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There was this one series, it may have been by Robert Thurston, I only read the last book, and the author got very silly indeed. It was a sort of Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court deal, and in this last installment, the sorceror who was the recurring villain managed to deduce that he was a character in a book. Narrator: "Uh oh." What followed was an all-out war between author and villain, with characters from his other books being dragged in, hastily-written-in bowling balls rolling off high shelves and knocking the sorceror out, and far too much complaining about having had to write Battlestar Galactica novelisations. I think finally the author tricked the villain into transporting himself into the real world, where his magic didn't work and his claims of sorcerous might got him thrown in the nearest lunatic asylum. But the villain got out, realised a latent genius for business, bought out the publisher, fired the author, and wrote the last chapter.
Did anyone read the novelisation of Gremlins 2? At the point in the film where the Gremlins take over the movie, and if you're watching in a theatre, Hulk Hogan beats them up, and on video, John Wayne shoots them, in the book, the "Brains" gremlin locks the writer in the bathroom and takes over for a while, until the author breaks out with an axe. |
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