Comparing Meyer's Twilight And E. L. James Fifty Shades Of Grey

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Stephanie Meyer's Twilight and E.L. James Fifty Shades of Grey could not have less in common. Considering Twilight has vampires with insane abilities. But on the otherhand they are basically one in the same story.
In twilight, highschool student Bella Swan, goes to live with her dad moving from sunny Arizona, to rainy washington state. She then meets Edward Cullen, a mysterious teen who's eyes seem to peer directly into her soul. Edward is a vampire that doesn't drink human blood, and Bella, who isn't frightened at all, enters into a dangerous romance with her immortal soulmate.
In Fifty Shades of Grey, college student Anastasia Steele is asked by her sick roomate to cover for her to interview a prominent buisnessman Christan Grey for their

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