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| 80% Recommended by our customers. Publisher: Listening Library (Audio) Catalog: Book Release date: 2005-09-27 Media: Audio CD Format: Audiobook, Unabridged Ean: 9780307280909 Book Isbn: 030728090X Reading level: Young Adult  Tip: compare prices with similar booksAuthor:
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 Written on December 1, 2008 Summary: AMAZING!!! 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. [: Amazingggggggg!!! Written on December 1, 2008 Summary: It's a decent read! 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  Written on December 1, 2008 Summary: I wonder what all of the hype is about? After all of the hype surrounding this book I must say that I expected more. This book was so bad that I couldn't even finish it, and I've read probably every vamprie book out there, good or bad. It's rare that something is so bad that I don't finish it, so that says something about this book. It was unoriginal, the main character was little more than a Mary Sue, and the writing was amateurish at best. Written on December 1, 2008 Summary: Superb! This book captures and holds the readers' attention from the first sentence to the last word. The writing is wonderfully fluid, the characters ironically believable. I can't find a single thing wrong with this book. I have read countless novels by countless authors in my time and can honestly say that this is probably one of the best I have ever read. Fantastic. I can't wait to get my hands on the next book. I should mention that the genre of this novel is not my thing, and I still adored this novel. Read it. I doubt you'll regret it. Written on December 1, 2008 Summary: Worrisome that so many think favorably of Bella and these books.... That this book and series is being read by young woman and a majority of them see Bella as a strong, healthy, young woman with desirable traits and characteristics is worrisome to me. I dislike the lead female character Bella in this series, and I'm only up to the third book now and it doesn't seem to get any better. In fact it seems to get worse. Putting that aside for the moment I will say that the author Meyer can certainly tell a good tale, but the writing needs a severe editor, and it suffers from "MaryJane fan fiction" problems. The biggest problem however is Meyer's version of a heroine, which is more than disturbing to say the least. Bella's character spends most of her time being cared for like a child, she is infantised, constantly needing to be looked after. She is always falling down, being picked up and carried around, and put to bed and even sung lullabies. It's disconcerting that this behavior is considered and accepted as normal by the characters in the book and fans of the book, and more frightening that it's accepted as the behavior of "being in love". When anyone breaks into your room, watches while you sleep, invades your home and privacy, picks you up or blocks your way, makes unilateral decisions for you or "for your own good", even uses their strength against you---that's not "love" that's a psychotic stalker and an abusive relationship. And the fact that such behavior is being accepted as normal and the epitome of "real" "true" "love" is beyond disturbing. Perhaps even more insidious is the other through-line in books one and two, that Bella and the other human woman-the werewolf's wife, need to be wary of setting the males tempers off, thereby making the women responsible for the males temper. That's an abusive relationship based on control and domination. It's not romantic and it certainly isn't "Love". Bella is supposed to be smart-but we never see her excel in her own interests, hobbies or even academia. She has no interests other than obsessive self-destructive behavior to gain the attention of the male she so-called "loves". Bella always needs to be rescued by the stronger, wiser, male. Even her human friendship was unequal. The soon-to-be-werewolf, knows all about cars and motorcycles and Bella just sits there watching him while he actively does....she just sits and watches. Too bad only in passing are Bella's own supposed capabilities mentioned, I never get to see them in action in any real sense. But that's the author's fault, as Meyer purposely put Bella in a situation where she is inferior to even someone "younger" than herself. There's even a whole conversation that his skills make him actually older than Bella. And of course Bella needs the human/werewolf to build her a motorcycle, to guide her through the woods etc. Bella never seems to use the smarts we're told she has. Walking alone in an unfamiliar place---she "somehow" winds up in the worst part of town...twice!! The first she's almost raped, and the second she lucked out that those men weren't rapists. She walks in the woods, knowing she'll get lost and all too often seems to become weak to the point of being immobile. It's really rather tiresome to read. Bella didn't even have the smarts to put together, using the clues given by the other Vampire with the visions she had seen, that her mother was not with the bad vampire. Nope, she doesn't even ponder why the vampire is watching videos, she doesn't think about anything...once again she's weak to the point of immobility. Until she runs away without a real plan or thought except to let the vampire kill her in hope that he then won't kill her mom. And of course it's really just a set up for her vampire to come and save her... again. It's not only her vampire boyfriend who protects her though. Her human male friend also protects and guides her-it seems nothing Bella decides to do she can actually accomplish on her own without the assistance of the more-capable male, or if she goes off on her own, then needing to be rescued by said males. The only thing that seems to motivate Bella-that in the book I hear her talking about being good at, is cooking. She has to get home to get Charlie's dinner on. She's a good cook apparently, but she doesn't cook for herself or for the enjoyment of the doing of cooking. It's just something she does... or rather what human women are supposed to do as the werewolf's wife's main job seems to be cooking for all the boys and being motherly. Which is fine in the context of a well-rounded person but women in this series are hardly seen as well-rounded full fledged human beings with talents and interests outside of caring for their superior males. They're inferior to their males and behave as such. And while some defend it as a "choice" I see it as a sad commentary on the author's part of what young women have to accept to be "loved" and "accepted" by those they find attractive. Also, the superficiality of that attractiveness and "love" is nothing but vapid shallowness, altogether another major problem with Bella in the book. And after all that, there is still no character growth and development from book one to book two at all. |
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| Catalog | Book | Book | Book | Book | Book |
| Release date | 2005-09-27 | 2008-05-31 | 2007-08-07 | 2008-08-02 | 2008-05-06 |
| Media | Audio CD | Paperback | Hardcover | Hardcover | Hardcover |
| Format | Audiobook, Unabridged | - | - | - | - |
| Number of pages | - | 608 | 640 | 768 | 624 |
| Ean | 9780307280909 | 9780316024969 | 9780316160209 | 9780316067928 | 9780316068048 |
| Book Isbn | 030728090X | 0316024961 | 0316160202 | 031606792X | 0316068047 |
| Reading level | Young Adult | Young Adult | Young Adult | Young Adult | - |
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