[Doc Faustus]

The problem is the parents saying "at least my kid is reading" instead of trying to introduce them to better material. Twilight is not a book. The writing is bad and it wastes words to pad the cost. It's 100 pages of plot. Stephanie Meyer is a worse offender at this than Dickens, who at least knew a thing or two about characterization. Saying that it's good for your children to read crap like this is like saying that heroin addiction will make them less squeamish about their booster shots. If they want to get into Twilight, show them a good movie version of Wuthering Heights (is there one?). Then hand them the book. It's no less verbose, dull and wasteful. This will get them curious about real Gothic novels and give them SOME freakin' culture.