Comments on: The Review: Is Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga’s Finale bigger than Harry Potter’s Final Bow? http://www.beanstockd.com/beanstockd/2008/07/31/the-review-is-stephenie-meyer%e2%80%99s-twilight-saga%e2%80%99s-finale-bigger-than-harry-potter%e2%80%99s-final-bow/1088 Where pop culture and environmentalism make sweet, sweet love Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:19:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Jana http://www.beanstockd.com/beanstockd/2008/07/31/the-review-is-stephenie-meyer%e2%80%99s-twilight-saga%e2%80%99s-finale-bigger-than-harry-potter%e2%80%99s-final-bow/1088#comment-4204 Jana Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:49:23 +0000 http://www.beanstockd.com/?p=1088#comment-4204 Twilight series and Harry Potter books are both great and enchanting tales. Having to spend quite alot of times reading these books, like the others, I kept comparing them to each other. When I've finished the 4th and last book of the Twilight saga, I kinda thought- they're both quite different to each other since twilight is a love-based action/drama while harry potter is about a boy who's demonstrated more knowledge about those magic/wizards things. I'm not clear enough so... (for me)twilight is more of a teen and above thing and harry potter is more of a kids and above thing. So why compare them if they've got different targets? I don't know that for sure but... Breaking dawn was another page turner for me like the other books from the saga but I must say I'm a little disappointed that Meyer rushed some of them. It would've been greater if she hadn't. Twilight series and Harry Potter books are both great and enchanting tales. Having to spend quite alot of times reading these books, like the others, I kept comparing them to each other.
When I’ve finished the 4th and last book of the Twilight saga, I kinda thought- they’re both quite different to each other since twilight is a love-based action/drama while harry potter is about a boy who’s demonstrated more knowledge about those magic/wizards things. I’m not clear enough so… (for me)twilight is more of a teen and above thing and harry potter is more of a kids and above thing. So why compare them if they’ve got different targets? I don’t know that for sure but…
Breaking dawn was another page turner for me like the other books from the saga but I must say I’m a little disappointed that Meyer rushed some of them. It would’ve been greater if she hadn’t.

]]> By: jon trubanks http://www.beanstockd.com/beanstockd/2008/07/31/the-review-is-stephenie-meyer%e2%80%99s-twilight-saga%e2%80%99s-finale-bigger-than-harry-potter%e2%80%99s-final-bow/1088#comment-4086 jon trubanks Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:34:10 +0000 http://www.beanstockd.com/?p=1088#comment-4086 Harry Potter should not even be discussed with the Twilight Series. They are different. One has sold over 400 million copies while the other, by the end of Midnight Sun will have, 30, 40 million. BIG difference !!!! Harry has legions of fans, kids, both boys and girls, while Twilight only has emotional girls wanting a good cry and their moms. Harry rules !!!!!!!!!! Harry Potter should not even be discussed with the Twilight Series. They are different. One has sold over 400 million copies while the other, by the end of Midnight Sun will have, 30, 40 million. BIG difference !!!! Harry has legions of fans, kids, both boys and girls, while Twilight only has emotional girls wanting a good cry and their moms. Harry rules !!!!!!!!!!

]]> By: Sophi http://www.beanstockd.com/beanstockd/2008/07/31/the-review-is-stephenie-meyer%e2%80%99s-twilight-saga%e2%80%99s-finale-bigger-than-harry-potter%e2%80%99s-final-bow/1088#comment-4022 Sophi Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:45:53 +0000 http://www.beanstockd.com/?p=1088#comment-4022 I LOVE TWILIGHT and HARRY POTTER they are both great novels i REALLY want the next book of twilight BREAKING DAWN but i havnt been able 2 get it there all sold out!!! TWILIGHT is massive in america 2!!! Go Twilight!!!!!!! I LOVE TWILIGHT and HARRY POTTER they are both great novels i REALLY want the next book of twilight BREAKING DAWN but i havnt been able 2 get it there all sold out!!! TWILIGHT is massive in america 2!!! Go Twilight!!!!!!!

]]> By: Matylda http://www.beanstockd.com/beanstockd/2008/07/31/the-review-is-stephenie-meyer%e2%80%99s-twilight-saga%e2%80%99s-finale-bigger-than-harry-potter%e2%80%99s-final-bow/1088#comment-4021 Matylda Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:24:11 +0000 http://www.beanstockd.com/?p=1088#comment-4021 THANK YOU. I'm happy to see that people are finally starting to see that this series isn't all that its cracked up to be. THANK YOU. I’m happy to see that people are finally starting to see that this series isn’t all that its cracked up to be.

]]> By: Maggie http://www.beanstockd.com/beanstockd/2008/07/31/the-review-is-stephenie-meyer%e2%80%99s-twilight-saga%e2%80%99s-finale-bigger-than-harry-potter%e2%80%99s-final-bow/1088#comment-3997 Maggie Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:43:43 +0000 http://www.beanstockd.com/?p=1088#comment-3997 I completely agree. The Twilight series is certainly enjoyable, but it's fluff. Fluff is fun, fluff is entertaining, but it's not really meaningful. Meyer lacks the ability to ever do any sort of lasting harm to her characters, and because of that, her story is tame. Yes, there is certainly enough there to satisfy the reader, but there is no real kick in the gut to make any happy results more meaningful. The injuries to the characters never leave a scar. The books lack any sacrifice, and because of that, they cannot pass the threshold from entertaining to epic. Harry Potter, on the other hand, starts out with a lasting emotional and physical scar, and just keeps on getting darker. Rowling realizes that victory doesn't seem realistic or meaningful without some loss. I completely agree. The Twilight series is certainly enjoyable, but it’s fluff. Fluff is fun, fluff is entertaining, but it’s not really meaningful. Meyer lacks the ability to ever do any sort of lasting harm to her characters, and because of that, her story is tame. Yes, there is certainly enough there to satisfy the reader, but there is no real kick in the gut to make any happy results more meaningful. The injuries to the characters never leave a scar. The books lack any sacrifice, and because of that, they cannot pass the threshold from entertaining to epic.

Harry Potter, on the other hand, starts out with a lasting emotional and physical scar, and just keeps on getting darker. Rowling realizes that victory doesn’t seem realistic or meaningful without some loss.

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