This is starting to get old!

[tinker22]

I agree toatly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[yellowlabforever]

I'm just sick and tired of the whole Team Edward/Team Jacob thing. Who made that up?
We already know who Bella will end up with.

 

[grandfloluver]

I am soooo glad you started this thread. I am sick and tired of twilight. I used to not care that much about it until it started getting popular and now I HATE it.

 

[dramaqueenemj22]

I agree. I'm starting to get sick of the whole vampire but then again i never into the vampire thing so maybe its just me.

 

[DramaQueen]

I know you all know this all ready but I love the Twilight series. For me though I love the books because of the romance. I really could care less if it involved vampires or not. It's a forbidden love, someone you shouldn't want, but do anyways.

I think that the crazy fans really gave the whole thing a bad rap, when it reality the books/movies are just entertainment.

So many people love Harry Potter and dress up at the midnight premeires and go crazy at the movies, so what's the difference? Because Edward sparkles in the sun and Harry rides a broomstick?

Not trying to compare the two because they really can't be compared, but the hype was just as crazy when the Harry Potter books/movies first came out, but nobody complains about the crazy Potter fans.

IMHO Potter is just infinitely more well written than Twilight and the entire world that was created with Potter is just so amazing and elaborate that is blows my mind that one woman thought of it all! I think Potter is more easily compared to the Lord of the Rings series than Twilight, because really Potter & Twilight have absolutely nothing in common except that they are very popular. While LOTR & Potter both have other worlds that have been created.

 

[EltonJohnFan]

The Twilight books are just so horribly written... and don't even get me started on the movies! People need to branch out more and stop recycling old ideas. Still, my dad watches True Blood, and he says that it's incredible.

 

[disneyworldluvr349]

IMHO Potter is just infinitely more well written than Twilight and the entire world that was created with Potter is just so amazing and elaborate that is blows my mind that one woman thought of it all! I think Potter is more easily compared to the Lord of the Rings series than Twilight, because really Potter & Twilight have absolutely nothing in common except that they are very popular. While LOTR & Potter both have other worlds that have been created.

I completely agree with you. The books are way different. I was trying to refer to the hype surrounding both novels.

Stephanie Myer's Twilight series are really just books to read at face value, for entertainment purposes, not for anything insightful or original. Some of her characters are relatable, but for me the love story is what makes the books interesting.
Rowling's Potter books invented a whole new world in which witches and wizards are real and have an alternate life. All of the characters have something with which the reader can identify with, and all have some sort of redeeming quality or sympathy points.
I guess it's just more acceptable for fans to go crazy over a well-written book, but not for one that doesn't have as much literary merit.

 

[LittleMissMusical]

i've never been a vampire fan. read twilight on a dare. what ruined the whole 'vampire' thing was robert pattinson and kristin stuart. they bug me! they are not good actors and i feel like they could have found someone better. my entire school isn't inot the whole vamp thing. we have twilight diss parties, kinda amusing, but still a waste of time.

 

[-DisneyFreak-]

I deffinatley hate all this Twilight stuff. It just gets on my nerves. I saw this girl at WalMart and she had one of those Twilight apples tattooed on her back! I was like seriously that's when I discovered people were taking this too far.

 

[Sparx]

I completely agree with you. The books are way different. I was trying to refer to the hype surrounding both novels.

Stephanie Myer's Twilight series are really just books to read at face value, for entertainment purposes, not for anything insightful or original. Some of her characters are relatable, but for me the love story is what makes the books interesting.
Rowling's Potter books invented a whole new world in which witches and wizards are real and have an alternate life. All of the characters have something with which the reader can identify with, and all have some sort of redeeming quality or sympathy points.
I guess it's just more acceptable for fans to go crazy over a well-written book, but not for one that doesn't have as much literary merit.

definitely not. However, Harry Potter (especially the later books) got pretty hard to follow. I mean HOW many characters did she have? How many places/times/events/people did you need to remember to truly get the full experience out of it? People are STILL (years later) all over forums trying to figure out exactly what it meant. Harry Potter was a story of epic preportions, larger and deeper than LOTR (In my opinion, I read both series) and they're not children's books. They're hardly even teen books, even though that was who ended up being the main consumer. JKR said that it was an adult series from the get go.

Twilight isn't as complex. It isn't as long, and I can't really think of a series that it would be apt to compare it to. It is aimed at teenagers, and its easy enough to navigate that even younger readers can follow the basic plot with ease.

I really hate the argument against Twilight that its "easy" to read. A lot of things are easy for me to read and I still like them. I refuse to say that I don't like twilight because lately even though liking twilight is a huge fad, DISLIKING twilight is a bigger fad and possibly even more ridiculous. I see these people on my facebook go to the midnight release of the movies and own all the books but as soon as they get home after spending 20 or so dollars to see the movie they update their facebook status to TWILIGHT SUCKS. Well geez, why did you go pay to see it at MIDNIGHT then? The elitism between the two is sickening really. Its three books that I honestly doubt will stand the test of time, and when you're forty will it really matter if you liked Twilight or not?

