Blimpo: The Third Circle of Heck by Dale E Basye

Blimpo: The Third Circle of Heck by Dale E Basye

With more clever, dark humor and zany silliness, Dale E. Basye sends Milton and Marlo Fauster back for thirds in another laugh-out-loud installment of the popular series Heck.

After his second escape from Bea "Elsa" Bubb, the Principal of Darkness, Milton Fauster makes his way to Blimpo-the circle of the otherworldly reform school, Heck, where he's sure his friend Virgil is sentenced. Virgil's only crime is being, well, plump. Milton has to wonder if that's really enough to justify eternal darnation. And what Milton finds in Blimpo horrifies him. The overweight dead kids spend most of their time running on giant human hamster wheels called DREADmills that detect and exploit their deepest fears. The rest they spend eating Hambone Hank's barbecue-mystery meat that is delicious, but suspiciously (to Milton, anyway) haunting. Every classroom has a huge TV screen showing happy thin people who taunt Blimpo residents with a perfection they will never attain.

Meanwhile, at her new job in the devil's Infernship program, Milton's sister, Marlo, knows all about trying to achieve perfection. And failing miserably. Can Milton get himself and Virgil out of Blimpo in time to rescue Marlo, too? Or is Fauster the next delicacy on Bea "Elsa" Bubb's menu?

For a variety of media and organizations, Dale E.Basye has authored stories, scripts, articles, reviews, and lies. He was a film reviewer who won multiple national journalistic honors and produced Tonic, a weekly arts and entertainment publication. He was also the musical driving force behind a number of bands, just a handful of which had titles fit for a credible Web site. To be absolutely honest (or whoever), you'd be reading this biography on the back of a CD instead if any of those bands had been any good. Dale has this to say about his second book: There is a moment when you don't completely appreciate what you have, even if there are plenty of models, celebrities, and the curiously renowned rubbing their faces in what you don't have.

You'd give anything to get what they have, and it gnaws at you from within, as if you'd swallowed a small, ferocious shrew--which you haven't, to the best of your knowledge. That's how hell is. And, regardless of what anyone tells you, Hell exists. This is a true story.

Or, at the very least, as real as anything like this can be. Dale E.Basye lives in Portland, Oregon, where he has to deal with grizzly bears, nettled beavers, and intermittent Wi-Fi signals on a daily basis.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780375856778
ISBN 10	0375856773
Title	Blimpo: The Third Circle of Heck
Author	Dale E Basye
Series	Heck
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Yearling
Year published	2011-04-26
Number of pages	464
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.