100 Bigfoot Nights - The Nightmare Continues

It's a little tough for me to rate this second book in Christine D. Parker's 100 Bigfoot Nights series as anything more than 4 to maybe 4.5 stars, because, just for starters, even though I'd say this volume is actually even more interesting content-wise than her first effort, the manuscript still suffers from just a few too many spelling, punctuation and syntactic errors. Now mind you, I'm not usually one to get overly hung up on grammatical errors (no matter how numerous they may be), but by the second book in the series, you'd think there might actually be even just a little improvement in that department. Uh... nope. Not really.Now, I don't know who is (or isn't) proofreading this book series, but no matter how riveting a richly detailed volume like this may in fact be, it's a sad, sad smashing of good old fashioned aesthetic distance every single time a reader has to go back and do a crossed eyed double take at a sentence like, "We discussed putting the house up for sell." I mean, come on! "Sale," maybe? I don't know about anybody else, but I don't want to be intermittently pausing to try to figure out what the author intended to write (as opposed to what actually got prematurely published) when I'm busy flipping pages to see what happens next. I mean... SHEESH! But hey, we can always just blame these new newfangled computer based spell checkers, right?HOWEVER, overall, I really must concede that the author's writing is actually somewhat more fluid this time around, than in her first collection of hairy scary Bigfoot "habituation" tales. Seriously! Mrs. Parker is a great storyteller any way you slice it, and the fascinating allegedly true incidents that she so effectively relates, are sure to grab even the most jaded reader and keep them thoroughly enthralled throughout this thrilling text.If only there was the sense, at the anticlimactic climax of this chapter in the series, that we're actually getting somewhere more or less substantial. You know... something more than the following - and I'm paraphrasing here, NOT taking actual quotes from the book: "We were up most of the night again, watching the monitor and I got creeped out numerous times." "My husband moved the cameras around the outside of the house again, but still no clear pictures of any Bigfoots. We got plenty of audio recordings though, of bizarre voices and sounds, some ghostly sounding, and some beastly, but no really definitive hard evidence. So go check out those recordings on YouTube, folks!"But let's not hold any of the above against the courageous author of 100 Bigfoot Nights, shall we? In fact, one of the most exciting aspects of reading Christine Parker's work is not only coming to the full realization of just how hard it actually is to get good evidence in typical Sasquatch habituation scenarios, but also knowing that all this ongoing documentation of her family's numerous encounters with the legendary nocturnal forest dwelling giants (that just happen to haunt the periphery of her neighborhood), is probably nowhere near to any sort of substantive conclusion any time soon. But you know what? I really enjoy reading books like this, so I'm actually okay with all that. Even if that does of course mean that I'll have to shell out even more money for subsequent volumes in the series.Because all told, 100 Bigfoot Nights is a pretty fascinating reality based serial, and its author should be commended, not only for her fearless, diligent reporting of her family's continued harrowing circumstances, but by the very fact that she's willing to actually go public with her incredible story. So yeah... I'll definitely be back for the next installment. I just hope a good proofreader or two can pore over the manuscript before it actually hits the presses. That might not be as groundbreaking as finally proving to the whole wide world the existence of Sasquatch once and for all, but it sure couldn't hurt.

As I began reading this 2nd book by Parker, I started asking myself some interesting questions. Was this an actual bigfoot encounter or a product of a writer's imagination. Several red flags hit me as I read. She began the book by saying that they were putting the house up for sale because she did not want to live in fear anymore. Then she decided that she would have nightmares no matter where she lived, so she might as well deal with the situation face-to-face to squash the nightmares. O.K. maybe I could accept that logic, except that she felt that her life and the lives of her family and neighbors were in continual danger. I imagine that if she did move, after a while of not living with the bigfoot's sounds and mischief, her nightmares would certainly begin to diminish. #2) She has absolutely no clear pictures of anything that looks like a creature of any kind, although she insists that she has video of them which she shows to other people. #3)She claims that the dogman are very brazen and show themselves during the day, but again she had no clear pictures of these guys either. #4) They kept buying cameras but never did they invest in a thermal camera that can see images in the dark. #5) It was obvious that they lived in a colder climate because they had snow in the winter, so why wasn't their pool emptied and covered in Dec. when the bigfoots allegedly took a dip in it and walked around it showing their footprints? Did anyone else notice these inconsistencies or am I just being too picky? I remember thinking about other parts of the book that raised red flags but I can't recall them now. I'd really like to get in touch with this author to let her know about the "Finding Bigfoot" show because she kept mentioning that she wanted some bigfoot researchers to help her out. I'm sure the team from that show would love to come out to her place and check it out if the nightmare is really real.

Here's what I think really happened. One day Christine Parker's husband Rob suggested that she use her vivid imagination to start writing short stories to make some extra income. Christine immediately became excited because she had always fancied herself an author at heart. She thought of many topics, but soon asked her husband Rob what he thought she should write about. After thinking it over for a little while, he suddenly came up with the idea of writing about Bigfoot or something scary like that. After all, he said, Bigfoot is very popular now on BRFO's Finding Bigfoot on the Animal Planet channel and on YouTube. Why not write something about Bigfoot? Realizing that Rob was right, as she herself was very familiar with that show and others, she decided to come up with a real good story. As she began writing, she decidied to make it sound as believable as possible, to interest as many people as she could. It worked. She is now selling 100 Bigfoot Nights and its sequel, 100 Bigfoot Nights - The Nightmare Continues on Amazon.com along with cheap Kindle versions for $3.99 USD each. She also talks to anyone who will interview her because each appearance causes another surge in book sales. So now when they are with close friends, Rob says admiringly of her, "Yep, that's my wife, the author, she's one smart cookie! With her writing we were able to pay off the mortgage and retire early!" That's what I think really happened. Any comment, Christine?

I gave this book one star for entertainment value. If you like BigFoot fiction then this is for you. I was sadly disappointed the first book in the series although far fetched had believable elements contained within, you could imagine some of the events occurring then the human mind filling in the rest. But I'm sorry to say that this is a work of pure fiction produced from the mind of an over active imagination, almost "Walter Mitty" like. If this is in any true then I expect The Discovery Channel's Finding BigFoot to do a whole series of expeditions to the forest in question. As I say great BigFoot fiction if you like that sort of thing, which I'm sure you can gather I personally don't. Would make a great film ?????

A very good read

same as the first one, good story but taken with a pinch of salt

A great read. Had to keep going to the end.

Similar to the first book, lots of detailed accounts! Some hard to believe, but if you enjoyed the first book you'll enjoy this one to.