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Discussion Post: Nerd in Shining Armor

Jan 30, 2011 09:57

WHAT A BOOK, YOU GUYS. I know how antsy you have all been to get some SERIOUS DISCUSSION underway. I bet Oprah was mad when Kelly Ripa picked this for her book club because IT IS SO GOOD that surely Oprah wanted to feature it, but Kelly had to go and steal her thunder. Tragic ( Read more... )

discussion post, 2011: january, novel: nerd in shining armor

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otempora42 January 30 2011, 15:31:01 UTC

Confession: I read about three pages of this book before Gen's overdone Southern accent bugged me so much I had to stop. IT IS HARD BEING FROM SOUTH CAROLINA ( ... )

dudski January 30 2011, 15:45:22 UTC

1. I don't even remember it fully because I was too busy cringing, but Nick is telling them about how he's going to parachute out of the plane and leave Gen and Jack to crash and die, and Gen tries to buy time and convince him to land the plane by telling him that he should bring her along because of her A-PLUS BLOWJOB SKILLS.

2. The worst part of this book is that Clyde Loudermilk is only mentioned and never actually makes an appearance. HERE IS THE CLYDE VERSION THOUGH:

Nick was a far cry from Clyde Loudermilk back in the Hollow, a red-faced boy who used to swat her on the backside and tell her she was built for breeding ( ... )

kindness_says January 30 2011, 17:36:57 UTC

I came home to my parents' last weekend and found my old Pokedex on the desk. <3 <3 <3

myr_soleil January 30 2011, 16:13:20 UTC

This post was 200 times more enjoyable than the book! Good job, there! I don't even feel like discussing it, because IT'S IN THE PAST, CAN WE LET IT REST? (Also I wish this was a poll so that I could answer everything without actually forming coherent sentences about the book, haha.)

I would totally prefer a Nintendo, too, although Gen was like, endearing for the first time in her anger that Jackson picked it instead of the afghan.

Also I THOUGHT THERE WOULD BE MORE PORN. Am I alone in this? I mean, there's basically just the time where Jackson burns his feet. And it was a little less enjoyable because I wondered all along if they'd start going "well, it smells a little like burned feet".

empressearwig January 30 2011, 16:19:28 UTC

I THOUGHT THERE WOULD BE MORE PORN. Am I alone in this?

NO. I mean, terrible writing, terrible characters, there should have at least been porn every other page or something.

I'm shallow, I admit this.

myr_soleil January 30 2011, 16:26:46 UTC

They kept talking about it, and then not doing it. And cutting to Annabelle in the middle of almost porn scenes. What is that! I don't want to think about protective mothers two seconds after reading about their daughters having sex!

empressearwig January 30 2011, 16:35:45 UTC

Yes! WHO DOES THAT? People who want to scar their readers for life, that's who.

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kindness_says January 30 2011, 17:39:22 UTC

Alas, I will probably never get to Gone with the Nerd. I am still in the middle of The Nerd Who Loved Me (is that what the second one's called? The one with Harry and the Vegas dancer, which was so far proving less atrocious than the first one); I closed the PDF and promptly forgot about it forever because of school.

7. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. I didn't even think about when it was published. HILLBILLIES ARE TIMELESS.

But you've made me suspicious of VLS's author blurb... MAYBE THIS IS A TRUE STORY AND SHE'S TRYING TO COVER UP HER ROOTS JUST LIKE GENEVIEVE!!

6. fdjkslkfdfljsagfl!!!! Best visual representation ever.

Aaand I was going to answer other questions but my main thoughts were "LOL FOREVER" and "EWWWW" so there's no need to type either of those several times, as enjoyable as I'm sure it would be to read.

However, I would like to say, YOU CAN NEVER HAVE TOO MUCH WHITTLING.

dudski January 30 2011, 18:06:01 UTC

GONE WITH THE NERD:

Margo's glance shifted to the window but moved quickly back to Zoe. "Okay, so something's out there."

"I think you should investigate," Zoe said. "You could add another sighting to your list."

"You'd like that, wouldn't you? Sorry. Bigfoot is important, but shooting you is on the top of my To Do list, even above Bigfoot sightings." She twohanded the gun she leveled at Zoe.

kindness_says January 30 2011, 18:40:59 UTC

...Not having any idea about the rest of this book, here was my thought:

MARGO/ZOE FEMSLASH? ANYONE? ANYONE?

myr_soleil January 30 2011, 20:37:23 UTC

Haha that was my first reaction too!

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dudski January 30 2011, 18:09:04 UTC

WIKIPEDIA SAYS SHE HAS WRITTEN OVER SEVENTY BOOKS. I CAN'T EVEN, WHAT THE HELL?

And the glasses, for real, WHO EVEN CARES? YOU ARE ON A BEACH. WHAT DO YOU NEED TO SEE?

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dudski January 30 2011, 18:14:16 UTC

She had contacts and one of them fell out in the crash, he had a pair of glasses that they took turns wearing because they had the same prescription. VERY IMPORTANT PLOT DETAILS OBVIOUSLY!!!

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katayla January 30 2011, 19:33:02 UTC

Am the only one who actually wasn't that annoyed by Gen? I mean, I get why people areand the afghan/Nintendo thing was very annoying, but I feel like it was always clear she was goodhearted under it all?

And, like, I was surprised I DIDN'T find Jackson's crush on Gen that creepy? That kind of thing is generally one of my biggest turned offs.

(Haha, I'm a "look on the bright side" person! I don't think I get the concept of discussing this book!)

kindness_says January 30 2011, 21:30:47 UTC

I wrote a whole long schpiel on one of the much earlier posts (because that was when I finished it) about it going uphill for me....

But definitely at first I was like, "I cannot even...I don't even...WHO ARE YOU???" and considered not going on... It seems like maybe a lot of people had better things to do and stopped reading before she could improve, like, at all. x_x