Wall Banger/Literature: Difference between revisions
no edit summary
No edit summary |
|||
Line 407:
** Also, its arguable if the book whose entire premise is 'a man invents a time-travel device that turns out to also allow access to the entire multiverse of possibility, including ''fictional'' worlds' was ever intended to be "serious" science fiction.
*** Plus, let's be fair. Somebody gives ''me'' a gizmo that lets me enter any fictional world I know about? Oz is gonna be one of the very first stops on my itinerary.
*** On a more practical level, licensing concerns limited Heinlein to using only fictional worlds of his own creation or that are in the public domain, and sales concerns limited Heinlein to using only fictional worlds his readers are actually familiar with. Add in that it was a plot point that his characters find a safe haven with magical help available, and pretty much the only place on the Venn diagram where all three of the sets above overlap ''is'' Oz.
* 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.
| |||