2008, before all hype for Breaking Dawn. I had heard about the series earlier but for some reason didn’t start reading. I am so glad I waited…when I started reading, I was immediately hooked! Couldn’t put the books down. I read the books 2x before Breaking Dawn came out. I was so into the series that I would not have been able to wait a year between the books! I am not a tween, I am a mom of teenagers and hadn’t read a book in years! But thanks to Stephenie and the Twilight series, I am now reading all the time. To all those in the media who say this is a series only for tweens - you have no idea what you are talking about!
Omg waiting for New Moon was horrible! But then waiting for Eclipse and BD was pretty horrible too! These books have been a part of my life for so long! :DDD
I remember the exact day I started reading Twilight: April 27, 2007, the day before my Junior Prom. My reading put me a few hours behind on getting ready.
A friend of mine had been bugging me to read it and I’d had her copy of it a week or two before I started reading it. I’d been putting it off because the way she described it didn’t interest me at all. I wish she’d made me read it sooner, but I’m glad she got around to it eventually. Within a month(to the day) I’d read Twilight and New Moon three times each.
it’s a shame but really, November 30, 2008. It’s the day I saw the movie. I admit it, I’m a late-Twilight-bloomer. But i guess there’s no late-thing with Twilight.
Someone gave me Twilight because I said I was bored during my Advanced Math class Junior year of High School (’07) and I had it finished by the next morning. Then I spent the rest of the day trying to come up with a plan to get out of work and drive to the bookstore to buy New Moon…it was kind of ridiculous…
But I am a student at the University of Iowa and I have seen quite a few people carrying around various books of the Twilight series. More than I thought I would see, so that made me really happy! I was worried that they weren’t ‘collegiate’ enough…
OMG. I remember waiting for New Moon. My friends and I had finished Twilight and when we found out about the sequel we were so impatient. Like the more recent Twilighters, especially the post-BD ones, have no idea what it was like to be waiting for the NM, E and BD. I remember when I read each book the first time I would become to impatient to see if Bella’s a vampire at the end. Then I’d have to wait a year to see if it would happen in the next book. I had 3 years of waiting to see if Bella would be a vampire. And I’m darn proud of that. Most of my friends picked up the books between 2007 and 2009, so I have like nobody that I can be like “Remember the killer wait from Twi to NM?”.
I didn’t become mega-obsessed until Eclipse came out, and that was amplified when BD came out. I remember my friend was like “Hey Rachel, there’s going to be an Eclipse books signing, wanna go?”. And I was like “Uh… sure, I guess. I like that author.” And we got there 4 hrs early and were the 2nd group there. Now people camp out for these kinds of events. It’s amazing how this phenomenon has grown.
I was given copies to borrow right after NM came out, so I had the long wait between them and EC and BD. I remember after reading both TW and NM, I went back to TW and started to reread again. I have NEVER done that with another book!
I’d never even heard of Twilight until early 2008. MTV was hyping it up, and I saw a teaser. It seemed to me like it wasn’t worth the hype. Then it started popping up w/ my friends and my roommate bought the book. I bought Twilight in the spring, but didn’t read it until October. (In my defense I had a bookcase full of books I was reading!) I read all 4 books back to back before the movie came out. I wish I knew about this sooner, I’m a huge Twi-nerd!
I got into it in late 2007 into early 2008… I think I Actually got Twilight for Chrsitmas in 2007. After I read Twilight I went through the books in about 2 weeks, and the wait for breaking Dawn was Agony. I also Followed the twilight movie hype fro when they started filming
Wow… hmmm i think….. i started reading it shortly after New Moon was released. Because i remember seeing both book on the shelves and realizing!! oh! there from the same author, well wait a minute, New Moon its a sequel.. hmmmm..*reads back summary* its about vampires… hmmm it might be interesting.. that was a fond memory. hahah i wasn’t expecting the book to be much
I read Twilight two days after it was released for the first time. I’d read about it in a small magazine ad and thought it looked interesting. I began reading it around 9 am that day and finished it at 11 pm that night! I’ve never–not since then and not before-done that before, I have the world’s shortest attention span! So it’s been really interesting to see the series grow and to see how Steph progresses in her writing. I lent my copy of Twilight to my sister a couple of weeks after I’d read it (it was horrible to be a part from it!!) and she was immediatly hooked. She and I were just talking about it the other day and we were saying how funny it is that she and I seemed to be the only ones in the world who knew about this book for so long and then we went to the Eclipse signing and there were over two thousand people there! It was a really big shock, because by then we didn’t even have a director attached to the movie! There was no Robert to be drooling over (not like we’re drooling over him now)! But I feel really thankful that I got into the series so early on and to be able to look back at the times when I would mention the books to someone and they’d be like “what?” and now everybody and their mother has read them so it’s not my little secret anymore. But that’s okay, I can still pretend.
lol oh good lord, those new moon arc’s on ebay. what’d they go for, like $400 a pop? sheesh. back in the good old days of red leaves and henry cavill. *snickers*
Interesting poll results! I’m a 2006-er myself, right after New Moon was published. They got passed around at work so much they just shredded into pieces!
around mid ‘06. i picked it up about twice in Waterstones before i actually got myself to buy it, and by gawd, was it a best buy.
the only thing that annoyed me was that people where all ‘ew! vampires?! why you reading that?!’ and then we see rob in the trailer during commercials and then it’s like ‘OMG, have you heard about Twilight?!’ :@ people frustrate me sometimes.
but i am very glad i read it.
2005 all the way! when i read it, there wasn’t even any news of a sequel. so when SM released news, i had to wait FOREVER for NM, then eclipse and BD. now I’m waiting for MS.
I didn’t even see the movie ’til after reading Twilight and New Moon. A friend of mine gave me Twilight on cd for a long drive I had. By the time I got to the destination I was HOOKED!
Read all 4 over Christmas break, my kids were lucky to have a wrapped present under the tree!lol
I am a 41 yo mom with 3 kids, and I am so happy to be readng for myself again.
Thank you Stephenie
likeasunburn– YES! I totally remember that! I remember begging my mom to buy me one that was like $500. Yeah, that didn’t happen. I can’t believe how impatient I was.
Priya– ah yes, the days of not knowing if there was going to be a sequel. I remember thinking Edward did actually bite Bella at the ending, how wrong I was…
Loved seeing the article in the Parthenon (that is where I went to college, Go Herd!) I think it’s a great point to show that Twilight appeals to almost everyone. Great info!
