Arggg...I really dont know. Help me choose, leave me comments saying which ones your fav & why Harry Potter and Twilight. Well I defo love the characters in Twilight (especialy Edward) but in Harry Potter I love what happens - all the magic. Please help me decide. JK Rowling and Stephanie Meyer go head to head. Who is the best writer ?



This post has been edited by Kell: 08 February 2009 - 12:25 PM


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I haven't read either of them so I'm not much help lol. :roll:

Harry Potter has a wider appeal, as it will appeal to younger children, and is suitable to be read to them by parents, as well as being a more "fairy tale" style of story which most people can appreciate - hence the immense adult fandom for the series.
Twilight, meanwhile, has a much narrower demographic, and is more likely to appeal to teenage girls, although it has obviously attracted older fans. I'm not saying that other groups won't appreciate it, but it's more commonly linked to female fans and particularly younger ones.
On a critical point, I would say that the Harry Potter series are the better written books. I think everyone I know who has read the Twilight series and enjoyed it, would admit that there are major flaws with the writing itself, but that the story captivated them enough to overcome the issues they had. Having said that, personally I felt the HP series peaked at book three, possibly because after that J.K. Rowling had started to make serious amounts of money, and the series had become such a phenomenon that I suspect the publishers and editors didn't want to say anything against their biggest moneymaking author.
*hides from potter fans for fear of backlash* :roll:

I think Harry Potter, hands down. Twilight has major writing flaws, and although the plot is enough to sustain me, I don't think it compares to HP.

I've only read Twilight, but I attempted to continue with the series and found out that I could not quite do so at the moment (we'll see if I manage to get my hand wrapped around it later on). However, from what I did read, and from reading the HP series, I'd vote for Harry Potter.

I read Some of Harry Potters books. I not read any Twlight book yet.

chesilbeach said:

On a critical point, I would say that the Harry Potter series are the better written books. I think everyone I know who has read the Twilight series and enjoyed it, would admit that there are major flaws with the writing itself, but that the story captivated them enough to overcome the issues they had. Having said that, personally I felt the HP series peaked at book three, possibly because after that J.K. Rowling had started to make serious amounts of money, and the series had become such a phenomenon that I suspect the publishers and editors didn't want to say anything against their biggest moneymaking author.

*hides from potter fans for fear of backlash* :eek:

"Valley Twilight author Stephenie Meyer felt the sharp sting of a poison-tipped Stephen King barb when the horror writer spoke recently to USA Weekend, comparing Meyer to Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling. "Both Rowling and Meyer, they're speaking directly to young people. . . . The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can't write worth a darn. She's not very good." But King softened the blow, adding, "People are attracted by the stories, by the pace, and in the case of Stephenie Meyer, it's very clear that she's writing to a whole generation of girls and opening up kind of a safe joining of love and sex in those books" (Sourced from Google!)
Ouch.
I think he favours Harry Potter.

BookBee8 said:"Valley Twilight author Stephenie Meyer felt the sharp sting of a poison-tipped Stephen King barb when the horror writer spoke recently to USA Weekend, comparing Meyer to Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling. "Both Rowling and Meyer, they're speaking directly to young people. . . . The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can't write worth a darn. She's not very good." But King softened the blow, adding, "People are attracted by the stories, by the pace, and in the case of Stephenie Meyer, it's very clear that she's writing to a whole generation of girls and opening up kind of a safe joining of love and sex in those books" (Sourced from Google!)
Ouch.
I think he favours Harry Potter.

I agree with him actually. The pace of Twilight is good, and it's a very sure romance, Bella is sure about her love for Edward, even though he's a vampire, and he's painted as perfect, he dazzles her. Then there's that he wants to protect her- even from himself. It's not realistic but it's kind of like the handsome prince in fairytales it's what teenagers want romance to be