by Sharyn McCrumb
Ridiculously fluffy and exactly what my brain needed. I thought the mystery was a little lacking, but the satire of con culture more than made up for that.
Long story short: in the context of laughter, "at" is not the same as "with." ~~Moved from GR~~ Bimbos of the Death Sun by Sharyn McCrumb I picked this up because I fell in love with the title--"Bimbos of the Death Sun" is just so very, very perfect. I've read one of McCrumb's Appalachian book...
Bimbos of The Death Sun is a lightweight who-dunnit that is saved by its clever parody of the sci-fi/fantasy convention scene. Having been to a few of these in my younger...cough, cough!...less mature days I can vouch that much of the satire in this novel is very close to the truth. McCrumb makes it...
So much potential but so few results. Most of the humor is on the blurb in the back and in the title. It's also ridiculously sexist for a book written this recently and by a woman at that. Ugh. I have no idea why I went and read the sequel which is even worse.
This is a murder mystery that takes place at a sci-fi con, but it's really a skewering of fan culture, as sharp and hilarious and spot-on as William Shatner's famous "Get a life!" SNL skit. If you've never been to a con and haven't met the sort of characters who populate this novel, you'll probably ...
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