| Title | : | Rock-and-Roll Zombies aus der Besserungsanstalt |
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| Language | : | German |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 |
| Publication | : | First published October 13, 2010 |
Und dann gibt sich nach einem Kometeneinschlag auch noch eine Horde mordlustiger Zombies die Ehre …
Rock-and-Roll Zombies aus der Besserungsanstalt Reviews
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Zombie fiction done well. Not a huge fan of this book, but ti was a fun novella, quick and soaked in viscera. If you are gaga ove the undead, this is well written, and is sure to please.
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Exhibit A to resolve the question: "Will Marvin read anything?"
Rock and Roll Reform School Zombies is the equivalent of a very bad 1980's low budget horror movie but at least it is the equivalent to an enjoyable very bad 1980s low budget horror movie. Mixing not so equal parts of Return of The Living Dead and Reform School Girls, the plot evolves around two teenage headbangers in the Reagan's 80s attempting to bust their friend out of a religious right reformatory designed to remove the corruption of heavy metal and punk rock from delinquent minds. But a meteor crashes nearby causing...what else?...zombies.
There is the makings of a nifty socio-political satire here and the author's over the top writing certainly adds to the fun. But in the last half of the book, it becomes a typical zombie vs. humans bloodbath losing any of the originality that was promised at the beginning. Add to this a depressing epilogue that left a bitter taste in my mouth because it was far from the tongue-in-cheek horror comedy that preceded it. Yet for the most part I enjoyed the novel for its gross-out humor. Wouldn't hurt to get out your old Ramones and Plasmatics vinyls and play them full volume while reading this.
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"Rock and Roll Reform School Zombies" is just as campy as it's title would suggest. This is the first book I've read by the young talented author, Bryan Smith. Though the story comes across very hokey, you can tell that Smith is a smart writer who is capable of bigger, better and smarter stories.
It's not that the story is bad. I felt in the end that perhaps it would have translated better as a graphic novel where a certain level of campiness may work better. Smith prose does shine despite the silly premise of the book. In the end it's just another zombie story and the storyline is nearly unnecessary.
The biggest hang up I had with the book was the "Rock and Roll Reform School" itself. It wasn't really believeable and Smith didn't do much to suspend my disbelief of such a place existing. Added to that was an all-too-easy catalyst to create the zombies. The action was fine and the vile descriptions were vivid. But believability still was a sticking point.
I still feel the writer himself is capable of better things. I fully intend to pick up another Bryan Smith book and give him another try. If you want some easy cheesey reading however, this is your book! -
The idea of a rock and roll reform school was a good idea and adding zombies into the mix made it a must read. And it was really good!
You follow Wayne and Steve going of to rescue Wayne girlfriend Melissa who is an inmate at the school. Things don't go according to plan though as a meteor turns some murdered girls into zombies. What was good was that it jumped from group to group, telling of each part of just why some of the kids were buried in the woods, and it kept it interesting. I love Wayne and Steve, brilliant the both of them, and they didn't think twice of putting there lives on the line.
So it had good bits all wrapped up in a book that ran one night, the headmistress was awful, it was great what happened to her. This was my first Bryan smith book and I'll definitely read more now. So I'd recommend this. -
This was my first book by Bryan Smith and it was a fun one!
Your classic zombie story with some rock and roll mixed in! I am not the biggest fan of zombies but this story kept my attention from start to finish.
3/5 -
Ужасът който обикновено Бриян Смит ни показва в книгите си е изграден изцяло от обикновени хора - деградирали, извратени, жадуващи кръв и насилие – да, но нормални. Паранормалното рядко се появява, а когато го направи е само като екзотична подправка.
На тази база ми беше интересно да видя как се е справил с едно зомби нашествие. Хем добре, хем не чак толкова. Отново най-силната му страна е в социалната сатира, а най-смущаващите образи не са зомби-изродите, а лицемерният и извратен персонал на възпитателното училище, непукизмът на родителите и деградацията на децата. Началото и края са по-добри от наситената с кървава зомби свинщина среда.
