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"Stacy's Senior Year" by Parker (slutty bdsm) 10, 10, 2
"Stacy's Senior Year" by Parker. Guest review by BillyG (hayden@mindless.com). First, this offering by Parker, "Stacy's Senior Year," is a strong story, even compelling. Unfortunately, so was Hitler and Charles Manson. Technically, it's a well-crafted bit of writing centered around a strong plot. Well, it starts out strong but quickly reaches a plateau and then never progresses. It's a black story about equally murky people who live lives of deep, resentful anger and thrill only to the unceasing denigration of others. The characters are all caricatures - exaggerations of human failings and without redemption. The women are either drop-deal gorgeous and totally narcissistic or are short, squat, fat toads. The men are either faceless, muscle-bound behemoths on the football team or are skinny, pimply, four-eyed nerds. In the 350K bytes (>60,000 words) of this novella, there is not one healthy, admirable, attractive person. This quickly became a dreary and off- putting landscape of vengeful and angry dysfunction. The story line centers around revenge. Over-the-top revenge. For all the times that inadequate, nerdy guys have felt put down by cheerleader- attractive, vein and spiteful bitches, this story by Parker provides the vehicle for a seeming unending sequence of excess, all in the name of getting even. That the magnitude and character of the revenge is so extraordinarily disproportionate to the offense never surfaces as an issue. Indeed, it serves as no more than a justification for exorbitance. Stacy, the prototypical haughty bitch, is blackmailed by the nerd kingdom. Face is everything and to save that, she's got to do whatever she's told. That goes so far beyond the personal sexual gratification of the nerds, it quickly passes through unlikely and mind-boggling into the land of shameful excess. With mild fascination, I read the first fifteen or twenty percent of the book. Then with mindful determination bred of duty, I read the next ten or fifteen percent. At this point it was clear I was on a plateau of malediction characterized by a slowly moving muddy stream of slur, disparagement and invective abuse. When I didn't think it could get any worse, it got worse. This is embittered stuff of the first magnitude. Stacy must fuck 50, then 55, then 65 and finally 66 of her school mates, to include at least one woman and at least one teacher. Why not 500? After no notable conclusion, the story stops. There's no literary ending; there's just a place where Parker grew weary and stopped the hateful story. I suppose for the resentfully angry and embittered fans of this genre, this might loom as a major work. If nothing else, it served to underline the gratitude that I live in a different world. Ratings for "Stacy's Senior Year" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot & character): 10 (A strong story easily disliked) BillyG (appeal to reviewer): 3 (A clear reflection of my bias) |