Best Worst Quotes from "Avalon High"

Meg Cabot is a #1 National Bestselling Author. The same woman who write The Princess Diaries decided to ruin one of my favorite literary traditions, the Arthurian legend, by writing a book in which all the characters from said legend are fucking high school students. Will Arthur Wagner is the quarterback at Avalon High, and his best buddy Lance plays guard. Ha. I get it. It baffles me that my local library put this in the adult section.

Now I'm not going to complain about how godawful and embarrassing this book was. I'll just present some examples straight from its pages that explain why Meg is so successful.

It's obviously linked to how "authentic teenager" her narration and description of high school stereotypes are.

It had always been my dream, of course, to start off my junior year as a new student in a high school in faraway state where I knew no one. Um, not?

And his friends hadn't looked like headbangers. They'd been wearing normal clothes, khaki shorts and T-shirts. I hadn't noticed a single tattoo or piercing on any of them.

Or could it be her amazing talent for physical description?

'Just give me your keys and I'll drive myself over.'
He looked appalled.

It was hard not to look at his abs, which were extremely six pack-like.

But it's best not to get too wrapped up in small details like this. Meg makes that clear a bit later in the book.

'He's even skipped football practice to do it twice this week. I heard he says he likes to go there to think. Think! Who even does that?'

I heave a great sigh and announce that the movie will premiere on the Disney channel this fall.