Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1) | 
 enlarge | Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
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Reading Level: Young Adult
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Pages: 544
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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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The book that started the phenomenon is now available in a deluxe collector's edition! Featuring a ribbon bookmark, cloth cover, ragged edges, new chapter opener designs, and a beautiful protective slipcase, this edition is perfect for fans and collectors alike.
Bella Swan's move to Forks, a small, perpetually rainy town in Washington, could have been the most boring move she ever made. But once she meets the mysterious and alluring Edward Cullen, Bella's life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. Up until now, Edward has managed to keep his vampire identity a secret in the small community he lives in, but now nobody is safe, especially Bella, the person Edward holds most dear.
Deeply romantic and extraordinarily suspenseful, Twilight captures the struggle between defying our instincts and satisfying our desires. This is a love story with bite.
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"Softly he brushed my cheek, then held my face between his marble hands. ''Be very still,'' he whispered, as if I wasn''t already frozen. Slowly, never moving his eyes from mine, he leaned toward me. Then abruptly, but very gently, he rested his cold cheek against the hollow at the base of my throat. " As Shakespeare knew, love burns high when thwarted by obstacles. In Twilight, an exquisite fantasy by Stephenie Meyer, readers discover a pair of lovers who are supremely star-crossed. Bella adores beautiful Edward, and he returns her love. But Edward is having a hard time controlling the blood lust she arouses in him, because--he''s a vampire. At any moment, the intensity of their passion could drive him to kill her, and he agonizes over the danger. But, Bella would rather be dead than part from Edward, so she risks her life to stay near him, and the novel burns with the erotic tension of their dangerous and necessarily chaste relationship.Meyer has achieved quite a feat by making this scenario completely human and believable. She begins with a familiar YA premise (the new kid in school), and lulls us into thinking this will be just another realistic young adult novel. Bella has come to the small town of Forks on the gloomy Olympic Peninsula to be with her father. At school, she wonders about a group of five remarkably beautiful teens, who sit together in the cafeteria but never eat. As she grows to know, and then love, Edward, she learns their secret. They are all rescued vampires, part of a family headed by saintly Carlisle, who has inspired them to renounce human prey. For Edward''s sake they welcome Bella, but when a roving group of tracker vampires fixates on her, the family is drawn into a desperate pursuit to protect the fragile human in their midst. The precision and delicacy of Meyer''s writing lifts this wonderful novel beyond the limitations of the horror genre to a place among the best of YA fiction. (Ages 12 and up)
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 Surprising and Addictive November 21, 2008
As my title indicates, this was surprising and addictive! The narrative flows so easily ( as I geuss a YA novel should be..) I was lost in the imaginative story. I am much older than most of the Twilight fans, but believe that no matter what your age a little creativity and imagination keeps us healthy and alive. I've read some not so great reviews on the last 2 books of the series but..Oh well, I'm going to read them myself and decide. I'm also taking my nephews to see the movie ASAP.
 SMeyer, I'm not impressed November 21, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Alright, I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a fan of vampires. Or romance.
However, this isn't even a vampire novel. The vampires don't drink human blood, they drink ANIMAL blood. They don't turn to dust or incinerate in the sun - they SPARKLE like diamonds. And, according to the author, they don't even have FANGS. I ask you, what sort of vampire novel is that?
I know I'm going to get lynched by a bunch of fangirls for saying that SMeyer didn't write "teh best book EVAR!!1!!1!" Honestly, I'm all for creativity in your stories. However, one thing I'd rather you do first, before you set pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard as it were) is RESEARCH. Research might be a pain sometimes, but it'll make your book all that much better. SMeyer hardly did any research on anything that's in her novel...vampires, Forks weather, how new kids are treated in school, biology, *anything*. She didn't learn how to write convincing characters either, and the ones that actually had potential (Jacob, Alice, Victoria, James) were promptly killed off or given complete personality workovers in the following books to make them rapists/pedophiles and stereotypical ditzes, respectively.
