I have been meaning to put the 'nail in the coffin' (so to speak) regarding our last parchment: Rosemary's Baby. Thank you to Von Pluma for reminding me me to do so.In summary, it sounded like everyone enjoyed the book. It was short, simple, and worked well with our tight time constraints.
I think the ending was somewhat disappointing. To me, Ira seemed to forget that he'd written a fairly real and believable book up until the final chapters. I wasn't a fan of the baby with horns and a tail. A little too cliche.
I want to take this opportunity to thank McReadie for allowing me to hold the meeting at his home. Also to Pompous for the fire pit and beer, and to Lieb for the fire log. Sorry if I missed anyone!
Go forth ye seekers of the written word, with thou codpiece in hand.
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I agree on your general takeaways. The book wasn't so dissimilar to Master Lieb's selection in that the reader knew something was going on, but wasn't sure whom to trust. The one difference was that you sort of did know the whole time in Rosemary's Baby, while with Agatha, you didn't. But that was the fun of this book, knowing but still watching it unfold. I agree that the end was a bit cheesy, but overall I really enjoyed it. Quick, easy, fun, entertaining, and it shows that you don't have to have a Nobokov vocabulary to write a good book. Oh, and here's the link I thought I sent. I'm not sure how to insert this as a hyperlink, so I hope you can just copy and paste.
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/movies/2011/12/bad_seed_films_history_of_the_horror_film_genre.html
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