Super Squee Me.

[Dual]

Hello, everybody. My name is Dual, AKA Fake Fang, AKA Crowley, AKA Mr. Kay, AKA Dr. And such.

 

Literature: A beautiful art form, unlike any other. Usually, it expresses an authors brilliant, geeky nature.

 

But sometimes...it goes bad.

 

In the past few years, crappy literature has been on a rise. The classics are dead, instead replaced with things like Twilight, Maximum Ride, Harry Potter. While these books may be fun to read to some, to others they're insults to literature, insults to an art form. It's like a five year old getting payed millions for his fingerpaint art. It's like a child playing, "Mary Had a Little Lamb," on his/her piano getting sent to Carnegie Hall. It's what happens when crappy authors, through the use of Mary Sue's, purple prose, and appeal to idiot teenagers, outsell literary masters who manage to write brilliant, witty, genius books (Yes, I used three words meaning the same thing) despite having alzheimers. It's a disgrace.

 

 

And it's bound to have a negative effect on the human psyche.

 

For one month, I'm going to be testing those negative effects. For one month, I'm going to do something no nerd has done before, something no nerd dares to do.

 

I'm going to Super Squee Me.

 

For one month, in the summer, I'm going to read one poorly written, fanservice driven, miserable pile of purple prose and Mary Sue's a day. For one month, I'm going to subject my mind to the worst conditions possible, do something incredibly painful and self destructive.

 

But it's ok. If I can save one squees intelligence-just one squee-it will all have been worth it. Even if I risk my own.

Throughout the course of this month I'm going to talk constantly with my psychologist, who will advise me in my mental cruci-fiction and tell me to pull out when the damage is irreversible. Hopefully, after the dreadful experience I'll be back to normal.

 

If I never return to the way I am right now, at this moment, well...I love you all. I just want you to know that. You've been great to me, and led me to accept my inert goodness. (I've recently joined the Good/Evil Alliance to help me deal with being good, and talked with my psychologist quite a bit. The 'rents don't know and, with any luck, never will.)

 

I'll be posting a daily journal. With any luck, I'll still be coherent.

 

Part of me doesn't want to do this. Well, actually, all of me doesn't want to do this. But I must. I must teach the masses the harm done by bad literature. Or else a good person will get hurt. I can't let that happen.

 

So...let's super squee me.

 

Books I have listed so far (Additions are loved. My sister's as much of a nerd as I am, so I don't know any bad books):

 

1.    Twilight

 

2.    The Angel Experiment

 

3.    Harry Potter Book One

 

4.    The Hunger Games

 

5.    Eragon

 

6.     New Moon

 

7.    Schools out-Forever

 

8.    The Chamber of Secrets

 

9.    Catching Fire

 

10.  Eldest

 

11.  Eclipse

 

12.  Prizoner of Azkaban

 

13.  Saving the World and Other Extreme sports

 

14.  Mockingjay

 

15.   Brisingr

 

16.  Breaking Dawn

 

17.  Fourth Maximum Ride

 

18.   Goblet of Fire

 

19.  ?

 

[Py]

Pretty much all I read is that squeeful stuff. I wouldn't say it's completely ruined my mind yet.

In defense to these sorts of books, just look at it this way: at least we're reading. We'll grow out of this kind of literature eventually, even though we may not be as brilliant as those smart enough to stay away from YA novels in the first place.

[Brandybuck]

NO!
Not the Hunger Games! The Hunger Games was predictable, trashy at times, and Katniss was a total Sue.
But dammit, they were entertaining and I'm standing by them.
Also...
Harry Potter may be poorly written, but as far as I can tell, lack of a decent vocabulary is the only flaw I find with Rowling.

And as far as awful books go, nothing sucks harder then Daniel X. Nothing.

[Doomy]

GOSSIP GIRL.

[Ovie! Ovie! Ovie! Oy! Oy! Oy!]

Was lame, I mean, really Dan? Vanessa again, really? It's like he's stuck in an infinite loop and she's just annoying.

>.> That's pretty gay isn't it?

[Contradiction]

XDDDDD

[Ovie! Ovie! Ovie! Oy! Oy! Oy!]

Shh, quit mocking me with those X and D's,

[Xuut]

Well I didn't know yo were Kay AND Dual...

But I read plenty of crappy books (and dear god, I like them >.> although some can be argued as good)

In defense of Sarah Dessen, her first one, This Summer has the chick realize her prince charming sucks ass and she needs to shut up and fix her own problems. Or at least I did when I read it... Granted this was a while ago. Not too bad in terms of writing. The rEst deserve to go here though.

Uh... Last PJO book. SHUT UP IT SUCKS. The rest are okay I guess but can be put here.

Aaaand, L.A Candy too. God I hated that book.

Charlie Bone series. I don't care if life hates you Charlie, YOU'RE A SUE DAMMIT. and the new books all suck anyways.

Vampire Academy. The second book gets better (you get actual character devlopment) but that's all. It goes down hill from there.

Why the hell do I like trashy books?

And if you go on FF.net's mobile version and look at the books section almost all the books there suck ass.

[Doomy]

I love Vampire Academy, simply because I relish it in all of its trashy, romance-y, sueness. :D

[Ovie! Ovie! Ovie! Oy! Oy! Oy!]

For a second I thought that said Vampire Diaries, and I was like, I kind of agree with that for the books. Then I read it again and realized my near horrendous error.

[Xuut]

I love it too.

But I mainly like trashy romance books.

So I try to remind myself that I also have good taste in books.

-Hugs "The Book Thief"-

[Doomy]

Nightworld books.

HORRIBLE TRASH. HORRIBLE.

And about vampires. It's absolutely perfect for this. If you can manage not to scream.

Worse than Twilight, by far.

[Ovie! Ovie! Ovie! Oy! Oy! Oy!]

Don't think I've ever read those, maybe I'll look into them,