Центърът за музикално превъзпитание в централен Илинойс е място където да изпратиш малките си бунтуващи се пънкари преди да са пропаднали в обществото. От там ти връщат стройно мислещи счетоводители, предприемачи и кротки женички-домакини. Когато приятелката на Уейн му се обажда с молба да я измъкне от тази мозъкотопилня, той тръгва готов на всичко, само че не е подготвен за това което следва. Директорка – лесбийка убийца, учители – сексуални маниаци, чистачи – сводници и нашествие от оживели трупове на курви.
Цялата книга съвсем умишлено звучи като кабеларски хорър, без да се набляга на някакви дълбочини. Саундракът ѝ е супер корав (Пърпъл, Мистфитс, Ван Хелън, Ролингстоунс и много други), а всяка глава е пародия на емблематично парче от въпросните. Имената на всички герои пък са намигане към зомби и хорър икони – Ромеро, Руссо, Леймън, Кемпбел... Изобщо си личи, че е писана за кеф и забавление. Голям плюс е малкият обем на книжката – стотина страници.
Леко четиво което не излиза от клишето и докарва усмивка. -
Eine Anstalt, die Jugendlichen ihre Heavy-Metal-Sucht austreiben soll, eine Direktorin deren lesbische S/M-Spielchen außer Kontrolle geraten, ein Hausmeister, der viel mehr eine Art Totengräber ist und als dann auch noch ein Meteroit einschlägt und Zombies aus ihren Gräbern aufstehen ist das Chaos perfekt...
Bei diesen Horrorbuch darf man nicht allzu viel Anspruch erwarten, aber wenn man davon absieht, wird man seine Freude an der Lektüre haben.
Ich habe es fast in einem Rutsch durchgelesen. Bryan Smith ist beim Festaverlag schon immer mein Lieblingsautor. Er schreibt harten Horror. Seine Romane erinnern meist an Slasherfilme, aber er schreibt auch sehr witzig, da er dermaßen skurrile Figuren und Situationen schafft, das man lachen muss, wenn man seinen Humor teilen kann.
Dieser Roman ist ein Extremband und das nicht ohne Grund. Es gibt viele gewaltsame Szenen. Darüber sollte man sich im Klaren sein, bevor man zu diesem Buch greift.
Zum weiteren Inhalt und den Protagonisten/Antagonisten will ich aufgrund der Kürze dieses Romans nicht viel sagen. Es macht viel Spaß sie selbst zu entdecken.
Von mir gibt es 4 Sterne. Ich mag den Schreibstil, die Geschichten und die Figuren des Autors. Er schafft es immer, das ich durch die Seiten fliege, sobald ich ein Buch von ihm angefangen habe. Dennoch gibt es einen Stern Abzug, da ich schon bessere Bücher von ihm gelesen habe.
Diesen Band würde ich nicht unbedingt als erstes Buch von ihm empfehlen. Meine liebsten Bücher von ihm waren und werden wohl immer "Verkommen" und "Todesgeil" bleiben. -
Bryan Smith’s “Rock and Roll Reform School Zombies” is your average teenage boy meets girl who is sent away by her parents to be deprogrammed and “cured” of listening to heavy metal music, runs into homicidal lesbian facility headmistress, and then has to fend off zombies story.
“Rock and Roll Reform School Zombies” is meant to be an homage/parody of “B” or less movies of the 60’s and 70’s. It starts off on a right note, a fast paced Rock ‘n’ Roll tone, hitting the ground running with a sense of the irreverent. But it quickly downshifts a gear or two to a more traditionally written novel, and some of the irreverent attitude is set aside, not totally lost. Every once in a while it will show up in a nicely turned phrase or in the attitude of a character, but the break neck speed is lost, and some of the attitude that pulled you in at the beginning is gone.
In the heavy metal rehabilitation center Smith tries to make the connection that leading a life of conformity and being a Zombie are much alike. Like George Romero did in “Dawn of the Dead,” making zombies a metaphor for conspicuous consumption. But once that makes it’s appearance it is quickly left behind and not reinforced in the characters or action. It feels like Smith had a lot of ideas and tried to have them all included and it seemed he tried to go in too many directions at once. I have to say something about the end, it doesn’t make sense. The heroes do something really stupid, they know they’re doing it and it will precipitate another wave of zombies but they still do it anyway.
