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"Edward is a very romantic, albeit fictional,
character. His love and passion for Bella are very charming. He's also
supposed to be extremely gorgeous (although I must confess I was
disappointed with the mere mortal actor chosen) and intelligent as
well."

I disagree. I find him abusive, controlling, manipulative and cruel. He 'loves her' but keeps her from her friends. He's so 'passionate' that he bruises her, he's so 'charming' that she ends up hating her own race. Who cares if a man is gorgeous if he doesn't reflect that with his personality or actions.

He stalks her, he proves that he is shallow in that he doesn't like any other girl because he can hear their mind (proving that he is only majorly interested in Bella because he CAN'T. he can't hear her whining or her opinions)

He's intelligent yet he can't correct his biology teacher in that mitosis has 6 phases (4 major phases) and not 5? Oh sorry, that was SMeyer's screw-up.

Edward really has no personality to speak of and while he may be gorgeous a man has to be more than that. Though Bella doesn't really appreciate him for his charm, love, passion or intelligence anyway so it really doesn't matter.

Sick of the whole, "OMG... I love Edward” thing!!
First, don't get me wrong, I am in no way jealous of a fictional vampire character.

However,
I feel like I can't go anywhere anymore without some girl talking on
the phone, or yapping up her friend about how much she loves Edward
Cullen, and how much Edward Cullen has changed their lives. It is
starting to piss me off on many levels. I mean, PLEASE STFU ALREADY!

The
main reason it pisses me off is because its pretty clear the vast
majority of these girls only claim to be in love with love him because
its suddenly the cool thing to do. The whole gentleman, dark and
complicated, yet charming vampire routine has been done 1000 times
over... Actually, I think Twilight stole the plot from a porn movie I
watched in 9th grade with my friend and just took out all the sex
scenes. The book just so happen to catch on like a boy band or any
other trend. .. In my eyes he is no different than Furbys or Hanson.

Okay,
so you think its a good book... fine. You like the character...great.
But for suddenly form an unhealthy addiction to a guy which you
probably would laugh at if you saw in real life is ridiculous. Would
you really pretend to be that obsessed over him if Twilight was just
some book you picked up that nobody else had heard of? No, of course
not, your friends would think you were silly and rather insane.

In
reality Edward Cullen would be the equivilent of a ***** emo panzy who
wears sparkles and is hopped up on pain killers and crystal meth.
Ironically he posseses some of the least desirable traits that women
would have previously listed for a boyfriend. He is clingy, pale, cold
and uncuddleable, overly-controlling, and most of all he can't have
sex. Also, if I were to drive like him with a girl in the car I am
positive I would get nothing but backseat driving barking in my ear to
slow down.

Now, I am pretty sure that while Cullen may somehow
look good on paper, if it were to come down between this whimsical
fictionaly vampire fairy boi who is leading you on and won't touch you
and..a real man who burps, farts, but can rail you until your eyes cave
in yet is still caring and loving at the same time... it wouldn't even
be a question that you'd choose the later. Sure you might say..."But if
I were with Edward i wouldnt' need sex, hes soooo dreammy."

But I say... I haven't met a virgin girl since my senior year of highschool...everyone gets urges.

BTW,
I would take Blade if I had to choose something for girls and me myself
and all the guys reading this even you would choose Kate Beckinsale in
Underworld vampire over one like this cullen tool anyday right. The
whole badass vampire gone semi-good but still badass is so much more of
a turn-on than the whole sparkly fairyprincess look at me plot.

In
conclusion to this entirely too long rant... I basically cannot wait
until this fad blows over and girls in evry country stop acting like
stupid preadolescent fan girls with a boyband crush. (Reply back to me
if you support my facts)

This post was great.

edward cullen, where do i begin..

i watched the movie two days ago for the first time and you don't even want to know how many times i've watched it over and over again in that two day time span. edward cullen is a vampire indeed, he has an edgy/mysterious side that i don't always like but in his case, oh boy is it a turn on. he is completely gorgeous, and cares for bella sooo much. the things he says and does are purely out of love. if bella knows that she is with a vampire and is not even the slightest bit scared, i think that proves that he genuinely loves her and couldn't hurt her. he is a vampire, he obviously has killed some people, but now he has trained only to drink the blood of animals. if i were bella, i would have made him turn me into a vampire as well, everything about him makes me want to spend the rest of my life with him. edward cullen is the person in my dreams and if he were real, i would give ANYTHING to be isabella swan.

end of story.

Hi!

My name is not important,

I am a 44 year old woman.  I stay very busy all the time.  I have not read a book in over 20 years (from begining to end).  My daughter told me I would really love the Twilight series.  I am on book three, and I have not been able to put them down.  It took me less than 4 days to read the first one.  I can't explain what a woman feels when she reads these books.  I have been married over half my life and this type of relationship is what every woman dreams about.  I told my husband he should read the books so he could be more like Edward.  If more men had a little of Edward in them, There would be more romance and less divorces.

RJS