reply

Okay, I’m jumping into SNOOP straightaway today without all the literary navel-gazing.

Chapter Ten

She wants to play dolls. He wants to play murder. Can’t you just hear that in the voice of Don LaFontaine, if Frankenkid and his Barbie doll-loving playmate ever got a movie made of their playdate?

Janine’s and Louie’s have competing promotions in progress—Louis is scrambling for customers while Janine cracks down on cholesterol! Janine is over-zealous while Louie is over-easy!—and that should be the funniest thing in this whole book but somehow it’s just a throwaway line and that’s how you know you’re reading a Gordon Korman novel.

The store Fashion Mode is probably owned by Rootbeer Racinette’s parents.

I think Carter’s call to the police counts as the start of the confrontation phase of the plot. And I’m mad for him—the police don’t get to choose whether or not to listen to somebody based on his youth.

—–

@Darren, I sometimes wonder how many callbacks and Easter eggs that I think I see are intentional and how many are coincidental. Either way, I get a kick out of every Shakespeare name-drop or fro-yo mention. Regarding all the animal covers: I think I understand from previous GRK comments that Luthor’s prominent appearance on the cover of the first SWINDLE book probably altered readers’ perceptions of how important the dog was to the story—and probably also influenced how the unplanned sequels got developed. I don’t have a good list of compilations with GRK entries. I’ll try to write down what I’ve got—but in the meantime, here are a few of them in a previous Forum post (ßthat’s a link).  Not on FB much but you can find me as @Theamelpos on X/Twitter.