I’m borderline 2005-2006. I bought Twilight for a bus trip down to Tennessee to see my brother right before my birthday, which is January 15th. So I think I bought it a week or so before that. I saw some girls in my health class who had it under their desks, and there was no hype, just a few girls reading it. So I picked it up and the rest is history. Sweet, sparkling history.
I started reading them just after new moon came out, Id always seen them on the shelves and thought they looked interesting, and then my friend brought it to school and was like ITS SO GOOD. So I bought them and fell in love…
Yeah, waiting for eclipse and breaking dawn was painful. So was reading new moon for the first time…
Good memories.
You don’t have an option that covers me! I started reading in September 2008, but I had no clue about the movie! I was just told by two friends that Twilight was the best book ever.
I’m a new convert. I first started reading the books in September 2008. I got the first chapter of Twilight free with a magazine and it made me interested so I went out and bought the whole book.
After that I was completely hooked and read the whole series in a week. The three month wait until the movie came out in the UK was the longest wait of my entire life so I have no idea how people waited for New Moon and Eclipse to come out.
I got into it, mmm September of 08. All of my friends were reading it, and my moms friends, and so I’m like why not read it so i can make fun of it. Ha. Now i’m obssessed. So is all of the girls in my grade, including the teachers! Its so sweet.
Well I found out about Twilight in March ‘08 from this Scholastic flyer, but never started reading it till May ‘08. So I guess you could say I’m sort of an early 2008.
I saw the books at Barnes & Noble last summer before BD came out and thought it would be something I like but didn’t do anything then. Forgot about them until someone at work asked if I had read them yet and I told her no but I was thinking of asking for them for Christmas. Well I got Twilight and New Moon but didn’t even start reading them until Jan 09. I ordered the other 2 books was trying to save money is why I ordered them instead of getting them in the store. BIG MISTAKE!! So while I was waiting I came home from work one day and told my husband that we were going to the movies to see Twilight. Of course he hadn’t heard of it and wanted to know what the movie was about. All I said was a vampire and a girl! I didn’t want to go into detail - I just wanted to see the movie to hopefully simmer my growing obsession!! I enjoyed the movie and my obsession is now a FULL runaway fire!! And to top that off I am not even a young adult (in age anyway!). I have 2 teenage daughters that are not finished the books so I don’t know if they will be as bad as me. Right now they just call me a dork or OCD! And I just call them both Bella!!
2005 YES!!!! And I feel like I have a much deeper respect and adoration for Edward, Bella, and Stephenie because of it! Gosh, the beginnings of this fandom were so adorably awkward. We grew really fast, though.
But basically, the cover mixed with a synopsis in a Borders newsletter made my heart stop, and then the book sent my heart through a series of wild palpitations involving Bella’s dry wit sending me into giggle fits, Edward’s absolutely gorgeous profession of love throughout the middle of the book, and the delightful creep of James. Been hooked ever since.
I remember seeing an ad for Twilight in a magazine back in 2005 after it had just been released. About a month later, I saw it in my library and decided to read. I absolutely loved it, but didn’t think much else about it until the next year when I met someone else who had read it. She informed me that there was a sequel coming out in like two weeks. I freaked. Waiting for Eclipse was SOOOOOOO hard after that 2 week wait…
How about 2004!!! I actually read Twilight BEFORE it was published. My librarian at the time was Stephenie’s editor’s mom. So I am proud to say I was one of the first to expierience the awesomeness of Twilight!!!!
It sort of bothers me that I technically fall under the “Late 2008/2009. Late Bloomer. Interested because of the movie”. I didn’t even know that the movie was related to those “apple books” everyone was carrying.
It was actually my boyfriend’s little sister that helped me get into it. She didn’t have the 1st so I went to the library. Of the 498 copies in Toronto, it was capped off at 1999 people on the wait-list! Even E-books and audio books had wait-lists! So my boyfriend, who doesn’t read and makes fun of anything I like and/or that is popular, bought me the book for Christmas. Big mistake. I read it in two days and told my parents that if we didn’t buy the next one on our way up to visit relatives I would go stark raving mad and be a miserable shit.
That’s right, I, a then 18 yr old would use the temper-tantrum card to read more Twilight. I was that desperate. Needless to say I finished the series and watched the movie in just over a week.
For me, it was early 2007, like I think I bought them (Twi and NM) in Feb but I read them over March Break (Okay, read them both twice over the first 2 or 3 days of it lol). My friend got me hooked on them:) I still chose 2006 though since it was so close to then and it wasn’t because of the Eclipse Prom that I read them, and I didn’t catch any fever about it lol, my friend did though. We live in Toronto though (Canada) which is why we never went:(.
I read Twilight over Christmas break 07 to 08 and was immediately hooked! I was one of the first people at my school to read the saga. I wish I would have come into it earlier, though. I actually enjoyed the long wait for BD. The anticipation was great:)
Late 2008/2009 I’m a new convert. The movie got me interested. I such a late Bird. I missed the worm, But I’ve got it now! I love it. I’m Twilight forever. I’m even getting a tatoo. :}
It counted my vote wrong! I clicked on 2007, pre-Eclipse, and it put me on 2008! NOOO!!!! I’ve been a fan for almost 2 years, don’t insult me by saying I haven’t!
I don’t really fall under a voting category
I got into twilight around late 2008 (october 18) and i read twilight and new moon before I even knew the movie was coming out. Then I made sure I finished the books before I saw the movie. =)
I got into the Twilight Series around summer of 07. And actually I read New Moon first. I came across New Moon in the public Library. During this time I knew nothing about Twilight. When I noticed that it was the second book I went to the Librarian and asked for the first. They didn’t have it.
Then there was the Dilema. Take it or Leave it. I didn’t like to read out of order, but the summary was so compelling. I wanted to know what happened. So I read it.
Then Came Eclipse (found it in Walmart)
And then I read Twilight. Yeah I went way out of order. (found that in walmart)
I’m a late 2008/2009, but it wasn’t the movie that got me interested. During the summer I kept seeing lots of Twilight and I thought about reading due to curiosity. Then I forgot about it. And it was actually my current room mates that got me interested in it - they kept telling me how I should seriously read them. So I borrowed them and finished all four in two weeks and I am currently halfway through my second read-through. I didn’t get interested in seeing the movie til I actually read Twilight and fell in love.
