http://www.viewpoints.com/aboutme/mirandaosborne Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:03:36 GMT Reviews by mirandaosborne http://www.viewpoints.com/Lord-of-the-Rings-Return-of-the-King-review-5b6d5 Return of the King is a great end to the LOTR epic. Exciting and beautiful.... Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:03:36 GMT http://www.viewpoints.com/Lord-of-the-Rings-Return-of-the-King-review-5b6d5 mirandaosborne 5 http://www.viewpoints.com/Twilight-The-Twilight-Saga-Book-1-review-b11d3 This novel made me feel like a teenager again as I read it, the old heightened emotions recreating themselves within me as I followed the teen characters' melodramas. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and could hardly put it down, but considering the primary audience is under 18, I had to ask myself, would I want <em>my </em>teenagers reading this? The answer is a definite no. The story romanticizes and justifies a kind of love that is 100% self-sacrificing - Bella is perfectly willing to let Edward kill her if that means she can be with him for a few seconds - but yet this all-encompassing love, as far as I can tell, is based almost entirely on Edward's physical appearance and Bella's delicious-smelling blood.These two things and the "love" they ignite are used throughout the novel to justify (on Bella's part) everything from lying to parents and friends, allowing a boy she barely knows to sleep in her bed, and repeatedly putting herself in mortal and quite avoidable danger. All in all, the novel is...... Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:56:13 GMT http://www.viewpoints.com/Twilight-The-Twilight-Saga-Book-1-review-b11d3 mirandaosborne 4