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    stoprobbers: Jane, Paolo, Caleb and BRADEN?? Oh, JEEBUS. more »
    girlwithoutahero: Yup...I'm looking out my window...there are pigs flying...and the concrete is cracking from hell freezing over It's the apocalypse. more »
    sovay: do you think she was staring at the blank page before her, opened up the dirty window, and let the sun illuminate the words that she could not find...? more »
    Eric Northman is mine: Stuff like this makes me feel bad for all the talented writers out there who struggle to get published. more »
    VeryFancyBunny: As an aspiring YA author myself, I remember how steamed I was when I heard the news about LC's YA book deal. And this excerpt doesn't exactly thrill m... more »
    megscissorhands: The title should read: "Lauren Conrad's Heart-Shaped Darkness." I feel that appropriately sums up the banality of staring into this particular abyss. more »
    hydrogen_jukebox: I don't even think adding zombies would help this tripe. more »
    mysterygirl: You'd think she could have named the Brody character something more subtle than Braden, yes? more »
    heykoukla: I know people describe books like this as a guilty pleasure, and talk about how trashy=awesome but I must have an irony gene missing because I don't s... more »
    hippichx sez PEACE PLEASE: i think it is interesting.... like in the way that i like to study people and how they act and the choices they make, and pick them apart to what's re... more »
    nessalicious: And yet the novel I wrote did not get picked up. Sigh. more »
    Penny: I hope whoever really wrote this was paid well. You know, to balance out the extreme embarrassment. more »
    hortense: This is the literary equivalent of the Fling candy bar. more »
    Annabellie: Which would you rather your 15 year old daughter read - this or Twilight? more »
    Whiskey and Popcorn: Heart of Darkness? Comparisons of wilderness safaris and animal exploitation in "Africa" ? I'm sensing a theme today, Jezebel! Maybe Lauren Conrad and... more »
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    Lauren Conrad's Heart of Darkness: A Peek Inside Her New Novel

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