
FantasticLand
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Angela Dawe
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Luke Daniels
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By:
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Mike Bockoven
Since the 1970s, FantasticLand has been the theme park where "Fun is Guaranteed!" But when a hurricane ravages the Florida coast and isolates the park, the employees find it anything but fun. Five weeks later, the authorities who rescue the survivors encounter a scene of horror. Photos soon emerge online of heads on spikes outside of rides and viscera and human bones littering the gift shops, breaking records for hits, views, likes, clicks, and shares. How could a group of survivors, mostly teenagers, commit such terrible acts?
Presented as a fact-finding investigation and a series of first-person interviews, FantasticLand pieces together the grisly series of events. Park policy was that the mostly college-aged employees surrender their electronic devices to preserve the authenticity of the FantasticLand experience. Cut off from the world and left on their own, the teenagers soon form rival tribes who viciously compete for food, medicine, social dominance, and even human flesh. This new social network divides the ravaged dreamland into territories ruled by the Pirates, the ShopGirls, the Freaks, and the Mole People. If meticulously curated online personas can replace private identities, what takes over when those constructs are lost?
FantasticLand is a modern take on Lord of the Flies meets Battle Royale that probes the consequences of a social civilization built online.
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Disturbing... but in a thought provoking way
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The performance of Angela Dawe in particular was at times so emotional and "real" that I had to turn off the book for a bit.
Anyhow, I say these things only to make sure you are prepared, as this is not an easy read. It isn't a fantastical work that you can distance yourself from with suspension of disbelief. I didn't exit having enjoyed the ride, thrilled but still feeling safe in the knowledge that monsters aren't real.
Instead I was reminded that they (potentially) exist all around. Something I wish I didn't have to remember.
While this story is obviously fiction, it doesn't feel like it. And that is the scariest thing of all.
Harrowing and unforgettable
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Don't know why I waited so long for this one??
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If Lord of the Flies played out in central FL
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THIS WAS AN UNEXPECTED SURPRISE...AND I LIKED IT!!
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You are shown what it’s like to come across this park, and its creator’s personality during the park’s construction, much like the founding fathers of the USA, who had big dreams and wanted controlled freedom from their former lives, as an escape. But then we see when the park is reduced to no electronics or power - despite the endless amounts of food/water resources - all hell breaks loose over “tribal disputes.” They know it’s a lawless land now, with no one coming and no one watching, nothing to stop them from becoming the same as those who committed genocide against Native Americans, because well, as one sociopath in the book tells us, “I killed them because I could. No one stopped me, and they could have. Two guys could’ve stopped me, I’m not a big guy. But they didn’t. Instead they indulged my desires...”
The addiction to 24/7 news and twitter feeds and Facebook likes is the absolute worst, unforgivable part of this generation, who have never been tested like many of their former generations had been, (even if you get over the initial slaughtering and taking over/colonization of the States, speed up to the civil war, or the world war(s) if you’d like, the message still holds true.)
It’s a sad state of affairs and I wish people reading this novel didn’t review it like it’s just some sort of theme park ride, and not look at the world differently afterwards. The novel even interviews maintenance guys who tell you that those rides people love so much are one loose screw away from splattering your fat body all over the pavement, so maybe proceed with caution.
I came for a horror story, NOT a story for pure entertainment, and I absolutely go
A very clever allegory for the how American society has become so detatched & indifferent.
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excellent
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Incredible
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Excellent Performance
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Modern Lord of the Flies
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