I bought it the first day it came out, according to the lady working at Borders, back in November of 2005!!!!! I miss the good old days when it was a secret…
2006! Not as good as 2005 but not everyone’s perfect. SO mant=y people joined with the movie hype!!
I know what you mean SK. It was kind of nice when not as many people knew about the books and there was only ever like 3-4 copies in and not a whole display in the middle of the bookstore. And you occansionally met someone else who was a fan
I heard about it summer 2007 - just before Eclipse came out. I heard about it in Italy from my cousin and then searched all around Tuscany (no kidding- we musts have been to 50 bookstores before I finally found one) until I could get my hands on one. I read Twilight in 1-and-a-half days, New Moon in three (because Eddy wasn’t there!), Eclipse in three (because my parents kept making me put it down to look at the stupid scenery) and Breaking Dawn in six-and-a-half hours.
I actually got Eclipse before it came out. Some bookstore owner in a tiny little town in Wyoming (I was on vacation - I’m a California girl ) didn’t know it wasn’t supposed to be out yet, so she sold it to me! Happiest day of my life, <3
Summer 2007, I was taking a summer course at my community college. My friend was reading Twilight. I had no idea what it was then. She said it was really good and part three was going to come out. Then before thanksgiving Break, I recognized the apple cover at my library. I remembered my friend telling about it so i checked it out. I finished the book in two days, I was HOOKED!!! I tried requesting books 2 and 3 but the waiting list was over 100 requests long! My friend had all the books and she let me borrow them, thank god!! Later on, my bf bought me my own collection
I read twilight in 2006. I was randomly selecting books in the library when I saw twilight. I like to think of it as fate because out of the 100s of books there, I chose twilight. Must be the cover that caught my attention. I am an “almost-original” fan, since I picked up the book just a few months after 2005.
Im a 2005 all the way! When it firt came out everybody thought i was crazy and didnt under stand why i loved it so much. Now three books and a movie later they finnaly under stand. lol
oh i have one more experience to add. i remember when i first read it in 2005 (not many people knew about it then), some people used to make fun of me saying things like “you’re not even goth or emo, why are you reading a vamp book?” when i told them what it was about. now, its sooo big, and those same people are hooked too.
haha.
i bet others can relate to this also.
This is so fun reading how everyone got into this saga. I read Twilight and New Moon this past summer, 2008. I cam across Twilight by accident and am so, so glad I did. I needed a new book to read at my cabin and saw Twilight at Target. The cover looked cool, so I read the back and read that a girl falls in love with a vampire. Cool! I’ve always thought that vampires were sexy, so I bought it. I have been in love with these books ever since. I saw the movie and then read the other two books. I’m feeling like I don’t know what to do with myself now that I’m done with BD. Since all of this I can happily say that I have OTD (obsessive Twilight Disorder). I’ve seen the move 5 times and love reading the info. on this website. And I’m proud to admit that I’m in my early 30’s, so it isn’t just for teenagers.
that greatly disappoints me how little the percent is for old timers! i always just tell people i caught on “a little before new moon came out” (aka the good old days) wow, 2006? that seems like a long time ago. i caught on becuz i was at a book store and my sister said her friend read it and loved it…but i called it stupid and laughed out loud when i read the back cover, but once i started reading it i was like “harry who???”
But the sudden outburst of fans is something i dont like that much. sure, its great that people are reading it NOW, but what about years ago when i begged my friends (who all now claim to be the biggest fans) to read it just so i would have someone to talk to about it?!? it just seems like now everyone who hasnt read it hates it and naturally assumes im a newb to the books and just read it because of the movie and it was “cool”
i bought Twilight and began reading it on April 9th, 2007 (i kept the recipt to use as a bookmark & i have the book next to me right now). my friend had told me what a great book it was at lunch that day. i happened to be going to Borders that night with my dad so i bought it; and the rest is history
My neighbor gave me Twilight to read 2 weeks ago. I read it within 24 hours and had to have the next one…..same story with New Moon. I read all 4 books within a week and then the partial of Midnight Sun. I haven’t seen the movie b/c it’s not showing at my theater now. I”m waitinng for the DVD. Needless to say, I am addicted and am soooo very sad that Stephenie feels that she is finished with the Vampire world. I swear. I’m having dreams about the Cullens. Of course, I don’t tell my husband or he would really think I’m a freak.
That’s not fair, lol. I read them in late 2008 (Aug/Sept) but not because of the movie! I picked the second to last choice because Breaking Dawn is what got me interested.
@Kelley and Melanie Cullen,
haha, good to see other people who know how I felt.
I feel a little guilty for thinking that the hype surrounding the Twilight saga is too overwhelming and not a very good experience.
It’s no longer something special that only you and a few people know about.
I can still remembered that after reading twilight and new moon, I searched the web for anything related to it.
Edward, Bella and the other fictional characters are so dear to me, since they stayed fictional. Imagination is very powerful.
I do support the movie though, but that wasn’t as good as original characters and books. Now I can’t imagine the ‘real’ Edward without thinking about Pattinson, (which is not very good).
I came across Twighlight early 2008. Really late, I must admit. But to my excuse: I’m 28 soon and nearly never watch TV or listen to the radio. So how could I possibly have realised that it existed. There was no big hype about it in Germany, where I live. There was this super boring concert in one of our shopping malls one staurday evening in January and I went there with a friend who had a crush on the lead singer. While she was totally occupied by his awful singing, I went window shopping at my favourite bookstore and there they were: Twighlight, New Moon and Eclipse. Next Monday I went there again (on Sundays shops are closed in Germany)to have a look at them. I was not convinced so I bought different books. Finally I was so curious that I orderd Twighlight and read through it within ours. I immediately went to town to buy the rest. After having finished them I bought BD in English, sinc it was not available in German at that time. But now it is and I will buy it tommorow.I have watched the Twighlight movie twice and already instructed my boyfriend to buy it for me. He is in the US at the moment and there it will be released about two months earlier than in Germany.
