Vampire Diaries or Twilight?

[SevenStars]

My daughter insisted that the Vampire Diaries books are much more engaging with better characters and plots than the Twilight series. Having read both, I find myself inclined to agree. Anyone got any thoughts?

 

[biodroid]

My wife says Vampire Diaries is better too. The vamps dont sparkle and actually act like vampires.

 

[Hex]

I found the writing worsened in The Vampire Diaries until I found them a bit of a struggle to read; the first three Twilights were tighter and less rushed, I thought.

Favourite YA vampire books: Sunshine by Robin McKinley, and The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black. In neither of these do the vampires sparkle.

 

[The Ace]

I'd rather take my wang off with a rusty hacksaw than re-read either.

 

[SevenStars]

Sparkly vampires definitely too cliche!

 

[SevenStars]

I found the writing worsened in The Vampire Diaries until I found them a bit of a struggle to read; the first three Twilights were tighter and less rushed, I thought.

Favourite YA vampire books: Sunshine by Robin McKinley, and The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black. In neither of these do the vampires sparkle.

Thank you I shall get copies of these

 

[monsterchic]

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black.

Holly Black's awesome I loved both when I was a few years younger, but haven't read them in years and don't plan to. They are not on my reread list.

 

[The Bluestocking]

I found "The Vampire Diaries" a horrible, badly-written read. "Twilight" was better but not something I'd read on a regular basis.

"The Vampire Diaries" TV show, however, was pretty good. Operational word being "was" - it was good until the 3rd season ended... then it went all downhill with way too much soapy drama.

 

[martin321]

"The Vampire Diaries" TV show, however, was pretty good. Operational word being "was" - it was good until the 3rd season ended... then it went all downhill with way too much soapy drama.

I agree. The first three seasons were good, season four was meh, and the fifth season is currently going nowhere fast.

 

[The Bluestocking]

I stopped watching the show about a handful of episodes into season 4 of TVD.

Too much contrived drama and angst.

 

[LadyDarkWood]

I read Twilight because I received it as a gift.

I guess it's catchy if you're a teenager and you've never read a vampire book before (although I do not agree about Bella and Edward's love... he's 100yrs old or more, she's 16-17 yrs when they met... For me this is not love, this is pedophilia, sorry).

I tried to watch the first episode of Vampire Dairies and I found it so awful that I decided to stop there. I'm not going to read it either.

I guess it's like tasting the best chocolate cake ever and then try to eat one bought in a supermarket.. it can be good enough for a moment, but it can't be awesome. or memorable

 

[Alysheba]

I haven't read TVD but I could not get through some of Twilight. I gave up.

 

[Hardlight]

I'd go for Vampire Diaries, too. But if there's any else YA-vampire I would recommend, it's the Vamps series by Nancy Collins.

 

[krgreen]

I stopped watching the show about a handful of episodes into season 4 of TVD.

Too much contrived drama and angst.

I watched TVD until S4 ended and I got the 'ending' I wanted, based on the books most likely ending (my friend wrote to LJ and got a scoop on the planned ending if she could have written it herself). Also only read the books as far as the last one L J Smith wrote, so can't comment on the ghostwritten ones. I haven't read Twilight so can't compare, but found the TVD story better, though some of the writing wasn't always great when I reread the books as an adult.

 

[Editorinchic]

Twilight definitely for teens -)