Twilight series - Stephenie Meyer!!!

i have been really interested in reading the series of books everyone that ha read hem keeps telling me that i should read the books they said that if i like the movie which i did the i will really like the books but i guess i will have to just get my hands on the books and read them

I love the books. I just read the series and it was tough at the end to realize I was almost done. Nobody wants something so good to end, yet at the same time I had a fascination to know how it ended. I haven't seen the movie yet, I intend to, but since I have read a lot, I will almost always prefer reading a book first - unless it's a movie made to modernize a classic lol. Books always provide more detail, more atmosphere almost, or at least you can take what the author gives you and flesh it out with your own imagination. Directors and screenwriters and art folks do not always create a theatrical release that is quite in line with what you 'see' when you read something. I see a lot of symbolism in the story, destiny almost, from the idea of imprinting to soulmates and the fact that whoever is caught in the middle doesn't have a choice any more in the matter. I actually preferred the interactions between Bella and Edward more in the first 3 books - in the last book there were a lot of times when he seemed two dimensional and cold - nothing like he was when he was promising Bella he would love her forever. Not the whole book obviously, there was the part that led up to Renesmee but after they had to worry about the fight and the concern that something was coming to wipe out all the Cullens. I honestly did not see what the big deal was about the series BEFORE I started reading. The problem with a little thing like this is that's how people get hooked. There was just enough of everything that makes a good story - good old human drama, a small town, people (hehe) who cannot seem to stay away from each other, supernatural drama, secrets, love, hate, fear, connections, fantasy entwined with what-if.... Obviously not everybody will feel the same about the books or the movie. Stephenie Meyer has a LOT of fans, not a surprise to me. One thing I do disagree with is the idea that this is only focused toward teens ie Young Adult genre novels.

I like the 4th book because I think all the actions are there. The battle between the council and how Bella improved her abilities. I like the books better than the movie. I have my own definition of the Twilight characters and I don't think that all of the characters there are suited for the role. __

I enjoyed both the book series and the movie. It was very very enjoying to read and to watch though alot was left out of the movie.

Vampires and bad acting what else could you ask for.

I loved the books. It was way way way better than the movie. Here's the thing. I watched the movie first before I read the book. After I watched it I sooo fell in love with Edward. That made me read the books. After doing so I found out how much mistakes were done in the movie. Here are some of my inputs: 1. Rosalie in the movie is waaaaayyyy uglier than she is in the book. Her character in the book says she has to be really pretty. 2. The scene at the forest? Where Edward and Bella had a date. It was really really dull compared to the way it was described in the book. boo boo 3. Why was Bella wearing leggings on prom night?? 4. Can you guys fill up the other flaws in the movie for me? :)

Twilight is a romance series where good wins in the end and is geared towards teenagers. Now, don't get me wrong, I loved the books (I've read them many times), but I know they won't win any awards for great literature. The books are way better than the movie. But I am more of a book person than a movie person. I always try to read the book before I see the movie. That way you see it from the acutal author's point of view and not the lets-make-some-money producer. I definitely don't think the actors matched the descriptions in the books. They did a poor job in that respect. I think the best match they got was Jacob, and he's probably going to be booted off the next movie for not being tall enough. But they should have known about that in the beginning - if they read the books.

If I have to choose between the books and the movie, I would definitely run towards the books. But otherwise, I run away from both of them. I've got tons of issues with this series, and the movie didn't make it any better. First off, Bella is extremely shallow, and there was next to no character development in the entire four books. And Bella really needed to stop going on about how hot Edward was, I think we all got the point after the first sentence. That basically sums up my complaints about the books. As for the movie, it was horribly done. Robert Pattinson absolutely cannot act, and the producers really chose pretty bad actors for all of the parts. The only one I really liked was either James or Carlisle, the rest weren't very good at all, even Kristen Stewart. And Nikki Reed was too fat, I'm sorry, I just had to bring that up. BUT if you really want to enjoy a mindless book, this isn't a bad series. I only go back and reread it when I'm dying of boredom and really have nothing else better to do.