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MauritiusToday.com - Shopping Mall - Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1)
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List Price: $10.99
Our Price: $6.04
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Manufacturer: Little, Brown Young Readers
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780316015844
ISBN: 0316015849
Label: Little, Brown Young Readers
Manufacturer: Little, Brown Young Readers
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 544
Publication Date: 2006-09-06
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Reading Level: Young Adult
Studio: Little, Brown Young Readers
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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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Summary: Vampires? Teen's who really know what they want? Nah!
Comment: So, OK, I read that this series was as popular with tweens and teens as the Potter books. I read the first one.
Won't read the rest [though will probably go see the movie based on Twilight.] I've been around too many teens and too many tweens for way too long to be able to feel comfortable with the characterization of the protagonist. She may be in love, but I've not yet had the honor of meeting a girl that willing to endure pain and distancing from her peers. . . even though she is a LONER. [Her individuality is played up nicely, but the 9,000 or so I've known over the past 50 years, usually aren't as individualistic as they think.] She turns away from a loving father, a new place to live with new friends etc., and that is understandable given her non-prefrontal lobe development and age of 17, but to accept the physical and mental pain and stress is more than I can accommodate. I don't recommend this one. The writing seems a bit unpolished as well. Though I did like the imaginative details and set up of the vampires.
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Summary: Wow! Could Not Put The Book Down
Comment: Hey! I am 37 years old and totally loved this book! I couldn't put the book down. What a romantic story. Not your average vampire story line. A very good book to take to the beach.
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Summary: Twilight
Comment: I was kind of hesitant to buy the book due to all the fuss, and having been a reader of the Anne Rice's Vamire Chronicles I was afraid I would be disappointed. I was not. This is young adult fiction to be sure but it was fun, and was not just a rehash of the same old vampire myths. It is first love but with a vampire. It does lack the richness of Anne Rice's writing but it was fun and entertaing which is why I read fiction.
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Summary: gets a kid to read
Comment: I saw this book on television and decided to buy it for one of my grandsons, whom is not a reader. Well, he finished this book, i bought him the seocnd one, he finished that one also, so he is now on his third book by in the series. I highly recommend buying the book for your teenage non reader. It could open up a whole new world to him/her.
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Summary: DON'T STOP KEEP THIS GOING!!!!!!
Comment: I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS SERIES!!!! I have completely and totally fell in love with EDWARD and all of the characters of this series. It will make you laugh, cry, sad, scared, excited, worried, feel adored, and all of the above. I have never felt this way about a series of books in my life. After it was done I felt empty as if I just broke up with a boyfriend or something. A co-worker and I were reading them at the same time and we both just have felt lost. We need more.... She and I have been looking and can't find anything that comes close to the experience of reading this series. And she has read thousands of books. I hope that Stephanie Meyer doesn't leave her fans out there too long waiting for the next phenomenal series to start. We MISS EDWARD!!! (and Bell too)This is a MUST READ!!! If you don't enjoy this book you are insane!!!!
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