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[syncope]

I just closed a tab that was a page on Henry Jenkins' website. My friends suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. I attempted to wade through that ponderous prose and just gave up and asked for a summary. Yet I kept the tab open...thinking I would read it? Idk.



Seriously, do I need to read the books? I am inclined to read them so I can negotiate the show from the proper perspective, but I hesitate as I was burnt on THAT OTHER VAMPIRE CRAPFEST TEEN SERIES. How bad are they, with Twilight as the gold standard?



Are there coms and junk yet? I just dumped all the ontds off my fl so I have room for new garbage coms I can scroll over.

Comments

[randomeliza.livejournal.com]

Ugh, seconding the part about the other books being better. Forbidden Game and Night World were, like, the obsessive literature of my early teenage years. They were totally my first foray into fandom - I RPG'd in the Night World universe over email listing when I was, like, 12. Not even kidding. But I hated the Vampire Diaries books at age 12, and was shocked as hell they made them into a TV series. I'm loving it, though. Sweet, sweet vampirelicious crack.

[zillahseye.livejournal.com]

I'm rereading Forbidden Game right now, *lol*. It cracks me up to see people flipping out SO BAD about how OMG TERRIBLE they are, though. As a YA and chick lit guilty pleasure reader from way back, I want to ask "Are you new?" As writing quality goes, LJ Smith is about the middle of that pack--and the things are twenty years old.