Tag Archives: dark humor

the suicide shop — jean teulé

this is a pre­view of the sui­cide shop — jean teulé. read the full post (234 words & 1 image, esti­mated 56 secs read­ing time)
October 2, 2008 – 15:55 | by eb | posted in foreign, humor | tagged , , , , | 26 views comments (0)

what we did on our holidays — geoff nicholson

3 stars

Eric has a great idea: going on hol­i­day with his wife and two teenage chil­dren. The chil­dren will be leav­ing the nest soon and Eric wants one last vaca­tion with all four of them together as a fam­ily. So off they go to the Trallee and car­a­van park. Eric decides to keep a jour­nal of this last trip with his whole fam­ily to keep the good mem­o­ries for future times. What Eric didn’t know was that all the things he has to write in his jour­nal aren’t happy times, but are sit­u­a­tions that go from bad to worse. And just when he thinks there isn’t any worse to come, he gets dis­ap­pointed again, because there seems to be no limit to what he has to endure. It surely turns out to be a hell of a vacation!

this is a pre­view of what we did on our hol­i­days — geoff nichol­son. read the full post (180 words & 1 image, esti­mated 43 secs read­ing time)
December 10, 2007 – 10:27 | by eb | posted in general fiction, humor | tagged , , | 7,771 views comments (2)

bedlam burning — geoff nicholson

4 stars

Mike Smith is a hand­some but rather tal­ent­less crea­ture. After his uni­ver­sity days he works at a book­store as an archivist, when a guy he knows from col­lege, Gre­gory Collins, has an announce­ment. He has writ­ten a book, but wants Mike’s photo to go on the back cover. Mike is not too enthu­si­as­tic about the idea, but after Gre­gory con­vinces Mike that it would be a good joke, he agrees. When Gre­gory is then invited to do a book read­ing and Mike has to pre­tend to be him, the ball really starts rolling. He gets the oppor­tu­nity to be assigned as a writer-in-residence in a men­tal insti­tu­tion and after dis­cussing this with Gre­gory, he accepts the posi­tion. And while being there with the strange patients and even stranger staff, the plot thick­ens and thick­ens until finally the bomb explodes.

this is a pre­view of bed­lam burn­ing — geoff nichol­son. read the full post (177 words & 1 image, esti­mated 42 secs read­ing time)
August 11, 2006 – 14:51 | by eb | posted in general fiction, humor, recommendations | tagged , , , , | 1,618 views comments (1)

the bonfire of the vanities — tom wolfe

3 stars

Sher­man McCoy has every­thing: a top job on Wall street, a great apart­ment on Park Avenue, a wife, a beau­ti­ful daugh­ter and a mis­tress. In short: he is “the Mas­ter of the Uni­verse”. Until one evening, he picks up the mis­tress from the air­port and gets lost in the Bronx; not the best neigh­bor­hood for two wealthy peo­ple in a Mer­cedes on a late night. The Mer­cedes is stuck on a ramp and two col­ored men come up to them with the ques­tion if they need any help. Sher­man feels attacked and hits one of the men. The mis­tress gets behind the wheel and runs over the other man. Then, together with Sher­man she dri­ves away. They decide to not inform the police and that is the start of the way down of Sher­man. His whole ‘empire’ starts to crum­ble away under­neath him and his life will never be the same.

this is a pre­view of the bon­fire of the van­i­ties — tom wolfe. read the full post (209 words & 1 image, esti­mated 50 secs read­ing time)
June 16, 2006 – 16:16 | by eb | posted in into movies, recommendations, thrillers | tagged , , , , | 1,323 views comments (1)