Wow . . . this new Riley Sager book The House Across the Lake is a hot mess . . . but it certainly inspired me to think about the rules of genre fiction and lent itself to an episode with many special guests: Bart and Lisa Simpson, Marty and Rust, Steve Martin, God, Alec Baldwin . . . so my advice is DO NOT read this book, listen to my podcast instead: "Riley Sager, You Gives Genre Fiction a Bad Name."
1. that's quite an if/then proposition
ReplyDelete2. three different spoiler alerts were necessary. only one was on offer.
3. i've reached out to riley sager's people in hopes of brokering a discussion between the author and professor g truck. will let you know how it goes.
i descended into madness in this one-- book reviews need to be more honest-- i can't get 80 percent through a book and have it tank like this . ..
ReplyDeletebased on the if/then, i'm not going anywhere near it
ReplyDeleteRob, do you mean Murder on the Orient Express and Hamlet? Feels like you should know both of those endings by now.
ReplyDeleteThoughts on this episode:
ReplyDelete- I was thinking about all the drinking affecting narration at the same time you said it. That would have been funnier.
- It sounds like a LOT of overlap with the 1998 movie Fallen except that the movie holds fast to one style
- "I don't know what's going to come out of my mouth... I'm just a crazy collection of atoms in the form of a self-anointed professor." Best Professor G. Truck lines ever.
murder and something else (not hamlet) that i've already forgotten. so i guess it wasn't much of a spoiler.
ReplyDeletei don't think you can spoil hamlet, murder on the orient express, or murder she wrote-- they are too old. they are already so old that they have spoiled.
ReplyDeletethere's something rotten in the state of denmark . . . spoiled!