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elucrehI spent Saturday at Barnes and Noble, indulging a guilty pleasure.
I read flangsty teen chick novels.
Now, see the thing is, I
Good Lord, my little sister, when she was six, thought that in order to be normal she had to a)have a mad, passionate, violent love; b)stalk him and build shrines to him in her closet constructed mostly of his chewed gum; and c)keep this an absolutely dead secret, preferably by being as hostile towards him as possible in public. Come on!!!
And really, teen romance novels are the same. They impress upon the mind that all teenaged girls should notice and maintain clique status, worry if they're in the wrong one, believe themselves to be passionately and eternally in love, be betrayed by their best friend, etc. etc. etc. Admittedly, their extremes aren't quite as bad as Hey, Arnold!. And also, not nearly as many people read books as watch television (other favorite shows of my sister's, i. e. As Told By Ginger, which are the same level of bad-teachings as the novels but are TV shows, fall in between the novels and Hey, Arnold on my scale of scorn). But still, on principle, I have a number of enormous objections to them.
Nevertheless, I spent my Saturday reading the Princess Diaries series. Oddly enough, given the fact that the first six times I've picked it up (I do love the first movie) I dropped it like a hot potato, given how she starts the book, it did manage to make me laugh out loud three or four times. In six books. Definitely no Pratchett. But I was entertained enough to read all five or whatever of them.
And I do this, from time to time. I read the stupid novels that reinforce several things wrong with the way that high schools work and how psyches are formed...a week ago I read a book about a girl who calls on Jupiter to send her a boyfriend and Jupiter responds by sending Cupid to her school and, of course, in the end, she realises that the most popular boy in school isn't for her and she's longed, all along, to spend the rest of her life with the geek who's had a crush on her forever.
I read flangsty teen chick novels.
Now, see the thing is, I
Good Lord, my little sister, when she was six, thought that in order to be normal she had to a)have a mad, passionate, violent love; b)stalk him and build shrines to him in her closet constructed mostly of his chewed gum; and c)keep this an absolutely dead secret, preferably by being as hostile towards him as possible in public. Come on!!!
And really, teen romance novels are the same. They impress upon the mind that all teenaged girls should notice and maintain clique status, worry if they're in the wrong one, believe themselves to be passionately and eternally in love, be betrayed by their best friend, etc. etc. etc. Admittedly, their extremes aren't quite as bad as Hey, Arnold!. And also, not nearly as many people read books as watch television (other favorite shows of my sister's, i. e. As Told By Ginger, which are the same level of bad-teachings as the novels but are TV shows, fall in between the novels and Hey, Arnold on my scale of scorn). But still, on principle, I have a number of enormous objections to them.
Nevertheless, I spent my Saturday reading the Princess Diaries series. Oddly enough, given the fact that the first six times I've picked it up (I do love the first movie) I dropped it like a hot potato, given how she starts the book, it did manage to make me laugh out loud three or four times. In six books. Definitely no Pratchett. But I was entertained enough to read all five or whatever of them.
And I do this, from time to time. I read the stupid novels that reinforce several things wrong with the way that high schools work and how psyches are formed...a week ago I read a book about a girl who calls on Jupiter to send her a boyfriend and Jupiter responds by sending Cupid to her school and, of course, in the end, she realises that the most popular boy in school isn't for her and she's longed, all along, to spend the rest of her life with the geek who's had a crush on her forever.
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Date: 2005-02-20 11:26 pm (UTC)Just a drive-by to say that I so love that icon. I have a history of guilt associated with cupcakes too. Just one more thing Sirius and I have in common. ;)
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Date: 2005-02-24 03:35 pm (UTC)