Booktalk - How to Survive a Horror Movie

Have you ever seen a horror movie? Have you ever wanted to jump into the movie screen and smack the main character upside the head? Have you ever been alone in the house at night and thought you saw a hooded man standing outside your window? Then this book is probably for you.

In this practical self-help book you will be bombarded on every page with useful, life saving advice such as:

• Did your car break down in a corn field at night? Is no one else around? You walk home. You do not ask for directions.You do not walk toward that light in the distance. You stay on the road, dummy. You stay on the road!
• Are you having a late at night out with friends? Is everyone drunk? Has someone in a polo shirt and/or miniskirt just suggested you all go break into an abandoned building? You go home! You go home right now, sleep it off, and tomorrow? You get some new friends! All those other guys are dead.
• Has an old man just tottered up to you and started telling you that an item on your person is cursed? Don't you laugh at him. Don't you call him an old fool. You nuke that item from SPACE! Also, give that man a tip. He just saved your life.

Additional chapters include an in-depth test to find out if you are currently living in the Terror-verse. It even gives you the tools you will need to pin down the exact genre, movie budget, and time period of horror you are living in.

A goofy look at the themes, memes, and tropes of the horror genre this books is a great read for fans, a great resource for writers, and just plain fun for everyone else.

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Article response: As for the statement that we should only booktalk books we have read and loved, I have a couple of different issues with that. After all, there are plenty of times when not having read the book wouldn't be too much of any issue (e.g. at the beginning of a summer reading program/book club/class or study.) I think there are also books  that you can describe quite accurately and clearly without having read them. Many non-fiction books could be well represented even if you have only read a summary, a review or two, and/or skimmed the book in part. In a lot of ways non-fiction books are more pigeon hole capable than many fiction books. However, as someone who mostly reads non-fiction for assignments and schoolwork and not for fun I could easily be wrong on that front.