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  • Posted By: ~:.tAlKiN4ReAl.:~ @ 07/29/2008 9:33:19 PM

    She's right peoples!!!!!!!

  • Posted By: reeree1 @ 07/29/2008 9:31:46 PM

    Honestly!!! What is wrong with the parents out there, why would it take a book like Twilight to talk about sex???? And you should have had that talk with you children when they were a lot younger that 13!

  • Posted By: ~:.tAlKiN4ReAl.:~ @ 07/29/2008 9:22:58 PM

    Okey people, it is Stephenie Meyers' book....... Let her do what ever she wants to do with it........ What ever she writes, i'm sure it would come out right...... And you little ones here, COME ON........ grow up.......twlighttsss950 is right. this is the 21st century. I learned about sex when i was in 5th grade too.... and that was when i was 9......... If you little ones can't take the little bit of sexual desire Bella and Edward have....... THEN STOP READIN THE FREAKIN BOOK!!!!!

  • Posted By: emochildlvr @ 07/29/2008 8:27:40 PM

    i love these books. i tried to get my mom to read them but she is very resistant to whatever i have to say its nice to know that so many girls have supporting moms and caring that they would actually do that my mom never told me about sex i learned on my own and that was NOT the right way. im 17 and i wish this book was out before i went through what i did i always wish my mom would have told me what a great thing virginity is. waswas.

  • Posted By: TheRaceCar @ 07/22/2008 4:52:03 PM

    The Twilight books promote a dangerous paradigm for teenage relationships. Edward is controlling and possessive and essentially stalks Bella. Bella, the novel's narrator, is weak character and an even weaker female role model. Bella remains content to simply graduate from high school, marry Edward and become a vampire so she can share eternal love with him. Bella is decidedly ambivalent about pursuing a future independent of her relationship with Edward. Bella repeatedly lies to her father in an attempt to protect Edward. Bella does not inform her father that Edward watches her sleep every night. I found the books profoundly disturbing and would never let my children read them, let alone recommend anyone read them.
    While it's admirable that Ms. Meyers does not allow her protagonist to indulge in anything more than passionate kissing, the underlying relationship between Bella and Edward is unnerving and inappropriate. Additionally, Ms. Meyer's writing suffers from a lack of true originality or, barring that, even inspired innovation.

    • Posted By: katiefg @ 07/22/2008 9:36:04 PM

      Wow! Lighten up! It's just a book folks. I love how critics of this book clearly have never read the book or completely misinterpret what's being written, and then take it so seriously. True, the writing isn't Shakespeare - but frrankly, I don't think even Shakespeare had this kind of following. Ms. Meyer is doing something right, as she is - not writing well -all the way to the bank.
      As a dyed-in-the-wool feminist myself, I of course would not WANT my daughter to behave this way. But if I remember being 17 correctly, I TOTALLY behaved this way - being obssessed with a boy and being willing to live your life for him. Oh, the delicious drama of it all. Is it stupid? Of course. Is is how young girls feel? Absolutely! So what? Edward is definitely fictional, but so is Bella. There's no underlying agenda or message, it's just a series started by a mom who wanted to do something fun for herself. So let's take a break from our cynical, so serious selves and take a little skinny dip into the fantasy of being completely ordinary and having someone beyond extraordinary want us just because of our smell and our mind. That's all, nothing more - ahh, just soak in the FUN!!!

      • Posted By: emochildlvr @ 07/29/2008 7:48:07 PM

        THANK YOU thats exactly what i was thinking. "SOAK IN THAAA FUNNN! live alittle. go on dream ya no take a lil vaca. from reality sweetie. there ya go".... ya know?

      • Posted By: emochildlvr @ 07/29/2008 7:43:58 PM

        your sooooo right i cant even begin to describe how right you are about this. thats what I've been thinking this whole time. your very right... lets just SOAK IN THE FUN! nice.

    • Posted By: memorylapse @ 07/22/2008 8:14:35 PM

      Finally! A comment on something Twilight-related that isn't praising the novel. I have read them all to date, and yes i can say that they easy, slightly enjoyable reads but I have a hard time getting past how horribly developed the characters are that Stephenie Meyer created, more so how much anti-feminist undertones are in the story. Bella exclaims numerous times in the novels that without Edward her life would be nothing. The the big joke is that once Edward leaves Bella slumps into a dark depression and doesn't use the comfort of other friends to get through hard times, but instead leaps into the arms of another male. Then when she is finally reunited with Edward she isn't even angry at him, and falls back into place as though he never even left. I mean do mothers' really want to be sending out that kind of message to their daughters, the kind of message that tells them it's okay to be weak, it's okay to mope, and it's okay to throw the rest of your life away because there is going to be some Mr. Perfect to come sweep you off your feet and make everything better? I'm a nineteen year old female and I certainly wouldn't want to have a future daughter of mine to feel that she needs a man in her life to be okay.

