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| Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1) | 
 enlarge | Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Category: Book
List Price: $10.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2951 reviews
Sales Rank: 5
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 544
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.5 x 1.6
ISBN: 0316015849
EAN: 9780316015844
ASIN: 0316015849
Publication Date: September 6, 2006
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 harlequin romance for teens December 1, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I rarely write reviews but this book is getting so much hype I had to add my two cents. Quite simply, this is romance novel fiction for teens. Nothing more or less. The hearthrob language, the utter willingness--outright longing--of the main character to give up everything for the hunky guy vampire. I actually don't want my 12-year old to read it because I think the female protagonist starts off promising (opinionated and strong) and just ends up totally lame (capitulating and stupid)! And the writing is bland, lacking the imaginative plot twists or character depth of the harry potter books. On my daughter's recommendation I just finished Wicked by Gregory Maquire, which by contrast is far more intelligent, fun, and provocative. If she gets sucked into this trilogy I'll know she's lowering her standards!
 exaggerated reviews December 1, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I saw this book around the campus quite often in female hands, and the actor who acts Edward Cullen looked interesting, so I thought i would have a taste of the book before I watched the movie. I checked out some of the reviews on amazon.com to see if the book was worth the purchase, and they seemed more than fair. So I tried the book, and it was just a little bit of a disappointment. I don't think I liked the heroin much-she can't do anything without her beloved Edward. I can't like her-although I tried. I really did. But the book overall was just ok. But i don't think it's worth a round of applause as it seems to be getting. The writing style was dull and it rarely fired up an interest in me while reading. I think the only character I really liked was Edward Cullen. Bella Swan was rather ditzy, and that wasn't even a cute kind of ditziness she had. Rosalie wins.
 Everyone should read this INCLUDING guys December 1, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have read all four books and loved them. What i liked most about these books is how they were written. any girl who reads them can easily fall into bella's situation in someway or another. After reading these books i wished i was Bella! i wished i could find someone like Edward! He is perfect in every way! He loves Bella unconditionally for who she is! no matter how loopy or stubborn she can be at times! the thrill this book gives is amazing! i mean i felt like i was living the story instead of just reading it in my room. this book made me look at guys differently and made me realize that all girls should find a guy who loves her for her and not who she may pretend to be. It made me WANT to find someone! That is why i think guys should read the book as well. If they pay attention to how Edward treats Bella maybe there would be more gentlemen instead of lame boys!
AMAZING!!! December 1, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I recommend this book to anyone and everyone. I actually had the paperback book but I had to buy the hardback because thats what all my other series books are so I bought this. very fast.
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It's a decent read! December 1, 2008
When 17-year-old Isabella Swan moves from Phoenix to Forks, Washington to live with her father, she has a lot to get used to: life in a small town, the near-constant drizzle of the Pacific Northwest, and the malevolent snarling of her lab partner in biology. It's the last of these that most troubles Bella, because despite his hostility Bella can't help but be attracted to the enigmatic Edward Cullen. He and his four high-school-aged siblings--all of them adopted--are preternaturally attractive. Heart-stoppingly perfect in appearance, in fact. They glide across surfaces with inhuman grace. Their skin is flawless. One looks at them and forgets to breathe, so attractive are they. Bella falls for Edward despite herself, and when he inexplicably turns from snarling loner to chivalrous beau, we have the makings of the hottest teenage romance to come along since Buffy met Angel.
Twilight, published in 2005, is the first in a four-book series that has become a huge favorite with tween and teen readers. As it turns out, they're on to something: the book is compulsively readable, a quick jaunt even at almost 500 pages. The book is part teen romance, part monster story, akin to the aforementioned Buffy saga in that respect. But--at least judging from the first book in the series--the world Meyer creates is nowhere near as complex as the Buffyverse (or as the Harry Potter universe, for that matter). Bella is a very likable and strong character--she's responsible and intelligent and interesting. She's the sort of teenager any parent would be delighted to have, the one problem being that she's drawn to a guy she should be smart enough to stay clear of. Bella's predicament is unusual, of course, because Edward brings supernatural charms to bear in their courtship--all those vampy good looks and smoldering glances and his tendency to be in the right place at the right time. But otherwise Bella's situation isn't unlike that experienced by a lot of teenaged girls who get themselves in trouble mooning after the wrong kind of guy.
If you were dragged to the recently released movie version of Twilight by some squealing teen of your acquaintance, you may have wondered what all the fuss is about: but the movie, as so often, doesn't do the book justice. Give it a try. Twilight won't become one of my favorite all-time books, but it goes down easy and it's enjoyable. Plus, it gets points for getting teenagers excited about books. I'll certainly be reading the next three novels in the series. Once I wrest them from my daughter, that is.
-- Debra Hamel
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