Stephen King wrote that Stephanie Meyer was a horrible writer and that her books were primarily aimed at pre-teen/young teen girls , though I don't think he wrote that one had anything to do with the other. I haven't seen him be so blunt about writers-usually he's pretty supportive. I had no interest in the book or film. Capo's excerpt above makes it sound like what I thought it was-a romance novel with vampires. Just not my thing...

"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives."
Winter is Coming

Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.