Of course if you just want to read about teenage, scantily clad zombies lumbering around chomping on their former friends, the bad guys all get their comeuppance first being masticated by zombies and then the ultimate justice of them getting their heads blown off after they become zombies then “Rock and Roll Reform School Zombies” is for you. -
If ever a novella should have been a full length novel, it's this crazy, balls-to-the-wall, celebration of heavy metal and 80s era zombie flicks like Return of the Living Dead. Throw in an exaggeration of Reagan era politics, and Smith has crafted an incredibly devourable story that wastes not a page in throwing the reader into the midst of the action.
I'm a fan of Smith's seemingly effortless writing style, and that's again on display here. His prose never seems forced and his dialogue feels authentic (ie. 19 year olds speaking like 19 year olds do).
Aside from the relative brevity of the tale, my other concern was the very abrupt and out of left field ending.
Recommended for anyone looking for a quick zombie read that has considerable bite and remembers what the 80s were (sort of) like ...
3.5 Eddie Van Halen solos for Rock and Roll Reform School Zombies. -
Not a bad read. It reads like an 80's horror flick, which a lot of authors are trying to do right now, and this book does it pretty well.
The problem with this, though, is that 80's horror is good because it is so BAD (with, of course, a handful of pretty rad exceptions), and that sense of "oh man! Gimme a break!" does not translate as well to the written word.
That said, the book is a quick, entertaining read, with lots of gore and depravity and rock and roll.
Also, the last three pages really do an incredible job of bringing these somewhat flat characters into a more realistic realm. These last pages were really something special. I just wonder why the author didn't give us more stuff like that throughout the book.
Not too much, mind you. This is pulp.
But a little more would've been nice. -
2 Stars
I never was able to really get into this zombie novella. The characters were just ok, and the zombies were fine as far as the traditional shamblers go. The reform school itself did not work for me. Although I can appreciate the analogies and the symbolism that he used comparing death-metal heads, and flesh-eating undead, I never got it. The zombie action is plenty of fun and filled with grisly details, but it is not enough to carry is book.
In the end, I really didn't care for this novella. -
„Rock-And-Roll-Zombies aus der Besserungsanstalt“ geschrieben von dem Autor Bryan Smith ist der zweite Band der Festa Extrem Reihe. Die Bücher der Reihe sind in sich abgeschlossen, doch wer einmal festafiziert ist, möchte alle weiteren Bände auch lesen. *grins*
Nun habe ich in kürzester Zeit bereits mein drittes Festa Extrem Buch verschlungen. Und ich kann denke ich als kleines Fazit abgeben, dass jedes einzelne der Drei bisher auf seine ganz eigene Art und Weise überzeugt hat. Dieses hat mich sogar noch mehr begeistert, als die Vorherigen. Ob es mein Lieblingsbuch aus dem Festa Verlag ist, bleibt abzuwarten. Doch für mich als Zombiefan spielt dieses Buch bei mir ganz oben mit. *happy*
Die Sprache und Wortwahl ist auch in diesem Festa Extrem Buch leicht zu lesen. Diesmal waren für mich auch keine unbekannten Wörter mehr dabei. *lach* Sehr gut hat mir der Aufbau der Geschichte gefallen. Ich konnte mir das Geschehen so gut vorstellen, die Eltern, die abgeschobenen Kinder, welche eigentlich nur ihren eigenen Weg finden möchten und dann die abartigen Lehrer der Besserungsanstalt. So stelle ich mir die Übergriffe der Kirche an den kleinen Jungs vor! Ekelhaft! Und doch ist daher alles irgendwie nicht weit hergeholt. Erschütternd! In der Besserungsanstalt sind harte Züchtigungen und Vergewaltigungen an der Tagesordnung. Pariert ein Jugendlicher nicht, wird er bestraft. Blutrünstig wird das ganze Buch durch das Auftauchen der Zombies. Durch sie hat die Geschichte für mich auch sofort an Fahrt und Spannung aufgenommen. Sie suchen die Besserungsanstalt auf und irgendwie folgt dann ein kleiner Teil Gerechtigkeit! Aber kommen wir zurück zum eigentlichen Thema. Das zweite Buch der Festa Extrem Reihe ist wieder in Kapitel aufgeteilt. Kurze Kapitel, welche man sich als Leser schnell erließt und dann sagt, eines geht noch usw., bis man irgendwie schnell am Ende ist. *lach* Die einzelnen Kapitelnummerierungen umfassen vor allem auch immer jeweils eine eigene Seite. Dadurch hat man auch das Gefühl sehr schnell im Buch voranzukommen. Außerdem fand ich die Zusammenhänge mit der Musik super! Viele Bandnamen waren mir zwar völlig fremd, doch hat jeder schon mal mindestens zwei bis drei Namen der genannten gehört und kann sich somit vorstellen, um welche Musikrichtung es in diesem Buch geht. Eine tolle Kombination vereint auf 191 Seiten Lesevergnügen!
