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Praise for "Gil's All Fright Diner"
"Fans of Douglas Adams will happily sink their teeth into this combo platter of raunchy laughs and ectoplasmic ecstasy."--"Publishers Weekly" (starred review)
"[A] laugh-out-loud comic fantasy that should appeal to fans of Terry Brooks's Landover novels."--"Library Journal
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"Do you know a young man twelve to seventeen years old who hates reading? This is the book for him! . . . A funfest of ghouls, zombie cattle, ghosts of various kinds, and lots of battles featuring decaying flesh and body parts. . . . Reads like the work of Douglas Adams. . . . One young reader gives highest praise: 'I buy the book . . . and read it straight through! I've never done that in my life, but I couldn't put it down.'"--"Voices of Youth Advocates"
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"Delightfully droll, this comic romp will be a crowd-pleaser."--"Booklist"
"Traditional necromantic horror treated as Southwestern fun."--"The San Diego Union-Tribune"
"The story finds its footing through its personable likable characters and the absurdly awkward fight they put up against increasingly bizarre supernatural terrors. . . . "Gil's All Fright Diner" really goes the extra mile to distinguish itself from the pack, creating a unique mythology and canon rather than relying on pre-established guidelines for its various creatures. . . . It's an appetizing snack perfect for devouring quickly over a hot cop o' joe."--"Fangoria"
"If there's any justice in this world, Martinez is already working on a sequel to star Duke, Earl, Cathy, and the ghost of a plucky little dog."--"Analog Science Fiction and Fact
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"It's horror both humorous and grisly, a twisted take on small-town America and buddy adventures."--"Locus
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"A supernatural concoction spicier and tastier than a bowl of Texas red. . . . The funniest book you ever read about the undead, the occult, and Armageddon. . . . Martinez infuses his comic horror story with dry Texas wit, playinge
"Fans of Douglas Adams will happily sink their teeth into this combo platter of raunchy laughs and ectoplasmic ecstasy."--"Publishers Weekly" (starred review)
"[A] laugh-out-loud comic fantasy that should appeal to fans of Terry Brooks's Landover novels."--"Library Journal
"
"Do you know a young man twelve to seventeen years old who hates reading? This is the book for him! . . . A funfest of ghouls, zombie cattle, ghosts of various kinds, and lots of battles featuring decaying flesh and body parts. . . . Reads like the work of Douglas Adams. . . . One young reader gives highest praise: 'I buy the book . . . and read it straight through! I've never done that in my life, but I couldn't put it down.'"--"Voices of Youth Advocates"
""
"Delightfully droll, this comic romp will be a crowd-pleaser."--"Booklist"
"Traditional necromantic horror treated as Southwestern fun."--"The San Diego Union-Tribune"
"The story finds its footing through its personable likable characters and the absurdly awkward fight they put up against increasingly bizarre supernatural terrors. . . . "Gil's All Fright Diner" really goes the extra mile to distinguish itself from the pack, creating a unique mythology and canon rather than relying on pre-established guidelines for its various creatures. . . . It's an appetizing snack perfect for devouring quickly over a hot cop o' joe."--"Fangoria"
"If there's any justice in this world, Martinez is already working on a sequel to star Duke, Earl, Cathy, and the ghost of a plucky little dog."--"Analog Science Fiction and Fact
"
"It's horror both humorous and grisly, a twisted take on small-town America and buddy adventures."--"Locus
"
"A supernatural concoction spicier and tastier than a bowl of Texas red. . . . The funniest book you ever read about the undead, the occult, and Armageddon. . . . Martinez infuses his comic horror story with dry Texas wit, playinge
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Duke and Earl are just passing through Rockwood County in their pickup truck when they stop at the Diner for a quick bite to eat - where Loretta, the eatery's owner, offers them $100 to take care of her zombie problem. Given that Duke is a werewolf and Earl's a vampire, this looks to be right up their alley. But the shambling dead are just the tip of a particularly spiky iceberg. Seems someone's out to drive Loretta from the Diner and more than willing to raise a little Hell on Earth if that's what it takes. Before Duke and Earl get to the bottom of the Diner's troubles, they'll run into such otherworldly complications as undead cattle, an amorous ghost, a jailbait sorceress, and the terrifying occult power of pig-latin Gory, sexy, and flat-out hilarious, "Gil's All Fright Diner" will tickle your funny bone - before ripping it out of its socket!
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Yes, a refreshingly different supernatural adventure about heroes Duke & Earl, two good ole boys who happen to be a wolfman and a vampire, driving around America's dusty back roads, not looking for trouble, when they come upon a diner just as it's attacked by zombies. Impressed by their help, the owner pays them to do a couple of jobs which is just as well as, unknown to them, the diner is the focus of attention from the villain, a sexy seventeen year old girl who wants to raise hell -literally. No, just joking; what she really wants to do is bring back the Elder Gods (cf H.P.Lovecraft) to destroy the world and the zombies are just the warm-up act.
Set in a world where supernatural entities lurk just out of sight and small town marshalls usually know how to deal with them, if neccessary, this is an amusing entertainment which builds well.
