Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Recycling The Apocalypse

A Huffingtonian book report.
The loose nuke goes off but doesn't do much damage so nobody really blames the Tea Baggers. The beautiful girl escapes. Our hero pretends he's gone over to the evil public relations firm but really he hasn't. To be continued.

(One sort of touching difference between Circumference and Overton? Only the one with Glenn Beck's name on the cover includes a chapter that begins with the single word sentence "Bacon.")

So why - except for the completely inverted politics -- does The Overton Window read so much like Circumference of Darkness? Because they were written by the same guy, a 52-year-old computer programmer named Jack Henderson.

He gets sole credit on Circumference. (And why shouldn't he? He published it himself.) On Overton, he gets thanked by Beck for "pouring his heart and soul into this project."

And, apparently, his leftover plot.
Now warmed over as well.

2 comments:

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

That plot is robust enough for FOUR books!!

I look forward to seeing it in fake books written by Sarah Palin (just add some wolf-killin') and Lynne Cheney (with a LOT more lesbian sex) in the future.

M. Bouffant said...

Literary Lassitude Ed. Types:

We may continue reprinting one of our favorites soon, just to get in on the apoc-a-thriller trend.

Or we may take a nice nap.