You've summed up all of the core problems with the characters; it disgusts me too that some of the more fanatical keep bawling about how Edward and Bella are the perfect couple when Edward is a manipulative abusive boyfriend while Bella is a doormat with the words "GRIND YOUR HEELS ON ME" written on it.
No seriously, tell us what you think about the sparkles.
The vegetarian explanation was an analogy. Just so you know. And I'll grant you the sparkling is funny, but how is it any more ridiculous than any other vampire myth?
The vegetarian thing was a lousy analogy; perhaps a better one would be that they prefer Diet compared to regular soda?
The vegetarian analogy came from Edward's explanation that a vampire living on animal blood was like a human only living on tofu, thus - vegetarian.
It's been a while since I forced myself through it, so I guess I didn't remember that it was an analogy. *edits*
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Appalling.
I read the first book when the movie came out to see if it was as good as everyone said it was. I flung it against the wall and narrowly avoided having to pay for a new copy for the school library. Then, I was forced to finish out the series by my friends whining, "IT GETS BETTER!" God, they couldn't have been more wrong. I flung them against the wall some more and I did have to pay for a new copy of New Moon because I hurled that one really, really hard. My main problems are with Edward and Bella's relationship and how the thing was written. I can take all the turd you toss at me, so I'm just going to go out and say that it is an abusive relationship and Edward IS a stalker and Bella a useless sack. No, he never hit her. But an abusive relationship doesn't need violence. It just needs a control freak and an idiot. As for watching her sleep? That's not romantic. That's creepy. The purple prose was so annoying that they might as well have printed it in violet ink just to rub it in. (Bad analogy, but oh well). And her FREAKING DEPENDENCE on him, most apparent to me in New Moon, made me want to go in the book and shoot her. After she falls in "love" with him, her life consists of basically nothing else. No hobbies, no goals, nothing. Her Distressed Damsel status also was sickening. In other words, this series sets back feminism by so much I can't express it, and that really, really, really pissed me off. And then the lack of plot. Oh, God, there was no plot other than "EDWARD! SCREW ME NOW!" and "I'LL KILL YOU, MY LAMB! NUUUU!" Besides, vampires cannot be "vegetarian" unless you're making an analogy, which it is in this case as I found out. And don't even get me started on the sparkling. Not only is it simply ridiculous, it makes the vampires look even more stupid than they already are. That was the last thing they needed to be fairies, and Smeyer just had to give it to them. I can't express my full rage very well on the Internet, but it is an awful lot of rage. I have always respected vampires, but this really humiliates them.