{"id":6032,"date":"2017-11-22T22:44:19","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T22:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=6032"},"modified":"2018-04-23T00:51:32","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T00:51:32","slug":"robert-stark-talks-about-his-new-novel-journey-to-vapor-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=6032","title":{"rendered":"Robert Stark talks about his new novel Journey to Vapor Island"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Robert Stark is joined with Francis Nally and Brandon Adamson to discuss his new novel\u00a0Journey to Vapor Island<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Brandon’s review of Journey to Vapor\u00a0Island<\/a>(Contains Spoilers)
\nThe cover art by\u00a0Mark Velard<\/a>
\nHow listeners to the show will instantly recognize favorite topics when they make cameo appearances in the book or manifest themselves as part of the underlying themes
\nInternet memes in the book(ex. the men in the frog masks)
\nThe fusion of genres including Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, Science Fiction, and Dark Comedy
\nA disclaimer that this book is not for anyone that is squeamish about sex or easily shocked or offended
\nBrandon’s observation that the sexual scenes in the book are more akin to the \u201crandom battles\u201d in old school Super Nintendo RPGs like Final Fantasy IV
\nThe theme of how central sex is to people\u2019s motivations, and the overall perception of status in society
\nThe main character Noam Metzenbaum who is a socially inept yet intelligent student with illusions of grandeur
\nThe Chads and the\u00a0theme of the nerd getting revenge against bullies and the popular cliques
\nNoam’s crush Natalie Bloom and his lifelong obsession with her
\nThe Retro-Futuristic surreal fantasy world in the book; an adult Never Ending Story
\nThe Roger Blackstone character who could represent a Trump-like figure, but could just as easily be a Ross Perot or even Willy Wonka
\nThe outrageous comic elements in the book
\nThe\u00a0theme of the commercialization of tragedies and the celebrity status of mass murderers
\nHow the book is timely with the ongoing Hollywood sex scandals
\nThe theme of living in ones fantasies and how that shapes the book’s narrative<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Journey-To-Vapor-Island.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

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This show is brought to you by Robert Stark’s Paintings!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n


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                          Robert Stark is joined with Francis Nally and Brandon Adamson to discuss his new novel Journey to Vapor Island. Topics: Brandon’s review of Journey to Vapor Island(Contains Spoilers) The cover art by Mark Velard How listeners to the show will instantly recognize favorite topics when … Continue reading Robert Stark talks about his new novel Journey to Vapor Island<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1135,572,141,542,835,709,746,623,457,687,382,909,335,583,459,406,417,484,15,83,599,428,1128,548,422,1130,1113,684,112,334,60,1134,911,116,380,398,656,751,655,86,400,694,603,313,18,271,130,14,762,866,677,695,802],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mark-velard","category-1980s","category-80s-music","category-aesthetics","category-alicia-silverstone","category-alienation","category-anime","category-architecture","category-art","category-brandon-adamson","category-class","category-clueless","category-comedy","category-consumerism","category-culture","category-depravity","category-despair","category-donald-trump","category-ellliot-rodger","category-erotica","category-fast-times-at-ridgemont-high","category-film","category-francis-nally","category-futurism","category-gender","category-harvey-weinstein","category-high-school","category-hollywood","category-homosexuality","category-humor","category-incels","category-journey-to-vapor-island","category-leisure-suit-larry","category-literature","category-loserdom","category-love","category-memes","category-patalliro","category-pepe-the-frog","category-psychology","category-relationships","category-retro-futurism","category-science-fiction","category-serial-killers","category-sexuality","category-social-rejection","category-social-status","category-spree-shootings","category-surrealism","category-the-crush","category-utopia","category-vaporwave","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6032"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6556,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6032\/revisions\/6556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}