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Nightlight: A Parody

Description

About three things I was absolutely certain. First, Edwart was most likely my soul mate, maybe. Second, there was a vampire part of him–which I assumed was wildly out of his control–that wanted me dead. And third, I unconditionally, irrevocably, impenetrably, heterogeneously, gynecologically, and disreputably wished he had kissed me.

And thus Belle Goose falls in love with the mysterious and sparkly Edwart Mullen in the Harvard Lampoon’s hilarious send-up of Twilight.

Pale and klutzy, Belle arrives in Switchblade, Oregon looking for adventure, or at least an undead classmate. She soon discovers Edwart, a super-hot computer nerd with zero interest in girls. After witnessing a number of strange events–Edwart leaves his tater tots untouched at lunch! Edwart saves her from a flying snowball!–Belle has a dramatic revelation: Edwart is a vampire. But how can she convince Edwart to bite her and transform her into his eternal bride, especially when he seems to find girls so repulsive?

Complete with romance, danger, insufficient parental guardianship, creepy stalker-like behavior, and a vampire prom, Nightlight is the uproarious tale of a vampire-obsessed girl, looking for love in all the wrong places.

Reviews

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-09-04
Summary: "Nightlight totally Nails it!"

Nightlight is the best parody of Twilight that I have read. The other two, New Moan and Twilite don't come close.MAJOR SPOILER ALERT AHEAD! Harvard Lampoon gets Bella and Charlie perfectly,Edward they make a complete nerd who hates girls and is glued to his computer. The duo is perfect as Belle becomes the authoritive one and Edwart is the girl. There were a few references I didn't get but 99% I got and laughed out loud to the point where my family would come in my room and look at me oddly.Good, short book, read it in two hours, twilight fans might not find it funny, haters will love it, I'm inbetween and love it as well. Actually I read it so many times now that I have to put it on a shelf so I don't overread it and end up selling it away or something. Thats how great this book is, trust me!

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-09-03
Summary: "nightlight"

extreamly funny and i recommend to all twilight luvers and h8rs alike, although it fell apart a little at the end, its woth the read

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Rating: 2 / 5
Date: 2010-08-22
Summary: "Had a good foundation, but looses it"

When I picked up this book, I was ecstatic. By the time I read the last page (after many breaks in between, a month later), I was board.

The one thing this book gets really right is poking fun at Bella's self-importance and general inability to care about anyone but herself. For this alone, I gave the book two stars. But for the most part, the book relies on cheap gags and lame, obvious one-lines along the lines of "Oh, but there's no such thing as werewolves!" For a parody of a book that has so much worth parodying, that's the best the Harvard Lampoon is capable of?

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-08-13
Summary: "I Couldn't stop laughing!"

I read this book in one day, and though i am not a twilight fan, and think that the books have gone too far, and that the movies are boring (no offence twilight lovers). This was deffiantly worth reading, at first the only reason I picked it up was because it was making fun of the twilight series, so I figyard I have to read this, but it was also a very funny book.
The only way you would get most of the book is if you read the first book (which I read part of it) or If you had a friend that told you everything there is to know about the book (Which is what ruined the sires for me) but also I believe that the author took it too far (now having the book about the geil that was in the storie but was never a major charactor, considering she died).
Weathor you are a fan of twilight or a hater of it, or you have no idea what it is (Which means, you 1)just arrived from another planet or 2)live in a hole somewhere with no tv or communication to the outside world.) I deffinatly recomend this book, because it was very very funny, and was twisted to where things about the charators was so oppisite it made it hilarious. This was one of the best book I read, and everyone else I know who has read it, Weather they were a twilight fan or not, has laughed throught the hole book non stop.

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Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2010-08-06
Summary: "Such enjoyable silliness..."

You have to love Twilight to enjoy the ridiculousness that this serves up. If, however, you have pored over your copy of Twilight enough to win a Twilight trivia contest, this parody will crack you up. Every flaw of Bella Swan is brought to light in Bella Goose. The extreme nerdiness of Edward Cullen is minutely explored in Edwart Mullen. I read it while swinging in my hammock in the backyard. My neighbors considered having me committed, as I giggled my way through the pages for an hour or two.