Twilight (Twilight Saga) |
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Author:
Stephenie Meyer
By ATOM
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List Price: £7.99
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9781904233657
ISBN: 1904233651
Label: ATOM
Manufacturer: ATOM
Number Of Pages: 464
Publication Date: 2007-03-22
Publisher: ATOM
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Product Description
An electrifying debut novel of a young woman's love for a vampire.
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Truly genius*****, 2010-07-25
I have to be brutally honest in saying that I had never heard of Stephenie Meyer or the Twilight Series until Feburary this year. My partner bought the DVD in a sale because he had heard it was quite good and after watching the film (which was fantastic in my opinion) I discovered the wonderful world of Stephenie Meyer's imagination.
The beauty of all of Stephenie's books is that they are easy to read and follow.
Twilight absolutely blew me away and although it is targeted at a teen audience I think it is safe to say that it is enjoyed by a large quantity of adult readers, myself being one of them.
If you are like me you will be unable to put this book down and when you have finished reading Twilight you will most likely be trying to get hold of New Moon as soon as possible.
wonderful book and absolutely wonderful series.
What makes Twilight brilliant..., 2010-07-22
Much in the same way J.K Rowling stormed onto the literary scene over ten years ago; Stephanie Meyer introduces a new generation of teenage fiction and a brand new craze to engulf the teen population.
What Twilight seems to have created is not a new-found fascination with vampirism and gothic lifestyles, but rather re-awakened an obsession that has been dwelling in the shadows since the late nineteenth century when Bram Stoker wrote Dracula; the most famous vampire story in the history of literature, well, as it used to be the case. What is obvious is why Twilight is such a huge success, and why the majority of Meyer's fan-base is aged between 13 and 17 when Meyer herself seems so in-tune with her own inner teenager. She expresses the struggles of adolescent life through the relationship of a very typical teen, Bella Swan and her rather dreamy boyfriend Edward Cullen - did I mention he was a vampire?
The romanticised idea of vampirism creates a story based in and around vampires, for people who don't actually like them. To elaborate, Meyer takes the very essence of vampirism; the blood, the anger, the stalking, the terror that they create and portrays them not as lethal, sociopathic predators that the centuries of myth have taught us, but instead, Edward and his family are merely diamond sparkling protectors. This makes the novel difficult to be catergorized in any kind of gothic genre, and first time readers shouldn't look to Twilight to find blood, horror, gore and true vampirism if you want to avoid disappointment. What you can expect is bucket loads of romance as Twilight is fundamentally a love story entailed with all the usual ingredients of any teenage relationship; jealousy, frustration, desire, awkward moments and even more awkward conversations and an unprecedented amount of repressed sexual tension.
As a criticism to the plot; it soon becomes apparent that there will be little more to read in this novel past the painful pining on Bella's behalf for her all too beautiful vampire, Edward. For the most part of the book the conversations that take place between Bella and her immortal consist usually of awkward silences, breathy and minimal sentences and when a question is answered, the answer is so ambiguous it may as well have been ignored all together. However, will all the elusiveness that surrounds the plot, and the Cullen's growing enigmatic behaviour it holds the reader's attention, if only for the hope to understand who or rather, what they really are.
Whilst I don't claim that Twilight is a perfect example of literature at its best, bursting with beautifully crafted prose and unfathomable imagery I will admit this; Twilight is a perfect example of story-telling at its best. It draws parallels between classic literatures such as Austen's Pride and Prejudice and respectively re-works such stories to create a new age of literature. This is not classic literature, or pretentious and incomprehensible literature created only for the literary minded and if that is what you're looking for, I suggest you pick up Dickens or Hardy. But, if an easy and thoroughly enjoyable read is what is called for, I can't think of any novel better for you to throw and emerge yourself into than the world of Edward Cullen, Bella Swan and all the bloody thirsty events that go on around them.
This is literature for the masses, at last.
 Sweet but no biscuit, 2010-07-17
Has Stephanie Meyer ever read a Mills and Boon. I think it might have helped matters if she had. All that panting and sighing and longing, at least in mills and boon these days they get to make babies, on virtually every page. The repression is quote exhausting in a way that it was not in say Jane Austen, god all that stroking and nearly touching and wanting. I do think if they had just had a good old go it would be a much better book. Are vampires the new ponies? Instead of girls loving black beauty they are curry combing the undead.
I've got to say as a lover of the gothic I had high high hopes, but this isn't even a stitch on a patch of the True Blood novels. I think lurching Bella is rather lovely but the heaving and hawing and the instant love is a bit trite without the explanation of lust and sex. Why are writers so terrified of teenagers that they have to transform them into cyphers. Aren't vampires dirty old men?
Mixed views, 2010-07-21
When I first picked this book up in the shop I started to read the first page and I was already hooked. I couldn't put it down it was so good. I loved everything about it. I finished it in just 2 days. Thank god I had bought New Moon at the same time! I couldn't wait for the third one to come out. But when the 4th one was released it had become such a big thing that everybody was talking about non stop I was getting a bit sick of it. Not the actual books (I thought that they were all really good) but the hole notion of Twilight, witch was a real shame. It used to be my all time favourite book and now with all the guides and films and even the new book about another vampire has just turned me off. All of this being said, I still think that this a brilliant book and that Stephanie Meyer did a wonderful job.
Some books are really as good as people say they are!, 2010-07-16
My friend had been obsessed by this series of books for about a year before I even started reading them, which I did out of curiosity to see what she was on about. When I read the first few chapters, I wasn't keen on the writing style, because it seemed a bit immature. Then, as I got deeper into the book, I realised what a brilliantly written book it actually is - it reads exactly like it's being narrated by a teenager, but with an adult perspective that makes it very sophisticated. I was even more certain of this after reading the second book, because Meyer exactly captures and records what I remember it being like being a hormonal teenager dealing with the gut-wrenching pain of being in love, but viewed from the experience of being an adult. I was seriously impressed by the first three books, totally absorbed and reading them late into the night, and eagerly awaiting the arrival of the last book from the library or in paperback from Amazon, whichever gets here first!
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