      • Posted By: StalkingSpunkRansom @ 07/29/2008 12:39:52 AM

        Adding on to my argument, she punches Jacob in the face when he kisses her. I doubt that's very misogynistic of her, because if it was, she would have allowed Jacob to continue kissing her, since she would be weaker than Jacob since she is a female and he is a male. At least, that is how it wood go down if this was supposed to be an anti-feminist type book. Yet, Bella did punch Jacob instead of being weak. That's all I have left to say.

      • Posted By: StalkingSpunkRansom @ 07/29/2008 12:36:54 AM

        You're joshing me, right? Who said anything about leaping into the arms of another male?! She merely makes a new friend, ohkay? Sure, he falls in love with her, but she didn't consider him as boyfriend material until Eclipse. Even when she does acknowledge her feelings for Jacob, she still admits she loves Edward more! As to her lack of anger at Edward for leaving her, it is because she thinks that she is undeserving of Edward, percieving herself as plain due to her life in Phoenix, where everyone may have been prettier than her. She also considers it her fault as to why he left , as It was her cutting her finger on wrapping paper that sends the Cullens into a frenzy.since she

      • Posted By: Jaw288 @ 07/27/2008 11:19:38 AM

        you;re dumb if u think that one novel will tell girls how to act. she doesnt leap into the arms of another male. she had no romantic feelings for him. and she had no reason to be mad, he did it to protect her. bella lost her first love its hard, but she eventually pulled out and started hanging out with a friend who just so happened to be a boy. she didnt have romantic feelings for him. he was just someone fun to hang out with and made her world a bit brighter. do you really want to teach your daughter that men are only good for one thing, dating and sex? why cant a girl have a guy friend?

  • Posted By: terrifictwilightteen565 @ 07/29/2008 7:43:42 PM

    well, now that everyone's been able to talk about all of the things that they hate about the books, and what they can see from the movie, hah, what does everyone think is going to happen in breaking dawn... i mean i wish that stephanie was writing more books!! because it doesn't seem like she can sum everything up in just one more book... personally i want bella to be turned into a vampire but what do you guys think is going to happen??

  • Posted By: ancientone @ 07/29/2008 5:23:38 PM

    In reading these comments it is easy to see that many of you still have not experienced a true, deep, agonistic love. Thank you Stephanie Meyer bringing romance back to our children. Of course this isn't real it is just a story but thanks to Stephanie many of you unexperienced people can maybe understand what love should be like. My husband still takes my breathe away after 16 years of marriage. And when he is away on business we go to sleep on the phone listening to each other talk and breathe. Also Rob is "Perfect" from what I can see from the trailers. He even has the crooked smile down. Way to go SUMMIT Entertainment.

  • Posted By: GoTTaLoVePeneLope @ 07/29/2008 3:50:35 PM

    I don't understand they cant have sex in the book? If you don't want your child to read it why are you letting them read a book Dead people drinking blood and killing animals and people?

  • Posted By: twlighttsss950 @ 07/29/2008 3:49:13 PM

    my gawd.talk about OVER PROTECTIVE! this is the twenty first centery here people! im not the young, but im nomt that old either an like atleast MY omm treats me as if i AM older than i realy am! like come on, they dont really do anything..i mean they ALMOST do but i highly doubt stephanie meyer would actualy describe it when theyre having sex.so like come on people, get overrrrrr ittt!!!!

  • Posted By: GoTTaLoVePeneLope @ 07/29/2008 3:49:03 PM

    Why no sex in the book? Whats wrong with it?

  • Posted By: smarties_r_cool @ 07/29/2008 3:23:02 PM

    I think some people here, you know who you are, need to stop worrying about censoring Twilight from kids 12 years old. In the school i used to go to we learned about this issue in our health class when i was in 5th grade. Yeah, 10 years old, and i went to a normal school, low teen pregnancy rate, low crime rate. I really helped and i believe may have preventeed many teen pregnancies in my school. So think about what you're censoring.

  • Posted By: Jaw288 @ 07/27/2008 11:07:10 AM

    i hate when moms are like this, ugh. worrying if she'd have to edit the paragraph. please its a book in the young adult section its for 12 and up. and her daughter probably knows a lot from kids at school or is learning some bad things from kids at school, a book isnt going to destroy her mind, a book can only help and twilight is one of the best to do that.. my mother never tried to censor me other than keep me in the young adult books until i was older. i still read YA books obviously, and i havent found one yet that is overly inappropriate. but to each her own i guess, i just hate it when parents try to censor the world that their chilkdren live in, its like lying, and its a brutal blow when you get out in the world and know nothing about its negatives.

