory of young adults... its soul purpose is to give teenagers good reading.. And it fulfills it. I can't wait to see the movie as I am one of those 14-yr-olds who is totally obsessed. I kno the movie won't be as good but when has that ever not been the case??? Also stephenie meyer must be doin somthing right with her books if they r a phenomenon

• The antiwar and anti religious freak elements of the Texas Chainsaw massacre did much to define the battlegrounds for a generation? I was pulp, is this similar or real crap?

• I'm not gonna lie. I read the books. And they were AWFUL. I couldn't finish the fourth book. It was even worse than New Moon and Eclipse---I didn't even think that was possible. I truly don't understand why the Twilight series is such a phenomenon. Is it because it satisfies every shallow fantasy of a preteen girl? A physically perfect, angsty immortal to swoon over? A heroine who is (supposedly) easy to identify with, even though she is disgustingly dependent, whiny, selfish, and about as exciting as a box of bricks? Fantastic. The only character in the book who had even a HINT of personality was Jacob Black. And even that is a little uncertain. Stephenie Meyer does a poor job of writing. So why does everyone call her series "riveting"? It's awful! She fixates on Edward's good looks, and Bella whines for the entire series about how she's not good enough to be with Edward. Now THERE'S a healthy role model for young teen girls! Yeah. I like my heroines to be helpless, selfish, dependent, shallow, and clueless. Oh, and I REALLY like it when she forsakes a normal social life for the sake of a boy who treats her with condescension and abandons her. Just my kind of story. And the fact that Stephenie Meyer uses 43 adjectives to describe Edward's left nipple really gets my engine running. Ugh. I swear this is one pop culture phenomenon I will never understand. I hope it's one the world can easily forget. Right on, Unreal!

• I read the series because I have a teenaged daughter. I was surprised that they were decent books. However, the human-werewolf-vampire love triangle smacks too much like Laurel K. Hamilton's Anita Blake books. And THOSE books are great. Ill watch it when it comes out on DVD. Not worth $10 to sit and eat stale popcorn and suffer through if it is as horrible as I have heard.

• As a fellow RFT writer, disdainer of <i>Twilight</i>, and person of functioning literary faculties, I say Unreal is right on the money. (Just because fluff is easy to understand and melodramatic doesn�t make fluff good.) As a Shakespeare scholar, I say it�s hard to know, but certainly the groundlings weren�t headed off to see shows for the sake of their edification. On a given week, they often had one day off of work and one penny to spend on it. They could choose between the theater, the whorehouse, bear baiting (involving a bear being tied to a pole and taunted and tortured to death), public hangings, the pub, and sundry other pastimes of ill repute. They certainly weren�t going to waste their Saturdays on boring, high-brow lectures. <i>Twilight</i> seems to me more painful than bear baiting, but I�ll put it on the same level of literary merit.

• Oh, silly teenbops. I agree. It's going to be awesomely bad. I really wish I could get the guy to go see it. I think it's gonna be hysterical.

• I watched the movie. I don't love it as the way i love the book.

• I honestly don't know how you can have an opinion on these books when you haven't read them. Also, if I read this correctly you haven't even seen the movie yourself. I am 31 years old, my 15 year old daughter forced me to read these books and honestly after the first one I was going just about as crazy over them as she was. I am a huge fan of Anne Rice and Laurell K. Hamilton who basically paved the way for the "vampire series". I was very happy to see a series that was more age appropriate for my daughter to enjoy. I really feel that you just can't appreciate this series for what it is. Please read the series before you continue to trash it.

• i think you guys are full of it. the books are the best and you dont know how to pick good books. just because you guys are a rejected part of the twilight fan club, doesnt mean you can sit there and judge it. READ THE BOOKS STUPIDS!!!!!

• i think you guys are full of it. the books are the best and you dont know how to pick good books. just because you guys are a rejected part of the twilight fan club, doesnt mean you can sit there and judge it. READ THE BOOKS STUPIDS!!!!!

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