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by: Nick Mamatas
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780809556731
ISBN: 0809556731
Label: Prime Books
Manufacturer: Prime Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 160
Publication Date: April 12, 2006
Publisher: Prime Books
Sales Rank: 321283
Studio: Prime Books
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The year is nineteen-sixty-something, and after endless millennia of watery sleep, the stars are finally right. Old R'lyeh rises out of the Pacific, ready to cast its damned shadow over the primitive human world. The first to see its peaks: an alcoholic, paranoid, and frightened Jack Kerouac, who had been drinking off a nervous breakdown up in Big Sur. Now Jack must get back on the road to find Neal Cassady, the holy fool whose rambling letters hint of a world brought to its knees in worship of the Elder God Cthulhu. Together with pistol-packin' junkie William S. Burroughs, Jack and Neal make their way across the continent to face down the murderous Lovecraftian cult that has spread its darkness to the heart of the American Dream. But is Neal along for the ride to help save the world, or does he want to destroy it just so that he'll have an ending for his book?
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Rating:  - lol premise.
Normally, this is the sort of book I would avoid with a "you gotta be kidding me," snort. The premise-- Jack Kerouac meeting the Lovecraftian Deep Beasties-- sounds like a bad joke, a juvenile wankfest in the land of the lame. And that would have been the end of it.
It's rare for me to find myself slapped in the face with "don't judge a book by it's cover," but this is profoundly one of those times. "Move Under Ground" makes what could seriously have been a goofy, mawkish premise and ... Read More
Rating: - Wow
Move Under Ground is one of those rare novels that truly breathes new life into an old genre...in this case the Chthulu Mythos cycle of stories. Author Nick Mamatas grabs the mythos and throws it to hell into left field by sticking Jack Kerouac into the mix. Now, that's the kind of plot device that sounds like it came into the author's head after a long night of hard drinking in a seedy bar far off the mainstream footpath...but that's not how it reads. Mamatas brings a sober intelligence and dry ... Read More
Rating: - Jack Kerouac Would Be Proud...
Jack Kerouac and the beats hit the road and never looked back, digging the bop in clubs across the nation, making love to who and what they met and marrying repeatedly, only to cross the country on a hitching jag and send long-distance for a divorce to marry the next girl. Except, what if those beats got older? What if they REALLY had some power in those over-stimulated minds? What if they had to save the world?
Followers of the "beat" authors, Kerouac, Kesey, and others, a generation ... Read More
Rating: - Good Stuff.
This is an excellent novel. I'm pretty much over Lovecraft's work these days, and I'm not that interested in Mythos fiction because so much of it is just plain bad--and I haven't liked any Kerouac I've read--but I enjoyed the hell out of this book from start to finish. I bought a copy a while back and gave it away to a friend I knew would love it as much as I did. I've just bought a replacement copy for myself, and I've resolved to pimp this book relentlessly to my friends. Good good stuff, and I'd love ... Read More
Rating:  - Wow.
Nick Mamatas, Move under Ground (Night Shade Books, 2004)
Nick Mamatas does more than fulfill the promise of his first novella, Northern Gothic, in his debut novel. In fact, he's more than fulfilled the promise of any five young new writers. No matter how you end up feeling about the book itself, you just have to admire the guy's hubris at attempting to take two subgenres of fiction that passed the cliché stage decades ago and add in the exceptionally risky practice of incorporating historical ... Read More
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