Fright Diner

and not just the food.

Gil's All Fright Diner by A. Lee Martinez

In the spirit of the Blob, I wanted to post about the latest cool book I actually managed to read. I guess you could call it sorta Library-related- it won an Alex Award. Even though this award's given to teen books, I frankly wouldn't hand this thing to anyone under 18- it had an appropriately large amount of gore and innuendo for my reading taste, as well as a truly sick sense of humor with a shitload of horror-flavored redneck jokes tossed in on top.

How to sum it up? Well, stop me if you've heard this one. A vampire and a werewolf walk into a diner, and meet a bunch of zombies and some gods vaguely out of the Cthulhu Mythos... Seriously though, the book's a blast. To quote Fango, I give it 5 eyeballs. Not too serious, yet not totally brainless. An American Pythonesque, one could say. It's short (272 pages- though it seems like much less), so it works as a good break from the relevance of pornography retrieval, or managing to do work in libraries.

My not so humble opinion. Schmater.