Another problem I have with this novel is that it is written in the most cliche purple prose I have ever read. (No, really. I've read Eragon. This is worse. Eragon at least has a plot, kind of. All this book is about is Bella drooling over her darling Eddie-poo.) SMeyer doesn't understand the concept of "show not tell" and feels it necessary to describe Edward's "inhuman beauty" so many times that you start going "Oh, yeah RIGHT" about 50 pages in. She tells us that Bella is "selfless" and "kind", but all I see is Bella acting like a spoiled brat to her friends and family and refusing to talk to anyone who isn't beautiful enough (basically, no one but Edward). And she has a bad habit of overusing words like "murmured" and "chagrin." Someone ran a reading-level test on this book, and it came back as second-grade level reading. I'm quite serious. And this is being marketed to teenagers because why?
The author is also, quite simply, one of the most naive or stupid people I have ever encountered. She says, first of all, that her books have no message in them. Any small child will tell you that every story has a message if you look deep enough into it. And, folks, I've found the messages in Twilight. They aren't good ones.
1. Only beautiful people are worth your time. Ugly people can just be ignored, even if they're nice.
2. If a guy likes you, you can ignore the fact that he's manipulating you, emotionally abusing you, stalking you, and destroying your property because "he loves you" and "it's for your own good."
3. Necrophilia is okay as long as he's "OMG HAWT."
4. It's okay to give up all your ambitions for life once you have a boyfriend. It's completely normal for the two of you to take up all each other's time and become the center of each other's lives. Especially in high school.
Another thing. SMeyer says, and I quote, "And stalking doesn't scare me. I've never stalked anyone (yet) but I think I would be AWESOME at it."
Yes. This woman made #5 on Time's Entertainer of the Year List. This woman is writing the drivel that girls across America are eating up. Really. If that doesn't scare you just a little bit, I don't think you can be fully human. Stalking isn't cool, fangirls, and it isn't fun, no matter what SMeyer says. It's disgusting behavior and terrifying for the victim and if this woman is condoning it then I fear for the future.
Finally, SMeyer sent this book off to publishers after she finished the first draft. Not the second or third or fiftieth draft, but the FIRST. She didn't even edit or revise it at all! Now, if that doesn't say "bad fanfic writer" I don't know what does... She's also arrogant enough to say that she's going to finish 5 books in 2009. As an aspiring writer, that's an insult, because even I (a 17-year-old) know that you need a good 2 or 3 years for each book. Working on multiple books at one time is one thing - finishing them all within a year is quite another. That's not a compliment, by the way, that's me shaking my head in disgust.
I leave you with this, reader, as a final proof of just how bad this book is and how messed up this poor woman must be. She has said in interviews that when she was writing this book, she felt annoyed when she had to stop when her kids needed something. Now, I'm not a parent myself, but I've been around long enough to know that when you have kids they're supposed to pretty much take precedence over everything else in your life. What kind of mother is this woman?! Oh, and she's been quoted multiple times as saying "I am anti-human." Great example there, SMeyer. You fail multiple times. (If you absolutely must check out how awful this book is, then get it from the library or borrow a copy from a friend. Don't give her any more money, I beseech you.)
 loved it November 21, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I loved this book. It is a great easy read! Very interesting and kept me wanting more. Even though I am 20 years old I could still get into it!
Glitz is in! November 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I found the Twilight Saga to be pure fun. Perhaps the folks who don't like it take their free time more seriously than I do mine. Or perhaps they don't read at every available opportunity. I don't watch TV. I work very hard with very difficult people and reading is more of an escape than a study. It isn't that I thought it was perfect. I simply found the story enjoyable and gripping. I have read the series twice and two of the books two and three times. They were quite consumable.
Unfortunately I'm plagued by the need to edit and will buy a book specifically to edit it. My copies are vigorously marked up. And I'm still delighted by the departure this reading gave me from the norm. Editing is fun, too!
I found the characters to be entertaining. Because I have vertigo, it was grand to read of someone who is more plagued by gracelessness than I. I think her bad luck just made her more appealing, for me. The Cullens were intimidating to some, I suppose. I have been around some very famous people and have always assumed they are just like you and me. Some are completely kind and some aren't. The Cullens' stories were an excursion into fantasy and the recreation of myths that I reveled in. I love to see someone stretch all of our notions by changing what we think we believe. What DO we believe about vampires, after all? I, traditionally, if the use of that word isn't too idiosyncratic, find vampire stories annoying. These were candy.
Great Book November 21, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I actually bought this book because it was the only one in the store here in Iraq, and to my suprise it was actually great. I am waiting on book 2 because they only had 1 and 3, but I couldn't put the book down and read it in a day. Very great story line.
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