As you might expect, there are several recent posts about Alex Trebek's brain surgery and how the media reported (or misreported) it. One other odd note cropped up recently on the thread, though. A poster wrote that his daughter has been assigned a young-adults novel called Avalon High as part of a college course. This effort by Meg Cabot - a bestselling author I had never heard of, but it's been a long while since I was a young adult - has a passage where the narrator confesses her hate for Jeopardy. She just doesn't know any of the answers, darn it, unlike her know-it-all parents.
This gets a grumpy response from another poster...
A passage like that would immediately take me out of the story. Even an American high-schooler with no interest in trivia would know at least a few "answers" to the show...Thus, this makes it clear that the "narrator" is a fake, which then makes one realize Meg Cabot doesn't know what she is writing about. Also, that this afterthought YA trash (Cabot mass-produces her books/series) is required reading in a college class is sad.
Which proves the obvious: a board full of Jeopardy fanatics will not appreciate a fictional character who dislikes the show. Take that, Meg Cabot.
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