PEEPS

and no, i do not mean the easter sugar messes shaped like bunnies or little bird things, that ultimately look kind of like turds.
no, i mean the book. the fierce book by scott westerfeld, who, at this moment, is, like, the fiercest guy i wish i knew. lol i'm gonna turn into annie in "Misery". i hope not. (i was watching that this afternoon, let me tell ya, she was one crazy that i would hope not to meet) but she loved the author guy, paul, so she smashed his ancles to smitherines so he couldn't leave her. heart warming, no?
but this post is about Peeps. i got it on Easter, yesterday, and i finished page 304 this morning. now, either i have absolutely NO life, or i just really loved this book. probably both. but i didn't spend my whole day reading, otherwise i would have finished it yesterday. no, i went places. but it was fabulous.
so Cal, this kid from Texas, moves to New York, as a college freshman, and finds himself all alone at a gay bar. i have no idea why... but he... he gets this 'disease' from this mystery girl. he was drunk. he doesn't know her last name.
but it's not your regular STD. no, this kid is a freakin vampire now, but they call them peeps. but he's not crazy, like most of them, he's sane, just a 'carrier'. but apparently, the 'parasite' wants to spread like crazy, and the only way it gets that is through kissing... or the other thing. so call made his first girlfriend into a crazy canibalistic vampire, with real icky finger nails.
instead of cal being crazy himself though, carriers are really... really... "horny" as the book would put it. like all the time. seriously, probably the most used word in this book, besides "peep".
so, yes, this book is a bit dirty. but not graphic. in that way... they do fight a giant worm thing... the we is Cal and Lace, short for Lacey. i would have left it as Lacey, but whatever. she says dude wayy too much. but he hasn't even touched a girl for like 6 months, so he doesn't make more peeps. now, this is a teenage boy, plus all those crazy extra peep "things"... here's a tidbit from the last chapter, not counting epilogue (like my favorite part of all books, the epilogue)

" 'what do you want to do, cal?' lace said softly.

i took a deep breath, wondering if i was saying too much, too soon, but saying it anyway. 'i want to stay here, with you.'

she nodded slowly, her eyes locked with mine. 'me too.;

'God you two,' morgan said. 'just get a room.'

i realized that this was in fact a hotel bar, and that Brooklyn or the west side seemed much too far away right now. i raised an eyebrow.

lace smiled. 'dude. why not?' "

see? but it's a good book. my mother asked me before i started reading if it was "appropriate" for me. i'm like, yeah. then on page 23.. "go out and shag someone". ... well... mommy didn't know that the rest of the book is all about "STDs" and safe sex. at least it's an almost good message...

plus i learned some really gross things about parasites, as every even numbered chapter described a new one.

read this book read this book read this book. it's fabulous and i may have to read it again real soon... so read it!