Required Reading Remixed, Vol. 3. Featuring: Little Women in Black.
Registered by GoryDetails of Nashua, New Hampshire USA on 10/7/2012
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
1 journaler for this copy...
I picked up this fair-condition softcover at the Used Book Superstore in Burlington MA (they're having a sale, and I'm weak {grin}). It's a collection of literary-mashup stories based on different classic works, a subset of the stories in Classics Mutilated.
Some of the mixes are so very bizarre that the concepts alone are worth the price of the book - though it is better when the execution matches the concept. "Anne-droid of Green Gables" was pretty good; "Pokky Man" was truly excellent...
Some of the stories are along the lines of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, pretty much the original story with monsters or magic inserted, but most are variations on a theme, sometimes going far afield indeed. Among my favorites:
"Little Women in Black", which puts a chill into that warm hearthside.
"Pokky Man", which I mentioned above, is a masterful and darkly hilarious spin on Pokemon, as if it were a documentary by Werner Herzog - er, "Vernor Hertzwig". (If you've seen "Grizzly Man" it's even darker - and funnier.) "That's just sick, it's perverted. They've trained their Pokkypet to turn against its kind."
"The Green Menace" takes an unexpected tack - it inserts Senator Joe McCarthy into the plot (more or less) of "Frogs". (This is one where I like the concept a bit better than the story, but I did laugh when I realized what was going on.)
Some of the mixes are so very bizarre that the concepts alone are worth the price of the book - though it is better when the execution matches the concept. "Anne-droid of Green Gables" was pretty good; "Pokky Man" was truly excellent...
Some of the stories are along the lines of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, pretty much the original story with monsters or magic inserted, but most are variations on a theme, sometimes going far afield indeed. Among my favorites:
"Little Women in Black", which puts a chill into that warm hearthside.
"Pokky Man", which I mentioned above, is a masterful and darkly hilarious spin on Pokemon, as if it were a documentary by Werner Herzog - er, "Vernor Hertzwig". (If you've seen "Grizzly Man" it's even darker - and funnier.) "That's just sick, it's perverted. They've trained their Pokkypet to turn against its kind."
"The Green Menace" takes an unexpected tack - it inserts Senator Joe McCarthy into the plot (more or less) of "Frogs". (This is one where I like the concept a bit better than the story, but I did laugh when I realized what was going on.)
Journal Entry 2 by GoryDetails at Nashua Highschool South in Nashua, New Hampshire USA on Monday, October 8, 2012
Released 11 yrs ago (10/8/2012 UTC) at Nashua Highschool South in Nashua, New Hampshire USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
I plan to leave this book on the bus-stop bench near 11 Riverside Dr., close to the entrance of Nashua High School, at about 1; hope the finder enjoys it!
Update: The bus-stop was occupied, so I strolled down the street to the boat-ramp of Mine Falls Park, near the skating rink, and left the book on top of one of the posts there - all the better to get a picture of the lake with hints of autumn foliage around it.
*** Released for the 2012 Spook-tacular Halloween release challenge, for the creepy - and heavily-armed - women-in-black on the cover. ***
*** Released for the 2012 TICK-TOCK Challenge, for the "AD" embedded in the title. ***
Update: The bus-stop was occupied, so I strolled down the street to the boat-ramp of Mine Falls Park, near the skating rink, and left the book on top of one of the posts there - all the better to get a picture of the lake with hints of autumn foliage around it.
*** Released for the 2012 Spook-tacular Halloween release challenge, for the creepy - and heavily-armed - women-in-black on the cover. ***
*** Released for the 2012 TICK-TOCK Challenge, for the "AD" embedded in the title. ***