Das Thema von „Rock-And-Roll-Zombies aus der Besserungsanstalt“ ist mir nicht komplett neu. Als absoluter „The Walking Dead“-Fan sind mir die Zombies nicht unbekannt. *zwinker* Und doch ist die Geschichte ganz anders aufgebaut, was diese Zombiestory für mich superspannend gemacht hat. Doch kommen wir mal zum genaueren Inhalt … Melissa Campbell wird von ihrer Mutter und ihrem Stiefvater in die besagte Besserungsanstalt, welche von der Direktorin Sybil Huffington geleitet wird, abgeschoben. Ihren Eltern passt ihr „harter“ und „unchristlicher“ Musikgeschmack absolut nicht! Nach einer Auseinandersetzung mit dem Lehrer Marc Cheney erfährt Melissa was es bedeutet in der Besserungsanstalt Ärger zu bekommen. Völlig verstört telefoniert sie danach mit ihrem Freund Wayne Deveraux, welcher sofort beschließt sie mithilfe seines besten Freundes Steve Wade da raus zu holen! Eine unglaubliche Rettungsaktion beginnt. *zwinker* Und den Drecksjob in der ganzen Geschichte hat der arme Hausmeister Everett Quigley!
Der Schreibstil von Bryan Smith hat mir gut gefallen. Es wird nicht das letzte Buch gewesen sein, welches ich von ihm gelesen habe. Er hat für mich das gewisse Etwas und daher verwundert es mich nicht, dass er in Rekordzeit zu einem der großen Autoren im Bereich der brutalen Thriller wurde.
Die Protagonisten:
Melissa Campbell lebt in schwierigen Familienverhältnissen. Ihre Mutter ist für die Öffentlichkeit die fleißige Kirchgängerin und im Verborgenen, zu Hause, dauerbesoffen. Dazu kommt, dass Melissa noch einen cholerischen Stiefvater hat. Ihre „Eltern“ verabscheuen Melissas Interesse an der Musik des Teufels und somit steht für die beiden fest, ihre Tochter gehört in die musikalische Umerziehungsanstalt Southern Illinois! Ihren Freund, Wayne Deveraux, welcher bei seinem Vater aufwächst, verwundert es nicht, dass Melissas Eltern diesen Schritt gehen. Es passt zu ihnen! Zu seinem Vater hat Wayne eine gute Beziehung. Anders als sein bester Freund, Steve Wade, welcher aus sehr zerrütteten Familienverhältnissen kommt.
Fazit:
Ein tolles Zombiebuch in einer spannenden Geschichte verpackt! Absolute Empfehlung! Ich bin begeistert.
Mehr Buchrezensionen von mir, findet Ihr auf
http://www.seitenglanz.com. -
Story:
Vergewaltigung, Folter und Gehirnwäsche stehen in einer Besserungsanstalt in Southern Illinois auf dem Stundenplan. Statt Jugendliche im Auftrag bibeltreuer Eltern von ihrer Heavy-Metal-Sucht zu befreien, treiben hinter der biederen Fassade zahlreiche kranke Gestalten ihr Unwesen. Eine Direktorin etwa, deren lesbische S/M-Spielchen ständig außer Kontrolle geraten, ein Hausmeister, der sich als Totengräber verdingen muss, um hinterher die Überreste zu beseitigen, und ein Schließer, dem seine Gier nach Sex zum Verhängnis wird. Und dann gibt sich nach einem Kometeneinschlag auch noch eine Horde mordlustiger Zombies die Ehre.
