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 enlarge | Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1030 reviews
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 640
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.7 x 2
ISBN: 0316160202
EAN: 9780316160209
Publication Date: August 7, 2007
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 twilght praise November 27, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
eclipse was soooooooooo good. the whole twilight series amazed me because i wondered how a person@could write such an amazing book!
 Great condition!! November 26, 2008
This book was soo much more than I had expected to get for my discounted price!! It was amazing!! Love the series!
Oh please let the 'Twilight' saga end the way it started! November 26, 2008
I'm quite late to the 'Twilight' series/saga. When I finally got around to reading 'Twilight', I was so beyond pleased. I love 'Twilight'! And though not quite as good to me, I really like 'New Moon' too. I even loved parts of it. However, 'Eclipse' really sort of blindsided me. What happened to the once-in-a-lifetime, all-encompassing, soulmate type of love that Ms. Meyer clearly created and established between Bella and Edward??
What captured and made me fall inlove with 'Twilight' was both characters' powerfully intense, consuming and untouchable love for one another. Or so I thought it was. I know I didn't imagine or jump to my own conclusions about that. No... that was the type of relationship and love story the author created, loud and clear on the pages. So then how on earth did Bella end up falling in love with Jacob too?? I have nothing against Jacob (well, he was at times a class A jerk, actually!) or love triangles, but only if you see it coming and it makes sense. You know... "if the shoe fits". I mean, in the first 2 books, the way Bella and Edward loved one another...their connection...the way Bella ached everyday when Edward left...her epiphany when he came back...all that Bella thought and felt about Edward...just all of that really. Bella falling inlove with Jacob in 'Eclipse' (or realizing that she already was), just boggles my mind and throws everything way off. As amazing of an author Ms. Meyer is, I am so very disappointed with 'Eclipse'. The pieces of the puzzle in this part of the 'Twilight' saga definitely do NOT fit.
I believe that Ms. Meyer didn't intentionally mean to disappoint or throw the fans (well, most fans, it seems anyway) for such a loop. And it is her story/saga to take in any direction she prefers. I will forever be grateful to her for the overwhelming, emotional and beautiful story of 'Twilight'. And as I said, 'New Moon' was very good too. However for me- reading 'Eclipse' (specifically towards the end) was like having a bucket of cold water thrown on me. I was just like, "HUH?!?". 'Eclipse', in my opinion, skews and betrays the true and pure love that Edward and Bella have, and the millions of fans who fell in love with those 2 wonderful, refreshing characters in 'Twilight'.
I have to know how it all ends though, so tomorrow I begin reading 'Breaking Dawn'. I am hoping that Ms. Meyer found a way to return to the original essence of Bella and Edward, and to the one-of-a-kind love they share. I am hoping and hoping....
 And The Drama Rolls On November 25, 2008
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It's been a great year for Stephenie Meyer. When "Twilight" first debuted in 2005, teenage girls fervently gobbled up her tale of forbidden love between the klutzy and emotionally inept Bella Swan and the stunningly beautiful and compassionate vampire Edward Cullen. Since then, Meyer's sultry saga has sold over 25 million copies worldwide and a film adaptation of Book 1 premiered November 21st of this year starring Rob Pattison and Kristen Stewart. Released in August of 2007 and selling 150,000 copies within the first 24 hours of hitting the shelves, "Eclipse" was a highly anticipated continuation of Meyer's histrionic yarn of love and mortality.
With most everyone's skeletons out of the closet by the end of Book 2, "Eclipse" (Book 3 of the Twilight Saga) charges full speed ahead into melodrama. Aside from a rather mundane plotline, what drives "Eclipse" ahead is the increased intensity of the love triangle that began in "New Moon". Bella, still selfish and obstinate, is pressing for her promised immortality and Edward stalls for time, pushing college applications and - much to Bella's chagrin - a marriage proposal. Jacob, still a glutton for punishment, is tenacious in his quest to convince Bella that she is in love with him but just doesn't realize it. He goes to great length to prove it while Bella resists him and Edward glowers with mounting jealousy, his natural conflict wiith what Jacob is and the awakening of long-buried human passions treading the thin ice of neutrality between Forks's supernatural residents.
While Jacob's and Edward's romantic tug of war with Bella poses the greatest threat, the Cullens have other worries. The flame-haired vampiress Victoria from Book 2 is still hot on Bella's trail and an unexpected visit from the Volturi still looms large, coupled with some distracting news about a rash of sudden unexplained deaths in nearby Seattle.
Meyer's style doesn't change and the reader will find she still overuses certain terminology ("grimaced", "he/she rolled his/her eyes", "muttered/murmured/groaned"); one would think that by the third book of this series she'd be touting a good thesaurus (apparently not). Some might also be turned off by her presumptuous comparison of her love story vs. that of Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff in Emily Bronte's classic novel "Wuthering Heights". Ironically, "Twilight" may have stemmed from this novel a bit (though Meyer claims the initial idea for "Twilight" came to her in a dream) and it is obvious from Meyer's direct quotes from "Wuthering Heights" that she is a fan of Bronte's complex and multigenerational tale.
Bella's motivations are still mystifying. She wants to spend eternity - you heard it, ETERNITY - with Edward but scoffs at the idea of being married to him. What's the big deal? Her irrational and nonsensical way of thinking grates the nerves to the nth degree. The reader finally gets some background information on other members of the Cullen clan (Jasper and Rosalie in particular) and a surprisingly entertaining story on the legend behind the Quileute people. Judging by this absorbing aside, Meyer ought to take a stab at writing a novel about Native Americans. She has already referenced an actual Quileute legend in this book and could formulate a great supernatural and/or spiritual novel out of the many other legends that the Quileute tribe once believed.
Bottom line: Only those finding themselves strangely addicted to Meyer's juvenile saga will be going so far as to pick up "Eclipse" as well as proceeding to Book 4, the final book in the series ("Breaking Dawn"). For a casual and moderately absorbing read that fills the void of time and/or boredom, the Twilight Saga fulfills. It is an indisputable force in the Young Adult genre.
Three is a Crowd November 25, 2008
First of all I would like to say that I really liked this book. I would almost say that it is my favorite so far. So let me jump into the things I didn't like:
*SPOILERS*
The first part of the book bothered me. Why is Edward keeping Bella hostage and why isn't she strong enough to put her foot down? I was really starting to get annoyed with Edward. Hence I started to like Jacob more. I was almost relieved when she ran away to Jacob, or when he came and stole her from school. Edward turned into an untrusting psycho. I was glad to see him finally come around.
I don't want to make this too long so other things that bothered me were Bella being stupid and leading Jacob on, and how Jacob gets nothing in the end. Stephenie Meyer abandons him, and it made me really upset.
The GOOD things-
Getting to know the Cullens. Finding out who they really are and their pasts. I was really really glad to see more of them in this novel.
The wolf pack- getting to know their past and their group dynamic/soap opera.
Jacob Black - some reviews say he's abusive.. Hello he is a werewolf! They are brutes and he has no intention of abusing Bella in any way, he loves her. So what if he's a bit on the rough side?
The last part of the book- finally Bella gets to see the Cullens in action. I loved this. AND of course the whole marriage/waiting to become a vampire/waiting to...you know.../ETC..
Can't wait to jump into the last book.
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