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Eclipse Special Edition (The Twilight Saga) | 
 enlarge | Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Category: Book
List Price: $19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  790 reviews
Sales Rank: 105
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Special
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 672
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.8 x 2.2
ISBN: 0316036293
EAN: 9780316036290
ASIN: 0316036293
Publication Date: May 31, 2008
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Product Description
In the dead silence, all the details suddenly fell into place for me with a burst of intuition. Something Edward didn't want me to know. Something that Jacob wouldn't have kept from me...It was never going to end, was it?
Readers captivated by Twilight and New Moon will easily devour Eclipse, the third book in Stephenie Meyer's riveting vampire love saga. This Special Edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller includes:
- The first chapter of Breaking Dawn, the highly anticipated final book in the Twilight Saga.
- A limited-edition, full-color print
- Two exclusive Eclipse-inspired t-shirt transfers.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 785 more reviews...
 Very satisfied July 9, 2008
The book was in excellent shape and got here right on time. I couldn't have asked for more :)
Eclipse Review July 9, 2008
I've already read this book, but I wanted my own copy. I know it's written for young adults, but as a 30 something Mom, I still LOVED it! I can't wait for book 4 on August 2nd!
Love July 8, 2008
This is the book that made me fall in love with the series. Eclipse is extremely well written and shows a certain amount of maturity over the other books - in fact, it borders on adult reading in its subject matter and so those of us who are older certainly will not feel ridiculous buying this at the bookstore. I have to admit I was not exactly crazy about the last 2 twilight books, however, once I read eclipse everything I felt about series was turned on its head. I seriously could not put this book down and went to pre-order the next and final book 'Breaking Dawn' the next day.
 What a long, jolty, melodramatic ride.. July 7, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I realized after I'd picked up this book from an airport bookstore that it was written for a young adult audience. Nevertheless, and despite my being very much an adult, I opted to read it because the premise fascinated me (How could it not? Vampires and Werewolves sharing space in the same story; oh my!).
That said, I learned within the first few pages that the writing was, shall I say, very juvenile. Yes, I do see the irony of my own words. But the author writes as if a 13 year old can't comprehend sub-text and subtlety at all. Is this true? I thought kids were super-humanly smarter nowadays than we were when we were their age. No?
Here's the good: This work was my first introduction to the series, but even with that, I was still able to (mostly) understand what had happened in the previous two books, and didn't feel like I was lost or confused about why things were happening as they were. So there's that.
Also, the author does a fantastic job of immersing us into a fantasy world that could, if we clicked our heels and wished hard enough, really be happening secretly in some Any-Town-USA. The fact that the story takes place in Washington--the state in which I live--made it all the more real...er, I mean, fantastic to me.
Okay, so here's the bad and the ugly. Firstly, I thought authors were supposed to suffer over every word they committed to paper. It's almost as if Meyer hurried through her first draft and then, when she was done, decided 629 pages later that it was as good as it was going to get.
Here are some examples... On practically every page, some one is either "murmuring" or "mumbling" something, sometimes 2 or 3 times a page, and some times 2 or 3 characters at a time. Can no one speak clearly in the author's world?
Next, everyone is constantly--and I do mean constantly--rolling their eyes and gnashing or clenching their teeth. Personally, I don't remember the last time I did either, and certainly not multiple times a day. Is that really what teenagers do?
Balled up fists are rampant in the author's world because, you know how every time some one says something you don't care for you ball up both of your fists, clench your teeth, roll your eyes and mumble something under your breath.
People, especially the main character, are in a near-constant state of flinching and wincing. If they are not busy with these spasms, then they are busy pouting or pursing their lips. There is a lot of pouting and pursing not to be missed. I mean, I've never "met" more skittish, sensitive people in my life. Skittish vampires and werewolves? Who knew they could be so touchy.
The biggest annoyance though, is that Bella, the main character, has not one redeeming character. She is a weak, gloomy, petulant, ungrateful girl with a bad temper. When she is not acting out some repulsively cowardly trait, she is busy pouting about her impending graduation, her impending graduation party, her impending marriage, her father, her mother, her very existence. The sad thing is that the book is narrated in the first person, so I spent hours being inside Bella's depressed and depressing head. I felt myself craving Prozac.
Bella--and everyone else in the story for that matter--never simply "says" anything... She is always either shrieking or yelling at some one. Oh, she does whisper, too... Whispering is another extremely common action in the story. She is so weak, in fact, that rather frequently she is "frozen in fear" or so "paralyzed with fear" that she cannot even speak. As a matter of fact, she spends much of the entire 600+ page tome doing absolutely nothing but alternating between crying, yelling, and sobbing. And too hot, supernatural, true gentlemen find her irresistible? What a catch. One man's trash is another man's treasure, I say.