When I watched for the first time, I was a little disappointed by their choice of Edward. At least, I thought, they could have shaved Robert Pattisons arms, couldn’t they? But he’s a great actor. And able to sing. So forget the hair …
I started reading twilight July 2008, the first time I ever heard of Edward Cullen was at my highschool and so many people were talking about him, I had thought he was some new student at my school:P … I felt such a idiot after I figured out he wasn’t some amazingly gorgeous new student… and let me tell you it took me a while to figure it out.. it was when my friend told me she thinks Edward Cullen was the ideal guy for her and she wished that he was real, when I told her that he was and went to my school, she just laughed and laughed*sigh* thats when she told me it’s a book about vampires.After that I bought the book to see what the hype was about and I finished it in a day, the next day I bought New Moon and finished it also in a day and then went bought Eclipse and finished it again in a day, then I waited 3 weeks till Breaking Dawn came out.. now I probably read the books 80 times(not even joking I know Twilight and New Moon of by heart)…yeesh I know… but I was very bored in the summer.. now Im like completley obsessed with the series<3 I also convinced my english teacher to read it to my class(we went and saw it in theaters after we finished reading twilight) and made all my friends read it plus my mom I also saw the movie 10 times and I now know the movie word for word.. yes I know.. I need professional help!!!
2005! Ah I remember the days before the Lexicon when I’d spend all my time listening to the silly midi song from the official webpage, playing it over and over again on my ipod while I read the only 10 twilight fanfics at fanfiction.net
and OMG New Moon took sooooooooo long to show up! For a long time I thought it was just gonna be Twilight and was way sad but then I got news of New Moon and the obsession started… xD haha
I was the first person of everyone I know to read it, and now I hardly talk to anyone who hasn’t! It’s so strange! and the age range has grown HUGELY as well. I’ve had conversations with 70 year olds at Sam’s Club about it and just yesterday talked to a girl who looked about 9 about it in a pet store because she liked my Twilight hoody… haha
Has anyone else who read it in 2005 read the series a ridiculous amount of times? I’m at 13 Twilight, 12 1/2 New Moon, 8 Eclipse, and 3 Breaking Dawn. Not including the millions of times I reread specific scenes….
I agree with you Missy, I hate how a lot of people automatically criticize Twilight now just because so many people have fallen in love with the series. And I hate how some people who DO read it still let the hype affect the way they view the story. It was so nice being able to read the novels without any preconceived notions or people to ruin it for you.
I became hooked May of 2008. I heard about the movie on MTV one day, and it sounded interesting. So, I looked up the series on Wikipedia, read the info, and bought Twilight. I’ve been hooked ever since. Now that I have read Twilight,New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn. I have moved on to reading the books that inspired them. I’m on Wuthering Heights at the moment. So, it has inspired me to read the classics.
June 6th, 2008: the day I began Twilight. I knew about the series beforehand thanks to Facebook flair, so I borrowed them from my roomie that Saturday. I was hooked!! I had plans to visit my family on the 12th for a weekend at the beach, and my roomie needed to take the books back to the library. So I stayed up late and finished through Eclipse by Wednesday night so I could leave for the beach after work. But I ended up spending most of my workday Facebooking my roomie with all of my reactions and questions; I discovered the Twilight Lexicon then when I should’ve been writing for the website I work for!
I’ve also re-read the entire series recently, which is extremely important for me because before Saga, I didn’t believe in re-reading books. I wish I could claim that I were an original fan, but Twilight came out my sophomore year of college… not a lot of talk about them at uni!
Okay, it’s great that so many people are into Twilight now. But frankly, I’m getting quite annoyed. I read Twilight when it first came out. I hate how [almost] every newcomer is like, “OMG. I’m the biggest fan! I know everything about Twilight. I love Edward Cullen.” I’ve been a fan since the beginning. And all the posers I see are ticking me and the other original fans off. >.>
i started reading late september 2007. me and my best friend were pretty much the only people who read them in my school. this year you cant find 1 girl who hasnt read them, about 1/4 the guys, and about half the teachers! i miss twilight being less popular : (
Nowadays everybody nows Twilight and I remember how lot’s of people once said …what kind of crazy thing is this Twilight book… I liked the old days … 2005 when nobody really knew Twilight here in germany and the old white chatroom and all these people who met there. It’s sad … But I still love the books and I think I will always be a fan of Edwards and Bellas stories.
February 5th, 2009 at 8:18 am
2005 TWILIGHTERS FTW!
February 5th, 2009 at 8:32 am
2007 but I somehow hadn’t heard anything when Eclipse came out.
I didn’t start reading them until Thanksgiving.
But since then I’ve been hooked!
February 5th, 2009 at 8:33 am
I’m got spellbound by Twilight in mid-2006.
I had to wait for so long for New Moon. *Sighed. Good old times.
February 5th, 2009 at 8:41 am
2008, before all hype for Breaking Dawn. I had heard about the series earlier but for some reason didn’t start reading. I am so glad I waited…when I started reading, I was immediately hooked! Couldn’t put the books down. I read the books 2x before Breaking Dawn came out. I was so into the series that I would not have been able to wait a year between the books! I am not a tween, I am a mom of teenagers and hadn’t read a book in years! But thanks to Stephenie and the Twilight series, I am now reading all the time. To all those in the media who say this is a series only for tweens - you have no idea what you are talking about!
February 5th, 2009 at 8:46 am
HEY. My husband and I use to go to Marshall! Go Herd!
February 5th, 2009 at 9:00 am
Omg waiting for New Moon was horrible! But then waiting for Eclipse and BD was pretty horrible too! These books have been a part of my life for so long! :DDD
February 5th, 2009 at 9:13 am
I remember the exact day I started reading Twilight: April 27, 2007, the day before my Junior Prom. My reading put me a few hours behind on getting ready.
A friend of mine had been bugging me to read it and I’d had her copy of it a week or two before I started reading it. I’d been putting it off because the way she described it didn’t interest me at all. I wish she’d made me read it sooner, but I’m glad she got around to it eventually. Within a month(to the day) I’d read Twilight and New Moon three times each.
February 5th, 2009 at 9:19 am
it’s a shame but really, November 30, 2008. It’s the day I saw the movie. I admit it, I’m a late-Twilight-bloomer. But i guess there’s no late-thing with Twilight.
February 5th, 2009 at 9:20 am
I read Twilight in January 2006–the 8 months between January 2006 and the New Moon release were the longest 8 months of my LIFE!
February 5th, 2009 at 9:33 am
Someone gave me Twilight because I said I was bored during my Advanced Math class Junior year of High School (’07) and I had it finished by the next morning. Then I spent the rest of the day trying to come up with a plan to get out of work and drive to the bookstore to buy New Moon…it was kind of ridiculous…
But I am a student at the University of Iowa and I have seen quite a few people carrying around various books of the Twilight series. More than I thought I would see, so that made me really happy! I was worried that they weren’t ‘collegiate’ enough…
February 5th, 2009 at 9:37 am
I started reading Twilight in 2006.
