Twilight Vs. Harry Potter

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Re: Twilight Vs. Harry Potter

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Harry Potter just has a lot more to it. I'm not hating too much on Twilight... I think it got ruined by the movies.
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I am going to go ahead and say it, The Harry Potter series is ten times better than the Twilight Series could ever think of being and I'll explain why. Now don't get me wrong, you're correct in saying that the two series are completely different. That is a very true statement. So content wise the two books can not be compared. The writing style of Twilight is the problem I have. Those books are very poorly written, the symbolism is lacking, there is little to no character development and the themes that are presented are problematic in a multitude of ways.
Twilight is marketed to higher level teenage students and written at a sixth grade level. Harry Potter grew as it's target audience grew, allowing the readers to develop with the story. Twilight is readable by children as young as ten and therefore should not have the issues that it dealt with available to young readers.
I can not name an instance of symbolism in Twilight, everything in those books is straight forward, as it's read. Meyer's tells you everything you should be thinking and feeling. She gives you no room to infer what you should feel. Rowling guides you and allows the reader to make their own assumptions and feelings about her characters, which is why her books are so unpredictable. Mostly as you are so busy making your mind up about how you feel about something that you don't even realise that the direction she's going is the complete opposite of where you are. The character development in Twilight is severely lacking, in fact, Bella never learns. She constantly and consistently puts herself in a reckless amount of danger over someone who at certain points completely lets her down and abandons her. Finally, the themes in Twilight promote the idea of a selfless love, so selfless in fact that you would literally abandon all thoughts of yourself if something were to go wrong in the relationship. Frankly, Edward, in my opinion, is a very manipulative character and Bella is a vapid girl who's all too eager to allow him to control her.

The books are miles apart, and there is nothing that could convince me that twilight is or ever was a good book series.
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renohunter26 wrote:I am going to go ahead and say it, The Harry Potter series is ten times better than the Twilight Series could ever think of being and I'll explain why. Now don't get me wrong, you're correct in saying that the two series are completely different. That is a very true statement. So content wise the two books can not be compared. The writing style of Twilight is the problem I have. Those books are very poorly written, the symbolism is lacking, there is little to no character development and the themes that are presented are problematic in a multitude of ways.
Twilight is marketed to higher level teenage students and written at a sixth grade level. Harry Potter grew as it's target audience grew, allowing the readers to develop with the story. Twilight is readable by children as young as ten and therefore should not have the issues that it dealt with available to young readers.
I can not name an instance of symbolism in Twilight, everything in those books is straight forward, as it's read. Meyer's tells you everything you should be thinking and feeling. She gives you no room to infer what you should feel. Rowling guides you and allows the reader to make their own assumptions and feelings about her characters, which is why her books are so unpredictable. Mostly as you are so busy making your mind up about how you feel about something that you don't even realise that the direction she's going is the complete opposite of where you are. The character development in Twilight is severely lacking, in fact, Bella never learns. She constantly and consistently puts herself in a reckless amount of danger over someone who at certain points completely lets her down and abandons her. Finally, the themes in Twilight promote the idea of a selfless love, so selfless in fact that you would literally abandon all thoughts of yourself if something were to go wrong in the relationship. Frankly, Edward, in my opinion, is a very manipulative character and Bella is a vapid girl who's all too eager to allow him to control her.

The books are miles apart, and there is nothing that could convince me that twilight is or ever was a good book series.
Excellent post! I completely agree with you that Harry Potter is in a completely different league than Twilight....the "well-written" league vs. the "poorly written" league. Twilight was just marketed well. The Harry Potter series is heads and shoulders above Twilight in every category - writing, character development, plot. I always felt Twilight was way overrated.
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HARRY POTTER!!!!!!!!! End of story. Hands down, Harry Potter is the better of the two.
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Most of the plot in the twilight series was about how a woman is nothing without a man, whereas Harry Potter was about making the right choices, not the easy ones and to always have hope. So how can anyone even compare the two? Harry Potter is so much better than twilight. And besides, Harry Potter has Hermione, and she will punch twilight in the face.
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I have to admit that I have never even thought of comparing the Harry potter series to the Twilight series. They both are in the fantasy genre but the similarities end there for me. In my opinion, the Potter series was about overcoming adversity and growing up and making the right choices not the easy ones. Twilight is a romance with Vampires. There are no lessons to be learned or morals of the story. It is just purely romance fantasy with vampires and shape-shifting humans.
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Post by kindle_reader4835 »

Speaking of which, I was just thinking that it is time to re-read the Potter series as it has been a few years. I don't really plan on reading Twilight again; not that I did not enjoy Twilight but it just isn't as good as Harry Potter. I would argue that Twilight seemed geared more towards young women readers while the Potter series seemed more for everyone.
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I don't really understand why those two are being compared, each one has its own style.
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Definitely Harry Potter. I am kind of a not twilight fan and I only watched the first movie and I hated the actress so I didnt even bother watching the rest of the movies although Harry Potter was a good start but the ending was a bit disappointing.

