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Twilight fans should watch and read this book and see if that is romanti


Cause if they are okay with Edward's abusive ways with Bella then they should see this.

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I'm not a twilight fan but I'm reading this book now. I also want to read the sequel from which the second film is based. Apparently this book is credited in making all those dessert-kidnapping by a savage-falling in love with your captor popular in many trashy romance novels.

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I've seen this film, and whaddya know - it DOES remind me of "Twilight"!

Because the female lead is not at all attractive by modern standards, Agnes Ayres is the object of Valentino's lustful gazes, and she looks forty-odd and is quite bottom-heavy. Nearly a century earlier, someone in Hollywood discovered that if they cast a totally ordinary woman opposite a devastatingly hot man, female audiences would be thrilled and would pay for ticket after ticket.


You'd think Hollywood would use this winning formula more often, especially since quality doesn't matter to the sort of people who saw "Twilight".

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