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Ok, you guys, this one was super weird. The premise of this book is that a bunch of people sign up for this writers' retreat and end up locked in an old theater by a madman. They each tell a story about their lives as conditions in the theater get worse and worse. But each of them are also *trying* to make things worse (destroying food, breaking the heater, lopping off their own body parts - for real!)because they are imagining the book deal/movie deal that will come out of the whole experience afterwards. It is like The Canterbury Tales meets some schlocky horror movie. The stories the people tell are gross and depraved, usually having to do with sex or murder or blackmail or all of the above. It is twisted and disturbing and somehow oddly compelling. I tore through this book super fast even though I was kind of replused by it the whole time. It was like watching Hoarders or the Kardashians or any of the Real Housewives shows. You sort of hate/pity/are repulsed by the actions of everyone in it, but can't stop watching. Not sure I would recommend this to anyone (I don't want that responsibility), but it certainly put the "gross" back in "engrossing." Har har.