I can't tell you how glad I am to see that HP has beaten twilight in the poll. ^-^ I don't mind the story of the big bad T so much, but the writing is sooooo bad!

im a fan of both but im a vampire fanatic so imma have to say twilight is my top!!!

I like Twilight AND Harry Potter. but voted for Twilight.


What i like more is House of Night. but its not a movie..... yet. its the best of both worlds!

Precisely.

I actually have heard that The Host is actually a pretty decent book on its own, even from people that HATE Twilight. I'm not against trying it.

I think I'd rather have my kids read HP instead of Twilight too. For one thing, what's great about HP is it really begins for kids and grows (theoretically) with the kids, getting more mature every year, as kids do.
But also, and more importantly, Harry Potter is about friendship and bravery and fighting for good. Twilight is about Bella obsessing over a hot, over-protective, dangerous guy, with no real theme or anything resembling admirable qualities. I don't want my daughters growing up with Mary-Sue girls like Bella as their models. I'd rather them read about brave, strong, smart characters like Hermione.

While Bella isn't my favorite person in the series, as she's extremely narcissistic, the story in and of itself is something that, at the time when my daughters are old enough (15, 16) I don't see the problem with them reading it. It's a romance. There are two men that love her and both of them are protective, gallant, and considerate. These are qualities I hope my daughters consider when they begin to find someone to be with. Actually, a very big misconception of the Twilight series is that it's about her sex life with Edward. Edward actually makes her wait until they're married before he will sleep with her. A quality that is very rare in today's society, and one I think is admirable. Granted, I don't expect my daughters to wait until marriage, as I find it unrealistic to expect since I'm not raising them to be fundamentalist conservatives.

I do hope that my girls are independent, considerate, strong, brave, and selfless like many of the characters in Harry Potter (like Ginny, Hermione, Tonks, Molly, et al.) and I feel that the characters are great role models for my daughters. Not to mention characteristics in friends that I hope they seek.

Frankly, I think both series are decent, though I feel that HP is written better and characters are developed better. However, comparing the two is like comparing music to books. Frankly, it's two different things. One series is an epic adventure, the other is an epic romance. The whole point of Twilight is the romance, whereas in HP, it's only a component. They each have their place and time in my daughter's lives (if they want to read them)

I don't mean this to be rude, but I would prefer that you not talk about the last book as if you'd read it. You admitted as such. Edward doesn't chew the baby out of her. The baby chews her way out. Equally violent, only Edward doesn't do it. And since you only read 1.5 of the 4 books, it's really hard to say that it's contradictory or nothing to the story. Like Harry Potter (which is, by far, my favorite book series ever), it's a continuous storyline and not one single book can effectively stand alone without many questions begging to be answered.

While it may not be the most well-written collection of books ever written, it is a good read to some. The problem with the series is she doesn't build much dimension to the characters (revealing their pasts, etc.) until the last two novels. If she had developed it more in the first two books, it would have been better to read. That being said, I devoured these books. I read them in short order with enough action happening in Eclipse (by far my favorite of the 4) that it actually kept me up all night.

Harry Potter is still my preference, but again, these two series are so completely different that you can't really compare them effectively.

Harry Potter