I just finished reading Twilight, and am kinda neutral on it.
I started reading it a month or two ago when my co-worker let me borrow her copies of the first two books. I had made it 10 chapters in, all of which I found to be very VERY dull, before I gave up and stopped reading it.
I just wasn't into the book at all, and figured that if I let it sit around in my room for a while that my curiosity would get the better of me (since I HAD already started reading the book) and I'd give in and finish it.
The hype over the new movie, as well as my discovery of the "hate-base" I while reading comments on the first book on message boards like IMBD, got me interested enough to pick it up again and try to finish it. I managed to read 2-3 more chapters before getting bored with it again and putting it aside once more (I'd like to make note here, that I'm usually a rather fast reader when I find a book interesting and engrossing).
That was about a week ago. Today, I finally hit the good part of the book apparently...because I flew through Chapters 13-Epilouge no problem. The ending was pretty good.
I still find it sad though, that the author wasted 259 pages (out of 498 pages) before she finally kicked it up and started making her book interesting. I probably would have liked the book much more if all that junk that made up the first half of the book was compressed down to the vital information only...
I'm not sure what to think of Bella, because she really got on my nerves a lot in the beginning of the book. It didn't help that she came across as a Mary Sue. However, as the book went on...I did grow to like her a little more.
I did find Edward interesting, didn't care that he was this beautiful creature because that's how the modern vampire tends to be. I didn't mind the author's version of the vampire (the original vampire could walk in the sunlight if I remember correctly), and I found her idea of the "turning" to be very interesting.
I loved Alice and Emmet (they were both lovable and adorable to me, especially Alice), and liked Carlisle and Esme a lot as well. Jasper was interesting too, but I didn't care too much for Rosalie (she's a bit of a you-know-what, so I don't think we're supposed to like her).
I loved Jacob (despite how little we got to see of him), and look forward to reading more of him in the next books (I'm kind of afraid to read the next books though, because I've heard that his character development takes a negative turn...).
Jessica, Mike, and the other human friends Bella have were all okay. I'm curious to see if they play more important roles in the later books (aside from drooling over Bella/Edward).
The villain of the book was interesting, kinda wish there was a little more of him or that there was more of a fight with him at the end.
I liked Bella's parents, not much else there to say about them.
In conclusion. I liked the book, but thought that it was simply okay.
It in no way lived up to its annoying hype, but I don't think it was anywhere near as bad as haters have made it out to be either.
I will be reading the next book, and have entertained the idea of even seeing the movie (for the record, I think Edward was horribly miscast).
. In my opinion, the second book was the best of the four. 
