Vampire Crack Odyssey!
Okay, vampires are fun. Most of us around here can attest to that.
And while I will also willingly admit that Buffy (for example) never failed to serve up its fair share of the crazy-ass, at least there always seemed to be a method to that level of madness. (Even an academic one at times.)
Not to be outdone, however, I think The Twilight Saga has taken to growing crops of undiluted Crazy-Ass in its basement and freebasing nightly. That is, if what I've heard about what happens in the next three books of that series is any indication.
As I mentioned earlier in the summer, I read Twilight and was not overly impressed. I still haven't read the others, but thanks to cleolinda, I no longer have to. She swears she's not making this stuff up!
It seems that the only book I ever really needed to read was the first one. After that, just checking out the following summaries seemed to be enough. (Plus I probably enjoyed these better, and didn't even have to slog through what was probably 2,000+ pages of mind-numbing teen angst.)
1) There's the summary of thoughts on all that is Sparkly in Twilight.
2) Followed by a play-by-play of the suicidal tendencies and all-around wolfery in New Moon.
3) And another running commentary on the triangle-o-dripping-angst of Eclipse.
4) Which brings us to the coup de grâce of the recently released Breaking Dawn which, unless what is written in the following posts is an absolute set of boldface lies, is so filled with Crazy and Absolute WTF-ery that I can't even put it into my own words. It's also broken up into three "books" - because Bella's POV is no longer enough to convey the unadulterated wacky that these novels have to offer:
- Book One, which I can't quite decide if it's a twu luv romance or a really bizarre cautionary tale.
- Book Two, in which Spaceball 1 literally goes to plaid. We've entered the land of searing squicky-ness, crack-smoking WTF-ery, and über-long chapter titles.
- And Book Three, which . . . man! Isn't up yet! What's funny is I'm probably more anxious to read the resulting snark than most people were to get the actual book! Check back later!
ETA: AH! There it is! And even more cracktastic than I could have imagined. Now with VAMPYRE NINJA ACTION!!!ZOMG!!! and more unsettling squick than you can shake a stick at!
Honestly, though. Some of this stuff is *majorly* disturbing. I know I'm not their mom, or anything, but I'm not sure how I feel about my teenage students reading these! Especially the last one. (Worse, how in the world are they going to make a movie out of this?!)
*shudders*
And while I will also willingly admit that Buffy (for example) never failed to serve up its fair share of the crazy-ass, at least there always seemed to be a method to that level of madness. (Even an academic one at times.)
Not to be outdone, however, I think The Twilight Saga has taken to growing crops of undiluted Crazy-Ass in its basement and freebasing nightly. That is, if what I've heard about what happens in the next three books of that series is any indication.
As I mentioned earlier in the summer, I read Twilight and was not overly impressed. I still haven't read the others, but thanks to cleolinda, I no longer have to. She swears she's not making this stuff up!
It seems that the only book I ever really needed to read was the first one. After that, just checking out the following summaries seemed to be enough. (Plus I probably enjoyed these better, and didn't even have to slog through what was probably 2,000+ pages of mind-numbing teen angst.)
1) There's the summary of thoughts on all that is Sparkly in Twilight.
2) Followed by a play-by-play of the suicidal tendencies and all-around wolfery in New Moon.
3) And another running commentary on the triangle-o-dripping-angst of Eclipse.
4) Which brings us to the coup de grâce of the recently released Breaking Dawn which, unless what is written in the following posts is an absolute set of boldface lies, is so filled with Crazy and Absolute WTF-ery that I can't even put it into my own words. It's also broken up into three "books" - because Bella's POV is no longer enough to convey the unadulterated wacky that these novels have to offer:
- Book One, which I can't quite decide if it's a twu luv romance or a really bizarre cautionary tale.
- Book Two, in which Spaceball 1 literally goes to plaid. We've entered the land of searing squicky-ness, crack-smoking WTF-ery, and über-long chapter titles.
- And Book Three, which . . . man! Isn't up yet! What's funny is I'm probably more anxious to read the resulting snark than most people were to get the actual book! Check back later!
ETA: AH! There it is! And even more cracktastic than I could have imagined. Now with VAMPYRE NINJA ACTION!!!ZOMG!!! and more unsettling squick than you can shake a stick at!
Honestly, though. Some of this stuff is *majorly* disturbing. I know I'm not their mom, or anything, but I'm not sure how I feel about my teenage students reading these! Especially the last one. (Worse, how in the world are they going to make a movie out of this?!)
*shudders*