Rick Moody

Montese Crandall, a down-on-his-luck writer with a wife who is gravely ill, pens a novelization of the 2025 remake of a 1963 horror movie, wherein an animated dismembered arm, missing its middle finger, is the only remanent that returns to Earth from a mission to Mars. By the author of The Ice Storm.

A Novel

The Four Fingers of Death

Bob Simone

This book is divided into 4 parts. The first part is a fake forward from the author and I found it super boring. The next part is super awesome. Next comes a fake interlude by the author which is equally boring. Then comes a book adapted from a screenplay (?) which was really bad. The premise is that the story is really bad, but I don't know why the author forced me to actually read it. Actually, he did not, book club did. And it didn't really force that hard, I skimmed most of it.

The whole book is almost 800 pages, but the 400 that make up part two are the only ones you should read. The four stars are for this section Feel free to tear out the rest of the pages and use them for food or kindling. The other sections get 2 stars.

The Four Fingers of Death A Novel

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