If you only read one zombie book this year, read this one." Never mind that the Duluth Plains Dealer doesn't appear to be a real paper publication or even a blog.
A blurb on the cover of the book quotes The Duluth Plains Dealer calling the book "Uproariously funny. Ultimately it spins Norman Rockwell as Norman Bates, or rather the reanimated mother of Norman Bates.ĭon't just take Fangoria's word for it.
The story seems straightforward: idyllic small town overcome with the undead leaving polite, Midwestern townsfolk to act more Miami Vice than Minnesota nice. "Geillor presents the meat of the story in bits and pieces and leaves it up to the reader to mentally reassemble them into a complete picture." Not that you'd expect a deconstructionist critique from Fangoria (more like a decapitationist), but it's a favorable write-up, calling it "a well-crafted play in three acts," the second of which is a "collage of events that is beautifully crafted in a non-linear way."Īnd in true Fangoria fashion, the writing is a bit cheeky. Paul bookstore, Common Good Books, to hold a book signing - unless things are signed in Geillor's blood.)īut I did read a review of the book in the literary digest Fangoria magazine, a fanzine for horror movies. (Don't expect Keillor to mention the book when he takes the stage at Trollwood Performing Arts School on Wednesday. Now, in the interest of full disclosure, I haven't read "Zombies" because the book doesn't come out until Sept. A grim, strikingly tall man with rather pale complexion and deep, monotone voice, Keillor doesn't really need any more comparisons to the undead. In the spirit of "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" and "Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters," "The Zombies of Lake Woebegotten" parodies the fictional works of Minnesota's own Garrison Keillor. Try cracking the spine of "The Zombies of Lake Woebegotten," by Harrison Geillor. I've got a title you can really sink your teeth into. Looking for a late-summer read and wanting something more substantial than the latest "Twilight" knock-off but more fun than Jonathan Franzen's latest greatest, most American-est novel?
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