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Yup. I read this book last week that captivated me from cover to cover. If you knew me you would know that this rarely happens. Ever. I tend to pick them apart and critique them to death- another reason I have a problem watching most movies by the way.

It's called Monster by A. Lee Martinez: [link] When I saw that cover the little graphic designer in me (that won't die no matter how little I feed it) jumped up and down and went 'Oh look, it's calling back to those old movie posters from those old bad B movies from back in the day. Oh, look how tongue and cheek it is....' Plus it was a big yellow book with vectors in a section full of sucky photo manipulation and bad paintings (a-la the Fantasy section, you know you're awful, don't deny it). How could I not see it glowing in the middle of all of that? And after seeing the design and reading a little on the back (to see the complete cover design) I opened the book and read the first little bit, which had a pretty awesome setup about Yetis and icecream. I showed it to my husband, who bought it without asking me... he thought it looked pretty good.

So I took it back to the hotel and read it almost strait through... I tried to leave bits for myself later so that I could enjoy it more and savor the flavor, kindof like the last piece of chocolate in a box. But like the last piece of chocolate, it didn't last long. I LOVED this book. It has over the top, nonsensical characters and situations that are totally believable- there are no plot holes, no dry parts, nothing that doesn't make sense (in it's own way). The book just came out in May, which must be why I hadn't heard of it yet... it should be a best seller, and someone should turn it into a movie. It kindof reminds me of Hellboy (the 1rst movie, not the comics) but better, with the Nazi's replaced with a crazy cat lady who has something to do with the creation of the universe.

Just go read it. I don't plug unless no one else is, and if it's THAT good. Oh, to be fair, there is some occasional cursing from Monster (the main character obviously) but it kindof rounds out his character so it really didn't bother me. If someone like him was around he would probably speak just like that. And there is one sex scene, but it's not graphic in any way and the demanding sucubus (she really is one... from hell and everything) never stopped reading her magazine, and the guy just wanted to go to sleep. It reminds me of that casual sex picture that's floating around here on dA somewhere. Really funny.

READ IT: [link]