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Laugh-out-loud funny. --The Book Bag
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A brilliantly biting parody of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight saga from the bestselling Harvard Lampoon.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a must-have for any Twilight fan. I read it in one day - very funny! Would definitely recommend to other Stephenie Meyer fans!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I'm a huge fan of the Twilight series, and was looking forward to reading this parody...and I wasn't disappointed. It's an absolutely brilliant read - very, very funny and most importantly it is closely aligned to the original Twilight book. Highly recommended!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The teen melodrama! The sparkling vampires! The self-indulgent wangst about nothing! The stalking! And of course, the thoroughly obnoxious heroine! Yeah, Stephenie Meyers' "Twilight" is prime parody fodder, especially since it sometimes seems like a parody of itself. One of those is the Harvard Lampoon's "Nightlight: A Parody," which is fairly entertaining but apparently has only a couple running gags to milk.
Our heroine: "Belle Goose: queen, warrior, chapter-book reader." She is A) interesting, B) smarter than everyone else, C) a man-magnet, D) super-mature and E) bewitchingly mysterious. At least, that's what she says.
And you know the drill: she deliberately "exiles" herself to her dad's home in Switchblade, and on her first day of school she encounters the pale, eerie Edwart Mullen. Due to several clues (saving her from a snowball! Possibly-changing eye color! Saving her from a Sega salesman!), she comes to the conclusion that he's a "vegetarian" (ie ketchup-eating) vampire... and not just a germaphobic dweeb obsessed with weather.
So Belle must get "perfect" Edwart to reveal himself to her so he can sweep her into his scrawny arms and make her his immortal chickie-boo. But the school nerd... er, vampire is so much "more worldly and more otherworldly" than Belle is. Can a hopeless dweeb (who probably isn't a vampire) find true love with a delusional egotist? Or will he be too icked out by having to touch a girl?
"Nightlight: A Parody" basically revolves around two barbed jokes. Edwart is a hopeless dweeb ("You don't think I'm a robot like the others, do you? Please Belle ... I ... I just couldn't take that"), and Belle lives in a fantasy world where she is the combined best of Mother Teresa, Audrey Hepburn, Marie Curie and Aphrodite (Belle "realizes" that the mailman is in love with her, along with "love letters" from the gas company and the IRS).
In fact, it milks those gags to the point where I wished they would introduce a few new jokes. Yeah, we get it: Belle Goose is only slightly more insane and unattractive than Bella Swan, and Edwart is a dork. Some new humor please?
Fortunately, the Lampoon people do manage to make the book funny anyway, with lots of weird non sequiturs (Belle regards dress clothes as "the parasitic enemy") and pokes at the original "Twilight" (Belle's parents can't even make cereal for themselves). The entire warped narrative is full of hilarious jabs like "Despite the fact that Italians are known for their tan skin and garlic-laden cuisine, I knew from my research that the most powerful vampire family had decided to live there forever."
It runs the two main jokes into the ground, but "Nightlight: A Parody" is a fun lump of "Twilight"-centric mockery. LEG CRAMP LEG CRAMP!
Our heroine: "Belle Goose: queen, warrior, chapter-book reader." She is A) interesting, B) smarter than everyone else, C) a man-magnet, D) super-mature and E) bewitchingly mysterious. At least, that's what she says.
And you know the drill: she deliberately "exiles" herself to her dad's home in Switchblade, and on her first day of school she encounters the pale, eerie Edwart Mullen. Due to several clues (saving her from a snowball! Possibly-changing eye color! Saving her from a Sega salesman!), she comes to the conclusion that he's a "vegetarian" (ie ketchup-eating) vampire... and not just a germaphobic dweeb obsessed with weather.
So Belle must get "perfect" Edwart to reveal himself to her so he can sweep her into his scrawny arms and make her his immortal chickie-boo. But the school nerd... er, vampire is so much "more worldly and more otherworldly" than Belle is. Can a hopeless dweeb (who probably isn't a vampire) find true love with a delusional egotist? Or will he be too icked out by having to touch a girl?
"Nightlight: A Parody" basically revolves around two barbed jokes. Edwart is a hopeless dweeb ("You don't think I'm a robot like the others, do you? Please Belle ... I ... I just couldn't take that"), and Belle lives in a fantasy world where she is the combined best of Mother Teresa, Audrey Hepburn, Marie Curie and Aphrodite (Belle "realizes" that the mailman is in love with her, along with "love letters" from the gas company and the IRS).
In fact, it milks those gags to the point where I wished they would introduce a few new jokes. Yeah, we get it: Belle Goose is only slightly more insane and unattractive than Bella Swan, and Edwart is a dork. Some new humor please?
Fortunately, the Lampoon people do manage to make the book funny anyway, with lots of weird non sequiturs (Belle regards dress clothes as "the parasitic enemy") and pokes at the original "Twilight" (Belle's parents can't even make cereal for themselves). The entire warped narrative is full of hilarious jabs like "Despite the fact that Italians are known for their tan skin and garlic-laden cuisine, I knew from my research that the most powerful vampire family had decided to live there forever."
It runs the two main jokes into the ground, but "Nightlight: A Parody" is a fun lump of "Twilight"-centric mockery. LEG CRAMP LEG CRAMP!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Amazing
It is a truly funny book, I expect your sides will be splitting by the time you have read the first page!! The only bad thing is there is not more!!
Published 16 months ago by Wren
for twilight fans with a sense of humour
i ordered night light after seeing it suggested on a twilight fan site and watching some fans have a fit about it saying its disrespectful of stephenie meyers work,i am a twilight... Read more
Published on 26 Jan 2010 by sassy28
Very disappointing
I have loved all the Twilight series and was looking forward to reading this book. There are a few negative reviews on amazon but as the majority were positive I just thought that... Read more
Published on 15 Jan 2010 by Jennie
Nightlite?!!!
The odd part is entertaining but for the majority it is incredibly silly/childish and very random to the point of confusion. Read more
Published on 14 Jan 2010 by D. Davies
fish-talk
whoa, first review. Here goes..
So, I'm quite satisified with the way it keeps with the innate fish-talk and the protagonist's "maturity" from the original series. Read more
So, I'm quite satisified with the way it keeps with the innate fish-talk and the protagonist's "maturity" from the original series. Read more
Published on 29 Dec 2009 by Mathias Moe
boooring!!
this is one of the most boring books i have ever read; and i read a lot of books. about 3/4 of the book, i wanted it to be over; it was liike torture. Read more
Published on 7 Dec 2009 by Gennarolucci
Rubbish
Complete rubbish. I am a twilight fan, but thought this might be amusing to read. It wasn't! nothing funny about it at all. completely boring and badly written. wouldn't recommend.
Published on 11 Nov 2009 by Mrs. N. Simpson
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