Everyone’s going to link to this, and so am I. Check out Mighty God King Versus His Adolescent Reading Habits, Part One and Part Two.
I’ll be honest: I read and loved (or at least liked) quite a few of the books/series that he’s poking fun at. I laughed my damned fool head off nonetheless. Relax, it’s funny. (I’ll add a language warning, though. The F-word makes an appearance, and so on.)
There’s one modern ringer at the tail end of Part Two. I won’t spoil the surprise, but consider yourself fairly warned.
EDIT: Well, naturally the site goes down within hours of this post going up. That’ll teach me to, you know, post stuff in my journal. Le sigh.
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And as a likely result of said popularity, both links go to a “this account has been suspended” page. Ugh.
@Kylanath – Yep. This week has, so far, sucked spectacularly. AWESOME.
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