I had such a hard time finding New Moon because it wasn’t popular then and only Borders sold a few copies.
But that feeling was great, when it was almost exclusive.
February 5th, 2009 at 9:55 am
OMG. I remember waiting for New Moon. My friends and I had finished Twilight and when we found out about the sequel we were so impatient. Like the more recent Twilighters, especially the post-BD ones, have no idea what it was like to be waiting for the NM, E and BD. I remember when I read each book the first time I would become to impatient to see if Bella’s a vampire at the end. Then I’d have to wait a year to see if it would happen in the next book. I had 3 years of waiting to see if Bella would be a vampire. And I’m darn proud of that. Most of my friends picked up the books between 2007 and 2009, so I have like nobody that I can be like “Remember the killer wait from Twi to NM?”.
I didn’t become mega-obsessed until Eclipse came out, and that was amplified when BD came out. I remember my friend was like “Hey Rachel, there’s going to be an Eclipse books signing, wanna go?”. And I was like “Uh… sure, I guess. I like that author.” And we got there 4 hrs early and were the 2nd group there. Now people camp out for these kinds of events. It’s amazing how this phenomenon has grown.
February 5th, 2009 at 9:57 am
I was given copies to borrow right after NM came out, so I had the long wait between them and EC and BD. I remember after reading both TW and NM, I went back to TW and started to reread again. I have NEVER done that with another book!
February 5th, 2009 at 10:02 am
I’d never even heard of Twilight until early 2008. MTV was hyping it up, and I saw a teaser. It seemed to me like it wasn’t worth the hype. Then it started popping up w/ my friends and my roommate bought the book. I bought Twilight in the spring, but didn’t read it until October. (In my defense I had a bookcase full of books I was reading!) I read all 4 books back to back before the movie came out. I wish I knew about this sooner, I’m a huge Twi-nerd!
February 5th, 2009 at 10:14 am
I got into it in late 2007 into early 2008… I think I Actually got Twilight for Chrsitmas in 2007. After I read Twilight I went through the books in about 2 weeks, and the wait for breaking Dawn was Agony. I also Followed the twilight movie hype fro when they started filming
February 5th, 2009 at 10:16 am
Wow… hmmm i think….. i started reading it shortly after New Moon was released. Because i remember seeing both book on the shelves and realizing!! oh! there from the same author, well wait a minute, New Moon its a sequel.. hmmmm..*reads back summary* its about vampires… hmmm it might be interesting.. that was a fond memory. hahah i wasn’t expecting the book to be much
February 5th, 2009 at 10:31 am
I read Twilight two days after it was released for the first time. I’d read about it in a small magazine ad and thought it looked interesting. I began reading it around 9 am that day and finished it at 11 pm that night! I’ve never–not since then and not before-done that before, I have the world’s shortest attention span! So it’s been really interesting to see the series grow and to see how Steph progresses in her writing. I lent my copy of Twilight to my sister a couple of weeks after I’d read it (it was horrible to be a part from it!!) and she was immediatly hooked. She and I were just talking about it the other day and we were saying how funny it is that she and I seemed to be the only ones in the world who knew about this book for so long and then we went to the Eclipse signing and there were over two thousand people there! It was a really big shock, because by then we didn’t even have a director attached to the movie! There was no Robert to be drooling over (not like we’re drooling over him now)! But I feel really thankful that I got into the series so early on and to be able to look back at the times when I would mention the books to someone and they’d be like “what?” and now everybody and their mother has read them so it’s not my little secret anymore. But that’s okay, I can still pretend.
February 5th, 2009 at 10:57 am
lol oh good lord, those new moon arc’s on ebay. what’d they go for, like $400 a pop? sheesh. back in the good old days of red leaves and henry cavill. *snickers*
February 5th, 2009 at 11:59 am
Interesting poll results! I’m a 2006-er myself, right after New Moon was published. They got passed around at work so much they just shredded into pieces!
Henry Cavill and Stephen Straight! Woohoo!
February 5th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
2006 ~
February 5th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Late 2007.
November-December.
February 5th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
I’m a new convert, the movie got me interested.
Now I’m hooked and can’t stop reading the books.
February 5th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
around mid ‘06. i picked it up about twice in Waterstones before i actually got myself to buy it, and by gawd, was it a best buy.
the only thing that annoyed me was that people where all ‘ew! vampires?! why you reading that?!’ and then we see rob in the trailer during commercials and then it’s like ‘OMG, have you heard about Twilight?!’ :@ people frustrate me sometimes.
but i am very glad i read it.
February 5th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
Working at a bookstore we had a midnight opening and that stirred my interest.
February 5th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
2005 all the way! when i read it, there wasn’t even any news of a sequel. so when SM released news, i had to wait FOREVER for NM, then eclipse and BD. now I’m waiting for MS.
February 5th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
I didn’t even see the movie ’til after reading Twilight and New Moon. A friend of mine gave me Twilight on cd for a long drive I had. By the time I got to the destination I was HOOKED!
Read all 4 over Christmas break, my kids were lucky to have a wrapped present under the tree!lol
I am a 41 yo mom with 3 kids, and I am so happy to be readng for myself again.
Thank you Stephenie
February 5th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
likeasunburn– YES! I totally remember that! I remember begging my mom to buy me one that was like $500. Yeah, that didn’t happen. I can’t believe how impatient I was.
Priya– ah yes, the days of not knowing if there was going to be a sequel. I remember thinking Edward did actually bite Bella at the ending, how wrong I was…
February 5th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Loved seeing the article in the Parthenon (that is where I went to college, Go Herd!) I think it’s a great point to show that Twilight appeals to almost everyone. Great info!
February 5th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
My sister introduced me Spring 2007, I’ve been hooked ever since
February 5th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
I’m borderline 2005-2006. I bought Twilight for a bus trip down to Tennessee to see my brother right before my birthday, which is January 15th. So I think I bought it a week or so before that. I saw some girls in my health class who had it under their desks, and there was no hype, just a few girls reading it. So I picked it up and the rest is history. Sweet, sparkling history.
February 5th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
I started reading them just after new moon came out, Id always seen them on the shelves and thought they looked interesting, and then my friend brought it to school and was like ITS SO GOOD. So I bought them and fell in love…
Yeah, waiting for eclipse and breaking dawn was painful. So was reading new moon for the first time…
Good memories.
February 5th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
You don’t have an option that covers me! I started reading in September 2008, but I had no clue about the movie! I was just told by two friends that Twilight was the best book ever.
