Yes, but will it be as funny as Cleolinda's summaries?

[shipperx]

From EW.com:

For the first time in 40 years, The Harvard Lampoon will publish a parody novel, this time putting a tongue-in-cheek spin on Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling Twilight series. Random House’s Vintage Books plans to release Nightlight as a paperback original on Nov. 3, just in time for the Nov. 20 opening of the Twilight movie sequel New Moon. “‘Funny’ might get you a blog post these days, but it’s the Lampoon-level of satire that makes Nightlight worth every pseudo-bloodsucking, angst-ridden page,” says a Vintage press release. “Nightlight stakes at the heart of what makes Twilight tick…or, really, cuts to the core of it…. Brooding and hilarious, let Nightlight be your guide through the Twilight fandom that has eclipsed the mind of every teenager you have ever met.” The last Harvard Lampoon satirical novel, a J.R.R. Tolkien send-up titled Bored of the Rings, was published in 1969.

According to the Vintage release, Nightlight follows a “pale and klutzy” girl named Belle Goose, who moves to Switchblade, Oregon, and meets Edwart Mullen, a “super-hot computer nerd with zero interest in girls.” The vampire-obsessed Belle becomes convinced Edwart is one of the undead after witnessing events she considers otherworldly (”Edwart leaves his Tater Tots™ untouched at lunch! Edwart saves her from a flying snowball!”).

 

Comments

[jerrymcl89.livejournal.com]

Talk about the low-hanging fruit of parody.

[silverusagi]

I don't think anything can top Cleolinda, LOL.

[zanthinegirl.livejournal.com]

Cleolinda set that bar too high! Still, if there was ever anything that called out for parody...

[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

This should be fun! I had the old Nat Lamp parodies - I wonder if they're still around here somewhere?

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

I must still have my copy of Bored of the Rings somewhere around here... and I should digitize my old NatLampoon album (so old it's got John Belushi in the cast)...

[rahirah]

I thought Bored of the Rings was absolutely hilarious when I was thirteen. Not so sure it would stand up to a re-read.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

More funny than "The Secret Diaries"?

Legolas is still the prettiest. Hee.

[rahirah]

Hmm. Hard to say. It was certainly longer...

I remember BotR being pretty... well, sophomoric humor. Frodo Baggins = Frito Bugger, Gandalf Greyhame = Goodgulf Greyteeth, etc. Like I said, hilarious at thirteen...

[cy-girl.livejournal.com]

I wish them luck parodying something that's so ridiculious already.