{"id":1082,"date":"2012-12-11T20:13:41","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T01:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2013-12-13T14:13:18","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T19:13:18","slug":"my-nefarious-plan-to-get-movie-loving-teenagers-to-read-endymion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=1082","title":{"rendered":"My Nefarious Plan to Get Movie-loving Teenagers to Read Endymion"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am not a teacher. But if I were…<\/em><\/p>\n

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Twilight<\/em>, right? Vampires. You ever read Dracula<\/em>? You know, the book about the good girl and the dangerous new bad-boy in town? She’s all set to get married to this boring clerk dude who’s always away on business and then this guy shows up in town and starts bothering her rich best friend and then they like… well, no spoilers.<\/p>\n

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Another book like that? Frankenstein<\/em>. Totally. Like, the monster. Remember Anakin at the end of Episode 3<\/a>? Stolen from an old movie version of this. It\u2019s about this lonely guy who nobody likes ’cause he looks weird, but actually he\u2019s really strong and smart and just has some parent problems. You should read it. Or, you know what? Download the app<\/a>. You can choose what happens!<\/p>\n

Frankenstein<\/em> was written by a girl, BTW. When she was like 18. She was on European vacation with her boyfriend (who her older sister was totally in love with), this handsome Italian dude (who also wrote a story about a vampire), and this way hot lord who was always getting into trouble for his sexy lifestyle when he wasn\u2019t fighting in revolutions. But the weather sucked, so it was just her and the boys stuck in a big old house with nothing to do.<\/p>\n

You know who else she and her boyfriend were friends with? That John Keats guy. Wait, \"\"you don\u2019t know about Keats? Didn\u2019t you see Bright Star<\/em>? It\u2019s, like, the saddest story ever. Q from Skyfall<\/em> is in it,\u00a0and Sweet Pea from Sucker Punch<\/em>. He\u2019s buried in Rome, right by that pyramid in Assassin\u2019s Creed<\/em>\u00a0where you get into those catacombs.<\/p>\n

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You should check out\u00a0Endymion<\/em>. It\u2019s about this country boy who dreams about this girl and then goes on this adventure to find her and then it turns out she\u2019s\u2026 well, no spoilers.<\/p>\n

Yes, I know teenagers aren’t idiots. Yes, I know there are many very clever, highly-literate, and remarkably well-read kids in school as we speak. But still. Sucker Punch.<\/em><\/p>\n

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