Comments on: Twilight by Stephenie Meyer http://elisabethreads.wordpress.com/2007/02/11/twilight-by-stephenie-meyer/ Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:32:53 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: elisabethreads http://elisabethreads.wordpress.com/2007/02/11/twilight-by-stephenie-meyer/#comment-226 elisabethreads Tue, 17 Apr 2007 04:39:10 +0000 http://elisabethreads.wordpress.com/2007/02/11/twilight-by-stephenie-meyer/#comment-226 Well, I think there are many excellent books out there for and about teens that explore serious questions of human morality, and show the extraordinary things that people can do. I don't necessarily feel that Twilight is the best example, but that doesn't make it a bad book. Twilight was clearly not one of my favourites, but if your daughter enjoys it and gets something out of it, then good for her! Well, I think there are many excellent books out there for and about teens that explore serious questions of human morality, and show the extraordinary things that people can do. I don’t necessarily feel that Twilight is the best example, but that doesn’t make it a bad book.

Twilight was clearly not one of my favourites, but if your daughter enjoys it and gets something out of it, then good for her!

]]> By: Mom http://elisabethreads.wordpress.com/2007/02/11/twilight-by-stephenie-meyer/#comment-220 Mom Sun, 15 Apr 2007 09:41:43 +0000 http://elisabethreads.wordpress.com/2007/02/11/twilight-by-stephenie-meyer/#comment-220 I am a 53 year old mother of five. Am I wrong to try to make this more than just a romance novel? I am get so tired of seeing humans portrayed as shallow, self-centered, foolish, and stupid. Humans can be noble. Teens can and do make good choices all the time. I want Bella to start seeing the nobility in the human race or at least to start looking for it. Her success in (real) life would depend on it. Right now, the Bella I see in this book has no pride. (Is that why Edward can't read her thoughts?) To me, it is as bad as having too much pride, no, maybe worse, I think. It makes her want to DIE to ensure that he remains hers. Can it get any worse that that? It would AT MOST satisfy both their appetites. People are so much more than their appetites, unlike animals. We mammals ARE NOT animals. Bella seems more overcome by appetite than Edward, the BMOC, super rich, super good looking, Superman and the envy of every other person at school--no, that should read "in town". No small ego trip; catching him, nevermind he is a vampire, but to give up EVERYTHING for Edward; please NO! Please make Bella smarter than that. Please give her SOME self esteem. Can Bella triumph over the lie that is Edward? I hope so. My twelve year old daughter is reading this book for school. I hope her time isn't wasted or her perception of human nobility altered by a missed opportunity on the part of the author, Stephenie Meyer. So, am I wrong to make of this more than a romance novel? Consider your sons and daughters, born or yet to be born. Can they, should they, will they become more than appetites? Consider your grandchildren. Love, Mom I am a 53 year old mother of five.
Am I wrong to try to make this more than just a romance novel?
I am get so tired of seeing humans portrayed as shallow, self-centered, foolish, and stupid. Humans can be noble. Teens can and do make good choices all the time. I want Bella to start seeing the nobility in the human race or at least to start looking for it. Her success in (real) life would depend on it.
Right now, the Bella I see in this book has no pride. (Is that why Edward can’t read her thoughts?) To me, it is as bad as having too much pride, no, maybe worse, I think. It makes her want to DIE to ensure that he remains hers. Can it get any worse that that? It would AT MOST satisfy both their appetites. People are so much more than their appetites, unlike animals. We mammals ARE NOT animals.
Bella seems more overcome by appetite than Edward, the BMOC, super rich, super good looking, Superman and the envy of every other person at school–no, that should read “in town”. No small ego trip; catching him, nevermind he is a vampire, but to give up EVERYTHING for Edward; please NO! Please make Bella smarter than that. Please give her SOME self esteem.
Can Bella triumph over the lie that is Edward? I hope so.
My twelve year old daughter is reading this book for school. I hope her time isn’t wasted or her perception of human nobility altered by a missed opportunity on the part of the author, Stephenie Meyer. So, am I wrong to make of this more than a romance novel? Consider your sons and daughters, born or yet to be born. Can they, should they, will they become more than appetites? Consider your grandchildren.
Love,
Mom

]]> By: elisabethreads http://elisabethreads.wordpress.com/2007/02/11/twilight-by-stephenie-meyer/#comment-89 elisabethreads Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:42:31 +0000 http://elisabethreads.wordpress.com/2007/02/11/twilight-by-stephenie-meyer/#comment-89 Well, I liked Sunshine better because I like my vampire books to be scary, and I loved the whole world she created. But especially if you really like the romance, I can see how you'd like Twilight more. Well, I liked Sunshine better because I like my vampire books to be scary, and I loved the whole world she created. But especially if you really like the romance, I can see how you’d like Twilight more.

]]> By: Brynn http://elisabethreads.wordpress.com/2007/02/11/twilight-by-stephenie-meyer/#comment-85 Brynn Sun, 04 Mar 2007 20:43:04 +0000 http://elisabethreads.wordpress.com/2007/02/11/twilight-by-stephenie-meyer/#comment-85 I think this book was actually very good and addicting. I read Sunshine and thought it was just okay. At the end of the novels I was craving more as I still am. My friends and i talk about a lot and yes there were flaws but altogether it held up nicely. I don't even like fantasy. I read it in 6 hours from 8pm. to 3am. I couldn't put it down. Like I said it was addicting. So I think that Twilight and New Moon are the best books I've ever read and that's like a 2,000. I think this book was actually very good and addicting. I read Sunshine and thought it was just okay. At the end of the novels I was craving more as I still am. My friends and i talk about a lot and yes there were flaws but altogether it held up nicely. I don’t even like fantasy. I read it in 6 hours from 8pm. to 3am. I couldn’t put it down. Like I said it was addicting.
So I think that Twilight and New Moon are the best books I’ve ever read and that’s like a 2,000.

]]> By: Devo http://elisabethreads.wordpress.com/2007/02/11/twilight-by-stephenie-meyer/#comment-75 Devo Sun, 11 Feb 2007 19:39:51 +0000 http://elisabethreads.wordpress.com/2007/02/11/twilight-by-stephenie-meyer/#comment-75 I couldn't agree with you more, about the flimsiness of this book in comparision with (worship, heart) Sunshine. It's not that I didn't enjoy Twilight -- it moved along well, but I was left with a bubble pop taste at the end... (and at the end of the sequel, which I read, too). Much of this was explained by the author's comment, on her website, that she has kept the books pitched to a young adult audience, which, in her Morman sensibility, seems to imply much teenage angst but no danger of anything too sexual. She actually wrote a more robust version of the story as a present to her sister, I think, but said that version will never see the light of day, at least not for a very long time. Oh well. *digs up copy of Sunshine.... and one or two other, really well written vamp novels ;)* I couldn’t agree with you more, about the flimsiness of this book in comparision with (worship, heart) Sunshine. It’s not that I didn’t enjoy Twilight — it moved along well, but I was left with a bubble pop taste at the end… (and at the end of the sequel, which I read, too). Much of this was explained by the author’s comment, on her website, that she has kept the books pitched to a young adult audience, which, in her Morman sensibility, seems to imply much teenage angst but no danger of anything too sexual. She actually wrote a more robust version of the story as a present to her sister, I think, but said that version will never see the light of day, at least not for a very long time. Oh well. *digs up copy of Sunshine…. and one or two other, really well written vamp novels ;) *

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