February 5th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
I’m a new convert. I first started reading the books in September 2008. I got the first chapter of Twilight free with a magazine and it made me interested so I went out and bought the whole book.
After that I was completely hooked and read the whole series in a week. The three month wait until the movie came out in the UK was the longest wait of my entire life so I have no idea how people waited for New Moon and Eclipse to come out.
February 5th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
2005 Original BAbY!
February 5th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
I got into it, mmm September of 08. All of my friends were reading it, and my moms friends, and so I’m like why not read it so i can make fun of it. Ha. Now i’m obssessed. So is all of the girls in my grade, including the teachers! Its so sweet.
February 5th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Well I found out about Twilight in March ‘08 from this Scholastic flyer, but never started reading it till May ‘08. So I guess you could say I’m sort of an early 2008.
February 5th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
I saw the books at Barnes & Noble last summer before BD came out and thought it would be something I like but didn’t do anything then. Forgot about them until someone at work asked if I had read them yet and I told her no but I was thinking of asking for them for Christmas. Well I got Twilight and New Moon but didn’t even start reading them until Jan 09. I ordered the other 2 books was trying to save money is why I ordered them instead of getting them in the store. BIG MISTAKE!! So while I was waiting I came home from work one day and told my husband that we were going to the movies to see Twilight. Of course he hadn’t heard of it and wanted to know what the movie was about. All I said was a vampire and a girl! I didn’t want to go into detail - I just wanted to see the movie to hopefully simmer my growing obsession!! I enjoyed the movie and my obsession is now a FULL runaway fire!! And to top that off I am not even a young adult (in age anyway!). I have 2 teenage daughters that are not finished the books so I don’t know if they will be as bad as me. Right now they just call me a dork or OCD! And I just call them both Bella!!
February 5th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
2005 YES!!!! And I feel like I have a much deeper respect and adoration for Edward, Bella, and Stephenie because of it! Gosh, the beginnings of this fandom were so adorably awkward. We grew really fast, though.
But basically, the cover mixed with a synopsis in a Borders newsletter made my heart stop, and then the book sent my heart through a series of wild palpitations involving Bella’s dry wit sending me into giggle fits, Edward’s absolutely gorgeous profession of love throughout the middle of the book, and the delightful creep of James. Been hooked ever since.
February 5th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
I read Twilight/New Moon in February 2007. My best friend was obsessed and I had to see what was up. Needless to say, I fell in love.
February 5th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
June ‘07.
I was caught up with very quickly. I wish I could say I was a fan since they came out, but no. =[ Better late than never. =]
February 5th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
I remember seeing an ad for Twilight in a magazine back in 2005 after it had just been released. About a month later, I saw it in my library and decided to read. I absolutely loved it, but didn’t think much else about it until the next year when I met someone else who had read it. She informed me that there was a sequel coming out in like two weeks. I freaked. Waiting for Eclipse was SOOOOOOO hard after that 2 week wait…
But yeah, ‘05-ers, FTW!!!!
February 5th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
How about 2004!!! I actually read Twilight BEFORE it was published. My librarian at the time was Stephenie’s editor’s mom. So I am proud to say I was one of the first to expierience the awesomeness of Twilight!!!!
February 5th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
October 21, 2006.
February 5th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
2008 for me. Cant read Breaking Dawn without reading the first 3! Their great. I love them.
February 5th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
It sort of bothers me that I technically fall under the “Late 2008/2009. Late Bloomer. Interested because of the movie”. I didn’t even know that the movie was related to those “apple books” everyone was carrying.
It was actually my boyfriend’s little sister that helped me get into it. She didn’t have the 1st so I went to the library. Of the 498 copies in Toronto, it was capped off at 1999 people on the wait-list! Even E-books and audio books had wait-lists! So my boyfriend, who doesn’t read and makes fun of anything I like and/or that is popular, bought me the book for Christmas. Big mistake. I read it in two days and told my parents that if we didn’t buy the next one on our way up to visit relatives I would go stark raving mad and be a miserable shit.
That’s right, I, a then 18 yr old would use the temper-tantrum card to read more Twilight. I was that desperate. Needless to say I finished the series and watched the movie in just over a week.
February 5th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
For me, it was early 2007, like I think I bought them (Twi and NM) in Feb but I read them over March Break (Okay, read them both twice over the first 2 or 3 days of it lol). My friend got me hooked on them:) I still chose 2006 though since it was so close to then and it wasn’t because of the Eclipse Prom that I read them, and I didn’t catch any fever about it lol, my friend did though. We live in Toronto though (Canada) which is why we never went:(.
February 5th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
mon the old timers!
February 5th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
I read Twilight over Christmas break 07 to 08 and was immediately hooked! I was one of the first people at my school to read the saga. I wish I would have come into it earlier, though. I actually enjoyed the long wait for BD. The anticipation was great:)
February 5th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
I’m an old timer!
February 5th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
I read Twilight for the first time June 22, 2006
I have been in love ever since!
The only reason I remember is because it was the day before my niece was born! LoL!
February 5th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
Late 2008/2009 I’m a new convert. The movie got me interested. I such a late Bird. I missed the worm, But I’ve got it now! I love it. I’m Twilight forever. I’m even getting a tatoo. :}
February 5th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
It counted my vote wrong! I clicked on 2007, pre-Eclipse, and it put me on 2008! NOOO!!!! I’ve been a fan for almost 2 years, don’t insult me by saying I haven’t!
February 5th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
I don’t really fall under a voting category
I got into twilight around late 2008 (october 18) and i read twilight and new moon before I even knew the movie was coming out. Then I made sure I finished the books before I saw the movie. =)
February 5th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
I got into the Twilight Series around summer of 07. And actually I read New Moon first. I came across New Moon in the public Library. During this time I knew nothing about Twilight. When I noticed that it was the second book I went to the Librarian and asked for the first. They didn’t have it.
Then there was the Dilema. Take it or Leave it. I didn’t like to read out of order, but the summary was so compelling. I wanted to know what happened. So I read it.
Then Came Eclipse (found it in Walmart)
And then I read Twilight. Yeah I went way out of order. (found that in walmart)
February 5th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
2005!
February 5th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
I’m a late 2008/2009, but it wasn’t the movie that got me interested. During the summer I kept seeing lots of Twilight and I thought about reading due to curiosity. Then I forgot about it. And it was actually my current room mates that got me interested in it - they kept telling me how I should seriously read them. So I borrowed them and finished all four in two weeks and I am currently halfway through my second read-through. I didn’t get interested in seeing the movie til I actually read Twilight and fell in love.
