Brad Jones

This is a book written by Brad Jones, who plays The Cinema Snob, one of my favorite Internet reviewers. He specializes in horror, exploitation, and lower-than-low budget movies. The kind of stuff that even MST3K wouldn’t touch. And I guess he finally watched enough that he had to spew them back out somehow.

What I’m saying is, come into this expecting the same raw, grainy “first-time indie film” style used in Hobo with a Shotgun, Slumber Party Massacre, Hobgoblins, etc. That’s how Brad Jones rolls. He’s a “first iteration era” YouTuber, a humorist, but he hasn’t learned how to write a novel yet. This is a self-published work and it lacks the refinement of editing or proofreading that comes with multiple revisions. It lacks an eye to perfection. Which is fine if you’re making a cut-throat film. But as a reader, I expect more.

That’s not to say there are no good ideas in this. The characters act like silly caricatures, but that is the point. It’s like bizarro fiction. The story is like a combination of Class of Nuke’em High and My Bloody Valentine. It just means Brad Jones is not a writer of books. Maybe that’s just the book snob in me talking. I’d love to see what he can do when he really applies himself to the text.… (altro)