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I really liked DOON and loved "Bored of the Rings" (rereading the originals, I often think of the parody names), but since I've avoided this Twilight crap, I'll skip this one since I won't get the jokes.
Maybe pick it up in paperback for the laughs at the deliberately-bad prose; some of the lines in this excerpt are pretty funny. #nightlight
Hmm... I'm somewhat interested in reading this, but I barely know anything at all about the source material, so I don't know if many jokes will hit home. I'm also not even remotely interested in reading Twilight... maybe watching the movie would be enough. #nightlight
I have the same problem with this idea that I had with that Da Vinci Code parody that someone did a while ago.
A parody of bad style is funny, yes, but it's also bad style. After about ten pages, when the joke's grown cold, you're basically just reading another shitty novel. #nightlight
@bluehinter: Arruckus -- men call it Doon, the Dessert Planet. It is a sugar covered wasteland entirely devoid of entrees, patrolled by a terrifying species of giant pretzel. This savage world is the setting for an apocalyptic drama. On one side is the evil baron Vladimir Hardchargin -- ruthless, voracious, extremely fat. Opposing him: Pall Agamemnides, the teenager who may {or may not} be the messiah, the Kumquat Haagendasz. Pall's only allies are the planet's nomadic tribes, the fiercely religious, sweatsuit-wearing Freedmenmen. These forces clash in a deadly contest over Doon's one precious resource, a substance found nowhere else in the universe: the mind-altering liquid known as BEER. #nightlight
I don't know that this will do well. I think you have to know the source material to enjoy satire and I think the venn diagram of people who would appriciate this and those that like Twilight don't intersect much. Bored of the rings is another story. Geeks have been dissecting and poking fun at what they love for generations. #nightlight
@LittleDragon: come to the dark side Dragon. You can smell it... the smell of crisp paper, of leatherbound beasts of literary burden, and the sweet sultry sound of spines cracking upon opening a fresh new book. Join ussssssss #nightlight
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Maybe pick it up in paperback for the laughs at the deliberately-bad prose; some of the lines in this excerpt are pretty funny. #nightlight
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A parody of bad style is funny, yes, but it's also bad style. After about ten pages, when the joke's grown cold, you're basically just reading another shitty novel. #nightlight
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Granted it's only a parody of a couple scenes from Twilight rather than the entire book, but it has dragons! And Fisting! #nightlight
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You're forgetting "Doon," published in 1984.
Sadly, Harvard Lampoon's stuff has gone down considerably in quality since then. #nightlight
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I don't know that this will do well. I think you have to know the source material to enjoy satire and I think the venn diagram of people who would appriciate this and those that like Twilight don't intersect much. Bored of the rings is another story. Geeks have been dissecting and poking fun at what they love for generations. #nightlight
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Hee! I read that line in Movie Trailer guy voice. #nightlight
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Bad Dragon, no book.
Hi. My name is LittleDragon and I am a bookaholic.
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I could actually see that playing over Sarah Connor's time in the South American jungles... IF FOX HADN'T CANCELED THE DAMN SHOW.
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