since im home for thanksgiving and rather bored at home, i decided to pick up one of my little sister's preteen novels and read it for shits and giggles. ok, i read two of them. and let me just tell you. i am appalled that there are publishing houses that acutally let 12 year olds like my sister read these things.
in the worse of the two, the entire plot of the story revolves around these four spoiled rich girls at some WASP-y boarding school in upstate new york where all they do is smoke pot, spike their lemonade, hook up with other WASP-y guys and have orgies in hotel rooms. one of the girls even hooks up with her teacher. much designer name dropping is present throughout the book. as in, "as she lifted her head out of the toilet bowl, she wiped vomit from her mouth with the sleeve of her black Juicy Couture tie-front cardigan."
my sister can't be reading this!! neither can her friends! i mean, just last year, she asked me what a coochie was! and to make it worse, when i came home, she had just finished reading that book for the SECOND time!
i tell you, the next generation is going down.
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