Twilight Hype-Good Or Bad?

With graphic storylines, dramatic love scenes and gruesome portrayals of vampire life, Stephenie Meyer's Twilight novels have become required reading for Britain's teenagers. They were thanked for the 5% rise in children's book sales recorded last year and are a popular feature of school libraries. But now researchers are investigating whether they are bad for teenagers' brains.

But despite teens' vulnerability to literature, the academics also concluded that Twilight could be an "excellent training field for understanding how other people think, feel and act," says Nikolajeva. "Through literature, young people can test situations – including extreme situations – which they, in most cases, fortunately will not be exposed to in real life," she adds. Meyer's books can therefore act as a kind of brain-training for teens.

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