Nightlight: A Parody of Twilight |  | Author: The Harvard Lampoon
Publisher: Constable
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 160
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Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5 x 0.6
ISBN: 1849013330
EAN: 9781849013338
Publication Date: November 3, 2009
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Belle Goose falls in love with the mysterious and sparkly Edwart Mullen. 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 hash browns untouched at lunch.
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 Twilight out May 17, 2010
E. A Solinas (MD USA)
The teen melodrama! The sparkling vampires! The self-indulgent wangst about nothing! The stalking! And of course, the thoroughly obnoxious heroine! Yeah, Stephenie Meyers' "Twilight" is prime parody fodder, especially since it sometimes seems like a parody of itself. One of those is the Harvard Lampoon's "Nightlight: A Parody," which is fairly entertaining but apparently has only a couple running gags to milk.
Our heroine: "Belle Goose: queen, warrior, chapter-book reader." She is A) interesting, B) smarter than everyone else, C) a man-magnet, D) super-mature and E) bewitchingly mysterious. At least, that's what she says.
And you know the drill: she deliberately "exiles" herself to her dad's home in Switchblade, and on her first day of school she encounters the pale, eerie Edwart Mullen. Due to several clues (saving her from a snowball! Possibly-changing eye color! Saving her from a Sega salesman!), she comes to the conclusion that he's a "vegetarian" (ie ketchup-eating) vampire... and not just a germaphobic dweeb obsessed with weather.
So Belle must get "perfect" Edwart to reveal himself to her so he can sweep her into his scrawny arms and make her his immortal chickie-boo. But the school nerd... er, vampire is so much "more worldly and more otherworldly" than Belle is. Can a hopeless dweeb (who probably isn't a vampire) find true love with a delusional egotist? Or will he be too icked out by having to touch a girl?
"Nightlight: A Parody" basically revolves around two barbed jokes. Edwart is a hopeless dweeb ("You don't think I'm a robot like the others, do you? Please Belle ... I ... I just couldn't take that"), and Belle lives in a fantasy world where she is the combined best of Mother Teresa, Audrey Hepburn, Marie Curie and Aphrodite (Belle "realizes" that the mailman is in love with her, along with "love letters" from the gas company and the IRS).
In fact, it milks those gags to the point where I wished they would introduce a few new jokes. Yeah, we get it: Belle Goose is only slightly more insane and unattractive than Bella Swan, and Edwart is a dork. Some new humor please?
Fortunately, the Lampoon people do manage to make the book funny anyway, with lots of weird non sequiturs (Belle regards dress clothes as "the parasitic enemy") and pokes at the original "Twilight" (Belle's parents can't even make cereal for themselves). The entire warped narrative is full of hilarious jabs like "Despite the fact that Italians are known for their tan skin and garlic-laden cuisine, I knew from my research that the most powerful vampire family had decided to live there forever."
It runs the two main jokes into the ground, but "Nightlight: A Parody" is a fun lump of "Twilight"-centric mockery. LEG CRAMP LEG CRAMP!
 for twilight fans with a sense of humour January 26, 2010
sassy28 (norfolk,england)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
i ordered night light after seeing it suggested on a twilight fan site and watching some fans have a fit about it saying its disrespectful of stephenie meyers work,i am a twilight fan but i also have no problem with there being a parody of it because lets face it i adore the books and films but can also see the funny side of them and the faults.night light was just a really enjoyable read they have the parody done to a t and it is well worth a read whether you like twilight or not.belle is so completely wrapped up in herself it is funny to see how much she misses and projects onto other people.the one thing i will say is it is a very short book so anyone expecting 300 pages or so may be disappointed
 Very disappointing January 15, 2010
Jennie (UK)
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
I have loved all the Twilight series and was looking forward to reading this book. There are a few negative reviews on amazon but as the majority were positive I just thought that the people who gave the book bad reviews must just be miserable people with no sense of humour! But no. I am very disappointed with this book, as expected the author totally takes the mickey out of the character's Bella and Edward but I am at chapter 6 now and have laughed only once. It is readable, but it is just not that funny. The only positive thing I can say is, I haven't given up on it yet.
Nightlite?!!! January 14, 2010
D. J. Davies (Merseyside, United Kingdom)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
The odd part is entertaining but for the majority it is incredibly silly/childish and very random to the point of confusion. The parody of the book/film of twilight is cleverly criticised and well wrote.
fish-talk December 29, 2009
Mathias Moe (Norway)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
whoa, first review. Here goes..
So, I'm quite satisified with the way it keeps with the innate fish-talk and the protagonist's "maturity" from the original series. I'm less so satisfied, with the absurd turns in the storyline. It's not my sort of comedy, but hey, if you've read Twilight, methinks you should read Nightlight.
I just think that Belle is more of an accurate representation of real-life teenagers.
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