A Review of twilight the book, by Stephanie Meyer

My friend absolutely begged me to read twilight, I wholeheartedly refused for a number of months claiming that if the book is too popular it doesn’t present enough originality in it or it’s heavily stigmatised in some way.  I finally gave in and decided to read the entire series, cover to cover.  Well without sounding pompous, I was right.  Twilight to me is very simply a collection of extracts of sexual tension between a man and woman that has been translated into black inked words, stretched across thousands of white pages.  Almost a lousy attempt at understanding tantric sexual techniques through word reading.  Needless to say, this is not good for the trees in our environment.  Anyhow, Twilight shirts, twilight jewellery, twilight BABY NAMES, an entire twilight world has emerged.  The aspect that is most concerning me is that of our younger generation.  The twilight series presents a very heavily deterministic symbolic image to our youth and that is of extreme sexual engagement between a male and female, while there is nothing wrong with this in theory, the problem with twilight is that it is excessively illustrated without sound rationale.  This book has a lack of moral lessons, interesting life lessons and real world relevance, which you would expect from a love story.  Bella is constantly crying, Edward is constantly silent and gawking, mentioning a few random heavy words here and there, they look in to each others eyes very frequently and oh yes I forgot theres also some wolves.  I mean honestly, there is nothing of substance in this book that I can derive from.  For one thing it has been dubbed a love story, while I have my girly days and love to tuck in to a nice romantic novel now and again this book illustrates no passion, or the real meaning of what love is!  Quite frankly, I became tired of edwards eyes, I hate the word ‘Cullen’ now, and bella is the name of my next door neighbour and that’s as far as this book goes for me.  I might write a better review of this book when im less frustrated.  Rajiv, you requested it so here it is, this ones for you, I’ll try and write a better one later.