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An entertaining and eye opening tour through Dave Grohl’s extraordinary life (so far)

The Storyteller by Dave Grohl

May 19, 2022 by TylerDFC 2 Comments

The new pseudo-autobiography, The Storyteller, from Foo Fighters frontman/Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl is not conventional. This makes sense since neither is its author. Rather than telling his life story in chronological order, the book is structured as a series of anecdotes that hit significant events mostly in the order they occurred. Whenever I am reading a biography I always dread the beginning chapters as the author goes into detail about their parents, family, and childhood. I tend to skim these parts because, for the most […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: #memoir, autobiography, book review, Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters, Kurt Cobain, music, musicians, Nirvana, scream, Them Crooked Vultures, TylerDFC

TylerDFC's CBR14 Review No:16 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: #memoir, autobiography, book review, Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters, Kurt Cobain, music, musicians, Nirvana, scream, Them Crooked Vultures, TylerDFC ·
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the only Scream sequel I need

The Last Final Girl by Stephen Graham Jones

February 21, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Take the meta-horror-commentary of Scream and dial it up to eleven; there at the top of the stairs, silhouetted in moonlight and brandishing a rusty machete, you will find The Last Final Girl. Stephen Graham Jones is leaning hard into the tropes of teen slasher movies, and if you aren’t in on the joke it will fly over your freshly-severed-by-garage-door-head. The story is presented almost as a film treatment; close ups, pans, POVS, and audience responses are all written in and used with cheeky abandon. […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Horror Tagged With: black comedy, dark humor, friday the thirteenth, gore, halloween, horror homage, horror movies, meta, michael jackson, michael myers, murder, scream, scream queens, slasher films, Stephen Graham Jones, teen movies

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:28 · Genres: Audiobooks, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Horror · Tags: black comedy, dark humor, friday the thirteenth, gore, halloween, horror homage, horror movies, meta, michael jackson, michael myers, murder, scream, scream queens, slasher films, Stephen Graham Jones, teen movies ·
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