Probably because I play too many video games and watch more T.V than I probably should I half expected and hoped that Rasselas would end up being something like The Prince of Persia. I know, I know… anyone that is actually reading this is probably thinking: “come on Tom, just because it’s set in that general area and has a similar setting doesn’t mean it’s going to be a wild adventure to save princesses and kingdoms”. That’s fair enough, but can I really be blamed? For as early as I can remember I have been bombarded with this magnificent stereotype over and over again with things like: Aladdin, Prince of Persia, Ali Baba, The Magic of Schehrazade, Arabian Nights, and countless other tales to tickle the imagination. I realize that this is sort of a rant but I feel like I need to say something. For the past couple weeks the class has been under attack from Twilight fans. I don’t know anything about twilight except that a friend recommended it because it was a vampire story, I got about 5 pages into it and came across a page long paragraph that describes one of the characters sweaters. It was too much to bear. I had already put the book down for good before I learned that it was a teen vampire love story of the forbidden Romeo and Juliet flavor.
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Has anyone read “Nightlight: A Parody” from The Harvard Lampoon? It’s about a girl that falls for a computer geek because she thinks that he has some undead qualities. If my copies of Dexter don’t get in before next week I think that I might have some Christmas reading material.
Twilight New Moon Plot from collegehumor.com:
