Okay... I haven't posted for a while. So I've saved up all the best and the worst of the last month or so to unload on you, my faithful reader.
Gossip Girl... a series of books by Cecily von Ziegesar. I suppose it also refers to a newish TV series based on these books. I would like to add that I have not seen a single episode of the TV show. I am telling you this so that you know I am coming from a clean slate.
The book I picked up was called It Had To Be You, the prequel to the series. Now, teen girl boy-and-popularity-based books are not my normal fare, but I thought I ought to branch out and see what was out there, and what was popular.
I am so sad. So sad that such books exists - and more sad because they are so popular. That book was a piece of crap. I didn't bother finishing it, I just couldn't. Can you say, "Hello, I'm here to tell you that life is about finding someone to have sex with and love you and that's all that matters, especially when you're in high school, and true love with him/her lasts forever, oh, and maybe let's go buy some clothes to fit on our perfect bodies, especially some lingerie." I thought Twilight was sad because it was all about nonsense (perfect and eternal love to die for while you're a teenager)... but Gossip Girl is just worse. Soft teenage porn. I can understand why it's popular. Titillating. Unrequited love. Requited love. Guy and girl mix-ups. Perfection. Being rich. Wildly dysfunctional families. BUT despite its popularity, it's certainly not literature, and it certainly has NOTHING I repeat nothing to help anyone understand the world, grow up, expand your mind, understand life.
Or maybe that's not the point of young adult literature anymore?
*tears falling*... okay, they're not really falling... but maybe they should be.
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