The Menstruating Mall
"The Breakfast Club meets Chopping mall, as directed by David Lynch."- BRIAN KEENE, author of Urban Gothic Ten ridiculously stereotypical consumer victims (a yuppie, a housewife, a retiree, a jock, a bible thumper, a cowboy, a preppy, a gamer, a goth, and a white suburban gangsta) find themselves...
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"The Breakfast Club meets Chopping mall, as directed by David Lynch."- BRIAN KEENE, author of Urban Gothic Ten ridiculously stereotypical consumer victims (a yuppie, a housewife, a retiree, a jock, a bible thumper, a cowboy, a preppy, a gamer, a goth, and a white suburban gangsta) find themselves unable to leave the mall one day. There is nothing stopping them. The doors are unlocked. Other shoppers are able to come and go as they please. But for some inexplicable reason, these ten people cannot pry themselves away from their shopping miasma. The mall closes, and they won't leave. Days pass, and they're still there, eating meals in the food court and sleeping in department store bedroom displays. Then they begin to die off, one by one, murdered by a mysterious killer, and they still won't allow themselves to escape.Then things really start to get weird . . .The Menstruating Mall is both a modernized take on Luis Bunuel's The Exterminating Angel and a parody of Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781936383641 (1936383640)
ASIN: 1936383640
Publish date: June 9th 2011
Publisher: Eraserhead Press
Pages no: 104
Edition language: English
This was an interesting read. Bizarro is not my favourite genre and it will never be. But it's a genre I enjoy reading about from time to time. Carlton Mellick III is one of those writers I read and enjoyed it. Never to the point of being a fan but nevertheless I have three books by him. I tried oth...
I remember watching a documentary on the making of Dawn of the Dead somewhere. On it there is mentioned something to the effect that Romero’s genius lay within his calling out the suddenly present consumerist age with the advent of the shopping mall. Of course his vision was spot on. Watching the ho...
I was really torn about this book until about halfway through. Once you get past the "I'm so punk" posturing, and the author beating you over the head with the ironic 2-dimensional stereotype, it actually does get pretty readable. It doesn't entirely make sense, but then if you're picking a book up ...
Hilarious social commentary on the mundane in all of us. Follow 10 stereotypical people trapped in a mall trying to elude a killer. I read it while watching Monday night football so it is not a difficult read but overall it was highly enjoyable!