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 enlarge | Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: ATOM
Category: Book
This item is no longer available
Avg. Customer Rating:  2140 reviews
Sales Rank: 5814814
Format: Import
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 448
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 5.5 x 1.6
ISBN: 1904233643
EAN: 9781904233640
ASIN: 1904233643
Publication Date: January 19, 2006
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 LOVE LOVE LOVE August 29, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
This was a simply phenomenal book! Well written, interesting, and spectacular! It is so much more than a "vampire romance".
Great book! August 29, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I could not put this book down. I know it's for young adult, but all my friends are reading too and we just love it! It has everything you want, romance, humor, fantasy, drama, etc. It's easy reading and you can't help but fall in love with the characters.
 Boring, Boring and did I mention Boring!!! August 29, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I read this book to see what all the hype is about. To be honest this book was very boring. The story line is too predictable. It is a story about a 17 year old girl in love. This book has about as much suspense as watching car rust. This book would have been a good read if you are a 15 year old girl. If you are anything more than a teen then read something written for an adult. The Anne Rice vampire books are a hundred times better and will keep you interested. It was all I could do to finish.
harry potter part deux? August 29, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
About six years ago, i finally succumbed to the hype and started reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone. About six DAYS ago, i bowed down to fangirls everywhere and picked up Twilight.
My thinking is that if even a few people love something THIS much; if so many can be so passionate about it; there's just got be SOMETHING special there, right? This logic is bolstered by my pleasant surprise and eventual love of that teen wizard,
So now its 2008 and the kids who grew up with Harry and Hermione and the lot have found a new love. They are flying away with their teenage urges and dark despairs; taking this romantic, dangerous journey.
So, everybody's more sophisticated now, right? We've all learned how adverbs practically DEFINE weak writing? We DEMAND technical proficiency and emotion-laden, economical, meaningful prose?
No. No. No. This book is horrendous. There are some good, imaginative ideas. There are a few nice descriptions.
But i don't think i have ever encountered a professional, published work of literature so in need of a good editor, or just ANY professional editor.
Here is a sentence i love for its insanity,: (page 8)
'Even the air filtered down greenly through the leaves.'
So, she's telling us that everything is green around them, all the trees and grass and everything. This sentence specifically attempts to say that the canopy of leaves acts as a filter allowing only green sunlight through.
Green light is shining on the scene.
Air does not have a color. If it does, you might want to hold your breath.
However the literal meaning of the sentence is that virtually everything in the scene acts 'greenly.'This is probably the best example of an adverb's weakness and inability to truly describe anything meaningful in existence, if this word even does exist.
You do not do something greenly-YOU ARE GREEN.
virtually every page has a similar example of a muddled, unclear, underedited, first-draft quality sentence. This assassinates the flow of the story. Reading it is like getting random electric shocks of varying intensities.
ON THE SAME PAGE, Ms. Meyer writes 'It was a faded red color...' as if there were things in the world that could be red, but not as in the color red. Ya see, if something is a red color, then it IS RED. That's how you say it in English.
Anyway, i'm gonna be a lot more suspicious the NEXT time everybody thinks something is so great.
Better than The Vampire Chronicles (or just as good at least!) August 28, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I was skeptical when I had purchased the saga, however, I was completely immersed in the story line. It is a wonderful, romantic tale that I just wasn't able to put down! Kudos to Stephanie Meyer & her fabulous characters! I am a huge Anne Rice fan, and I LOVE the Twilight Saga just as much, if not more!
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