I'll tell you if you ask nicely ;-)

No! Hehe. It's a novel turned movie franchise about sparkly vampires! It's weird. It's like Healer in that it appeals to a specific, relatively harmless, group of fans.

Some of those fans can get quite scary though. But only if you always insult their taste and imply that they're brainless, hormone-driven people for not agreeing with your preferences.

Other than that, the fans seem normal. And the book itself is harmless fluff. I personally know a couple of lawyers, engineers, doctors, and teachers who love this "Twilight" thing. They seemed like smart, perfectly functional ladies to me. Definitely not inclined to be in a dysfunctional relationship with a mind-reading bloodsucker.

So don't be turned off by freaky stories you hear about Twilight and its fans. You always get a couple of those in any fandom. (Like me for Song Jae Rim.) :D

I wouldn't recommend the book to you though. Maybe try Dracula if you're curious about vampires. That one is really hair-raising and closer to old wives tales about bloodsuckers.

@mary - you really think Twihards are "harmless"? Nothing wrong with liking a book but the fans can put any kpop fandom.to shame, I never hear of fans of other works involved in stabbing incidents and sending racist abuse to the main actor's new gf.

Healer fans only talked about their bias a lot, they are not completely crazy like the Twilight crowd.

@redfox - it statrts as a fluffy vampire book but the treatment of women is a lot like Kdramas we hate for poor treatment of women. I liked the first book but the 4th book in the series has the second lead boy getting over his love for the main girl by............becomung 'soulmates' with her baby daughter
. Who grows very fast so apparently it is ok for a 17 year old to feel that kind of atrachment for a baby/small child.

@redfox, it's a classic. Like Frankenstein. Or Tom Sawyer. I'm surprised you haven't read it, if you like mythology. It sounds right up your alley.

@pigsnout, I wish you'd read my comment carefully.

@mary - I would say Twilight is more in the category of Flowers in the Attic etc than Dracula and other books that actually use decent English (even with my limited English skills I can tell it reads like a decent fanfiction and not a classic book).

And you said you know many functional adult women who are fans.....that does not change the fact that most fans of the books react very poorly to any criticism of it. I used to be a fan myself until book 4 came out and many, many fans were put off by the poor storylines and wtf wolf loves baby storyline and we expressed our disappointment as fans only to be hated by people who refused to accept thatanything in thr books was wrong or creepy. And this was the majority of fans at the time. I left the fandom because of their victim mentality and attacking everyone who disagrees with them, but I have never seen that kind of attitude from other fandoms when I said they were not perfect, like Harry Potter and Hunger Games.

Anyway I was young when I read Twilight and now I am.shocked I considered it romantic. I liked it for having 'clean' romance without bed scenes etc but I can't continue to like a book whose hero is everything we criticise about kdrama heroes (except for the forced kissing - second lead does that).

@pigsnout... I really didn't want to spell this out, but I was being sarcastic.

(And in case you missed it, redfox was also being sarcastic. She's totally aware what Twilight is and the stereotype of a Twihard. She mentioned it quite a few times in her past comments and refers scathingly to the "twilight generation".)

I was pointing out that, for redfox's intents and purposes, the only common thing about Healer and Twilight is they both have an immature fanbase.

I was explaining that it's stupid to think of people in such simple terms. And that it's wrong to keep making snide remarks about a person based on her taste in books and dramas. Or to classify someone as a crazy delulu just because you had a not-so-nice encounter with another person from the same fandom.

Because a smart person can like a totally fanservicey, WTF book as Twilight AND still be smart and not susceptible to abuse in a relationship. Case in point: javabeans always squees when she recaps, but I have no doubt that if a guy grabbed her wrist irl, she'd kick him swiftly in the nuts.

As for Dracula, since redfox professes to hate useless fluff and appears to love deep, serious stuff, I suggested Dracula. Her disdain for the Twilight generation seemed to have turned her off the vampire genre, and I thought it sucks to close yourself off to that because Dracula makes for some great, spooky reading.

TL;DR, by comparing Healibers and Twihards, I wasn't saying that Healibers are cray-cray delulus. Rather the opposite. That most fans are normal, decent human beings. And it's too bad that they're being unfairly hated on by some people just because of the annoying actions of the crazier members of their fandoms.