<p>I read the whole series because I was bored and in Florida with no internet
It was an easy read and I read all 4 books in 4 days. It really required no thought to read and while I appreciate Meyers way of reinventing two mythical creatures I don't believe she deserves as much merit as the media gives her and am certainly opposed to comparing it to Harry Potter. While Meyer may have changed the rules and circumstances of both vampires and werewolves Rowling created a whole new world weaving several stories into a wonderful series of 7 books. </p>
<p>Breaking Dawn happened to be the worst in the whole saga, she should have kept it as a trilogy, ripped out some of the pointless fluff in eclipse and stuck all the important stuff in there.</p>
<p>I read Twilight. I don't understand what the big deal is. It wasn't that good, it didn't draw me in. </p>
<p>I agree, nothing like Harry Potter. The characters in HP were very real to me, like they could be any of one of our classmates. The characters in Twilight were much too distant and book-ish to be real. </p>
<p>Now that I look at it, HP is really not that great. J.K. Rowling obviously wrote the book for kids, because it appealed to me then and not. I can't stand her writing style, either.</p>
<p>Oh and this:</p>
<p>Harry "OMG RON--"
Ron: OMG HARRY, LIKE--"
Harry: "**** RON--"
Hermoine: "**** BOTH--"
Harry: "NO U STF--"
Ron: "OMG HARRY DON'T TALK BAD ABOUT HERMION--"
Harry: "OMG RON SHE LIKES ME MORE."</p>
<p>Honestly, when you have every other line of dialogue interrupted, it becomes repetitive, annoying, and ineffective.</p>
<p>I agree. I started to lose interest after OoP too.. I did love HBP, but I wasn't as enthused overall as I had been before. Then with Deathly Hallows I was just sort of reading it to finish it, still liked it but..
So yea. I definitley outgrew HP, but I'll always like the series, it'll probably always be one of my favorites, but it isn't as "magical" anymore I suppose.
Twilight I do like, it was the series I read this summer, and I didn't love Breaking Dawn, but... they're good, not great, for what they are. They aren't the most well written, but I enjoyed them... Oh well.</p>
<p>I didn't stop reading HP in attempts to be cool, if that is what you are insinuating. I rally didn't feel the attraction anymore after, as PJ noticed, OotP. I didn't even finish it. I skimmed through HBP just to see the story, and same with the final one.</p>
<p>I got into HP for a while.. then the 4th book hit and i thought "WHOA way too long." Then gave up.. and watched the movies.
Never thought I'd read books that long.. then the twilight series came along and I LOVED IT!
BREAKING DAWN WAS SUCH AN AMAZING BOOK!! Wow. I loved every moment.
Cant wait for twilight in theaters :) YAY!</p>
<p>I second (million) what everyone else has said a/b OotP; I didn't finish it until I realized that HP 6 didn't make sense until you'd finished HP 5. </p>
<p>The first book in Twilight was best. Second sucked. Third and fourth were all right. But I'm definitely looking forward to the movie. I just hope they don't sanitize everything.</p>
<p>It's definitely female oriented, with a bunch of...feminine issues (I'm trying not to spoil anything) featured throughout the book that really threw off the tone of the series.</p>
<p>About the Potter books, I've read the 1st book (took me 2 1/2 months..), read the 2nd because of the hype (took me a good 3 months), then painstakingly tried to read the 3rd one this summer...and miserably failed (2 months in, page 100).</p>
<p>I lost interest...I can't go on any further. I get the strong feeling that all the hype is only because of the very attractive and innovative genre/characters instead of the actual writing or plot whatnot.</p>
<p>And as for the topic, I've never heard of Breaking Dawn or Twilight in my life...but that's just me that's 100% outcast when it comes to the reading cliques (I don't read).</p>