| Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1) | 
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Category: Book
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Studio: Little, Brown Young Readers
Manufacturer: Little, Brown Young Readers
Label: Little, Brown Young Readers
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 544
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.4 x 1.5
ISBN: 0316015849
EAN: 9780316015844
ASIN: 0316015849
Publication Date: September 6, 2006
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"Softly he brushed my cheek, then held my face between his marble hands. ''Be very still,'' he whispered, as if I wasn''t already frozen. Slowly, never moving his eyes from mine, he leaned toward me. Then abruptly, but very gently, he rested his cold cheek against the hollow at the base of my throat. " As Shakespeare knew, love burns high when thwarted by obstacles. In Twilight, an exquisite fantasy by Stephenie Meyer, readers discover a pair of lovers who are supremely star-crossed. Bella adores beautiful Edward, and he returns her love. But Edward is having a hard time controlling the blood lust she arouses in him, because--he''s a vampire. At any moment, the intensity of their passion could drive him to kill her, and he agonizes over the danger. But, Bella would rather be dead than part from Edward, so she risks her life to stay near him, and the novel burns with the erotic tension of their dangerous and necessarily chaste relationship.Meyer has achieved quite a feat by making this scenario completely human and believable. She begins with a familiar YA premise (the new kid in school), and lulls us into thinking this will be just another realistic young adult novel. Bella has come to the small town of Forks on the gloomy Olympic Peninsula to be with her father. At school, she wonders about a group of five remarkably beautiful teens, who sit together in the cafeteria but never eat. As she grows to know, and then love, Edward, she learns their secret. They are all rescued vampires, part of a family headed by saintly Carlisle, who has inspired them to renounce human prey. For Edward''s sake they welcome Bella, but when a roving group of tracker vampires fixates on her, the family is drawn into a desperate pursuit to protect the fragile human in their midst. The precision and delicacy of Meyer''s writing lifts this wonderful novel beyond the limitations of the horror genre to a place among the best of YA fiction. (Ages 12 and up)
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The book that started the phenomenon is now available in a deluxe collector's edition! Featuring a ribbon bookmark, cloth cover, ragged edges, new chapter opener designs, and a beautiful protective slipcase, this edition is perfect for fans and collectors alike.
Bella Swan's move to Forks, a small, perpetually rainy town in Washington, could have been the most boring move she ever made. But once she meets the mysterious and alluring Edward Cullen, Bella's life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. Up until now, Edward has managed to keep his vampire identity a secret in the small community he lives in, but now nobody is safe, especially Bella, the person Edward holds most dear.
Deeply romantic and extraordinarily suspenseful, Twilight captures the struggle between defying our instincts and satisfying our desires. This is a love story with bite.
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 expected more. October 13, 2008
i decided to read this book because there has been so much hype surrounding it. it was alright, nothing more nothing less.
i think that i would enjoy the story a lot more if i understood why bella and edward were attracted to each other emotionally. she thinks he's hot and he wants her blood, but i just didn't feel anything else from them. why did they fall in love? i felt like i missed 5 chapters of build up or something cause they had a few conversations, he ignored her for a month, then all of a sudden they were in love.
this book took me awhile to read because there was no real plot other than the love story until the last 100 pages or so. the end i enjoyed a lot more. i really liked the character james and the "action" part of the ending.
i enjoy a good love story, but i just do not think this one was well written. there were too many cheesy lines and i just didn't feel their connection.
i did enjoy jacob, he is a three dimensional character, and i really felt a spark between him and bella. i really liked bella's father charlie and the other cullens. i loved alice and jasper the most. carlisle was a great character too. i just wish there could have been more of the other cullens in the book and less descriptions of edward's beautiful face and body. i get it, he's hot.
i am going to give 'new moon' a shot because i'm hoping that they story will get better. but if i don't enjoy, i'll just end my twilight experience there.
