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title = "How To Survive A Horror Movie - Seth Grahame-Smith"
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date = 2020-03-06
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[taxonomies]
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tags = ["books", "reviews", "movies", "horror", "seth grahame-smith",
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"2 stars", "books:2020"]
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[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/293217.How_to_Survive_a_Horror_Movie):
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From ghosts, vampires, and zombies to serial killers, cannibalistic
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hillbillies, and haunted Japanese videocassettes, How to Survive a Horror
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Movie shows how to defeat every obstacle found in scary films.
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{{ stars(stars=2) }}
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Honestly, I'm not sure who this book is targeted at.
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At first, I thought it would examine all the clichés on horror movies that
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made the hero survive everything till the end. But the narration style
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sometimes puts you as just someone living in the same world, sometimes it puts
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you as the protagonist, sometimes you can engineer your way around every
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problem, sometimes you have to force the screenwriter to do something (so you
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don't actually _do_ whatever you need to do, you force someone else to make
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you do something), sometimes you force the "movie" to move faster without the
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screenwriter support... It is a huge hodgepodge of ways, and no consistency
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between them.
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To be fair, I'm not a fan of horror movies (the book came from a Humble Bundle
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pack) so I may appear a bit hard on the author, but still...
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