As to the subject of the thread, Twilight was astoundingly popular and has made one lady very very wealthy. Every novel writer wants to be the next JKR or Stephanie Mayer, and if they say they don't: they're lying through their teeth. To have tens of millions of people buy your books over and over and over (and over and over and over and over for jkr) is the epitome of success for a writer on that level. Meyer found something that worked for whatever reason, and people are trying to use it to their own advantage, I can hardly fault them for that.

 

[disneyworldluvr349]

definitely not. However, Harry Potter (especially the later books) got pretty hard to follow. I mean HOW many characters did she have? How many places/times/events/people did you need to remember to truly get the full experience out of it? People are STILL (years later) all over forums trying to figure out exactly what it meant. Harry Potter was a story of epic preportions, larger and deeper than LOTR (In my opinion, I read both series) and they're not children's books. They're hardly even teen books, even though that was who ended up being the main consumer. JKR said that it was an adult series from the get go.

Twilight isn't as complex. It isn't as long, and I can't really think of a series that it would be apt to compare it to. It is aimed at teenagers, and its easy enough to navigate that even younger readers can follow the basic plot with ease.

I really hate the argument against Twilight that its "easy" to read. A lot of things are easy for me to read and I still like them. I refuse to say that I don't like twilight because lately even though liking twilight is a huge fad, DISLIKING twilight is a bigger fad and possibly even more ridiculous. I see these people on my facebook go to the midnight release of the movies and own all the books but as soon as they get home after spending 20 or so dollars to see the movie they update their facebook status to TWILIGHT SUCKS. Well geez, why did you go pay to see it at MIDNIGHT then? The elitism between the two is sickening really. Its three books that I honestly doubt will stand the test of time, and when you're forty will it really matter if you liked Twilight or not?

As to the subject of the thread, Twilight was astoundingly popular and has made one lady very very wealthy. Every novel writer wants to be the next JKR or Stephanie Mayer, and if they say they don't: they're lying through their teeth. To have tens of millions of people buy your books over and over and over (and over and over and over and over for jkr) is the epitome of success for a writer on that level. Meyer found something that worked for whatever reason, and people are trying to use it to their own advantage, I can hardly fault them for that.

To all of this, I always love your responses on threads were you give your opinion. You're bluntly honest and give a great perspective. (Just thought I would let you know!)

To the bold, I completely agree. It is just ridiculous for people to claim they hate a series after involvement in the midnight release and everything else. It's really difficult to hate a series, I mean they're just books. You don't have to read them.

 

[::Snow_White::]

I don't really care. I read them, I don't care for them, but what am I going to do about it? Nothing.

Like Shelby said, I get tired of hearing people talk about how they hate it as much as I get tired of hearing people talk about how they love it. I've got a friend who absolutely hates them and I get sick of listening to it all the time.

 

[snowyjoey]

omg it has been going way to far i didn't even like the books i thought they were dumb and the fact Kristen Stewart got pregnant for her part is just wrong i mean they can fake it. i also think they got the wrong actors for the parts and personlly i hate kristen she is dumb and is now getting parts she doesn't deserve like in the new movie where she is joan jett they could've gotten a much better person for that

 

[big_thunder_girl]

omg it has been going way to far i didn't even like the books i thought they were dumb and the fact Kristen Stewart got pregnant for her part is just wrong i mean they can fake it. i also think they got the wrong actors for the parts and personlly i hate kristen she is dumb and is now getting parts she doesn't deserve like in the new movie where she is joan jett they could've gotten a much better person for that

I think Kristin is a good actress for the most part. No, she did NOT get pregnant for her part! Where did you hear that????? Iv'e never heard that rumor ever!

 

[Smiley.Socks]

I don't really care. I read them, I don't care for them, but what am I going to do about it? Nothing.

Like Shelby said, I get tired of hearing people talk about how they hate it as much as I get tired of hearing people talk about how they love it. I've got a friend who absolutely hates them and I get sick of listening to it all the time.

Yes.
I have a friend who was utterly obsessed with the books and the movies, but then when it got fashionable to HATE it, she was completely against anything and everything Twilight.
Me, I couldn't really care less. I read them and I saw the movies, but now it doesn't really bother me..

 

[I Am What I Am]

I don't really care. I read them, I don't care for them, but what am I going to do about it? Nothing.

Like Shelby said, I get tired of hearing people talk about how they hate it as much as I get tired of hearing people talk about how they love it. I've got a friend who absolutely hates them and I get sick of listening to it all the time.

This.

Though I do enjoy Cleolinda's recaps of the Twilight books and Growing Up Cullen. Those are just funny.

 

[snowyjoey]

I think Kristin is a good actress for the most part. No, she did NOT get pregnant for her part! Where did you hear that????? Iv'e never heard that rumor ever!

she admitted it on oprah and ellen and to people magazine its been all over the place

 

[vanillamickey]

Meh. It's okay. But when it comes to arguments about it, I tend to go with the 'hate' side.

However, there is a sort of spin-off book, The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, that I want to read. http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2010-03-30-breetanner30_ST_N.htm

 

[I Am What I Am]

she admitted it on oprah and ellen and to people magazine its been all over the place

Do you have a link? I've looked and I can't find anything about it.

 

[big_thunder_girl]

she admitted it on oprah and ellen and to people magazine its been all over the place

LOL that was a joke from robert pattinson.

haha, they made it front on the mag so people would buy it.