American Psychettes
James Reyes fashion show. May 20 & 22, 4pm, Shangri-La Makati., originally uploaded by 160507.
I’d been hearing a lot about the Gossip Girl novels, so I tried reading one. Yikes, this is what young girls are reading now, and to think we were thrilled every time Nancy Drew held hands with Ned Nickerson. And Nancy was 18, the legal age. The first Gossip Girl novel was so cruel, I read another one. Now I think it’s brilliant, the way the much-maligned American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis was brilliant. No, I haven’t seen the TV series, and I’m told it is to the Cecily von Ziegesar books as Wal Mart is to Takashimaya. True, 95% of movie/TV adaptations are to their literary sources as Wal Mart is to Takashimaya, and I know some GG-TV addicts.
No Country For Young Women in Emotional Weather Report, today in the Star.
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May 16th, 2008 at 11:24
I’m curious about this Gossip Girl stuff, because I’m interested in the lifestyle (islands for the kids, I want) and the bitch fights and schemes (I find guilty pleasure in “Mean Girls”).
But I think I’ll pass. Saw the TV version, and the kids remind me of my high school classmates whom I’d rather not meet in in this lifetime ever again. High school is just too painful to relive. (Why can’t there be sassy, rich, and manipulative pimple-faced nerds?)
May 16th, 2008 at 14:37
I would like to ask something which is not related to the topic if it’s ok? I have been studying the French language on my own and I want to read books that are in French. Do you know any good French books that I can read? Another thing, do you know any good French movies that I could watch? Thanks a lot !
May 17th, 2008 at 19:02
Unfortunately I only speak restaurant French so all I can recommend are menus. Why don’t you find a French translation of an English book that you know very well? That would be a good exercise, I think. There are lots of excellent French movies, and they’re everywhere, thanks to globalisation. You could start with Jean Renoir: The Rules of the Game and Grand Illusion.
May 19th, 2008 at 03:20
Gossip Girl, the tv series, is my one and only guilty pleasure. Tsk tsk :) The first season finale titled Much ‘I Do’ About Nothing will air this Monday (May 19) in the US.
May 19th, 2008 at 23:08
Yes I watch Gossip Girl too (count me in as an addict)….though it’s for Blake Lively and Taylor Momsen (wasn’t she the little girl in The Grinch??? So sic Bantay Bata on me!!!)
It’s a guilty pleasure in the way much catty contemporary teen fiction is all about.
May 20th, 2008 at 00:19
“Guilty pleasure” is an oxymoron. Don’t be guilty, enjoy it!