shitlist

[furyofvissarion]

I'm inaugurating a new tag: shitlist. Last week I attempted to read Valerie Frankel's YA novel Fringe Girl; it sounded like the type of easy-read fluff (uncool girl uses the lessons learned in social studies class to orchestrate a revolution in the school social order) that is right up my alley at the moment.

But no! I got as far as page 2 before I had to restrain myself from hurling the book across the subway car into the head of another innocent commuter. Behold:

Where I was "decent," my friend Eli (short for Elizabeth) Stomp fell on the exotic end of the attractiveness spectrum, with jet-black hair, mysterious dark brown eyes, red lips. Her ghostly pallor and rail-thin body gave her a certain (granted, Chinese) vampirish air--the possible explanation for why boys seemed to reel back in fear of her rather than assuming a rightful, worshipful posture in her presence.

Fuck right off, Valerie Frankel. THAT SHIT AIN'T CUTE.

Comments

[sarrabellum.livejournal.com]

UGH.

[sdn.livejournal.com]

yikes. also: here (http://www.valeriefrankel.com/).

[mystickeeper.livejournal.com]

WTF.

[rosabel.livejournal.com]

Shit-list sounds good. I might have to steal that for my journal. (I just remembered that you left a comment there! Geez, I have forgotten to update...)

"Attractiveness spectrum" and Eli being on the 'exotic' side? Jebus.
And when I re-read that part, I wasn't sure whether I was supposed to think that Elizabeth is Chinese, or whether the narrator thinks that looking like a mysterious, ghostly visage with jet-black hair is supposed to be something to connect with being Chinese. Either way... wrong.

[liseuse.livejournal.com]

Wow, there is so much wrong with that that I do not even want to start. Ack! I admire your restraint!

[wrdnrd]

OMG! The Chinese!! I must reel back in fear!!!

Good for you for not perpetrating acts of bookish violence on public transit.