Posts tagged dark humor
what we did on our holidays – geoff nicholson
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!
bedlam burning – geoff nicholson
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.
the bonfire of the vanities – tom wolfe
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.
