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I liked this weird little gremlin book.

The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay

February 9, 2023 by narfna Leave a Comment

To be clear, the book isn’t about gremlins, I’m just calling it a gremlin book because it’s weird and small and has claws but is also kind of harmless and laughable in the right light. Also also, gremlin is a fun word to use. This book is impossible to *really* talk about without spoilers, so I’m going to have a pretty big spoiler section and a smaller non-spoiler section in this review. I will try to keep the spoiler section relatively spoiler-free in the sense […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: annotations, fake memoir, horror, literary fiction, literary horror, metafiction, narfna, Paul Tremblay, The Pallbearers Club, weird fiction

narfna's CBR15 Review No:22 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Speculative Fiction · Tags: annotations, fake memoir, horror, literary fiction, literary horror, metafiction, narfna, Paul Tremblay, The Pallbearers Club, weird fiction ·
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YES I CAN HEAR YOU CLEM FANDANGO

Toast on Toast by Steven Toast

May 9, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

and with that traditional greeting, Steven Toast bellows his way into the utterly ridiculous and frequently disgusting story of his life. Steven Toast, an utter buffoon of a down on his luck/past his prime actor, is the creation of Matt Berry and Arthur Matthews- and while Toast is credited as the author (what with this being an autobiography and all), the work really belongs to them. If you have not seen Toast’s show, Toast of London, then you are going to need to stop what […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Fiction Tagged With: acting, Arthur Matthews, BBC, british comedy, fake memoir, in character, Matt Berry, Steven Toast, Toast of London

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:44 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Fiction · Tags: acting, Arthur Matthews, BBC, british comedy, fake memoir, in character, Matt Berry, Steven Toast, Toast of London ·
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