Comments on: The Twilight Saga Breaks a USA Today Record

By: aroiscreepy

aroiscreepy — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 01:16:11 +0000

I may think Harry Potter is much better, but thats great

By: aroiscreepy

aroiscreepy — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 01:15:48 +0000

SO WHAT

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:31:41 +0000

I personally think that the only reason Stephenie Meyer continues to top the charts is because she relies on word of mouth to sell books. HP has a solid fan base, everyone KNOWS that the HP books are good, so they go out within the first few weeks and buy the books. And then they have the books, so her ranking might fall, but she still sold however many gazillion books those first few weeks.

Besides, there’s not really been any other uber-anticipated books/movies coming out lately (since HP6 came almost 2 years afte the release of Deathly Hallows).

By: KAREN

KAREN — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:13:27 +0000

Don’t want to argue, I love Harry Potter, read it along with my children, and maybe someday with grandchildren, but…heres the catcher…I never wanted to read them over and over as I do Twilight.
I don’t run out and buy books over and over, I have very dog eared copies that have went from hand to hand, I can’t even begin to tell you the 30-40-50 somethings that have started reading again over the
Twi-saga. I think its wonderful and will continue to read it thru the years. I do love Harry too, but in the end it just comes down to personal preferance. Yours is Harry, mine is Twilight although I love them both. Just the fact that these two amazing women have got the world excited about reading is what it boils down to. I am not a teen-ager, on the contrary I am 50. I know grown men who read Twilight, lots of them. I know of a doctors group who has a book club– they are reading and loving Twilight! I think they have the whole hospital staff reading the series. The point being, please don’t put either book in a age group, reading is universal. Its for anyone who takes enjoyment from it. I thoroughly enjoyed the hp series also. Different books totally. Why can’t we just love them both…

By: Holly

Holly — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:57:53 +0000

I agree.

By: theHtic

theHtic — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:40:50 +0000

is it true that only 1million breaking dawn special editions were printed? wont they sell out?

By: Elle

Elle — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:12:53 +0000

Ditto to what Yvonne said. Harry Potter is a classic, Twilight is just a fad.

By: Yvonne

Yvonne — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:09:29 +0000

While I’m sure what I’m about to type is going to be extremely subjective, seeing how I grew up with HP, I wanted to say however I do really enjoy Twilight, it satisfies my need for teen fiction and for romance, but that being said I really cannot stand the comparisons between the HP series and Twilight.

The two books are nothing, I repeat NOTHING, alike. I mean if you count that both are alternate realities, sure. But one is much more of an epic tale and the other is revolved around a girl in love, which Harry only really experiences for 3, maybe 4 if you include Goblet, of the books.

I don’t believe the numbers matter at all in deciding which book is “better” or who wins, though the twilight fandom is for the most part teenage girls and everyone knows that teenage girls are the most obsessive, which helps when they will go out and buy any and every single new edition of the book right off the bat, where most adults (but I’m not saying all, I know many adults who are just as obsessive) are fine with one copy.

But to end this because I’m tired of typing and this will never be resolved I am and forever will hold allegiance to HP. I don’t believe in 30 or 40 years that I will want to read Twilight because by then I’ll be, well, older and living my own romances, apart from Edward. Harry Potter I’ll always love though…and I hope in the end Twilight and Harry Potter fans can maybe stop comparing the two.

Wouldn’t it be better to compare it to…say, another vampire book? Vampire Diaries perhaps.

Oh well,

bye now

By: safina

safina — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:20:40 +0000

First of all, congrats to Steph!

And secondly:
I love this site and I say that the Lexicon is doing a fantastic job. And no, they were not comparing HP and Twilight. Both of the series are great and they’re totally different, so they just cannot be compared.

Why can’t HP and Twilight fans live in harmony? It shouldn’t be so hard.

By: Franci

Franci — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:16:10 +0000

I totally agree…. no contest!! I’ve never read any Harry Potter books or watched any of the Harry Potter movies, and really don’t think I ever would. I was THINKING about watching them only because of Rob…. but I decided against it only because I don’t think he’s (Rob) THE MAIN CHARACTER like Edward Cullen, ya know….. (and Kristen/Bella too) What a great comparison, “it would be like asking what’s better a cubist Picasso or an impressionist Monet.”