    • Posted By: smarties_r_cool @ 07/29/2008 3:08:02 PM

      Amen! I totally agree. Thank you for posting your comment, everything you said was totally true!

  • Posted By: terrifictwilightteen565 @ 07/29/2008 12:26:25 PM

    i don't see why everyone's freaking out about robert pattinson.. i mean if you actually take the time to watch the trailers and see the interviews you'll see that he actually isn't that bad looking.. and if you have such a big problem w/ him then who do you think would do better.. i mean who's as cute.. and can act as good robert pattinson??

  • Posted By: terrifictwilightteen565 @ 07/29/2008 12:23:43 PM

    i don't understand why everyone's freaking out saying that Robert Pattinson isn't good enough to play edward, if you take the time to watch the trailers and interviews and stuff you'll see that he actually isn't that bad looking... and besides who would you suggest to play edward, that is cute and can act as good as robert pattinson??

  • Posted By: Owl5 @ 07/22/2008 1:38:59 PM

    This article says that Meyer felt that Bella and Edward shouldn't have sex before marriage, yet it neglects to metion the fact that they're engaged to be married at, like, 19, Bella doesn't have any plains for a higher education, Edward doesn't have any either, and only Bella has a job (retail.) Wow, that's a good message for kids: don't have sex before marriage, but get married young so you can, and Jesus will love ya for it!


    • Posted By: zoe15 @ 07/22/2008 9:34:33 PM

      You're wrong. In Ec lipse, we find out that they've both been accepted to Dartmouth and are supposed to start college there after the wedding. Also, if you read "Midnight Sun", ie Twilight as written from Edward's perspective (available on Stephenie Meyer's web site), you'll find out that Edward already has several medical degrees. Besides, Edward is far from being poor, so I don't think the lack of money or high-paying jobs is an issue.

      • Posted By: purplematter @ 07/24/2008 10:28:39 AM

        When you can live forever, money tends to accumulate. All the Cullens have numerous degrees, they're skilled in many fields and they can hold whatever jobs they want, whenever they want. Obviously, Bella can't go to college right away, but she'll be able to go once her newborn stage has passed and she's comfortable enough around human blood. In the meantime, she can learn as many languages, memorize as many books, and do whatever she likes till she's ready.

        • Posted By: cedusky1 @ 07/29/2008 11:30:11 AM

          Edward already has several medical degrees, and has gone to several colleges already, and he is supporting ella 100% with her well-informed, well-thought out plans like going to college as soon as she is able too, and has paid for her to get into Dartmouth, and will pay for her education. He has plenty of money, and something else the book shows, and Stephanie Meyer has explained, is that Bella goes through the experiences that she does in the books because Stephanie feels that it makes her decisions REAL. She is making decisions with all the options laid in front of her, and not only tat... with what she has been through... she isn't a normal 19 yr. old anymore... she can't go back to the ignorance she was in, and her life has become something else.... she been having to grow up a lot faster than other teens. I agree that most other 17 to 19 yr olds would not be ready for the types of decisions that she is making... in this case it is different... but certainly you have got everything else wrong.

  • Posted By: beaver_01 @ 07/29/2008 11:20:46 AM

    It doesn't really make you feel better about waiting to have sex though. It doesn't show that guys will like you even if you don't have sex with them because if you read the whole series you would know that Edward doesn't want to have have sex. I thas nothing to do with Bella's desire. Bella still wants to have sex but Edward will not allow it. So, it just shows that Edward really is an old fasioned person who thinks that he will hurt Bella and worries about his own virginity along with Bella's.

  • Posted By: cedusky1 @ 07/29/2008 11:20:45 AM

    I just want to say that poor Robert Pattinson has gotten so much hatemail for not being perfect enough for Edward. Please watch some of his interveiws online because he is sooooooooo sweet, and sooooooo cute, and it totally rang a bell in my heart that says thank you for picking him to play Edward.

  • Posted By: busy-mom @ 07/29/2008 9:52:35 AM

    I'm the mother of a 12 year old daughter, and a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (mormon). I read the books after having several friends recommend them. We even had a book club at church and read all three of the available books in a month...none of us could put them down. All of us who have daughters older than 11 or 12 let the girls read them. The Twilight series is a great work of fiction, but lends itself to reinforce positive behavior. We are living in a time where pornography is so rampant and many young men are expecting girls who fit that idea. I'm grateful to Stephanie Meyer for writing books which have high morals, value agency and show that morality is not a long forgotten principle.

  • Posted By: kirbko @ 07/29/2008 6:30:32 AM

    Finally, an article about the Twilight Series where the author understands the appeal...especially for mom! Thank you:)

  • Posted By: kirbko @ 07/29/2008 6:29:06 AM

    Finally, an article about the Twilight series where the author understands the appeal...especially for moms! Thank you:)

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