And what's with the addictive, completely unhealthy relationship between Bella and Edward. Jacob points out, rightly, that Edward is like a drug to Bella. Excluding examples from Greek mythology, who goes berzerk and turns sour and even depressed when their partner is away from them for only a few hours? I believe we can probably find something in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders that would aptly explain Bella's obvious issues.
Oh, one other slight annoyance: The author interrupts my suspension of disbelief in several sections of her occasionally gory vampiric, lycanthropic horror saga to lecture me on the virtues of staying chaste until marriage and how this very act will save my soul from eternal damnation (in case you didn't catch it, the irony was intended). I get it. It's a novel written for young teenage girls, after all, and there is certainly no harm in reminding them to be safe about sex. But I found the sex ed lesson a little heavy-handed, personally, despite its debatable appropriateness.
The long and short of it is this: The author's writing style is melodramatic and sloppy, at best, over-the-top and lazy at minimum. One can argue that it is distasteful and a step-back to a century or ten ago to introduce young, impressionable readers to a weak, and utterly useless character such as Bella who requires constant saving, reassurance, and is so obsessed with her love (although I balk at calling it love when it is so clearly obsession) that she repeatedly asserts that he is her *entire* world and she is useless without him. Seriously. Is this 2008 or 1608?
Despite all of that--and despite my wanting to bash my own head in with the heavy tome during the first half when absolutely nothing was happening except for the author having the characters repeat similar-sounding conversations at the cafeteria, Bella's kitchen, Bella's bedroom, the Cullens' home, inside a car or a truck, etc.--I actually liked this book. Crazy, right? True, though. In the end, I just love anything about vampires and werewolves (I am a SciFi, b-movie lover, after all). I also liked that Meyer's story carried me away for two full days into a world that was (melo)dramatic enough (not unlike the original Beverly Hills 90210 or The OC, I'm ashamed to admit) to keep me coming back for more, and more--all the way to page 629.
So much lost potential... July 7, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Theres something about the Twilight series thats good, it's original, and it has GOOD potential.
Why does Stephanie Meyers have to blast it apart?
I've gotten this far in the series and while some things have changed for the better the most important ones haven't...
GOOD THINGS WITH ECLIPSE
1. Bella actually reasons a couple things out in this one. With her BRAIN, even, instead of running it by Edward who magically solves them for her. Now if only she could grow a spine.
2. Jacob becomes more prominent, relationships are explained and developed. Even if the actual characters aren't so much...
3. The extra stories and background information on people were cool. Learning that theres kind of a society with the vampires and a history with the werewolves was neat.
PROBLEMS WITH ECLIPSE (and Twilight series in particular)
1. Her name. Bella Swan.
Bella... SWAN. How cliche can you get? But no, wait, it's Isabella Marie Swan. Those names put together are entirely too fluffy. She never even acknowledges how cheesy it is, which would have redeemed it somewhat...
Besides that Bella can't do anything by herself. The klutziness thing is obviously supposed to be endearing, and it might have been if she didn't have to depend entirely on Edward for EVERYTHING. And for some reason SM thought that she shouldn't be able to get into a good college without Edwards help. It's romantic for a guy to protect his girl and buy her stuff, but not if the girl is too incompetent to do ANYTHING by herself!
2. Edward is far too perfect. At everything. I think he would be much more believable if he had at least one flaw. Like you know, the famous characters Mr. Darcy and Mr. Rochester, they were so cool because they WEREN'T perfect. Besides, who says a vampire should be perfect at everything? Why can't there be a clumsy vampire, hey? Anyway, I wish that whenever Bella and Edward fought someone would actually get mad at the other one for a real reason. So they both wouldn't end up going, "It's all my fault, I hate myself" instead of acting like an actual person and getting upset and angry with each other. It's just not believable.
3. A rock hard, marble, icy statue. Yes, that's someone who I would love to snuggle up next to. That doesn't sound enjoyable. But this one I suppose is kind of a preference. I mean, there are those people who get their freak on with corpses (blegh, I can't people I'm writing this)..
4. Bella kind of is missing a personality. Everything that sets her apart from the other shallow, secondary characters will disappear when she becomes a vampire... as in, she's allegedly plain, klutzy, unable to defend/think for herself, emotional and vulnerable to any lurking danger. So the characteristics of a vampire are cool, collected, beautiful, dangerous, bloodthirsty and extremely intelligent.
Does that sound ANYTHING like Bella (a feminist's worst nightmare, lol)?
Okay, I think this is enough, even though I have waay more things that bug me, this is getting really bogged down.
But yeah, does anyone else wonder about the thing with Bella? How she's immune to the vampires mind-reading her and stuff? I was kind of hoping that there would be some way that Bella was something else entirely. Like not a vampire or a werewolf but it would be cool if there were human vampire trackers... I don't know.. lol. It would be interesting.
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