I don't want to spoil anything because, as I mentioned above that the zombies are just the start, there is lots more to come but I can't resist just one -flesh-eating zombie cows! If that doesn't make you want to read the book, I don't know what will.
Set in a world where supernatural entities lurk just out of sight and small town marshalls usually know how to deal with them, if neccessary, this is an amusing entertainment which builds well.
I don't want to spoil anything because, as I mentioned above that the zombies are just the start, there is lots more to come but I can't resist just one -flesh-eating zombie cows! If that doesn't make you want to read the book, I don't know what will.
Format:Mass Market Paperback
this is the first book ive read by this author - id never even heard of him before, but i am so glad i did. its the best book ive read in ages.....loved it and will definately be hunting down other books by A.Lee Martinez.
Format:Mass Market Paperback
If ever a book distilled true comic book (aka graphic novel) sensibility into 268 paperback pages, this is it. In fact, I am astonished that this story is written out in prose. It would fit so much more happily as captions for garishly drawn and hyper-violent illustrations.
Quite clearly the author sat down one day and asked himself (herself?), "How can I put a wiseass spin on all the conventions of the horror novel and make a good, sneering joke of it all?" The result was a book with all the humanity, warmth and depth of a typical made-for-video movie. Martinez opens up with a down-market pair of monsters, a nerdy little vampire and a big, oafish werewolf--think Ben Stiller and John Goodman in his "Roseanne" days. Toss into the mix a cup of dried H. P. Lovecraft-style "essential salts" and a few chopped up scenes from a high school girl-rivalry movie and out comes "Gil's All Fright Diner."
Martinez clearly has no love for his (her?) characters. They have no inner lives. Their function is impurely and simply to be moved about like checkers (nothing so high-toned as chess pieces) on a board of the author's imagining. It's all the braying of a youthful author who is a jackass.
But ... this young jackass of an author is also a deucedly clever young jackass. In some ways, he (she?) is an American Terry Pratchett--heaven help us all. Somehow, you just have to grin at someone who can swallow Lovecraft's larynx-stretching incantations and regurgitate them as Pig Latin. Or create Crazy Ctharl's Hard-To-Find Sorcerous Emporium, the mail-order horror supply company that is always having a sale because the world is always about to be destroyed by the Dark Powers. Or present the abridged but up-to-date "Necronomicon" that includes three spells for guaranteeing success in Hollywood. Or a writer who can offer this passages with a perfectly straight face:
"Duke ..." He struggled with the words. "I just want you to know that I, uh, well ..."
Duke stopped cleaning the gunk off his shoes. They stared at each other amid the quiet splashing of Loretta mopping up extradimensional brain spider goo."
Now, THAT is truly awful writing--but you have to admit that it's the very best kind of truly awful writing!
When I wrote this review in 2007. I had come late to this feast. Thirty-four Amazon US reviewers had preceded me. All I could do to justify a thirty-fifth kick at this particular dog was point out that if A. Lee Martinez ever developed even a slight vestige of empathy, sympathy or humanity, he (she?) would become a dangerously good writer.
Four stars and high hopes for the future.
Quite clearly the author sat down one day and asked himself (herself?), "How can I put a wiseass spin on all the conventions of the horror novel and make a good, sneering joke of it all?" The result was a book with all the humanity, warmth and depth of a typical made-for-video movie. Martinez opens up with a down-market pair of monsters, a nerdy little vampire and a big, oafish werewolf--think Ben Stiller and John Goodman in his "Roseanne" days. Toss into the mix a cup of dried H. P. Lovecraft-style "essential salts" and a few chopped up scenes from a high school girl-rivalry movie and out comes "Gil's All Fright Diner."
Martinez clearly has no love for his (her?) characters. They have no inner lives. Their function is impurely and simply to be moved about like checkers (nothing so high-toned as chess pieces) on a board of the author's imagining. It's all the braying of a youthful author who is a jackass.
But ... this young jackass of an author is also a deucedly clever young jackass. In some ways, he (she?) is an American Terry Pratchett--heaven help us all. Somehow, you just have to grin at someone who can swallow Lovecraft's larynx-stretching incantations and regurgitate them as Pig Latin. Or create Crazy Ctharl's Hard-To-Find Sorcerous Emporium, the mail-order horror supply company that is always having a sale because the world is always about to be destroyed by the Dark Powers. Or present the abridged but up-to-date "Necronomicon" that includes three spells for guaranteeing success in Hollywood. Or a writer who can offer this passages with a perfectly straight face:
"Duke ..." He struggled with the words. "I just want you to know that I, uh, well ..."
Duke stopped cleaning the gunk off his shoes. They stared at each other amid the quiet splashing of Loretta mopping up extradimensional brain spider goo."
Now, THAT is truly awful writing--but you have to admit that it's the very best kind of truly awful writing!
When I wrote this review in 2007. I had come late to this feast. Thirty-four Amazon US reviewers had preceded me. All I could do to justify a thirty-fifth kick at this particular dog was point out that if A. Lee Martinez ever developed even a slight vestige of empathy, sympathy or humanity, he (she?) would become a dangerously good writer.
Four stars and high hopes for the future.
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