jofagobe , Spanish
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Continuing with my new buys (from '23), I just finished reading by .
Back in October I read the synopsis and sample chapters and knew I would like it.
I was right.
A precise blend of trivia and callbacks and a story that mostly moves at a breakneck pace, with impecable prose.
The main idea seems inspired by Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994), but doing much more than what could be done in a 2 hour film.
Recommended.

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A grainy photo of the cover of Burn The Negative, by Josh Winning. The cover has a '90s aesthetic. It shows a red background, silver lettering for the title and author, a cigarette lighter burning up some film negative were we can see a woman looking at us, like touching a glass window. Blurb: "Creepy, twisty, compulsively readable." - Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full Of Ghosts
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    • jofagobe OP ,
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    I hope that this book does come out as a mass-market paperback with a gnarly '90s style cover. It would suit it so well. But since they're being phased-out, I guess we'll only have the trade paperback.

    A film adaptation would also be great, since it gives plenty of opportunities to play with the medium, similar to what Winning does with the interstitials "taken" from print media.

    I would start the film a la Tropic Thunder, with a fake trailer for The Guesthouse.

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