Fazit:
Zu Beginn von Bryan Smith Zombieromanen, gibt es keine Zombies, die Amok laufen, erst als der Meteor auf der Bildfläche erscheint, beginnen die Toten ihren Amoklauf, ähnlich wie in George A Romeros Erstling. Was mir sehr gefällt, ist das die Zombies im Buch, traditionelle Zombies sind, sie laufen langsam und wollen einfach nur Fleisch, was auch bei diesem Setting einfach besser passt. Es gibt einige sympathische Charaktere, allerdings nicht bei den Erwachsenen, die sind alle die Bösen und leider sehr blass dargestellt, dafür punkten die Kinder mit viel Sympathie und interessanten Geschichten. Wenn man zart besaitet ist, sollte man um das Buch einen Bogen machen, es gibt sehr viel Brutalität und Sex, aber auch etwas Humor. Ich hatte mit den Zombies viel Spaß und gebe ☆☆☆☆ -
Es war kurz und unterhaltsam und so abgedroschen wie manch trashiger Zombiefilm aus den 80ern.
Die Dialoge strotzen nur so vor vulgären Ausdrücken, Flüchen und Anspielungen an billige Z-Movies.
Man kann die Geschichte durchaus gut finden, allerdings war hier nichts schockierend oder besonders abartig. Die von mir geliebte FESTA-Extrem-Manier wird hier bei weitem nicht erfüllt. Dennoch werden hier durchschnittlich brutal Menschen und Zombies getötet. Und ja, auch Sex spielt eine Rolle, wenn auch eine etwas kleinere.
Ist das Buch deshalb so "extrem", weil hübsche Puppenmädchenleichen in kurzen Röcken, engen Blusen und mit mächtigen Titten den Hausmeister kurzzeitig zur Nekrophilie verleiten? Vermutlich.
Oder weil die Alpha-Heimleiterin auf SM-Spielchen steht und dabei versehentlich jemanden umgebracht hat? Mehrmals? Schon möglich.
Auf jeden Fall haben mir die zwei Teeniehelden und ihre brüderliche Freundschaft sehr am Herzen gelegen. Wie sie sich da durchkämpfen und ehrenhaft am Metal festhalten, hach... Einfach toll! Aber besonders herausragend war die Geschichte nicht. Ein netter Snack für zwischendurch, wenn man mal die Seele baumeln lassen möchte. -
Dieses Buch gehört zur extrem Reihe. Man erwartet also jede Menge blutige, eklige Details der oben beschriebenen Dinge. Leider weit gefehlt. Alles kommt zu kurz bis auf die Zombies.
Jedes Mal, wenn eine Szene beschrieben wird, die sich nicht um die Zombies dreht, wie zum Beispiel die perverse Machenschaften der Direktorin, hört die detaillierte und zugegeben gute Beschreibung auf und es wird nur noch grob umrissen, was folgt.
Auch das Ende hat das gleiche Problem. Es wird nur noch grob angerissen was passiert... Im Großen und Ganzen also ein eher enttäuschender Extrem-Band. Wer nur auf Zombieaktion hofft, hat hier aber definitiv ein kurzweiliges Lesevergnügen. -
Ich habe mir dieses Buch bei der LBM gekauft, weil ich endlich auch mal ein FestaExtrem wollte, aber dieses hat mich sehr enttäuscht. Was soll denn daran bitte extrem sein? Die erwähnte Vergewaltigung??? Naja, da habe ich in Büchern über Missbrauchsopfer schon viel schlimmeres gelesen. Auch die Beschreibungen der Zombieangriffe waren eher lahm. Schade eigentlich, denn ich habe schon viel gutes über Festa gehört und ich hatte nun leider eins der lahmen Bücher erwischt. :-(
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Parents.
They just don't understand their own kids and the need to be able to express themselves. They want their kids to grow up to be clones of themselves. And as long as you have parents like that, you will have the need for schools like the Southern Illinois Music Re-Education Center, a private institution dedicated to brainwashing the young adults placed in their care by frustrated parents; however, if those parents only knew the atrocities that were being inflicted upon their children—psychological abuse, rape, and murder—they just might regret their decision to force their children to conform by any means necessary.
This is the setting for Bryan Smith's Rock and Roll Reform School Zombies, which in itself might seem bad enough, especially for those confined within its walls, but all hell is about to break loose.
