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Post #632718 by AquaZombie on Tue, Apr 17, 2012 3:10 PM

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Money Shot of the Gods, April 17, 2012
By Tony Arnold (Athens, GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: It Came from Hangar 18 (Paperback)
Fulks' & Viharo's It Came from Hangar 18 is the literary equivalent of the Trader Vic's Zombie: best consumed on an empty stomach and sipped leisurely. It is a pop culture full frontal assault, knocking aside all your previous literary sensibilities like the cosmic tenpins in Valhalla. It reads like Popeye's manly devotional, with the occasional splash of cold-water science via Sherman and Mr. Peabody. It will make you both smarter and hornier than you ever thought humanly possible, while leading you by the curiosity straight through the minefield of existential Possibility. It is a heavy metal ballad of the human condition, with a chorus of The Ventures and a turnaround by Martin Denny. It is the script for the greatest drive-in movie of all time: the dream collaboration of Robert Rodriguez, Rod Serling and Russ Meyer. It will introduce you to things you've never heard of, and remind you of things you forgot before you were born. It will scare, inspire and titillate you; it will kick your intellectual ass and uplift your spirit, if you have one. It will simultaneously ennoble and humble you like the noir Philosopher's Stone. It is the book you have been preparing to read all your life. Throw out your Raymond Chandler, your Joe Lansdale and your Bukowski: the future of sharp, tumescent writing is here and it abides in Hangar 18.

[ Edited by: AquaZombie 2012-04-17 15:11 ]