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** In the same vein, ''[[The Zombie Survival Guide]]'' was ostensibly a humor book, parodying extremely serious survival guides. But by about the second chapter you realise that Brooks is '''absolutely''' serious about surviving ''real zombies''. Zombies that ''he made up''. It's filled with numerous [[Take That]] shots against other zombie works, for being "unrealistic" when they are '''''more realistic than his''''', and ridicules fast ([[Technically Living Zombie]]) zombies for [[Hypocrite|being biologically impossible]] when they are far more realistic than his. If you are a firearm or weapons fan, [[Guns Do Not Work That Way|just rip out]] [[Flynning|and burn]] [[Hollywood Tactics|that section of the book.]]

* [[Robert A. Heinlein]] with ''[[The Number of the Beast]]''-- (no, really, the dash is part of the title apparently) is a double [[Wall Banger]]. First with the introduction of the most misandristic, emasculating woman ever in Hilda, who proceeds to use her power when in the captain's seat to get what she wants, then force responsibility on whoever is there when she isn't to again get what she wants. The second part is where they start hopping universes to other fiction, and then they visit frickin' [[Land of Oz|Oz]]. Oz, in what's supposed to be a serious SF novel.

* Steven Wakefield in ''Sweet Valley Confidential''. Or, more specifically, his [[Suddenly Sexuality]]. Especially when he had married one woman (Cara), was engaged to another (Billie) until shortly after she miscarried, and had a nervous breakdown over Tricia's death (to the point where he broke up with Cara ''twice'' to pursue [[Identical Stranger]]s who looked like her. It wasn't until one of them called him out on it that he snapped out of it.). This makes no sense if you followed the ''[[Sweet Valley High]]'' series.

* While the [[Twist Ending|twist endings]] in the ''[[Goosebumps]]'' series of books can be pretty silly at times, a special mention must go to ''Welcome To Camp Nightmare'' for being so ridiculous it becomes a sheer [[Wall Banger]]. See, throughout most of the book the protagonist is persued by a monster in the woods that has already claimed his friends as its victims. Then, {{spoiler|it turns out that the monster isn't real, the fake monster was a test to see if the protagonist could think quickly under stressful and dangerous situations, and it turns out the protagonist and everyone else are aliens who are actually training to travel to Earth.}} Wait... what? The first two parts of the ending, fine. A little silly, but fine. But {{spoiler|aliens?}} Really? It doesn't make any sense. Yes, the other twist endings of the books came out of nowhere at times too, but at least ''they'' had some semblance of logic in the stories' settings.