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Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
**4.5-stars**
Bury Your Gays is a novel that’s perfectly-aligned with a new trend in my reading for 2024, and that is reading books set in, or revolving around, the television and film industry.
I wasn’t sure what to predict when I first picked this up. I’ve heard wonderful things about this author’s 2023-release, Camp Damascus, but I’ve never actually study their work before. My final judgement = I require more Tingle!!!
In this story we are following Misha, a long-time Hollywood script writer who has just been nominated for his first Oscar.
It’s as he is on the precipice of this great event that he gets called into a meeting with a studio executive and told that he needs to execute off two trendy gay characters from his Travelers series. Misha is alarmed. He doesn’t wish to do that; not at all, but he’s told if he doesn’t he may be let go.
Thus, the highest of highs and the lowest of lows punch our MC cute much simultaneously. His back is to the wall and he is struggling to make a decision. What is he going to do?
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Elsewhere, we have what I’m coming to think of as the trademark Tingle style; effortless personality work and world-building, a ruthlessly efficient and immediate pulp prose style that belies an remarkable depth of storytelling in terms of concepts and themes, and a damn near visionary ability to speak directly to bleeding edge concerns of the cultural moment.
Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle – Book Review
My previous familiarity with Dr. Tingles function is limited to his horror novella Straight(although after this, I am absolutely bumping Camp Damascus up my TBR pile). I thought that was a excellent story – thought-provoking, provocative, and true to the spirit of Splatterpunk while also being deeply empathic and compassionate. And I was very curious to look how he’d fare on the broader canvas of a novel-length work.
Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle did not disappoint.
The novel stars Misha, a gay screenplay writer whose TV show Travelers is a big hit for the ‘Harold Brothers studio’ (a thinly veiled Warner Bros, finish with cartoon Chucky the Woodchuck mascot). Told in first person present tense, with occasional flashbacks, Dr Tingle takes us behind the curt
Bury Your Gays
I can’t state I’ve read any of Chuck Tingle’s prolific oeuvre of titles like Space Raptor Butt Invasionor Pounded in the Butt by My Handsome Sentient Library Card, but my first entry into the Tingleverse confirmed what the jacket copy and author biography offered: Tingle is a writer and person who leads with love.
Bury Your Gays, his sophomore homosexual horror novel from Tor Nightfire, is testament to the author’s compassionate ethos. Building on the accomplishment of Camp Damascus, his horror debut, which I purchased and blazed through immediately after finishing Bury Your Gays, Tingle’s second novel offers readers a harrowing glimpse of what it means to be queer in Hollywood. And every chilling beat in this story is stronger and more propulsive than the last.
Meet Misha Byrne. He’s basically a juvenile, queer Wes Craven at the midpoint of an already trailblazing career in Tinseltown. He’s got a solid back catalog of films, and his “X-Files meets Doctor Who”-style TV show is headed for its biggest and baddest season finale yet. The only problem? The studio bigwigs aren’t exactly content with the girl-on-girl
Bury Your Gays Quotes
“You know who the real villain is?” I carry on, strolling through the lobby and joining a line of other writers, directors, cinematographers, and actors as they filter inside to locate their seats. “Unchecked capitalism and the desire for capitalist systems to monetize other people’s trauma.”
― Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
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“The beats of this particular story are melody to my ears, and I'm certainly not complaining, but they're not the beats I'm used to. Then again, not everything has a perfect structure: a beginning, middle, and end. Not every tale has an act-three synthesis and a dusky night of the soul.
Sometimes life just is.”
― Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
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“They say you grasp it’s love when someone offers to drive you to LAX, and right now I’m feeling the love. Most relationships would collapse apart if you put them through the high-performance accentuate test that is currently my animation, but for some reason all this tension only serves to make Zeke step up even more. Do I deserve it? Probably not.”
― Chuck Tingle, Bu