Twilight Saga News
Posted by Twilight_News - 04/01/09 at 12:01 am
Here’s an interesting look at many issues surrounding the perception of the Twilight Saga.
Sales Totals Round-up
NY Times
5. The Host (hardback fiction category)
1. The Twilight Saga (children’s series category)
3. The Twilight Illustrated Movie Companion (paperback advice)
USA Today
1. Twilight
3. New Moon
4. Eclipse
5. Breaking Dawn
22. The Host
Wall Street Journal
1. Eclipse
2. Breaking Dawn
7. Twilight
8. New Moon
10. The Host
Publishers Weekly (does not rank YA books)
3. The Host
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I thoroughly enjoyed the artitle above, and I think it was both the writing and stance that was said very well.
Check this out! According to an article ( http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_272624436.shtml ) Robert Pattinson is going to have a bigger role in New Moon. That’s so annoying seeing how Edward only appears in the beginning and the end of the book. Jacob is as important as Edward is in the Twilight saga.
Hmm, don’t really understand the article though.
Maybe it’s because feminism all that is not widely known in my country.
A.C. I don’t believe that article. It just old gossip that their re-writing. Unless it’s official word from Summit don’t believe that nonsense.
Mel called it. They have nothing. They are just making assumptions off of bits and pieces of things because it’s a slow news week.
What a great article! I agree with a lot of it, and it’s nice to see something honest, well-written.
I agree that if you haven’t read the books you shouldn’t give an opinion.
Fantastic article.
hey, is Stephanie writing a sequel to The Host? Because, i really liked it
I didn’t quite understand the article, but what I did understand, I totally agreed with. I hate it when people say “OMMGG I hate this ‘Twilight’ book, its so stupidd. You people are so obsessed, blah, blah, blah.” (I have a few of those people in my school. They haven’t read the book, they can say nothing.) Plus, all this talk about how Twilight represents all of these bad things.(Twilight fans should know what some people are talking about)Yet, it wasn’t ment to represnt these things, S.M. ment for this book to be a differnt twist to a love story and that is what it is, it’s not ment to make any certain point, but to be a good story. Which it is. If people think some representaions came out of it, so be it. The world is not all good. A book cannot go “They met, got married, adopted 2 children, and lived happilly ever after.” Well, it could I just don’t think it would do to well… Annyyyhoo. . .
The article was well-written and had some great insight. I’ve always found it annoying that people call Twilight anti-feminist. Feminism is about not putting boundaries on any woman; it’s about having the right to do with your life as you choose. If somebody DECIDES they want to stay at home with their children, THAT is feminism. Bella is certainly a feminist, and you’d have to be completely set in your ways not to see that…
I loved that article. It made my day. People need to understand that they can’t rate a book without first reading it >.>
Breaking Dawn disproved the whole feminist thing at the end, and that argument is completely unfounded.
I have so many things I could rant about to the Twilight haters mentioned, but I’ll restrain myself
I wonder how long it’ll be before twilight or any of Stephenie’s books AREN’T in all the top selling spots? probably at least a few years still.
Mel, I guess you’re right. I heard it from my local radio station too, something I really don’t trust, so hopefully it’s all nonsense.
I liked the article because it was honest.But there are some things I don’t agree with and others with which I do…
Anyway,whatever I was trying to say is quite complicated so I’ll just say good job for the article.
In regards to the above-mentioned article in comment #3: The Twilight series may be about Bella, Edward AND Jacob, but there’s no denying where the real love story lies. The filmmakers are smart to at least keep this in mind when considering the script for NM. Even though Edward is not physically “in” NM as much as Jacob, he is in Bella’s thoughts constantly. How else will they portray that without adding something of Edward in the storyline itself?
Kristen Stewart won’t be able to just narrate her grief and longing in the movie the way that Bella does in the book. But that longing for Edward is just as important in the story (if not more so) as the action scenes with Jacob. Somehow the filmmakers will need to make that come across on screen or else everything that happens after that (i.e. Eclipse and BD) won’t make sense to the movie audience.
