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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9781596922167
ISBN number: 1596922168
Label: MacAdam/Cage Publishing
Manufacturer: MacAdam/Cage Publishing
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 350
Printing Date: April 13, 2007
Publishing house: MacAdam/Cage Publishing
Release Date: April 13, 2007
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Following an unnerving phone call from his diabetic mother on Halloween night, Hale and six of his med school classmates return to the house where his sister disappeared years ago only to find a chilling surprise in store for them. Written as a literary film treatment and littered with pop culture references and footnotes, Demon Theory is a refreshing addition to the intelligent horror genre.
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i thought the story was interesting but the whole bescribing the camera angle thing really confused me sometimes. i think i need to read it again to really understand it.
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What can I say about this book, there are so many bad things to say its hard to know where to start. So I'll keep it short and simple.
1. The story is not well crafted and the dialogue is ridicoulous.
2. The footnotes are kinda useless and somtimes overwritten and can distract from the main story.
3. The narrative can be hard to follow and the story at times doesn't make alot of sense.
4. Character development is non-existent and you never really care about what happens to them.
I bought this book on Amazon recommendation because I like Craig Cleavenger, Chuck Palahaniuk, and Max Barry. I will never take their suggestions ever again. I wanted to stop reading it so many times at so many different points in the book but I paid $11 for it and it seamed like such a waste. DON'T BUY THIS BOOK!
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---- int. of reviewers apt. closeup of his fingers on his laptop feverishly typing, then cam pans out to include his face almost panting over excitement at finishing Demon Theory.
The Editorial review and other Amazon reviewers have summed up the plot more than adequately so the cam focuses on me in f.g. typing instead purely my opinion as opposed to another summary. My only comments on the plot will be to say this book can be found in the horror section of bookstores. Elements are definiitely horrific. Also Stephen Graham Jones's novel is one of the scariest I have read lately. However his writing transcends the genre. It is a novel "based on a movie based on a book". Cultural refereces both pop and more ambiguous flow through the pages. Movie and other books are mentioned and then endnoted. As another pointed out this could and did make it a little disjointed at first. However I soon adapted and appreciate the research that went into this book. Even if as much of the said research was in a theatre than in a library it is still deeply done and therefore it enlightens as it entertains.
The whole adaptation also threw me at very first as I was not uised to a narrative style that read more like a screenplay than a novel. Again I adapted and soon appreciated Jone's prose. His style gave new meaning to the maxim show don't tell as reading Demon Theory I found it easy to imagine the scenes as they were described.
It is hard to truly review this tale element by element as it is so original and well written I would need my own endnotes to truly do it justice. Suffice it to say I found it an amazingly enjoyable, gripping read. Bottom line as I said this is usually found in horror section and although it contains graphic material it really is just a really great novel that happens to be scary. Even if you are not a horror fan I can see anyone who likes a good story really praising this book.
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If Stephen Graham Jones' wickedly clever "Demon Theory" were to ever be made into an actual film, the witty tagline might go something like this: "Someone has taken his love of MLA too far." Culled from the fictional case notes of the fictional Dr. Neider at the equally imaginary Owl Creek Mental Facilities, "Demon Theory" is presented as a three-part novelization of the movie trilogy "The Devil Inside", based on the (you guessed it) fictional best-selling novel inspired by said notes. Part literary film treatment, part pop culture lexicon, "Demon Theory" tells a triptych of interconnected stories (imagined here as sequels) concerning a group of Midwestern med school pals and their encounters with the nasty titular creatures. Imagine throwing "Jeepers Creepers", the "Scream" films, TV's "Grey's Anatomy", and Paul Thomas Anderson's "Magnolia" into a blender and mixing on high.
In part one, or Demon Theory 16, Hale, Nona, Con, and gang leave the trick-or-treat festivities of a Halloween party behind when Hale's diabetic mother calls with a medical emergency. Faster than you can utter the words trapped-at-an-isolated-country-house-in-a-snowstorm, these future doctors of America find themselves slasher fodder for a demon with an axe to grind (or in this case, garden shears). Part two, or Demon Theory 17, finds much of the gang, in one (re)incarnation or another, reunited in a hospital at Christmastime in a breathless, action-packed "Aliens" meets "Halloween II" roller coaster ride of gory entrails and acidic demon blood. Finally, in the third and final Demon Theory 18, several of the battle-weary characters return to the scene of the crime in order to figure the whole existential mess out. The layers of narrative unfurl at just the right moments throughout when the reader's mind has been gloriously stretched to its outer limits keeping track of this richly plotted tale.
Using liberal doses of footnotes as the literary equivalent of pop-up videos, Jones creates a blood-soaked textbook of pop culture reference and epitomized post-modernism with "Demon Theory". He fashions a unique literary hybrid - part novel, part reference book - and seemingly satirizes the post-"Scream" self-awareness of the horror genre while lovingly chronicling it down to its last obscure nuance one footnoted annotation at a time. But in between the definition of retroactive continuity, Clive Barker quotes, deliberations of who rightfully deserves the very first scream queen title, and the etymology of the word bumf*ck, Jones powers through a gripping narrative rich with convincing dialogue, atmospheric suspense, and an ample gore quotient.
Lazy readers beware; "Demon Theory" is the anti-beach read. Jones challenges with an intricate read, at times frustrating and distracting until readers hit their stride shifting from footnote to narrative and back again against the backdrop of screenplay jargon. Although Jones offers no easy mass-market thrill rides here, the payoffs are well worth the workout of little gray cells. The ingenuity of "Demon Theory" is the true marvel at work here, presenting as the intellectual literary cousin of Wes Craven's "Scream" trilogy. This cerebral terror trip is made even more so by Jones' staunch refusal to lay his cards out on the table as to whether "Demon Theory" is an application of intellectualism to the horror genre or tongue-in-cheek boyhood homage to a genre he clearly loves. No, he's far too skilled a writer for that, his "Demon Theory" far too superior a novel.
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Take every slasher horror convention you've ever seen on screen and deconstruct it on the page, with characters who are somewhat aware that they are part of the genre. The book is at once familiar and wholly original. It's sort of the literary equivalent of "Scream" (when it very first came out and everyone was excited, anyway). Told as a trilogy, each "part" actually reads like a movie sequel (except that the third part is the best of the three). At very first I thought some of the dialogue was a bit stale, but it's totally in service to the genre, and the archetypes become funny over time. Jones has a great gift for description, and you'll find yourself reading some passages a second time just to savor it.
Not many complaints. The footnotes can be a little distracting if you let them, which I didn't. I read some and skipped many, as I grew up with all the same pop culture and understood the references. I recommend reading each of the three sections of this book without putting it down for too long, as it can be a little hard to keep track of time and place in spots. The characters are all introduced at once, so at very first it's difficult to keep them distinct in your mind until we learn more about them. I would've prefered more gradual introductions.
If you're looking for a fresh take on horror, and especially if you grew up in the 80s, this is for you.
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