Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to another retro book review. Today we are talking about Dean Kunz's The Fun House. This, in case you do not know, the history of this book is based on a script by Larry Block. So it is a novelization of the Toby. Toby is a Toby. I think it's Toby Hoopers movie The Fun House. The odd thing about this is the movie was delayed so long that the novelization came out before the movie did. And Dean Kunz published it under his horror pseudonym Owen West. I loved this book when I was a kid. This version came out in 19 June 1994. I was 14. I remember buying it off of the rack at Lucky's grocery store in Fontana, California. Either that or it was San Bernardino. I can't remember which one. I don't even think Lucky's is around anymore. Any California folks want to let me know if Lucky's is still around? I remember Stater Brothers and Lucky's and a couple other places. And I had these wire racks instead of end caps. I remember they had these wire racks, not groceries. I got gas stations. I remember seeing and going to Dean Kunz and buying it off the rack with some of my fun money. But my mom wouldn't let me read this stuff. This is still around the time of the great book closet. I found in the channel you might have heard me reference that before. She used to keep all of her adult horror novels in a closet. She had a walking closet and they were all stacked up. There was no bookshelves. She kept the bookshelves out in the living room. She kept them all stacked up there in the closet. And I wasn't allowed to go in there to get the books. Those were her adult books. I was not allowed to go in there to get the books. I was not allowed to go in there to get the books. I was not allowed to go in there to get the books. I was not allowed to go in there to get the books. I was not allowed to go in there to get the books. I was not allowed to go in there to get the books. 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He was a great book. He was a great book I'm saying, Dully, I hope that's correct. Dully, if that is not correct, you will let me know. I'm sure in an email. I'm sorry. I've been pronouncing it wrong this entire time. We tried to read it and I couldn't get through it. It was so bad. The plot holes. The writing. It was just utterly atrocious. Now I have went back and watched the Tobey Hooper movie again and I love that. So I'm not exactly sure why I just like the book so much. Maybe there's some differences in the storyline as far as the internal dialogue and the reasoning for certain characters that you don't get in the movie. I couldn't finish the book and I don't remember enough about it. About the first time I read it other than I loved it. But 14-year-old me probably loved it because it was very brutal, very gory. I believe there's a scene where a head rolls up to our protagonist on an a roller coaster ride or something like that. I also remember the movie. The special effects of the movie are terrible but it's in a fun way. The monsters head-faced deformation of his cranium is cheesy as hell but I enjoyed it. In a visual aspect it was fine. It was great as a film. It was fine. Because with a film it only took up an hour and a half of my life whereas the book is 340, 340, 330 something on pages long. If I read it or only go on about 50-60 pages a day so that's a week of my life I'm not going to get back. I decided to quit it. If we had started reading it later on when I was bound set and determined to reread all of his stuff I would have forced myself to finish it like I did with the House of Thunder. If any book needed to be quit that one was. But this one I would recommend it to people who like cheesy horror novels. I wouldn't pay too much attention to the actual plot or the plot. The motivations of the characters. If you do you're probably going to have a bad time. All of Stephen King's, oh, Freudian slip. Just like all of the Inkun's stuff, his characters are forgettable. There's no end to the comments on my Inkun's reviews that say, hey, I just, that was one I just got for the House of Thunder where the person said, I read this not too long ago, gave it 4 stars but I can't remember anything about the book. That's Inkun's in a nutshell. There's nothing really memorable about his stuff. But if you're just looking for dumb fun. I would say this is the closest thing to a Richard Laman experience you're going to get from Inkun's. It really reminded me of that. Richard Laman's stuff was a little bit better than my experience with this. But it's far below like the likes of like if you're talking about other people, paperback horror authors, far below the likes of like Bentley Little and Jack Catch and that kind of thing. You're well below that. In fact, I would probably put it more on the line of I don't even know. I would say it's closer to like the indie horror you're getting nowadays without all the errors. So if you're into that kind of thing, definitely jump on this because it is, it's fun if you can turn your brain off. Unfortunately, the older I get, the harder it is for me to turn my brain off. I've worked with some fantastic editors and writers in my day and I just can't do it anymore. That's unfortunate because I enjoyed these books when I was younger. But nowadays all I can see are the problems with the story and the writing. So if you don't mind that, those, if you don't mind that aspect being on the poor to bad side, then definitely check it out. But for me, I mean, I'm going to give it one step. I couldn't even finish it. So it's an easy one-star for me. But if you read the fun house, what did you think about it? Let me know down there in the comments below or in the doobly-doo. I know, you should be all like, what are these comments you were talking about? I know the, down there in the doobly-doo. But until next time, I have been you, you have been you. This has been the book review. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye-bye!