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renohunter26 wrote:I am going to go ahead and say it, The Harry Potter series is ten times better than the Twilight Series could ever think of being and I'll explain why. Now don't get me wrong, you're correct in saying that the two series are completely different. That is a very true statement. So content wise the two books can not be compared. The writing style of Twilight is the problem I have. Those books are very poorly written, the symbolism is lacking, there is little to no character development and the themes that are presented are problematic in a multitude of ways.
Twilight is marketed to higher level teenage students and written at a sixth grade level. Harry Potter grew as it's target audience grew, allowing the readers to develop with the story. Twilight is readable by children as young as ten and therefore should not have the issues that it dealt with available to young readers.
I can not name an instance of symbolism in Twilight, everything in those books is straight forward, as it's read. Meyer's tells you everything you should be thinking and feeling. She gives you no room to infer what you should feel. Rowling guides you and allows the reader to make their own assumptions and feelings about her characters, which is why her books are so unpredictable. Mostly as you are so busy making your mind up about how you feel about something that you don't even realise that the direction she's going is the complete opposite of where you are. The character development in Twilight is severely lacking, in fact, Bella never learns. She constantly and consistently puts herself in a reckless amount of danger over someone who at certain points completely lets her down and abandons her. Finally, the themes in Twilight promote the idea of a selfless love, so selfless in fact that you would literally abandon all thoughts of yourself if something were to go wrong in the relationship. Frankly, Edward, in my opinion, is a very manipulative character and Bella is a vapid girl who's all too eager to allow him to control her.

The books are miles apart, and there is nothing that could convince me that twilight is or ever was a good book series.
I for one never understood what exactly is the character of Bella and her relation with Edward. It was so frustrating and also irritating, talking about it makes me annoyed. I do not like it and I agree that Harry Potter is WAY better than Twilight.
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To be honest, never read the harry potter books. I was going to but my husband decided to ruin the ending. So I can't really compare the books but I do think harry potter movies were better.
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Post by Thinkswithink »

This is such a topic thats been over discussed, honestly, but I'm going to go ahead and put in my two cents because it was very much my generation.

Both series were and always will be pop literature phenomenons, for different reasons. Harry Potter for its whimsical style and bedtime story telling, (not unlike our most beloved British writers) and Twilight because its the kind of drama people, in general, just love to eat up. I don't very much like Twilight for its obvious reasons, mostly because the authors political opinions are so blatantly shoved in your face.

In ways that they are similar, their marketing teams made the money pour from the sky, and neither author knows when to lay a good story to rest.

Also, I think a better comparison would be Twilight vs. Hunger Games, as both are written in first person, our main protagonist is a female, and both are written rather poorly. (Sorry Hunger Games fans, nothing personal, I enjoyed the story.)
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I have never been able to take this question seriously. I absolutely love Harry Potter. Growing up with those books was one of the greatest parts of my childhood. The twilight series was, for me, a nightmare. But I think the theme park speaks for itself....
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LOL there really shouldn't be any competition because they are completely different books. But if I had to choose between the two.. Harry Potter all the way. I also find it weird that people feel they have to bash other books once they become a fan... or in order to become a 'true' fan of something. The whole competing fandom things is just bizarre to me. I'm going to read books and enjoy them.. I'm not going to not read something due to some false loyalty to some other series. I've seen this kind of behavior surrounding music as well. You can like more than one thing at the same time.. sheesh. haha.
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'Tis the old apples and oranges conundrum!! Both are fantasy, but other than that they are so extremely different! I really cannot see how people compare the two!! I have read and loved both series, but if someone asked me which was the better of the two, I would say "If you want a prejudiced opinion, I'm not your person."
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Hailey_Gardner wrote:To be honest, never read the harry potter books. I was going to but my husband decided to ruin the ending. So I can't really compare the books but I do think harry potter movies were better.
Even if you know everything that is going to happen in the book. It is still soon worth reading. It's one of those books that I have read numerous times because you often miss little details or have a different view on it in you second reading. You should definitely still take a read. I promise it'll be worth your time.
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