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Question: How the hell did Twilight get popular or even sell 1 copy!? No twilight fans ;P!?
It just seems like the old new-girl cliche, but with vampires, if you can even say that they are!.It seems like a typical story a naive hormonal teenage girl would love and read, which pisses me off because I kinda think that was the whole purpose of the book!. Seriously!. Dont you think this idea has been over-used far to many times for it to become popular and sell millions of copies!? Sorry If i offend anyone but lets face reality, this is a really baddly written book!.Www@QuestionHome@Com


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The media has been shaping everyone's minds from their youth to like the sort of thing in Twilight, whatever it is!. This means both content and quality!. Since content and quality can't be provided reliably to the young, children regularly watch shows lacking in one or both as they grow up, and grow used to such things!. They even like it!.

The good stuff tends to make readers and watchers think, but people watching the mainstream shows aren't used to that, because there was nothing to think about!. Twilight doesn't have anything that you really need to think about to enjoy it (or more like you won't enjoy it if you think, but shh)!. And many of them didn't read a lot, so the lack of good writing doesn't bother them - actually, it's probably a relief, because they just want to get to the purple prose describing Edward's smouldering topaz eyes!.

As teenage girls grew up, the popular shows many of them watched probably taught them to want hot boyfriends, impossibly happy endings with no conflict afterward, money without having to put effort in, etc, and Twilight provides that!. And they'll put themselves in Bella's shoes, getting swept up in this thing that might seem to be heaven to some of them, especially with the total lack of conflict!.

Abusive boyfriends!? Stalking's not romantic!? Shut up! It's love! That fixes everything! He may have abandoned her and totally crushed her spirit and left a huge gaping hole in her chest that she angsted about endlessly, but all problems are instantly solved when he returns! That's the power of love! All your problems can disappear in an instant just because you found the right guy, with no effort on your part - wouldn't it be wonderful to live like that!?

There's also apparently a sort of pseudo-forbidden fruit quality to it, which makes Edward more appealing because he's forbidden and dangerous, but there's no actual conflict resulting from this!.

It's pure wish fulfillment - no quality, but they don't want that, anyway!.

A lot of them even admit it in the form of only providing Edward's hotness as why the book is good!.

It also had a large element of luck in it!. It came right after the Harry Potter craze started to wind down and the media needed another teenage book to rave about!. They found Twilight, unfortunately, and realised that this was probably what would sell, what teenage girls would probably want - and they were right!.


The author's story of a mother who'd never written before managing to write something like that may have had something to do with it, too!. "Look," this says, "you, too, can become famous and rich because of a dream you had! You don't even have to put a lot of effort into the book if you want it to become popular!"

Perhaps inspiring people this way will give the media their next series to focus on!. More money! Yay!Www@QuestionHome@Com

I've never read the books or seen the movie - and I don't intend to!. I don't like cliches, especially when they involve teenagers in 'love'!. It's not romantic, it's teenage hormones running wild and to make it appeal to teenagers they've thrown in the whole vampire thing!.

Ridiculous!.

The fact that the little teenagers following it have basically made some kind of creepy 'cult' about the whole thing!. I have seen kids that have filed their teeth into pointy ones like vampires and do everything in their power to protect their skin from the sun so they are pale and they are probably drinking blood too, who knows!

Death to Twilight, it's vampires & fans!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Isn't it a bit pointless to be asking a question and only allow people who are going to agree with you to answer!? What's the point in asking if you already know the answers you are going to get!.

To answer your question, it's because people simply enjoy reading them, myself included!. I admit, they are no literary masterpieces however I am firm believer that if a book brings enjoyment to at least a few people then it is a good book and any other opinion on the matter tends to be just snobbery!.

And I also hate this stereotype that anything that teenage girls like is bad!. Ok, teenage girls may be fickle, fanciful, naive at times but it doesn't mean that their opinions, likes and dislikes count for anything less than anyone elses!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I totally agree with you!. It became popular because it gives the needs of teens!. Why, I must say!? Because teen girls, for example, love to have a boyfriend who is a bad boy in the outside but so warm inside; extremely handsome; and protective!. It's like living your fantasy! A very cool vampire and an awesome werewolf are fighting for your love!. You feel that you are the princess and the world revolves around you if you are Bella!. Stephanie, the author, lacks of realistic conflicts that even a fantasy story has!. And the lacking became Twilight so selfish!. Why, you may ask!? Because Bella is like THE ONLY HUMAN ON EARTH, like every thing will happen perfectly!. That's NOT LIFE AT ALL!Www@QuestionHome@Com

I know, typical story, boy meets girl, they fall in love!. But honestly, it has Something else!. Something that just makes you want to keep reading, and find out what happens next, its likes its addictive or something crazy like that!.

Honestly, i had pretty low expectations, and i had a few friends who would mention twilight almost every few minutes, so i was like urghhh ill read the first one, but if i don't like it no more lol!.

but yeah, i read it, and im a fan now, as i said, it has that certain Something that not many books have!. And i cant really describe what it is!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The thing about Twilight that I HATE is that it's a love story about two people who love each other because they are each flawLESS!. I think true love, true love in literature, anyway, should be about people who love each other DESPITE the flaws!. I hate Stephenie Meyer's writing!. Absolutely generic and unintelligent!.

