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The Twilight Saga is an awesome book series, but the Harry Potter series is 4 times as good as the Twilight Saga. Harry Potter will always be my favorite book series. End of story. P.S. I like Eragon better than all three Twilight books. But the movie is gonna rock! So is Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince! Whoo hoo!

— Jackie    Jul 25, 10:08 AM    #

So, Harry Potter, Eragon and then Twilight.
Ashamed to admit it but I haven’t read Eldest yet either. I know, I know, I need to. It’s that whole “so many books so little time” thing.

Have you read the Bloody Jack series by L.A. Meyer? It’s historical fiction not fantasy. It hasn’t replaced HP as my all time favorite, but I’m enjoying it quite a bit.

And oh, I almost forgot, I really like the Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage. Behind on that one too. Oy, I need a week off from all responsibility so that I can just read, read, read.

— Shonica    Jul 26, 05:34 PM    #

WHAT IS WRONGE WITH YOU PEOPLE TWILIGHT SAGA IS WAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY BETTER THAN HARRY POTTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LLLLLLOOOOOOSSSSSSSEEEEEERRRRRSS!!!!!!!

— Lauren Paige Quiggle    Aug 9, 10:32 PM    #

I love twilight with a passion and im crazy over the series but HARRY POTTER WILL ALWAYS BE NUMBER 1

— Trisha    Aug 10, 09:51 PM    #

I hAVE NEVER READ THE TWILIGHT SAGA BUT I PLAN 2. HARRY POTTER DOES NOT NEED WORDS TO DESCRIBE IT.THATS HOW TOTALLEEEY AWSOME THEY ARE. BUT I THINK THAT THE CHARLE BONE BOOKS R WAY OVER LOOKED. THEY HAVE 2 BE A CONTENDER WITH HP ATLEAST ON MY STANDARDS

— Kyle Sauley (king of cheese poems) PEACE LOVE AND HARMONY    Aug 15, 11:25 PM    #

Definatly Harry, Harry Potters known world-wide when Twilght is mainly known in america

— Jack    Aug 18, 02:04 AM    #

The Charlie Bone books are awesome, but they will never replace Harry Potter!

— Jackie    Sep 5, 08:31 PM    #

I just don’t see how anything can replace HP. At least not in my world.

Oh Jackie, I’ve been reading the Mediator series by Meg Cabot. (I think you are the one who told me too.) It is very good. Totally into it. Can’t wait to get my hands on the fifth one. Cause wouldn’t you know, we’ve got the sixth one but the fifth one is checked out. OY

And there’s another series that I’ve just found. It is by Hilary McKay; the first one is Saffy’s Angel. It’s about a quirky English family. All the kids are named after names on the color chart. Cadmium, Indigo, Rose. Saffron is a color of yellow but her name isn’t on the color chart. Hmmm…

If you like to listen to books on tape, Saffy’s Angel is really good. The reader is an English actress named Julia Sawalha and she’s brilliant. And Sawalha is just fun to say.

Silly fact… Julia Sawalha plays a character named Saffron on the British sitcom Absolutely Fabulous. I’m a huge fan. So huge in fact that Veronica’s middle name is Saffron. She’s not actually allowed to watch that show until she’s sixteen or so, but…

Anyhoo… just finished Indigo’s Star (the second book) need to get the next one, Permanent Rose.

ttfn
p.s. Gonna have to read Charlie Bone. Once again,so many books… I could read em all too if weren’t for all these grown up responsibilities.

— Shonica    Sep 7, 03:05 PM    #

Sorry..Twilight will never ever replace Harry Potter but it is right up there with HP…But i mean cmon..Wizards and Witches are way better then Vampires and Werewolfs!

— Wynter    Oct 8, 10:16 AM    #

Have to admit that I still haven’t read Twilight. BUT I’m rereading HP to prepare for the trivia contest we are having in two weeks. Just finished Sorcerer’s Stone for the billionth time and I was still totally sucked in, didn’t want to put it down, read every word of every sentence. There aren’t too many books that I can say that about.

— Shonica    Oct 12, 04:54 PM    #

There’s enough room in my world for Vampires AND Wizards!

I too am a huge HP fan, dressed up for releases and all that nonsense. The top of my bookshelf contains what my friends call the shrine to Harry Potter. I never thought another series could ever compare.

Then I read Twilight. And of three things I was absolutely certain. 1- My aversion to all vampire books was no longer maintainable, 2- after the first chapter I thirsted for more, and 3- the top of my bookshelf would soon become home to two shrines.

I have read the Twilight series most recently (finished Breaking Dawn two days ago, started Twilight a week before that) so it is freshest in my mind, and the series I am most obsessing over. I believe before the HP vs. Twilight fight can be resolved, in my mind at least, I will need more time and perspective. It would help if I could stop dreaming about fictional teenage vampire too…

I think that in the matter of book settings HP wins, hands-down. The world that Rowling has created is simply far superior. But the characters? A much tougher call on my part. I’m nearly 30, as are the cretins (my friends) who forced me to read this “silly vampire” series. We were all in love with Edward by the end of the third book, or sooner (seems I was the holdout). The relationships in Twilight are simply more compelling, more fully flushed out.

They are both spectacular and engrossing, and have lost me many hours of sleep, leading me to wish I either 1- didn’t need sleep and had lots of free time, or 2- got permission from McGonagall to have use of a time-turner.

— Christine    Oct 18, 02:42 AM    #

I LOVE the twilight series, I finished all four books this week. They are actually AMAZING, I’m going to have to read them all again sometime very soon. I really didn’t think I would like the Twilight books much after reading the blurb, but me and my friend love to read the same sorts of books, so I trusted her recommendation and was not at all disappointed. I LOVED every minute spent reading them. If you think you wont like them, please don’t judge the book by it’s cover, literally, I’m so glad I didn’t. But for me, the Harry Potter series will always be my all time favourite series of books, as they were the ones that first got me hooked on reading. Before Harry Potter I wouldn’t read at all, I owe J.K. Rowling so much for introducing me to the fabulous world of books out there. They were the first books I ever loved.

Though HP will always be my personal favourite I would definitely recommend either of the two series’ to anyone that asked, as they are both BRILLIANT, and are the kind of absolutely GENIUS books that would keep you reading way into the night.

— Rachel    Oct 25, 05:31 PM    #

Look. The reality is that both og them are amzaingg.I have read all Harry Potter books and all Twilight books.

I really think that we shouldn’t compare. Twiloght is full of romance, action, and it makes you fall in love with edward and the cullens family too.
But also harry potter is full of action and with full wide imagination.
Both arthurs i think are genious! How they can make so many people die to read them and to watch the movies. So try not to compare them both to each other beacause that is just hard to do.
~Karla.

— Karla    Nov 4, 01:47 PM    #

I like what Christine said,

“There’s enough room in my world for Vampires AND Wizards!”

Of course there is. We would never make anyone give up one for the other as if you can’t LOVE Twilight if you are a HP fan. This is a just for fun question.

What Karla said about them being too hard to compare reminds me of how I feel when someone asks me my favorite book. There are soooo many, it’s too hard to come up with just one. Or my favorite band or favorite song…. Sometimes I have a favorite of the week or month and that’s subject to change when I come across my next new favorite.

— Shonica    Nov 6, 03:50 PM    #