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MaxwellDaring
Since: Jan, 2013
1st Apr, 2019 07:22:06 PM
Bumping to ease the yawning madness churning in my core
INSIDE OF YOU THERE ARE TWO WOLVES. BOTH OF THEM WANT YOU TO SHOOT ELVIS.
This has been an enigma for years. There was a period in the late-90's/early-2000's when spy fiction made a comeback, and with it came a distinct style of millennial futurist design that permeated these works. The wraparound shades, the chrome macGuffin, the sleek, organic looking plastic gizmos that were probably brightly colored.
Anyway, deep in this convergence of millennial psy fiction and this distinct futurist design was a toy series, which naturally I don't remember the name of, which markets itself to kids who wanted to be superspies. And for whatever reason, they had a tie-in novel about a group of kids who find an abandoned secret base full of spy equipment. What makes it particularly noteworthy to me is a half-remembered sense that the book was surreal as all hell.
I remember this side character who lives in his car because he couldn't escape the labyrinthine suburbs the characters live in.He asked one of the characters "How's your ping?" as a casual conversation starter somewhere near the beginning of the book. Another point in the novel, a bully is getting attacked by a cat and it goes into absurdly gruesome detail of the wounds being inflicted without ever mentioning blood, but it did mention maggots, and spoiled meat with a color no meat should ever have. Lastly, there was a really long aside unrelated to anything that somehow related to camera angles and man-eating land octopi. I really want to know what novel this was, and I really want to prove to myself that it was as weird as I remember.