February 5th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
I read twilight in 2005. I would have never thought people would be Obsessed with this series as much as i am =) I’m happy to be an old timer.
February 5th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
Christmas 2006!!! Read the first three within the year!
February 5th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
I don’t really remember why I started reading the books, but it was right after New Moon came out. And the rest, they say, is history… xD
February 5th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
I bought it the first day it came out, according to the lady working at Borders, back in November of 2005!!!!! I miss the good old days when it was a secret…
February 5th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
2005 twilighters all the wayyyyy XD
February 5th, 2009 at 8:38 pm
2006! Not as good as 2005 but not everyone’s perfect.
SO mant=y people joined with the movie hype!!
I know what you mean SK. It was kind of nice when not as many people knew about the books and there was only ever like 3-4 copies in and not a whole display in the middle of the bookstore. And you occansionally met someone else who was a fan
February 5th, 2009 at 9:04 pm
I read Twilight in 2005, right after it was published. I just picked it up randomly at the library, I had no idea if I’d even like it. Nice surprise!
February 5th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
I heard about it summer 2007 - just before Eclipse came out. I heard about it in Italy from my cousin and then searched all around Tuscany (no kidding- we musts have been to 50 bookstores before I finally found one) until I could get my hands on one. I read Twilight in 1-and-a-half days, New Moon in three (because Eddy wasn’t there!), Eclipse in three (because my parents kept making me put it down to look at the stupid scenery) and Breaking Dawn in six-and-a-half hours.
) didn’t know it wasn’t supposed to be out yet, so she sold it to me! Happiest day of my life, <3
I actually got Eclipse before it came out. Some bookstore owner in a tiny little town in Wyoming (I was on vacation - I’m a California girl
February 5th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
2006!!!! New Moon had just come out!!! Loved ever since!! Only thing is that I had to wait for Eclipse, BD, movie!! I suffered a lot! haha
February 5th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
Summer 2007, I was taking a summer course at my community college. My friend was reading Twilight. I had no idea what it was then. She said it was really good and part three was going to come out. Then before thanksgiving Break, I recognized the apple cover at my library. I remembered my friend telling about it so i checked it out. I finished the book in two days, I was HOOKED!!! I tried requesting books 2 and 3 but the waiting list was over 100 requests long! My friend had all the books and she let me borrow them, thank god!! Later on, my bf bought me my own collection
February 5th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
I read twilight in 2006. I was randomly selecting books in the library when I saw twilight. I like to think of it as fate because out of the 100s of books there, I chose twilight. Must be the cover that caught my attention. I am an “almost-original” fan, since I picked up the book just a few months after 2005.
February 5th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
Im a 2005 all the way! When it firt came out everybody thought i was crazy and didnt under stand why i loved it so much. Now three books and a movie later they finnaly under stand. lol
February 5th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
oh i have one more experience to add. i remember when i first read it in 2005 (not many people knew about it then), some people used to make fun of me saying things like “you’re not even goth or emo, why are you reading a vamp book?” when i told them what it was about. now, its sooo big, and those same people are hooked too.
haha.
i bet others can relate to this also.
February 5th, 2009 at 10:42 pm
October 2007 for me! But I started reading Twilight first then New Moon and Eclipse.
February 5th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
This is so fun reading how everyone got into this saga. I read Twilight and New Moon this past summer, 2008. I cam across Twilight by accident and am so, so glad I did. I needed a new book to read at my cabin and saw Twilight at Target. The cover looked cool, so I read the back and read that a girl falls in love with a vampire. Cool! I’ve always thought that vampires were sexy, so I bought it. I have been in love with these books ever since. I saw the movie and then read the other two books. I’m feeling like I don’t know what to do with myself now that I’m done with BD.
Since all of this I can happily say that I have OTD (obsessive Twilight Disorder). I’ve seen the move 5 times and love reading the info. on this website. And I’m proud to admit that I’m in my early 30’s, so it isn’t just for teenagers. 
February 5th, 2009 at 11:19 pm
But the sudden outburst of fans is something i dont like that much. sure, its great that people are reading it NOW, but what about years ago when i begged my friends (who all now claim to be the biggest fans) to read it just so i would have someone to talk to about it?!? it just seems like now everyone who hasnt read it hates it and naturally assumes im a newb to the books and just read it because of the movie and it was “cool”
February 5th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
i bought Twilight and began reading it on April 9th, 2007 (i kept the recipt to use as a bookmark & i have the book next to me right now). my friend had told me what a great book it was at lunch that day. i happened to be going to Borders that night with my dad so i bought it; and the rest is history
February 5th, 2009 at 11:33 pm
My neighbor gave me Twilight to read 2 weeks ago. I read it within 24 hours and had to have the next one…..same story with New Moon. I read all 4 books within a week and then the partial of Midnight Sun. I haven’t seen the movie b/c it’s not showing at my theater now. I”m waitinng for the DVD. Needless to say, I am addicted and am soooo very sad that Stephenie feels that she is finished with the Vampire world. I swear. I’m having dreams about the Cullens. Of course, I don’t tell my husband or he would really think I’m a freak.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:35 pm
Oh and yes I’m in my mid 30’s
February 5th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
Late October 2005… I think i actually picked it up the day Twilight came out… and have been an uber fan ever since…
February 6th, 2009 at 12:23 am
I first got into twilight around the middle of the summer in 2005!!
February 6th, 2009 at 12:53 am
That’s not fair, lol. I read them in late 2008 (Aug/Sept) but not because of the movie! I picked the second to last choice because Breaking Dawn is what got me interested.
February 6th, 2009 at 1:59 am
@Kelley and Melanie Cullen,
haha, good to see other people who know how I felt.
I feel a little guilty for thinking that the hype surrounding the Twilight saga is too overwhelming and not a very good experience.
It’s no longer something special that only you and a few people know about.
I can still remembered that after reading twilight and new moon, I searched the web for anything related to it.
Edward, Bella and the other fictional characters are so dear to me, since they stayed fictional. Imagination is very powerful.
I do support the movie though, but that wasn’t as good as original characters and books. Now I can’t imagine the ‘real’ Edward without thinking about Pattinson, (which is not very good).
