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I've been a fan of DJK for some time, reading his short stories online. Couldn't wait for this. Was not disappointed. Never am with DJK. His work is always unique and he has a distinct style and voice. It's always a wild ride. When I'm done with a piece of his work, I'm always thinking, "How the heck did he just do that?" This novella is great fun, never quite what you think, but it never is with DJK. No wonder he won a Spinetingler award for Best Short Story on the web in 2012. Highly recommended.


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Zee Bee Bee aka Zombie Bed Breakfast David James Keaton 9781611990409 Books Reviews

I really enjoyed this book. I'm not going to make any half hearted attempts to analyze the writing style, the plot, or to make myself sound more well read than I am. It was a damned fun read. I pay attention to zombie movies, and any review would be remiss without mentioning your favorite movie in the genre. Mine's Fido. (It's Edward Scissor Hands meets Night of the Living Dead meets American Beauty.)

Here's what I look for in a good zombie tale.

Shock me. Show me a callous indifference toward lost humanity in a way that chills me.

That's what I want to see done in a zombie movie (or in this case, a zombie novella). Give me one, at least one good cringing shudder. This story delivers. The writing is smart and funny, but the shock scene is almost as disorienting as it is shudder-inducing.

I'd have paid more.
David James Keaton's novella is a witty, surreal, outrageously original take on the zombie genre. The story sees guests pay to take part in a 'Night of the Living Dead' style apocalyptic scenario. Actors playing zombies stage an assault on an isolated farmhouse where the guests are holed up. But as the night progresses both actors and guests start becoming dangerously committed to their roles. The plot, then, is a little thin. But the plot is never really the point in Keaton's book - the point is the characters and the razor-sharp dialogue. Not a trait you'd usually associate with genre fiction, but then this isn't your typical zombie story. Zee Bee & Bee sets out to deconstruct the genre in much the same way as Scream. Its characters churn out an endless stream of movie trivia, referencing a lot of films I've seen and even some I haven't (and believe me I've seen way too many films). Far from being a sneering parody of the genre, though, it's more a kind of extended love letter from a horror film fanatic to every zombie flick ever made, particularly Romero's 'Holy Trinity'. The comparisons to Scream are obvious, but the film the first two-thirds of the novella really made me think of was 'Clerks'. The employees at Zee Bee & Bee are a bunch of zombie film nerds who spend more time hanging out and shooting the breeze than actually working. So much so, in fact, that I was beginning to get hungry for some flesh-chomping action. Then the last third of the novella kicks in and delivers a satisfyingly gory climax - quite literally in the case of one stomach-churning scene that I'm sure will stay with me for some time. All in all, I'd highly recommend this to horror buffs. But if you don't know the tropes of the genre, you might not get the joke.
Zombie stuff is not generally my cup of tea (I haven't seen nearly all the movies referenced in this novella, thus causing me to miss innumerable references, I'm sure), but I read it because Keaton's reputation proceeds him and then I was quickly hooked from the get-go (and also because I wanted to find out about this zombie drinking game ...).

When they say someone is wildly creative, what they really mean is a writer who comes out with a book like this. You don't often get taken for a house-of-horrors ride by a book, which includes a cast of thousands.

All-around smashing good fun, and you don't have to care a lick about zombies to go along for the ride.
Okay, Kerouac ghosted in my mind. Then the summer I spent dazed and confused -- moving at chemical lightspeed -- working the carney. With it and for it. When you're with it, you don't know from the outside world. It's just you and the other carnies in a canvas walled universe. The only thing relevant is the midway and the joints and the rides and the operators and the owner, remote and scary. And the Marks. Always the Marks spewing cash on sucker bets at the joints or puking up beer and hot dogs onto the midway sawdust. DJK has captured that world and taken it, ahem, a bit farther.
Take warning before you crack the cover on this novel. Plan.
I mean, figure that three, four, five hours after you read sentence one, you will stagger to your feet and hurry for the bathroom because you've been holding off the urgent need to pee for at least an hour. You'll need a BIG glug of water because you're dehydrated from mouth breathing FAST for hours. You'll need a quart of Visine because your eyes will be burning. Yes. It moves just that fast and -- once you start it -- you just ain't gonna stop reading or moving for that matter, because, well, you can't.
This ain't your average Zombie (Don't use that word!)story. It's pretty much every damn Zombie (Don't use that word I said!) story and movie and history and reference and Theodore Sturgeon's Some of Your Blood and Dead Kurt V's Harrison Bergeron Welcome To The Monkey House and Catch 22 and Frankenstein -- Doctor and Monster, both -- and, oh gee, about a billion other references that will suddenly tumble into you mind an hour or a day or, hell for all I know, a lifetime later. And . . .
Oh for gosh sake, buy it and read it. I'm running out of space and time and body parts. And David James Keaton won't eat your face . . . maybe.
This book is awesome!! I was highly entertained by the storyline and could not put the book down once I started. DJK's creative, imaginative, and twisted view of Zombie interaction will have you enthralled! I highly recommend this book.
I've been a fan of DJK for some time, reading his short stories online. Couldn't wait for this. Was not disappointed. Never am with DJK. His work is always unique and he has a distinct style and voice. It's always a wild ride. When I'm done with a piece of his work, I'm always thinking, "How the heck did he just do that?" This novella is great fun, never quite what you think, but it never is with DJK. No wonder he won a Spinetingler award for Best Short Story on the web in 2012. Highly recommended.