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Post by Alice on Nov 2, 2018 12:00:38 GMT -5
I'm in the process of reading the paperback version of this book. I picked it up at my local book store one day after reading the synopsis. Has anyone here read this novel? What are your thoughts on it if you have? As the story opens, nine comedians of various acclaim are summoned to the island retreat of legendary Hollywood funnyman Dustin Walker. The group includes a former late-night TV host, a washed-up improv instructor, a ridiculously wealthy “blue collar” comic, and a past-her-prime Vegas icon. All nine arrive via boat to find that every building on the island is completely deserted. Marooned without cell phone service or wifi signals, they soon find themselves being murdered one by one. But who is doing the killing, and why?
A darkly clever take on Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None and other classics of the genre, Ten Dead Comedians is a marvel of literary ventriloquism, with hilarious comic monologues in the voice of every suspect. It’s also an ingeniously plotted puzzler with a twist you’ll never see coming!
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Post by endo on Nov 2, 2018 14:56:27 GMT -5
That sounds pretty good, gonna tell my wife about this one. Sounds like something she'd like. Thanks.
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Post by NDX on Nov 2, 2018 19:40:52 GMT -5
That name sounds familiar. I think Van Lente has written a few comics before.
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Post by endo on Nov 3, 2018 10:05:39 GMT -5
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Post by Alice on Nov 3, 2018 23:04:18 GMT -5
I knew he did some comics but I didn't realize he did that much stuff until I looked at the link @endo provided.
Also, I hope your wife likes this novel endo.
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Post by NDX on Nov 4, 2018 2:59:08 GMT -5
Ahh, yes. iHerc and Archer & Armstrong. Some of the best comedy action comics of the last decade. I think I have all of iHerc in trades/HCs, too. Great books there, and I was never a Hercules fan.
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Post by Smeets on Nov 4, 2018 15:12:19 GMT -5
looks to me like they are trapped in their house without any one to hear their jokes.
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Post by Alice on Nov 4, 2018 16:29:28 GMT -5
looks to me like they are trapped in their house without any one to hear their jokes. You get to hear all the jokes that they make to one another.
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Post by Smeets on Nov 5, 2018 11:14:45 GMT -5
I don't get it... I do personally? How? Where? When?
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Post by Smeets on Nov 5, 2018 11:16:55 GMT -5
I know a house that looks like that in my town! Maybe there?
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Post by Alice on Nov 6, 2018 12:49:14 GMT -5
Being that they're all comedians, they're constantly making jokes to one another throughout the book. You, the reader, get to hear the jokes (you're actually reading them). That's all I meant.
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Post by Smeets on Nov 7, 2018 14:34:49 GMT -5
got ya.
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