Why people recommend it
Twilight is a fantasy romance novel by Stephenie Meyer that follows a teenage girl who falls in love with a century-old vampire posing as a high school student. The book and its successors received considerable attention across multiple podcast episodes. On The Joe Rogan Experience, Deric Poston expressed disbelief at the premise of an ancient vampire pretending to be a teenager to date a young girl, while David Perell spoke on How I Write, characterizing the work as a massive mass-market success driven by a compelling story despite poor writing. Tina Jordan mentioned the series on The Book Review while discussing how the first book, published in 2005, inspired intense fan cultures akin to later young adult sensations. On Timcast IRL, Tim Pool and Hannah Claire touched upon the titles, with Hannah noting its influence on fictional character inspirations, and Adam Ray also brought up the romance tropes on The Joe Rogan Experience. Additionally, Joe Rogan and Suzanne Santo discussed the series on the same podcast, debating the romantic and supernatural elements of the narrative where a human engages in a relationship with a vampire who later transforms her, highlighting its distinct cultural footprint within popular romance and fantasy literature read by young audiences.
Who recommended it
- Joe Rogan Discussed
- Angela Duckworth Discussed
- Deric Poston Discussed
- David Perell Discussed
- Tina Jordan Discussed
- Tim Pool Discussed
- Adam Ray Discussed
- Hannah Claire Discussed
- Suzanne Santo Discussed
Joe Rogan — 3 mentions
“like the the [_] Twilight series that was literally about girls having a sexual relationship with a Vampire which is the dumbest [_] thing I've ever heard of my life there was romance there was romance involed he was dead and then she became a vampire too came back to life spoiler spoiler alert”
“What is the the vampire movie that the girls like where the vampires a lot of live in the day Twilight. Then I turned an upgrade. Twilight, right. They wanted to give them an ocular. Yeah. I think they kind of did.”
“your life was the plot of the movie Twilight... Twilight's a Twilight is a movie that was [ __ ] massive massive and now never disussed”
Angela Duckworth — 2 mentions
“I read the Twilight series in a week Stephen and I told I think four all-nighters”
“Twilight the movie was everything I wanted it to be and more so I am very glad that I have the visual of Robert Pattinson as Edward for the rest of my life”
Deric Poston — 1 mention
“like how about Twilight? Okay. He's pretending he's a high school kid. He's a total pervert. He's 100 years old. He's pretending he's in high school and he falls in love with a girl. Like, you insanity. He's a million years old.”
David Perell — 1 mention
“On the other hand, you have these like sort of massly massively mass market successful I don't even know what like I'll pick on like the Twilight books or something quite interesting story horrible writing.”
Tina Jordan — 1 mention
“It inspired the same kind of fandoms that we saw with Twilight. The first Twilight book with was 2005.”
Tim Pool — 1 mention
“You know what I really You was really funny is the Twilight series. It's very It was It was very obvious what this chick was writing. What was her name? Stephanie? Uh I don't know. Lady wrote I never saw the movies. Well, she was books, but it was like a a high school girl and then like the sexy”
Adam Ray — 1 mention
“And then there was the Twilight one. You want a vampire that loves you? I'll never understand that.”
Hannah Claire — 1 mention
“It's going to be Victor and it's based on the guy from Fifty Shades of Gray and the the vampire from Twilight.”
Suzanne Santo — 1 mention
“like the the [ __ ] Twilight series that was literally about girls having a sexual relationship with a Vampire which is the dumbest [ __ ] thing I've ever heard of my life”
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Other mentions (11: passing, ad reads, own books)
“like you know the what was the what was that Rob that movie that [ __ ] called what was that thing the Robert Patterson the the Twilight Twilight”
“Now, I need to explain to you something called a book series called the Twilight series!”
“Stephanie Meyer of course uh wrote the Twilight series one of your favorites”
“and it's you know before it was really driven I think by these big franchises by Harry Potter by Twilight and The Hunger Games”
“the thing is so I can speak to my adolescence on that and the romance involved was the it wasn't sexual you I mean eventually it was but I I read the books as a youngster and then I watch the movies and you know that's that's a that's a lot different from like an actual racing novel you know”
“by the way I don't know if you're a Twilight fan I assume you are not correct do you know what Twilight is a series of books”
“they had finished the whole Twilight series they would bring these thick teen novels into school”
“what were those famous books called oh Twilight Twilight there you go”
“two of the biggest books in the last like 25 years started as fan fiction so uh Twilight started as fan fiction and then the whole Vampire series and then 50 Shades of Gray started as a fan fiction of Twilight and 50 Shades of Gray became that”
“and the history of shades of grey is fascinating because it comes it was a fan fiction written off of Twilight which itself is very much a very safe take on vampires”
“what was the last time you read a book besides Twilight”