Melissa Campbell doesn't think things could get any worse. Torn away from her boyfriend and enrolled by her parents in the Southern Illinois Music Re-Education Center, she never expected to be raped by one of her teachers. She's the lucky one because at least she didn't catch the eye of the headmistress. If she had, she might very well be six feet under, a journey one of her housemates has already made, and another who is in the process of making that journey. You see, not only does the headmistress have an eye for the young ladies, she has a taste for hookers and a taste for murder, the ultimate climax in her twisted sex games. Not wanting to face her attacker again, Melissa sneaks a phone call to her boyfriend, pleading with him to come get her and take her away, but afterward she doesn't think that he's going to come through for her, so she has to rely on her one friend in the house to help her get out of there.
Little does Melissa know, her boyfriend, Wayne Devereaux, and his best friend, Steve Wade, are on their way to get her out of there. Neither has a clue as to what they are getting themselves into, only that Melissa is not happy where she is. As they head toward the school, a meteor burns through the sky, crashing into the fields not too far from the school. Meteors crash into the earth all the time, right? So as long as they don't land on you, no harm done, right?
Wrong!
Whether it's from the radiation or some sort of bacteria released upon the meteor's entry into the earth's atmosphere, four dead girls rise from the grave with a hunger for fresh meat. And as is the way with all things zombie, the population begins to grow exponentially, kinda like that old Faberge commercial—they told two friends and they told two friends and so on and so on—and before you know it, the house is overrun with the living dead.
Will Wayne and Steve get to the house in time to save Melissa, or will they become zombie chow before they get through the front door? Will Melissa gain her freedom from the torments of the house, only to become the main course in a zombie smorgasbord?
I wasn't sure what to expect with Rock and Roll Reform School Zombies. I mean, years ago I rented this movie called Hard Rock Zombies, and it turned out to be a bad, campy movie, and even though I knew Smith's novel was classified as horror, I wasn't sure if this was going to be a serious horror novel or something on the quasi-humorous side. I quickly learned that I had nothing to worry about.
Unlike most of the zombie fiction I've been reading, Rock and Roll Reform School Zombies starts at the beginning. There are no zombies running amok when the book starts, and it isn't until the meteor passes that the dead start to rise from their graves. It harkens back to Romero's Night of the Living Dead when news commentator is asking one of the scientists what might have started it all. I was glad to see that, with one or two exceptions, Smith treated zombies in the more traditional manner—mindless shamblers with a hunger for flesh. Had they the more modern twist that seems to be invading so many of the zombies films I've been seeing, i.e., zombies that could easily beat out the fastest runner of the Boston Marathon, I doubt I would have finished reading it.
I also found it interesting that the only likable characters in the book are the kids; they are fully fleshed out and you find yourself rooting for them as they go up against the zombies. Smith's adults, on the other hand, tend to be flat cardboard characters, the bad guys with no redeemable qualities whatsoever. You are meant to dislike them, and Smith goes to the extreme to make sure you don't. You want to seem them fall prey to the walking dead; they are so bad that you don't even want to see them come back as zombies, but as is the nature of the living dead, you know they will. And they do, which only serves to fuel the survival instinct in the kids. I could very easily see a smile on the faces of these kids as they send the zombies back to the hell they came from, especially after they made their lives a living hell when they were alive.
I genuinely liked Rock and Roll Reform School Zombies. Bryan Smith has created a fun, fast-paced tale of the dawning of the zombie apocalypse, and I would definitely recommend it. -
I've read a few Bryan Smith books and for me, he is hit or miss. I'm happy to say that Smith's latest book by Deadite Press is a full-fledged hit. If you grew up nearly worshipping Romero's zombie films along with Return of the Living Dead, then this book is for you. Lots of winks to the reader throughout the story made it even more enjoyable. It has your basic plot, sure, but it moves so fast and with such inspired energy, you can't help but get sucked in and root for the heroes. And while the first half is bit more fun than the second half, the wild frenzy of violence should keep you reading long into the night.
