Good story/bad writer: (Was: What a snob!)/SPOILER for Twilight and Dawn

[zanooda2]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Sherry Gomes" <sherriola at ...> wrote:

> It took two very good friends, friends who were not teenage 
> girls, to convince me to give the first book a try.


zanooda:

Same here :-). My friend, who is a Twilight fan, went as far as to give me the Twilight Saga book set as a present, LOL! It would have been just not polite not to read it after that :-)!


> Sherry wrote:

> I found the Cullens far more interesting even than
> Bella, most of the time, loved Charlie, hated Jacob, 
> till the last book.


zanooda:

I liked the Cullens (especially Alice for some reason :-)), Bella in the first and second books, Charlie in all the books. As for Jake, I liked him a lot in the first book and in the first half of the second book, but then he started to really get on my nerves, especially in the third one :-). I liked him back in that part of the forth book where he is the narrator, although that part was about all the yucky stuff that I hated, unfortunately :-).


> Sherry:

> I know many adults have said that they didn't find Bella's 
> over the top reactions very believable, but I was a teenage 
> girl once, and I remember how I felt and thought when I fell 
> in love.


zanooda:

I don't know, to me Bella is not a normal teenage girl (except for hormones :-)), and her love is not just a teenage crush. It's more of a Romeo/Juliette kind of thing, destiny and all that, which is not supposed to be "believable", IMO :-). IIRC, it was stressed a few times in the books that Bella is *not* a teenager, remember how her mother said that Bella was born thirty five :-)? She takes care of her mother and father as if she is much older than them... 

If Bella was a typical teenage girl, Edward's love for her would have been close to pedophilia, if you ask me, LOL! He is a hundred years old, for crying out loud! If it was her youth and youthful behavior that attracted him, I personally would have felt suspicious :-). But, as I said, I emphasized with Bella in the first book (except for the love part :-)) - to me PE lessons at school were real torture, just like to her, LOL.



> Sherry:

> No, to me they will never come up to the Harry Potter standard, 
> but they are completely different. 


zanooda:

I agree about HP being better and, of course, these books are completely different - Twilight is first of all a love story (with some elements of supernatural). Although there is a little bit of a thriller in it too, maybe :-).