Er, okay.

[nekare]

So Pete Doherty is a brunette again and THANK GOODNESS because the blond was SCARY, YO. Like, really. I don't know what he was thinking. That with the thankfully normal-again hair and the disappeareance of the bint that was always hanging from his arm (i.e. Kate Moss, attention whore extraordinaire), he can now go and win Carlos back. If, you know

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[mellafe]

I said I wouldn't comment but I lied.

it reads far too much like a cheap romance novel
WORD.

Bella is annoying
DOUBLE WORD.

My problem with it, apart from the cheesy/corny/cliche of the book, is what's been chosen to be IN the book. There are PAGES and pages of action that leads to nowhere. Yes, Bella makes dinner for her dad. Do we really need to know the process of her cooking? When she's leaving with whomever, she says she has to go pick up something or whatnut, why can we not skip the picking-up-of-the-thing and GET THE FUCK ON WITH IT?!

You know? There's too much CRAP in it, too much blababla.

I agree with you about the premise being interesting, the book being catchy. I read it in like a day, although I skipped those balblabla paragraphs. I DO like the last say 100 pages. If the whole book could've been like the last 100 pages, wow, this book would be AWESOME. But it's not.

[nekare]

Haha, that's just fine, I like having someone else to bitch with XD

OMG I KNOW. I honestly don't care about her 'drying her clean hair till it was impeccably straight' (copo/pasted). I really, really don't. Then again, I like to read for the escapism factor.

Oh, so something does happen in the end? That's good to know, I was worried it'll go on describing Bella's homework endlessly. *headdesk* (and what kind of nickname is Bella? Maybe I'm to used to call Isabeles 'Isa', but I'd still mock the hell out of someone called like that in real life. o_O)

[mellafe]

:D Me too. Haha. I don't get to bitch about stuff so this is fun. :p

Exactly. TOO MUCH CRAP. And then the Cullens get two pages, pfftt. They're the most interesting characters in the entire book!

Yeah. If I remember correctly, it does. Unless I'm confusing it with New Moon, which is possible because I skipped a lot with that one too. Ha.

It's the Spanish is us! Isabel is Isa or, in Chile, Chabela. Bella is for the anglos. I suppose. I hate it when they make the character clumsy to make it adorable. DOES NOT WORK. Not for me, anyway.

[tokyoghoststory]

bella's italian! obv it means beautiful. duuuh. cuz she's ~sooooo~ beautiful.

roflz.

[tokyoghoststory]

i think bella is failsauce. i'm all about edward, because he seems so interesting. i read that one chapter where SM wrote twilight from edward's pov AND IT WAS SO MUCH MORE INTERESTING

[mellafe]

I like Edward a lot, and I like his family. I loved reading those bits.

Wait, so you're saying that this book was written for adolescents? I didn't know that.

[tokyoghoststory]

dude yeah, it's even sold in the teen section of the book store. (i work in a bookstore, i'm such a nerd. we have it on display in the TEEN OCTAGON TABLE). if you scan her website, it talks about how she was hestiant to write it for a teen audience and didn't expect it to come out that way, but that it worked out for the best for her, so she's sticking with it. so it's def for that 13-17 age range (if by 17 you're still reading teen books. which, i know i wasn't). and it's on the booklist for my school which is 6th through 8th grade

[mellafe]

Ohhhh. I didn't know that at all. Wow. On one hand, I understand why it's written the way it is now. On the other hand, it makes me go 'why are you reccing badly written stuff to kids?! Make them read better stuff!' Haha. I'm so torn.

I know. I love the Cullens a lot. They're so interesting. I was really into it when I read about Alice and her partner. It was really cool.

[i_hate_music]

I love covers. German book covers are alot better than British ones but American ones can rock, too.

[swedish15]

Veto. Most. Sincerely. Veto. a) Do I like the reliefs on several British paperbacks; the feel is something cool for me, the ability to in a way fondle and trace the symbols and motifs while reading the story about them, getting a haptisches feedback to the things my mind's eye imagines.
You don't get that with the blank, smooth covers of most German editions.

Second: German edition of MacBest had the same cover as Mort (which I still find funny, though.) And seriously, the Bachman books? Who the *frak* thought of these covers?

(Note: No, several German covers are better. I simply can't remember which. Yes, I am German.)

[i_hate_music]

I know what you mean about the feeling of it but I meant the look.
It's just when I'm in my parents bookshop I look at the German books and some are so pretty and then I look at the English ones and most of the are dull. Also the material is worse. The paper is thin and just not as good.
dont know the Bachman books.

[swedish15]

Regarding paper: Oh, yes, I know what you mean.
Oh yes. That's something where I like the idea of Buchpreisbindung (books in Germany have fixed prices) - you get something out of it.

[pourtant]

I don't know what happened. When I read Twilight I absolutely loved it, and then I read New Moon immediately after that and I liked it less, I felt like skipping some things, but still. I had enormous love for the series.
And now I'm kind of frustrated by these books. I can't stand the fandom. But I love Meyer's vampires.

Word to what mellafe said up there about the unnecessary crap. I read the first chapter of Eclipse and that flaw was still there. I got annoyed and I stopped reading.

Also, lol, Bella. Her name has always made me feel weird because we had a dog named Bella when I was a child, and the cat of my sister's best friend was called Bella too. Isa is much prettier, imo.

[sasha_davidovna]

I totally got it for the covers too. False advertising. ~grumbles~