Novels and stuff, v1.10

Rating: Null/10 (26 August 2011)

My comment re Twilight (2008) is about the features in the series, but version 1.00 written before I had read the novels. This is about the features in the series, but written after I have read the novels.
I considered the features to be rather highbrow, not what I expected from a best seller. I noticed a user comment that considered the novels to be easy to read and brilliant, very traditional best seller.
I now find the novels to have lots and lots of easy to read words, but that a good attention span is needed for them to make sense, Eclipse especially, and such as attention span is something that has been knocked out of me during recent years. Many should have no problem reading these novels. I find the novella, The Short Second Life Of Brie Tanner, to be the easiest to read, though I would have preferred it to have chapters. I enjoyed reading 'Brie'.
The novels have chapters but these are not obvious as it is the author and main title that are at the top of the pages. In easy to read books I find chapter headings to not feel so relevant, but if I want to reread particular parts they become useful. Also, as I no longer tend to read a book through all at one sitting, chapters make for handy start stop points.
'Brie' is about stuff misquoted in Eclipse feature, likely for storytelling reasons, that is not in Eclipse novel. After my difficulties in reading Eclipse I looked for an audio book version and there is one available to Australians as a download, at a very affordable price for an audio book, but I am the sort to look for lower cost second hand versions and that does not appear to be part of the 'download' market.
I have found some very professional sounding You Tube audio books, BreakingDawnReader1, with a male reader for book 2, of 95% of the more approachable Breaking Dawn. I first read the paperback, mostly a chapter at a time, and then listened to the relevant part of the YouTube audio book.
I find the features to not be a waste of time, though they are not something that I want to return to often. The novels have so much extra detail that they clarify stuff that I found the features to not convey so well. The biggest example as this being a love story, I found that was obvious in the novels but suspiciously fake in the first three features. In the first three features I interpret the main characters as living in a delusion, but I interpret them from my own lack of success re practical romance.
After getting to know all five of the features my view has changed. I rate them all a lot more. I can now accept the romance in the earlier stories.
Stephanie Meyer has written something in these that has triggered a lot of echoes in the popular imagination, but this is not a writer that I am likely to follow, except maybe on film.
I do not consider J K Rowling to have had a success re features, I am likely to prefer to avoid features of any of her future stuff, but I will be oh so tempted to get to know her future novels, I do find the Harry Potter novels to be delicious. As are the Twilight novels, just they make too many demands on me There are those who appear able to get by okay in the modern world and there are those who get attacked by wolf packs regularly. The Harry Potter features as examples of the results of wolf attacks.