Comments on: breaking dawn

By: annie

annie — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:34:44 +0000

i don’t know about you, but i totally woke up the next morning in total physical ecstasy. yeah right. i think the toddler idea is fantastic. can you say reality check?

By: jes

jes — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:42:40 +0000

elise, i have to say, maybe it’s the pregnancy, or i have a libido as active as a rock, but there was nothing about this book that i found titillating in the least. too bad, really.

and tiff, do you mean to say that your husband did not completely destroy your marriage bed in his ecstasy? and that you were so caught up in your own, ahem, whatever that you didn’t even notice?

maybe every teen should be given a complimentary copy of “the act of marriage” with any purchase of a twilight series book. (or have to spend the evening with a rambunctious toddler as part of a reality check.)

By: tiff

tiff — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:14:58 +0000

As for the sexual stuff, maybe I’m strange but I just found it kind of funny. I mean, what woman has ever had such an amazing climax her FIRST time that she didn’t notice she was being all bruised up? Give me a break! At least on my honeymoon, it wasn’t the physical pleasure but the emotional closeness that was so wonderful. But who really gets that kind of physical pleasure at first? That takes time! I found myself laughing all the way through reading about their honeymoon. I think that Stephenie Meyer may have been trying to portray that emotion, but it was too connected to the physical. I guess that I do hope young girls don’t read this and think that the great part is the physical pleasure when the best part is saving yourself and experiencing the beautiful, emotional connection after you’ve given yourselves to each other both legally and physically.

By: tiff

tiff — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:58:35 +0000

I will be the first to admit that I did not find any of these books to be some amazing literary experience. For me they were just fun. I let myself get sucked in while I was on the plane, and so I just finished the series while I was at it. My husband compared how I was acting to how he acted when he was “addicted to 24″ and had to watch the show every week, but never found anything intellectually or morally stimulating about it. I had to agree with him. I think some books are meant to be read just for fun, without a whole lot of thought. They are mindless and silly, but I see no difference between reading them and watching most of what is on tv now days. I guess that’s why they are popular, people are to busy to sit down and really appreciate great literature. They’d rather just sit down and read something mindless in their spare time.

By: marye~

marye~ — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:16:10 +0000

I was not as drawn into BD as I was some of SM’s other books. Sadly I enjoyed reading the sappy love story. I was, however, fed up with Bella’s whining and the whole love triangle was just a bit much.
Back to BD, there were some specific elements that I did not like: 1) I thought the change in POV was unnecessary (I’m not a big Jacob fan), 2) I didn’t like that she drew in such a large number of characters (I got confused as to which vampire was with who and from where and I didn’t really care) and 3) the climax was anti-climatic (I mean, where was the fight?)
Thanks for your review.