But like everyone else has already stated, until we have something more official, the article is pure speculation.
according to wikipedia, ricky ullman has been hired to play seth in new moon
can anyone confirm that?
I like the article. The streak of elitism aimed at Twilight is kind of disturbing. Twilight is by a woman, enjoyed by women, therefore there must be something wrong with it. And normally I’m the last person in the universe to cry “sexism”. I can’t help wondering… if JK Rowling had written Harriet instead of Harry, and written openly under the name Joanne, would she have gone through the same thing?
That article made my day.
@Melanie:
I disagree, I feel that Breaking Dawn CONFIRMED sexism in the Twilight Saga lol
I’m sorry, my honest opinion.
Still enjoyed and love the books<3
A little off topic but I’m wondering why we haven’t heard anything regarding Taylor playing Jacob and also I was hoping to see a bump in the projected 50 mil budget as well! It’s seems extraordinarily ridiculous to only increase the badly needed budget by a paltry 13 million dollars considering the major effects necessary to do New Moon properly….anyone heard anything lately?
yea im with you Amy….can someone post anything about Taylor playing Jacob
I think the wiki article is full of crap. I like Ricky, but there’s been NO news about casting. That’s just a random rumor, in my opinion.
Ok, this is weird.
It means that, depending on one’s perceptions, Twilight MAY or MAY NOT be feminist or sexist or whatever? Did that sum up everything?
Because I don’t understand any of these…
To me, it’s a series that can let me escape into. I truly enjoy the books.
I do agree on what the person said though. Don’t judge something when you didn’t even read them in the 1st place.
It’s a case of sour grapes, I think.
If you don’t like it or think its ideas clashed with yours, then don’t read it, but at the same time, don’t judge or whine about it too.
Had enough of all these self-proclaimed critics.
Congrats to SM again. The twilight saga is still at the top.
There’s nothing I hate more than a bunch of bitter feminists blogging the Twilight-is-the-anti-Christ message… it’s so old. Get over yourselves. No one made you read the books, so move on already.
And if nothing has been announced yet about the New Moon casting, that means there hasn’t been any reliable information released…. we’ll know soon enough.
It’s great to watch Stephanie’s books continue to ride the top of the best-seller lists. I am glad so many want to share Bella’s story. It’s almost a cultural compulsion!
i agree with you summer….whenever i read the Twilight series im in a happy world and i want to stay there…yes i know the story is fictional, but thats my escape place
I am very pleased that The Host is doing so well. In my opinion The Host was better than Twilight, and I wasn’t sure if it was going to do well when it first came out. I knew that some people would read it just because SM wrote it, but I didn’t know if after that it would still do well. I am still absolutely in love with Twilight, but I just love The Host more, and it truly makes me happy that it is doing so well. This way we know that SM is not limited to writing stories about Vampires.
oh i loved the article ALOT!
and i know EXACTLY what the writer means!!!!
the day after Twilight came out this girl in class was saying
“oh have you seen Twilight”?
“well i havent seen it but my cousin saw it and he said it was HORRIBLE”…
then she goes on to say all this CRAP!
oh he said the acting was HORRIBLE
he said the stunts were BAD
(it was a low budget film was it not? plus i dont think they were that bad, i liked them)
and all the while im thinking how can a person be so ignorant and critize when they have NO CLUE WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT??????
i mean i guess she was just letting her cousin’s opinions get to her or something (like the article said)
oh well people are people and if they choose to waste their time getting all mad about how everyone loves twilight then why not let them
I loved Sarah Jaffe’s article! I’m a college lit instructor and a Twilight fan, and no, there’s no conflict of interest. For so long, literary heroines have either misbehaved and died (Wuthering Heights, Clarissa) or behaved themselves and happily married (Jane Eyre, Pamela). How refreshing that we can now find books in which the heroine is the one who wants sex, has concerns about marriage, and in the end gets her way. Yes, she also sacrifices herself for others’ happiness at times. Talk to any working mother and see whether that’s a foreign feminine concept? People who criticize the Twilight series as “unhealthy” are also treating its readers as children, unable to make our own choices or differentiate between fantasy and reality. Let’s not take that silently.