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For the faculty, students, and alumni of Bendleton University, The Literary Six was the scourge of its collective existence for four long years. Notorious across the campus for its snobby witticisms and scathing critiques of the university, its faculty, its students, and its founders, this elite group of college literati fashioned itself in the likeness of Dorothy Parker and the Algonquin Round Table - an irreverent group of playwrights, theatre critics, and novelists who regularly lunched at the historic Algonquin Hotel in the 1920s. Indeed, graduation day for the members of The Literary Six brought a sigh of relief for many on the receiving end of the group's caustic pen. As members of The Literary Six disbanded after graduation and went on to pursue careers as successful novelists, journalists, publishers, editors, and academics, they made a pact to reunite and celebrate the glory days of their scandalous collegiate association. This year, the six members of the infamous literary club are making their way to Shelter Rock Island, to the home of fellow member and bestselling authoress Taylor Miller and her television producer husband for a New Year's Eve weekend of rekindled friendships, reminiscing, and unrequited love. But this year's annual reunion will be like no other; a face from their collective past will be joining them. And as the island is cut off from the mainland in a winter storm that blankets the New England coastline, the members of The Literary Six will face retribution for the sins committed through their literary transgressions at the hands of a malevolence none of them could have conjured in the deepest recesses of their creative minds. And as the snow falls in silence around them, The Literary Six will begin to fall, one by one, and a desperate struggle for survival will unfold.… (plus d'informations)
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Missing heads, hot tub sex, unspeakable secrets, old boyfriends, blood on the snow of stormy winter nights—Vince A. Liaguno’s debut novel, The Literary Six, has all the right ingredients for thrilling and chilling.
The story opens on New Year’s Eve, 1982, in a smoky college bar where several friends, members of a group of bookish self-admirers called the The Literary Six, have gathered to plot the personal and professional demise of a loathsome English lit professor. It’s their last year together, for they’re all seniors, and they want to make a statement worthy of their legend.
Jump ahead twenty years and the group is gathering for its annual reunion—this year to be held at an island summer resort owned by Taylor Miller’s husband, Taylor being the only member of The Literary Six to have really made it as a writer.
The problem is, that it isn’t summer, it’s New Year’s Eve and a nor’easter is blowing in, threatening a brutal weekend for the college chums. Brutal not just for the weather: stowed aboard the luxury powerboat ferrying the merry group to Shelter Rock is a stalker, a masked killer, a man with a female human head for luggage.
A set-up full of atmosphere—jealousy, alcohol, money, lust—and the story really takes off when the guests put on their party clothes and begin to disappear, one by one, a la Christie’s Ten Little Indians. But, getting to this point in the narrative has required a good deal of slogging through unwieldy sentence construction and awkwardly unnatural vocabulary. Redundancies, anachronisms and a certain amount of wobbling between tenses also haunt the first half of the text. The entire book could have used a thorough and professional editing for it’s obvious that Liaguno has the chops for action, atmosphere and sex. Midway through, when the language loses its self-consciousness in rush of good story-telling, Liaguno shines.
He stood there in the middle of the walkway for a moment, as they stared in horror. Then, raising the pickaxe, he smashed one of the overhead bulbs on his left, then one on his right, alternating as he moved toward them. A growing patch of darkness spread behind the would-be executioner on the walkway.
Liaguno is a writer to keep an eye on. The murder is hot, the sex is steamy and his sense of momentum from scene to scene, spot-on. The series of short scenes, movie-like, that lead to the denouement deserves wholeheartedly the genre description, HORROR.
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For the faculty, students, and alumni of Bendleton University, The Literary Six was the scourge of its collective existence for four long years. Notorious across the campus for its snobby witticisms and scathing critiques of the university, its faculty, its students, and its founders, this elite group of college literati fashioned itself in the likeness of Dorothy Parker and the Algonquin Round Table - an irreverent group of playwrights, theatre critics, and novelists who regularly lunched at the historic Algonquin Hotel in the 1920s. Indeed, graduation day for the members of The Literary Six brought a sigh of relief for many on the receiving end of the group's caustic pen. As members of The Literary Six disbanded after graduation and went on to pursue careers as successful novelists, journalists, publishers, editors, and academics, they made a pact to reunite and celebrate the glory days of their scandalous collegiate association. This year, the six members of the infamous literary club are making their way to Shelter Rock Island, to the home of fellow member and bestselling authoress Taylor Miller and her television producer husband for a New Year's Eve weekend of rekindled friendships, reminiscing, and unrequited love. But this year's annual reunion will be like no other; a face from their collective past will be joining them. And as the island is cut off from the mainland in a winter storm that blankets the New England coastline, the members of The Literary Six will face retribution for the sins committed through their literary transgressions at the hands of a malevolence none of them could have conjured in the deepest recesses of their creative minds. And as the snow falls in silence around them, The Literary Six will begin to fall, one by one, and a desperate struggle for survival will unfold.
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The story opens on New Year’s Eve, 1982, in a smoky college bar where several friends, members of a group of bookish self-admirers called the The Literary Six, have gathered to plot the personal and professional demise of a loathsome English lit professor. It’s their last year together, for they’re all seniors, and they want to make a statement worthy of their legend.
Jump ahead twenty years and the group is gathering for its annual reunion—this year to be held at an island summer resort owned by Taylor Miller’s husband, Taylor being the only member of The Literary Six to have really made it as a writer.
The problem is, that it isn’t summer, it’s New Year’s Eve and a nor’easter is blowing in, threatening a brutal weekend for the college chums. Brutal not just for the weather: stowed aboard the luxury powerboat ferrying the merry group to Shelter Rock is a stalker, a masked killer, a man with a female human head for luggage.
A set-up full of atmosphere—jealousy, alcohol, money, lust—and the story really takes off when the guests put on their party clothes and begin to disappear, one by one, a la Christie’s Ten Little Indians. But, getting to this point in the narrative has required a good deal of slogging through unwieldy sentence construction and awkwardly unnatural vocabulary. Redundancies, anachronisms and a certain amount of wobbling between tenses also haunt the first half of the text. The entire book could have used a thorough and professional editing for it’s obvious that Liaguno has the chops for action, atmosphere and sex. Midway through, when the language loses its self-consciousness in rush of good story-telling, Liaguno shines.
He stood there in the middle of the walkway for a moment, as they stared in horror. Then, raising the pickaxe, he smashed one of the overhead bulbs on his left, then one on his right, alternating as he moved toward them. A growing patch of darkness spread behind the would-be executioner on the walkway.
Liaguno is a writer to keep an eye on. The murder is hot, the sex is steamy and his sense of momentum from scene to scene, spot-on. The series of short scenes, movie-like, that lead to the denouement deserves wholeheartedly the genre description, HORROR.
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