Why Twilight will never be the next Harry Potter and the media is once again acting like an idiot

[For embers_log who was upset when I deleted my last post on this topic.]

Ran into a fellow novelist (actually a published one) on my way to the wine store this afternoon. He used to own a genre book store and ran a genre book club I'd joined in the late nineties until it disbanded like all book clubs eventually do. This one made it almost eight years before going the way of the Dodo.

At any rate, he told me he had an adventure tale, a la Indiana Jones coming out, as well as a novella entitled Chasing the Dragon. Then we chatted about the Stephanie Meyer phenomena otherwise known as Twilight for a bit, which he compared to The Da Vinci Code. Except of course for one teeny little detail, Da Vinci is better written. I was actually able to make it through the Da Vinic Code and enjoyed aspects of it (the movie's better by the way), not so much regarding Twilight. Hmm, if the film version of Da Vinci Code was better than the book - maybe the film version of Twilight will be better? Amazing as it might sound but there are some novels that actually translate better to the screen - The Godfather, The Exorcist, and Rosemary's Baby are examples. [Not to imply that The Godfather, the Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby weren't well written, they were, and in no other way shape or form compare to Twilight, well except for Rosemary's having a monster child...but outside of that...not so much.]
( Long opinionated piece about the Twilight hype and why it is stupid and yes I spoil the last book - although not quite sure how you could have avoided that spoiler. )