The cover of this book is great, an obvious homage to GARBAGE PAIL KIDS, and it delivers on the image. It really delivers. If you want some gory, hilarious fun, pick this up. The cover really says it all. And as a chubby guy, the fat humor is luckily done in a way that doesn't really offend, but celebrates in a black humor way. I strangely got hungry often while reading the book.The best part about CANNIBAL FAT CAMP is the prose and structure of the narrative. Clever devices like forms, letters, and reports help deliver the story in a fresh, hip way. With a huge amount of buildup, we don't see any deaths until 1/3 the way through, which is a huge strength here. There is nothing supernatural about FAT CAMP, it could realistically happen, and the deliberate pace and build up form a real world around the reader. The writing on display here is really wonderful.
It feels mildly like a love-letter to William Golding's LORD OF THE FLIES, but never overtly so. It definitely has its own unique vision, ad the tale is told in a confident way. By virtue of the name alone, you get the idea that CANNIBAL FAT CAMP will eventually have some campers dying, and probably going insane. This delivers.
Camp Tum Tum is an exclusive weight loss camp for the rich and famous parents of the world (to send their kids too). It is on a deserted desert island, that, after you again read the title, you as the reader will "gulp" when you realize how remote it is. You know carnage is coming! FAT CAMP uses the simple one two set up. Step one, they set you up with a great backdrop for the story. Step two, they knock it out of the park and deliver all the gore and madness you would expect from a cover/title like this!
Add in a killer ending, and I give this 5/5 burgers with cheese and onion. Hold the veggies.
Fat is a four letter word. A group of overweight teens head off to an island in hopes of shedding a few pounds at an eight week fat camp. Through an unfortunate event, the kids find themselves without adult supervision. Hormones rage amongst rumbling stomachs as a leader emerges and takes control. The once benevolent king quickly becomes a ruthless dictator. It's survival of the fattest as finding food becomes a daily struggle.
Bram Stoker Award nominee Mark C. Scioneaux and award-winning writer/actor/filmmaker/college professor/pro wrestler and all around hack David C. Hayes join together to create one fun tale of meaty madness.
If your kid comes back from fat camp and tells you he wants to have a friend over for lunch, ask a few specific questions what they might have in mind . . . just so there won't be any unwanted surprises. Come get you some 5 star fun right here!Looking for a good scary dish? Try Cannibal Fat Camp, a fast paced story about privileged overweight teens taken to a 8 week course on how to lose weight and eat right, well that WAS the plan. But as we all know something goes horribly horribly wrong!
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17 year old Miles had a problem. A huge problem. He was morbidly overweight and could not control his eating. After getting in trouble AGAIN for stealing his classmates' lunches, he had a choice: go to Camp TumTum and get his eating problem under control, or face expulsion. Feeling a bit hopeless, he agreed to see the doctor to be recommended for the camp. After meeting the once obese but now athletic and perfect counselor, he was looking forward to going to the posh resort-like camp hidden away on a secluded tropical island. On his second day at camp, he and the other campers found themselves alone when all of the counselors died from drinking poisoned protein shakes. In a panic, the campers stress ate all of the camp's food, leaving them to find a way to survive until they were rescued. Some campers had other plans.I loved this book and flew through it quickly. The characters were great! It was interesting to delve into the psyche of Miles. I wanted him to succeed! Charles was by far the most twisted character I've read in a while. Jenny was kind and smart, the perfect person to save these kids, but the right thing doesn't always happen. I loved learning parts of the experience from journal entries and letters home.
The writing was excellent. The transition between journal entries and regular text was seamless. The doctor's report was hilariously offensive and made me wonder what doctors REALLY put in reports of these types! The adult characters in this book were as unique and the children, making the entire story flow nicely. This book has two authors, and I couldn't tell where one left off and the other began. I love that!
The violence and gore. Oh yes, this book has that in abundance! A veritable buffet of insanity, guts, blood and sex! Those scenes were very descriptive and lived through the horror with these kids, albeit with an adult thought process (which included me adding a lot of WTF's and OMG's out loud. My only gripe with this book, and it's really not a big one, was that I didn't get to "see" the final battle play out. I think that scene would have been better if it wasn't done as a newspaper article, although the article was quite interesting.
The ending. Oh my! I didn't see that coming! I closed that book...er shut off my kindle... with a grin. I can see no more perfect ending than that! All in all, AMAZING book!
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This book was grotesquely entertaining. I read a previous review that said that it was reminiscent of Lord of the Flies and I agree. I thought that through out the story. In a fantastic way. It was well written, well paced and a freakishly fun read. I was actually pleasantly surprised when I read it because, from the beginning, I thought that the story was going to go in a different direction. I was surprised by the ending, which I adore and pretty rarely happens to me like this. I kind of want to see a follow up where Miles starts his own Fat Camp...
