The twilight saga movies

[Raptor]

Not a fan of the books or the movies but I'll give them credit they know how to market to young girls.

That being said I think the only way those movies or books would have been good would be if the lost boys showed up and got rid of both the glittery vampire and the werewolf. I'm a fan of the old school vampire movies. Salem's Lot and such and this twilight craze has me on the constant verge of vomit.

Sad thing is..Not just young girls read it. There's hoards of 40 year old women that's obsessed with it. Frankly, I'm of the opinion that the books should be destroyed and the manuscript set on fire. Nothing good has come of that series except hoards of overly obsessed females (who harass people if they don't like twilight. Read an article where a teenager went a killed a child's fish because the child didn't like twilight) who are being taught that it's perfectly acceptable to be stalked.

[WingedWolfPsion]

I'm not sure whom you think is stalking whom, in Twilight. (lol)

Now, as a rabid, frothing, crazed, unrepentant bookworm, I recommend the following:

Lighter fare:
P.N. Elrod (pretty much everything she's written). - vamps as good guys.

Tanya Huff - Blood books. vamps and other critters. Superb characterization. Was made into a short-lived television series called "Blood Ties", which fell short of its potential due to televisionizing and removal of a key character. Still notable for having the least whiny vamp main character on TV.

Charlaine Harris - Southern Vampire Mysteries. This is the series True Blood is based on. One of the best adaptations of book to tv I have ever seen. The books are great and will make you giggle--but yes, this is how books SHOULD be made into TV.

Jim Butcher - Dresden Series. wizards, vamps, werewolves, and other various critters. Made into a short-lived tv series whose writers should have been pounded into a pulp for taking what could have been the next 'Buffy' and turning it into formulaic garbage. And I will never forgive them for what they did to Bob.

Carrie Vaughn - Kitty Norville series. - werewolves.

Weightier tomes:
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro - Saint Germain series - vamps.

C.S. Friedman - When True Night Falls (trilogy) - sorta vamps. Science fiction. The best anti-hero ever penned.

[SpencerShanks]

I've read the books, they could've been worse. Extremely easy to read, which means half of the time I was reading them I was zoned out thinking about something totally unrelated to vampires. I haven't seen any of the movies, though.

[Jay_Bunny]

I'm not sure whom you think is stalking whom, in Twilight. (lol)

Now, as a rabid, frothing, crazed, unrepentant bookworm, I recommend the following:

Lighter fare:
P.N. Elrod (pretty much everything she's written). - vamps as good guys.

Tanya Huff - Blood books. vamps and other critters. Superb characterization. Was made into a short-lived television series called "Blood Ties", which fell short of its potential due to televisionizing and removal of a key character. Still notable for having the least whiny vamp main character on TV.

Charlaine Harris - Southern Vampire Mysteries. This is the series True Blood is based on. One of the best adaptations of book to tv I have ever seen. The books are great and will make you giggle--but yes, this is how books SHOULD be made into TV.

Jim Butcher - Dresden Series. wizards, vamps, werewolves, and other various critters. Made into a short-lived tv series whose writers should have been pounded into a pulp for taking what could have been the next 'Buffy' and turning it into formulaic garbage. And I will never forgive them for what they did to Bob.

Carrie Vaughn - Kitty Norville series. - werewolves.

Weightier tomes:
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro - Saint Germain series - vamps.

C.S. Friedman - When True Night Falls (trilogy) - sorta vamps. Science fiction. The best anti-hero ever penned.

I'll have to check these out, but I have to say that the Sookie Stackhouse books being made into a t.v show, kind of pissed me off that they didn't follow the books very well. There are so many differences and I can't help but laugh every time I hear Bill say Sookie's name.