Emily's Enchanted Guardians

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Well, I came across this little gem in a bookstore while searching for a gift. Please, let me indulge you and write the first two paragraphs. I kid you not, this is compeletely verbatim. If you feel the need to shoot yourself in the head after reading this, feel free. I almost did.

"It was the beginning of summer holidays, and the early morning sun was just peeking between the curtains in Emily's bedroom. While still under the covers, Emily stretches deciding whether or not it was too early to get up. Gently putting her warm feet over the side of her bed she pads across the floor to the window. Here, she says good morning to the day, rests her elbows on the window-sill and wonders, "Now is this a sea, woods or garden day?" It does not matter where her Mother decides to go, for Emily has her special friends in all of these magical places. You see her playmates live in the mysterious world of the faeries.

Emily is a tiny little girl with the largest brown eyes that you could ever imagine. Her eyes twinkle with green sparkles whenever she laughs. Instead of walking, she skips and twirls wherever she goes. She runs like the wind, although not quite fast enough to keep up with the faeries. Emily is happy and loves just about everything. She has the most fun when she is wearing her yellow rain boots. She calls them her "Yellie wellies". Emily loves the boots because, in them, she can play outside when it is really wet. The garden is her secret place where she spends hours in her magical world of faeries, elves and pixies"

After reading this, I proceeded to vomit uncontrollably and was forced to purchase the book because I had ruined it. I attempted to give it to my friend as a joke gift, but he promptly returned it to me upon seeing the front cover (a picture of a small child giggling happily with a "faerie" in her hand). So now I'm stuck with this retarded piece of shit rotting everything in my house that it touches. Seriously, I can't believe someone published this. I suppose an extremely small child might be able to handle this sort of syrupy bullshit, but oh no, don't be fooled. I found this in the "adult non-fiction" section. ADULT NON-FICTION. WHAT THE FUCK. I still haven't been able to make it past the first page without emptying my stomach. Yellie fucking wellies.

I find myself depressed that this sickening monstrosity has been allowed on shelves, therefore I write this in the Life Sucks section.
 
or you could read past the first page and perhaps find out what the book is about. Maybe its not all happy shmappy. Maybe it has some adult like twists or mentalitys.
 
Well, I did flip through the pages afterwards and after about number 5 every single one of them is titled with words such as "Compassion" "Humility" and "Generosity" in extremely large cursive letters.
 
yes... we cant have those things as adults. What the hell was i thinking? Perhaps you should read the book. Maybe it fell into your hands for a reason. Who knows.. you may learn something.
 
Well I figured I'd take your advice, so I read the book. Unfortunately, it didn't have any sort of theme, moral, or life lesson, so I didn't learn anything. Instead, they went on to explain about how each of the faeries and pixies that Emily played with had a name like "Ecstasy" and "Dance" and the ones I listed above. Turkey dinner is ruined. Thanks kre8or :sad:
 
It was quite the unfortunate lapse in judgement. I guess I thought maybe it was just some sort of a metaphorical title that had nothing to do with the actual content. You know... because it was in the Adult Non-Fiction section. Boy was I wrong :thumbsdn:
 
Isn't it scary what can get published? The Best Sellers List is a joke, and definitely not a guideline for good reading.

And then there's the incredibly talented John Kennedy Toole, who attempted to have his book "A Confederacy of Dunces" published without success. It was only after he committed suicide and his mother brought it to the attention of a publisher that the book was released to the public, winning Toole a Pulitzer Prize posthumously.

That's just sad.
 
Maybe, just maybe, you are supposed to take from that book the understanding of childlike innoccence, whereby the simple things make you happy, and you do not need material things to pass the time when you have your own imagination?
 
Or maybe, in the real world, you're supposed to throw it away or give it to a book store. Childlike innocence has no place in this world. Sadly not even for most children.
 
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