I completely agree with you 100% on the twilight standpoint.. I'm not going to lie, I liked the book to begin with. But then I became and English freak, what with my writing and such. So I reread 'Twilight' just for the hell of it, and now I am antitwilight. The book sucked completely. There was no backbone for it. She gave Bella absolutely NO character, and I found that unappealing.
We also grew up to believe that vampires were dangerous, human killers. All of a sudden they are our new sex appeal?
I think the story would have been a million times better written by someone else. I like the story idea also, but the author lacked horribly.