How college is shocking for sheltered girls. This book isn't quite satire, it isn't quite commentary, isn't remotely insightful, but it is awfully long. as the secretary from Ferris Bueller put it, a cast of "sportos, motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, waistoids, dweebies, and d!ckheads." Along with rednecks, the new england rich, and a smattering of other cellophane-thin stereotypes. And a whole host of minor supporting characters. The nerdy reporter for the school paper The big dumb jock who's smarter than he realizes The main protagonist, the archetypical smart girl who's better looking than she realizes. And I'm pretty sure I've seen all of these before, in EVERY movie and book about "college" ever produced. You should probably avoid making all your characters painfully simple cardboard cutouts of actual people. And people will still buy my over-long, thinly-developed, poorly-constructed tirade against 'kids these days.' " and therefore I can write whatever I want.
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