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The Best Vampire book Ever October 12, 2008
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This was the best vampire book ever. It has everything romance, action. It is about a very normal looking girl who falls in love with a vampire Edward. Who loves her just as much. I couldn't put the books down. LOVE IT!
 It's not a vampire book! It's not just for teens!!! My newest guilty pleasure. October 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It's an escape. It's a guilty pleasure like reading the celebrity tabloids. The book won't win awards for stellar writing, but it's addictive....and it's not just for teens. It's a quick read as it invites the reader to enter the world of a girl who gets the guy, but he turns out to be a vampire.....who won't turn her into one.
Sure it's not believable, but it is a book about vampires after all. You'll turn the pages faster as the plot thickens and you begin to identify with the mortal, Bella Swan, who is in love with Edward Cullen, the vampire. They share a sickly sweet love and create a bond that only exists in romance novels or abusive relationships. But, you crave it. You crave his family's wealth as he offers to shower her with gifts which range from a car (new Audi) to a college education.
I hate much of TV, won't watch Buffy, et al. I wouldn't read Harry Potter because of the "magical" influences. But, this is different....sure the Cullen's are vampires, good vampires, but it's more like they have some small family secret akin to....being in the witness protection program....
It's not a vampire book. I don't read vampire books.
It's a good book about young and hopeful love. It's pure escape that will hook you. It took me two nights to read the first, now I'm on the second. I'm 29, this isn't just a teen book. I can't get enough and neither will you.
From A Man Who Has Read 'Twilight' October 12, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
For many reasons I banned reading this book. Working in retail with teenie girls barraging the bookstands demanding for the next Stephanie Meyer book was just annoying and made me believe these books were meant for the intelligently-deficient. A friend online said I should at least try it and see for myself. I thought about J.K. Rowling's work. I hated Harry Potter at first, then gave the books a chance since all my friends did, and turns out I loved them all. In thinking that Harry Potter wasn't just meant for kids, maybe Twilight wasn't just meant for dumb teenie girls.
So I read it. I freaking loved it!
I'm not big on romance novels, but this isn't just a romance novel. It's so much more than that. This is by far the most original vampire story I've read since H.P. Lovecraft's "The Shunned House." Meyer wasn't biased by all the Hollywood stereotypes of vampires like Buffy, Dracula, Lestat, or Blade. She had her own image in mind and stuck to it creating the most beautifully elegant vampires I've seen yet. In fact, I much more prefer these vampires over the others. They're more powerful, more understandable, have so much depth to them, you really feel for them, and their histories certainly make you wonder.
This being Stephanie Meyer's first book just impresses me. I must buy the other books now. A female coworker told other coworkers, "I can't see a guy reading this." I felt challenged, and did it anyway finding out that I am a male that loved Twilight. Bella and Edward share a love that can only be called "true love": limitless, eternal, and unbreakable. This is the only love anyone, whether they admit it or not, truly wants. I'm a helpless romantic, I confess, so this touched me in a different way. Albeit, I hold a dark sense-of-humor, and Meyer seems to also hold a wee bit of a dark sense-of-humor too. There are many moments I laughed, almost broke out in tears (I can imagine sad teenaged girls doing so), and nodded in great gratification. I didn't see any godlike battles between the superhuman vampires in this one, which I started expecting about halfway through, but I know there are more books to come and I'm sure I'll be in for a treat.
One day I may have to reread this book again. For now, I'm keeping it on my Kindle and can't wait to start reading "New Moon." Next on my list! This is like Harry Potter where it's like reading a soap opera where so much happens.
Suspense? Yes. Active? Oh my yes. Hard to put down? Yeah!
This is one man in the world who has read Twilight, and personally loved it. Has nothing to do with the fact I live in the Phoenix area and a part of the novel takes place here. I'm actually a northern person who grew up in the Northeast, so I could envision all the settings perfectly. (That may have helped in my case.) Anyways, if you're looking for a book that will help you feel something and keep you locked to the pages, then go ahead and pick up Twilight, because you won't be disappointed.
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