Harry Potter or Twilight, which one are you?

I’m like Switzerland. I’m neutral.

(altho the HP books have a much better and imaginative vocabulary range.)

Neither. They aren’t my cup of tea. And even if I did I wouldn’t care for any fighting over the two of them. Hey, that’s just some fictional characters, why freak out?

When a young niece started reading the HP books, I bought the first one and was hooked. The series was a lovely adventure. It was enjoyable to observe how the characters grew up and became more complex just as the books did. Rowling’s strategy was well played out, even if the story wasn’t overly original.

The same niece begged me to read Twilight. She loaned me her copy while on vacation together. That was one painful process, but I did it out of duty to her. What a load of rubbish.

Neither, but at least “harry potter” is not offensively stupid.

@Pied Pfeffer I strongly concur with your “twilight” verdict, to the extent that the very title is unworthy of capitalization. The 20 or so pages I read served to convince me that the thing’s only value lies in the fact that it’s better that some kid read it rather than nothing at all. It is also a handy reference point for young readers in demarcating the line between literature and slop.

The Harry Potter books are so well thought out, and beautifully written, and the Twilight books are such crap (including the fan fiction “Fifty Shades of Grey”), I cannot imagine anyone preferring the latter.

Do I have to be one or the other? Of the two, I’d pick Harry Potter. Although truthfully, I’m more Andre Norton.

Echoing @filmfann, this is not at all a rivalry or even a competition or a choice. Twilight is carp, pure and simple, and the resultant movies are silly and banal.

If you put a gun to my head and forced me to choose…. you’d wind up pulling the trigger.

While I find Harry Potter to be inoffensive compared to the pre-teen soft porn of Twilight, the only wizard named Harry I enjoy reading is Harry Dresden.

Alan Rickman is in Harry Potter, so HP wins.

@filmfann my friend once showed me a picture she had found, the picture was of a twilight book, and the price was $0.00, the caption was ‘Still not worth it’. I thought that pretty much summed it up.

I once saw a clip of “Twilight”. I thought it was a cheap TV show.
I was quite shocked when I found out that it was a movie.

Harry Potter. Never seen Twilight and it doesn’t appeal at all.

@ragingloli It’s worse than that. There are four books and five movies based on the teen novels. Here are a couple of paragraphs from the second book about the teenage girl and 200 year old vampire.

I thought Harry Potter is really good. I started reading it when I was maybe 11, and when Deathly Hallows came out I bought it and finished it right before college entrance examination. Till before I went to college, I had went through every book like 10 times.
Never read Twilight, watched the 3rd movie, liked it and finished all movie series, then read a little and dropped. Good movies.

Neither. I read the first few Harry Potter books, then watched the films, even for the books I didn’t read, the films dragged and just put me off.
As for Twilight…..dear God don’t even get me started.

OMG
How could you even out them into the same sentence ?
Poor J. K. You didn’t deserve it

Apparently Twilight came to Stephanie Meyer in a dream… I just wish it had stayed there…