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Book: Camp Ghoul Mountain Part VI: The Official Novelization by Jonathan Raab

Author Jonathan Raab (the actual author) has been hired to do a novelization of Camp Ghoul Mountain Part VI. The Camp Ghoul Mountain series is a transparent riff on the Friday the 13th series where an animal-masked serial killer murders teens in a mountain summer camp. The book is thus divided in telling the story of the fictional slasher movie franchise's most infamous entry as well as giving a bizarre backstory about its troubled production history. The resulting book is loopy and meta, a love letter to 80's slasher movies, 90's conspiracy theories, and B-movies throughout the years. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Apr 8, 2022 - 2 comments

Book: Cryptonomicon

Written by Neal Stephenson and published in 1999. Two groups of characters, one from the late thirties and forties and one in the then present-day ~1999 (a few who are descendants of the earlier group) involve themselves with codes, codebreaking, and Axis war gold, among other things. [more inside]
posted by Fukiyama on Sep 2, 2020 - 41 comments

Book: Don Quixote

Written by Miguel de Cervantes and published in two parts, first in 1605 and then in 1615, this is the story of Don Quixote, a knight-errant, and his squire, peasant Sancho Panza. Except errantry is out of style by the time Quixote begins his series of expeditions. The jury is still out on if this is fodder for great tragedy or great comedy. [more inside]
posted by Fukiyama on Jul 22, 2020 - 4 comments

Book: Daughter of Mystery

Margerit Sovitre did not expect to inherit the Baron Saveze’s fortunes—and even less his bodyguard. The formidable Barbara, of unknown parentage and tied to the barony for secretive reasons, is a feared duelist, capable of defending her charges with efficient, deadly force. Equally perplexing is that while she is now a highly eligible heiress, Margerit did not also inherit the Saveze title, and the new baron eyes the fortunes he lost with open envy. Barbara, bitter that her servitude is to... [more inside]
posted by happyroach on Jun 30, 2019 - 9 comments

GLBTQ Fantasy/Science Fiction Novels?

So with only a few days left in Pride Month, would anyone want interested in some fanfare posts on fantasy/SF featuring GLBTQ protagonists? Mainly I want to do posts on Dreadnaught: Nemesis and Dreadnaught: Sovereign. Other books I've read recently include Fire Logic The Murderbot Diaries Daughter of Mystery Does anyone else have any recommendations?
posted by happyroach on Jun 27, 2019 - 11 comments

Book: Catch-22

Catch-22 is like no other novel we have ever read. It has its own style, its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth from hilarity to horror. It is outrageously funny and strangely affecting. It is totally original. It is set in the closing months of World War II, in an American bomber squadron on a small island off Italy. Its hero is a bombardier named Yossarian, who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he hasn't even met keep trying to kill him.... [more inside]
posted by Fukiyama on Jun 14, 2019 - 5 comments

Book: All Our Wrong Todays

You know the future that people in the 1950s imagined we’d have? Tom Barren lives there, in a techno-utopian paradise of flying cars, moving sidewalks, and moon bases. But then, via a time-travel mishap, Tom finds himself stranded in our 2016, what we think of as the real world. For Tom, our normal reality seems like a dystopian wasteland.
posted by DirtyOldTown on Dec 18, 2018 - 11 comments

Horror Fiction Club?

Potentially a once a month book club focusing on horror. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Dec 5, 2015 - 2 comments

Movie: Before I Go to Sleep

Several years ago, a woman was savagely beaten and now suffers from amnesia - she can make no new memories. Now 40 years old, she wakes up every morning reverted to the memories she had before the attack. Every day, as she wakes up to a man she doesn't remember marrying, she pieces bits of memory together with clues she leaves herself the previous day. [more inside]
posted by jbickers on Nov 1, 2014 - 1 comment

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