LOL at the person a couple answers below me who unwittingly compared Twilight to porn!. Nice one!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

pshh, have you even read the book !
how much do you want to bet that if you read the book actually you would like it !
seriously dont trash it if you havent even read it, i thought it was the stupitest thing ever before i read it ! now im reading the 4th book because they are soo good !!
so go out and read it and maybe youll like it !?!!?!?
badly written !?!?
hmmm its popular bacause its good !!
maybe u jus have real bad taste !!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

I have read all of the twilight books out of curiosity!.!.!.I am 27!. I personally wasnt impressed, but I can see the draw!.!.!.think Romeo and Juliet!.!.!.the draw of the forbidden and the unknown!.!.!.eternal life as a beautiful person who never ages and who has unbelieveable talents!.!.no fear,no death, only acceptance!. I can understand the draw of this series, tho I personally prefer the Harry Potter series!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Because it is brain crack!. The problem is, most people dont understand the difference between brain crack and literature, so they're convinced that it's the best work of literature ever and therefore convince their friends to think the same thing!.

Basically, it got big the same way shows like Gossip Girl became "the most watched drama" or something like that!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

because teenage girls will drool over any cute guy like Pavlov's dog did for a bell!. Right on cue the movie has hotness and slightly risque romance of course the teenage sheep (or cows) of america will fall in line to worship another crappy hollywood fantasy!.
It makes me illWww@QuestionHome@Com

I feel that way about the Left Behind books!. I'm a Christian and believe all that stuff about the end times, but I couldn't finish reading the series, because of how badly it was written!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I know!!!

The really painful thing is that it's making so much money, and not rotting on FanFic!.net like it should be!Www@QuestionHome@Com

Your a twilight hater obviously, but what set you off to go on and rant like this!? By the way its only badly written to some if it wasn't good it wouldn't sell this well!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

even if it is badly written and has a bad story line, something about it is addicting!. and thats what sets it above the restWww@QuestionHome@Com

ok
so i like twilight
or i did
it good, really good
but not this good this is crazy i can name 5 oter books that didnt get half this and t hey r better
i really have no idea
but if u ever find ouit tell me
good luck!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

Why do people read Harry Potter!? that's about a bunch of British kids running around with sticks!. Why did it become popular!? because people like it obviously!.Your question is stupidWww@QuestionHome@Com

I've said it once before and I'll say it again: mob mentality!. Or zombies!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Vampires are dumb i'd rather have zombies any dayWww@QuestionHome@Com

Have you read all 4 books!?
Doesn't seem like you've read 1Www@QuestionHome@Com

all vampires wannabes are doosh bagsWww@QuestionHome@Com

it's a great book!Www@QuestionHome@Com

you're like my new heroWww@QuestionHome@Com

i like your thinking, muggle
I'd rather eat my own turd than read that againWww@QuestionHome@Com

(-: I'm not quite a fan, although I enjoyed the books!. What puzzles me is why does Twilight get so much hate!? I mean, the woman knows how to spell, and put words together much better than the average Yahoo! questioner!. The plot elements are not entirely new, but !. !. !. name me a book which has entirely new plot elements!? "There's nothing new under the sun!."

And why can't hormonal teenage girls have books to read!? Look at all the blood and guts books out there, which are written even more poorly, and seem to have no purpose except to be made into blood and guts movies!?

Or porn!. Look at all the porn that's out there, and I don't see people in books and authors ranting about how there's too much badly-written, cliched porn out there!. (-: And it seems to be popular, too!.

Twilight got popular because it touched the hearts of millions of teenage girls, and people who used to be teenage girls, and people who like teenage girls, and those people also happen to have some disposable income!. That's it!. That's the whole secret!.

And if that makes you angry, go read some Shakespeare, and then you can rant and rave about 500 years of stupid people who keep him in the bookstores (-:!.

(Why in the hell did I even answer this!? I must be bored!. I should go clean the toilets or something!.)Www@QuestionHome@Com

Its because the twilight movie was made which is why the books flew off the shelves!.!.

Have you read the books!? They're actually quite good!.!. I read twilight before the movie came out!.!. Now I'm moving onto the next books but cant find them because they're sold out in a lot of places!.!. STUPID MOVIE! arrgh I have to go to 5 or 6 different shops just to find one book!.!.

Its all about personal preference!. !.If you dont like the book, then thats your choice!.!. But people actually do like the book!.!.

The movie was sh*t by the way!. My imagination was wayy better than the movie lol The tracker scene was way scarier in the book!.

EDIT: Maybe you dont like the book because you're a rebel!? And dont like it because a lot of other people do!? That was a joke!.!. I just realised that jokes sound better in my head than when its typed out!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

because edward cullen is fukcen hott!
&+ soooooo romantic that's why!Www@QuestionHome@Com

your gay
go do your momWww@QuestionHome@Com