J.K. Rowling can pass the torch over to Stephenie Meyer now.

Meyer's Breaking Dawn, the fourth book in her Twilight series sold 1.3 million copies on its first day of release, August 2nd.

For those of you bad with math, that's A LOT of books!

This past Friday night, thousands of bookstores and libraries hosted midnight parties across the country to help fuel these astounding figures.

We mentioned previously that due to the overwhelming demand for the title, the publisher went back for a second printing of 500,000 copies prior to publication, to the current in-print figure of 3.7 million copies.

The publisher has also confirmed the upcoming publication of The Twilight Saga: The Official Guide.

I have yet to read one book from the Twilight series. My taste for literature is quite biased.

I'll sample something sometime so I can say more.

well i've never been into harry potter, but i guess
twilight looks interesting ...

I have recently found this while looking for info on twilight. I am NOT posting this to bash the writer I am just sharing what I found. Because Twilight dose come in as an extremely and I mean EXTREMELY close second as my favorite. I just wanted to say Harry Potter is still alive and well!!!


LINK TO STORY!

You know, I just can't get into the author vs author thing. I mean, why not just enjoy the books? I'm not saying that people don't, I just don't understand the "versus" thing. lol

harry potter sucks, as i'm sure twilight does, too.

Merge this topic with mines?

Kind of hard to beat an original. I mean when you have Mad TV, and Late night tv hosts like jimmy kimmel, jay leno, etc. making harry potter jokes, you know it's pretty popular.

I never heard of twilight. i only knew about it from cB and all the threads on it lol.

-merged, topic description edited. -Rebs

Harry Potter wins.

gtfo perez hilton

Twitards (yes, they actually call themselves that, and one of my friends pointed out that it's as though they combined "twit" and "retard") like Edward Cullen way too much. As perfect as they think he is (which he definitely isn't), an entire series shouldn't be loved so much just because of this one guy.


Completely agreed. Rowling's writing is always so descriptive and witty. Meyer's is repetitive and too straightforward.

Ick!!! I don't agree with you but free speech and all right!?

I think that the major difference between the two is that while Twilight and Stephenie Meyer are enjoying a huge success right now, Harry Potter is revered as a classic and will more than likely always be looked at that way.

Twilight, like the vampire novels Anne Rice writes, will also see great success for the years to come but will never be held in as high of a regard as the Potter series. They are fun books, nothing more.

The Harry Potter series is arguably up there with the Chronicles of Narnia and Lord of the Rings series as far as classic novel series go. Meyer will never even be in the same sentence with Lewis or Tolkien.

That one's cute.

I've yet to get my hands on Twilight but... Long live, harry potter!

I can't exactly say JK Rowling is up there with Tolkein, Lewis etc etc, but at least her stuff's enjoyable to read; like Cristy said, it's descriptive and witty.

I've been veering away from Twilight for the past year and I gave up a few days ago and read the first book. It's soo badly-written yet so addicting...

And it really ticks me off when people claim that Stephenie Meyer's an amazing author, and that Twilight is written really well. I mean, seriously, read the very first paragraph that starts the book (excluding prologue):

"My mother drove me to the airport with the windows rolled down. It was seventy-five degrees in Phoenix, the sky a perfect, cloudless blue. I was wearing my favorite shirt — sleeveless, white eyelet lace; I was wearing it as a farewell gesture. My carry-on item was a parka."

No book can be actually good with that kind of beginning. It sounds like a fanfiction imo. :/

Despite all that though, I'm still an Edward Cullen fantard.

I completely agree for the most part. Except, I don't think you should ever ever compare Anne Rice books to Twilight. They're both Vampire series, but Anne Rice is on a completely different level from Stephenie Meyer. She can actually write.

I kind of cringe at the thought of Harry Potter being up there with Narnia and Lord of the Rings, but I think that is more of a personal preference coming through for me. I never got into HP, I tried. I read some of the books, I've seen some of the movies. (I actually really liked the one where Voldemort killed the guy playing Edward). But I just never liked it. It really bored me, and annoyed me to be honest. I might be wrong, but I don't think HP is anywhere near as deep and involved as Narnia or LOTR. Now if HP still holds the popularity it holds now ten years after the last movie is made, it might have more credibility. But right now it is just another fad.

I am a fan of Twilight though. Only because it is like brain candy. I don't have to think when I'm reading it, and it really is like a guilty pleasure. I would absolutely prefer Anne Rice over Meyer though. No contest there.

HA!

Stephenie Meyer can in no way be compared to J.K. Rowling.
Harry Potter is completely incredible. The novels grip you from the beginning, every single HP book meets a new standard.

Stephenie Meyer has her days but I must say i wanted to rip my eyes out during the first half of New Moon.

Twilight is clever but her writing isn't half as good and it thoroughly angers me how they moved the date of the Twilight Movie because now HP and Twilight have to compete for #1 in November.

Ha ha I just found this!

So TRUE!!!

Ha ha!!!!!

holy shizz.
thats a lot

my gf is freakin obsessed with this book i dunno what the big deal is lol. but i guess i'll read it

thats good! lmao

..... i wonder if there will be

I think that if anyone's going to talk about Stephenie Meyer, they should at least spell her name right.

Wow. You know, I see more inane and cruel remarks from Potter fans regarding Meyer than I do Twilight fans remarking on Rowling. At this point, I'm seeing more maturity from Twilight fans. That's just from personal experience and from what I've responses/blogs I've read.

Oh well.

This post has been edited by superstitious: Aug 27 2008, 12:00 PM

It gets the point across.

LMAO



thats because Twilight fans are better than Potter fans and the Potter fans feel more threatened by Twilight fans than Twilight fans feel about Potter fans

You just tainted my response with irony. :[

it had to be said