My only real disappointment was with Deadite Press's copy editing. If they can't take the time to clean up punctuation, perhaps they are releasing too many titles. It's a simple process, guys. READ the damn manuscript slowly one time and you will find the errors! With that out of the way, I wholeheartedly recommend "Rock And Roll Reform School Zombies". This book is a great introduction for new readers to experience Bryan Smith. You've got likable characters, ruthless villains, lots of gore, kinky sex, and zombies. What more could you ask for? -
This wasn't the book I set to read. I imagined it to be something like "School of Rock" with Jack Black, but twisted with zoms and shit I guess! Another publisher with a bad judgment on suitable cover pictures... or another reader with a bad judgment on apprehending cover pictures.
Hey, I had no idea that Brokeback Mountain was homoerotic until they started shagging in the tent!! Before that I was like, hey look at those miserable bastards. That's why they don't have any friends. Too ambitious. No social skills. Stop kissing that dude! He doesn't appreciate it.
Well anyways. Potentially to becoming a decent zombie-story. Too hastily written without building a story around the characters or plot, but instead jumping straight into the story. Therefore flat and not really understandable unfortunately. A fast read but nothing spectacular. -
The year is 1987. The Southern Illinois Music Reeducation Center, fronted by a sadistic headmistress, specializes in "de-metaling" teens at any means necessary and corporal punishment seems to be in the lesson plan. Things couldn't possibly get any worse for the students of the SIMRC. That's until a glowing green comet comes hurtling towards earth creating a zombie outbreak. And forget about your typical boring-ass zombies. Think sexy zombie prostitutes and metal-loving schoolgirl zombies.
ROCK AND ROLL REFORM SCHOOL ZOMBIES is a blast! It's fast paced, campy and fun as hell. If you're a fan of 1980's horror flicks, or more specifically RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD, you need to read this book. *Devil horns* -
A fast-paced fun read that harkens back to low budget 80's horror movies. In fact this book reads just like a low budget horror film, tons of blood and gore with a side of cheesiness. I'm not saying this is a bad thing as far as I'm concerned. It gave me a book full of entertainment without some super complicated message that you have to dig deep to find.
I don't think I'd recommend this book to people who aren't fans of low budget horror films. Only because I feel that the elements to this book are so close to those types of movies that if people don't enjoy the movies they won't like this book either. I'd be interested in reading more by Smith just to see where he could take a book/characters that are actually meant to have depth to them. -
The story was okay. The characters were not developed beyond the superficial. The action is predictable and at times seems to get tangled in droning descriptions. The worst part of all this was the simplistic and mean spirited politics, which I can do without from either side of the "aisle." I am particularly tired of the caricatures of religious people being evil and hypocritical. Hypocrisy is the heartbeat hiding under the outer flesh of most people. Stick to entertaining. If I wanted to read an op ed piece, I would seek a well considered venue rather than one established on hyperbole.
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This is a passionate outing, this zombie-lit piece; aimed at a generation raised on movies such as Return of the Living Dead pt. II, and acknowledgement of the roots and associated sub-cultures surrounding the genre. On a personal note, I haven’t had this much giddy fun with a horror book for a while. Smith knows how to shock and awe his readers, and with Rock and Roll Reform School Zombies you can be sure for as wild a ride as any.
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Excellent homage to the 80's and specifically the 1985 classic film Return of the Living Dead and heavy metal music, two of my personal favorite things in life. A funny bizarro take on the 80's and the Reagan and christian conservatives. Ending could have used some work but a fast & fun read overall.
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A quick zombie novella that's set at a school designed to reprogram metal-heads into conservative and average members of society. Of course, the faculty of the institution is far more depraved and degenerate than it's teenaged "prisoners." Add some good ol' zombie action and you've got a fun, albeit twisted story. I didn't much care for the short epilogue, but I loved the rest!
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Although this novel is very short, it took a lot of time to finish. I wasn't curious about what would happen next. I don't think the story itself was bad, but it was dull for me for some reason. If it was a movie, it would be so fun.
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Rock and Roll Reform School was an ok zombie book. It was an alright read, but probably one of my least favorite of Bryan Smith's stuff so far. Not bad, but probably won't be the first book i'd recommend to someone who hasn't read anything by Bryan Smith before.
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Zombies and rock'n'roll. Does exactly what it says on the tin. My only complaints are that the book was very short and ended a tad too abruptly.