February 6th, 2009 at 3:00 am
just so everyone knows
“Twilight Saga breaks Aussie sales record”
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/entertainment/741655/twilight-saga-breaks-aussie-sales-record
February 6th, 2009 at 3:03 am
oh and i originally read Twilight in March 2006, which is around about when it came out in Australia… and fell in love with them.
February 6th, 2009 at 4:28 am
I came across Twighlight early 2008. Really late, I must admit. But to my excuse: I’m 28 soon and nearly never watch TV or listen to the radio. So how could I possibly have realised that it existed. There was no big hype about it in Germany, where I live. There was this super boring concert in one of our shopping malls one staurday evening in January and I went there with a friend who had a crush on the lead singer. While she was totally occupied by his awful singing, I went window shopping at my favourite bookstore and there they were: Twighlight, New Moon and Eclipse. Next Monday I went there again (on Sundays shops are closed in Germany)to have a look at them. I was not convinced so I bought different books. Finally I was so curious that I orderd Twighlight and read through it within ours. I immediately went to town to buy the rest. After having finished them I bought BD in English, sinc it was not available in German at that time. But now it is and I will buy it tommorow.I have watched the Twighlight movie twice and already instructed my boyfriend to buy it for me. He is in the US at the moment and there it will be released about two months earlier than in Germany.
When I watched for the first time, I was a little disappointed by their choice of Edward. At least, I thought, they could have shaved Robert Pattisons arms, couldn’t they? But he’s a great actor. And able to sing. So forget the hair …
February 6th, 2009 at 5:27 am
2007. Didn’t know anything about Eclipse proms though.. most bookstores in my country weren’t even stocking the Twilight books back then.
February 6th, 2009 at 7:16 am
I started reading twilight July 2008, the first time I ever heard of Edward Cullen was at my highschool and so many people were talking about him, I had thought he was some new student at my school:P … I felt such a idiot after I figured out he wasn’t some amazingly gorgeous new student… and let me tell you it took me a while to figure it out.. it was when my friend told me she thinks Edward Cullen was the ideal guy for her and she wished that he was real, when I told her that he was and went to my school, she just laughed and laughed*sigh* thats when she told me it’s a book about vampires.After that I bought the book to see what the hype was about and I finished it in a day, the next day I bought New Moon and finished it also in a day and then went bought Eclipse and finished it again in a day, then I waited 3 weeks till Breaking Dawn came out.. now I probably read the books 80 times(not even joking I know Twilight and New Moon of by heart)…yeesh I know… but I was very bored in the summer.. now Im like completley obsessed with the series<3 I also convinced my english teacher to read it to my class(we went and saw it in theaters after we finished reading twilight) and made all my friends read it plus my mom
I also saw the movie 10 times and I now know the movie word for word.. yes I know.. I need professional help!!! 
February 6th, 2009 at 7:19 am
2005! Ah I remember the days before the Lexicon when I’d spend all my time listening to the silly midi song from the official webpage, playing it over and over again on my ipod while I read the only 10 twilight fanfics at fanfiction.net
February 6th, 2009 at 10:38 am
That’s my school! This is so awesome that my academic and fantasy worlds collide.
February 6th, 2009 at 11:58 am
First month it was out! XD
and OMG New Moon took sooooooooo long to show up! For a long time I thought it was just gonna be Twilight and was way sad but then I got news of New Moon and the obsession started… xD haha
I was the first person of everyone I know to read it, and now I hardly talk to anyone who hasn’t! It’s so strange! and the age range has grown HUGELY as well. I’ve had conversations with 70 year olds at Sam’s Club about it and just yesterday talked to a girl who looked about 9 about it in a pet store because she liked my Twilight hoody… haha
Has anyone else who read it in 2005 read the series a ridiculous amount of times? I’m at 13 Twilight, 12 1/2 New Moon, 8 Eclipse, and 3 Breaking Dawn. Not including the millions of times I reread specific scenes….
February 6th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
I agree with you Missy, I hate how a lot of people automatically criticize Twilight now just because so many people have fallen in love with the series. And I hate how some people who DO read it still let the hype affect the way they view the story. It was so nice being able to read the novels without any preconceived notions or people to ruin it for you.
February 6th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
I became hooked May of 2008. I heard about the movie on MTV one day, and it sounded interesting. So, I looked up the series on Wikipedia, read the info, and bought Twilight. I’ve been hooked ever since. Now that I have read Twilight,New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn. I have moved on to reading the books that inspired them. I’m on Wuthering Heights at the moment. So, it has inspired me to read the classics.
February 6th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
June 6th, 2008: the day I began Twilight. I knew about the series beforehand thanks to Facebook flair, so I borrowed them from my roomie that Saturday. I was hooked!! I had plans to visit my family on the 12th for a weekend at the beach, and my roomie needed to take the books back to the library. So I stayed up late and finished through Eclipse by Wednesday night so I could leave for the beach after work. But I ended up spending most of my workday Facebooking my roomie with all of my reactions and questions; I discovered the Twilight Lexicon then when I should’ve been writing for the website I work for!
I’ve also re-read the entire series recently, which is extremely important for me because before Saga, I didn’t believe in re-reading books. I wish I could claim that I were an original fan, but Twilight came out my sophomore year of college… not a lot of talk about them at uni!
February 6th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Okay, it’s great that so many people are into Twilight now. But frankly, I’m getting quite annoyed. I read Twilight when it first came out. I hate how [almost] every newcomer is like, “OMG. I’m the biggest fan! I know everything about Twilight. I love Edward Cullen.” I’ve been a fan since the beginning. And all the posers I see are ticking me and the other original fans off. >.>
Thanks for listening :]
February 6th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
i started reading late september 2007. me and my best friend were pretty much the only people who read them in my school. this year you cant find 1 girl who hasnt read them, about 1/4 the guys, and about half the teachers! i miss twilight being less popular : (
February 6th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
@Missy, Kimberly :], Haley Kay,
More people who share the same thinking as me. That’s great.
I really missed the good old days. I too am a little disappointed at the percentage of “old-timers” in this poll.
*The books are still the greatest. I can’t get tired of them.
The movie, not so much, but I’m still buying the DVD as a collectible.
February 7th, 2009 at 9:33 am
Nowadays everybody nows Twilight and I remember how lot’s of people once said …what kind of crazy thing is this Twilight book… I liked the old days … 2005 when nobody really knew Twilight here in germany and the old white chatroom and all these people who met there. It’s sad … But I still love the books and I think I will always be a fan of Edwards and Bellas stories.