Kindle Edition Download to your Nook (eBook) Amazon Barnes & Noble.com The Last Friends of Willie Coyote Category:  Action/Thriller Publisher: Sad Coyote Type: Fiction Pages: 129 Copyright: September 12, 2012 ISBN-13: 9780615721705 Story is about giving some final closure to Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner Three young people strike out in an old car into the deep desert on a soul-searching roadtrip.  Lifelong inseparable friends, each has their own reasons for venturing out into a rarely visited landscape.  Lost and nearly out of gas, their car becomes disabled after a freak encounter with an Acme rocket.  Forced to forge ahead on foot in the night to get help, the trio sneaks onto a top-secret airbase commanded by a tortured and legendary officer. The group witnesses a spectacular incident between a famous determined coyote and a speedy roadrunner.  They realize that the two are not the cartoon characters that they (and everyone else) had thought for decades were - but are in fact real in every sense.  The trio are detained on the crumbling base and make a few good friends along the way.  They also become aware of a brilliant race of human-like creatures and a secretive tribe of native warriors who live far out in the vast regions of the expansive base.  However, trouble is on the horizon.  A powerful and angry man wrongfully bent on a terrible revenge gains entry to the base and unleashes a vast private army upon the innocent creatures who are unprepared for war.  The invasion forces wreaks death and destruction upon the beings whose choices become to either fight, run or hide... or all three.  At the height of the battle, Willie Coyote unleashes upon the enemy the most diabolical machine he has ever constructed.  His goal then becomes the most important one he had during his entire life - an attempt to save the most precious friend he never realized he even had.

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the more original books I've read in a while
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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the more original books I've read in a while December 18, 2012
By Oleg Medvedkov TOP 1000 REVIEWER
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified PurchaseWillie Coyote is one my favorite cartoon characters. He is the embodiment of reckless, driven effort and never-ending will to win through the use of giant boulders and dynamite sticks that would have made Nietzsche proud :) 'The Last Friends of Willie Coyote' by Stephen Thor is an interesting attempt to give Willie Coyote and Roadrunner a closure, of sorts. The story involves three friends, Vaughn, Mike and Ella, finding themselves lost in a desert, and quickly getting involved in rather bizarre adventures that quickly get out of hand. Throw in top-secret military base, a super rich villain with murky motives, Willie's most diabolical invention ever and you have a rather original adventure story that has several interesting plot-lines of redemption and laying old ghosts to rest. I suppose one cannot get lost in a desert, being surrounded by strange phenomena, without curing a psychological trauma or two :)

All in all, this is a well polished story. Be warned, it is written in a movie script form, so it might take you a short while to get used to a novel form of narration.

Recommended.

5.0 out of 5 stars Blast from the past. Loved it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Blast from the past. Loved it. December 22, 2012
By Chuck P.
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified PurchaseI grew up when all the good cartoons played on Saturday, including the roadrunner and coyote. This book takes it a step farther and adds in a road trip element between friends who get lost in the desert. I don't like to give any spoilers away in my reviews, but the story gets a lot deeper than the simple chase between RR and coyote with lots of ACME products. There is a form of closure between the RR/coyote relationship as well as numerous other revealing facts about them. Apparently this story has been optioned and picked up for a feature film. With the CGI tech they have available now I think it would be a good show on the big screen.

5.0 out of 5 stars An Incredibly Amazing Take on a Much-loved Cartoon,

5.0 out of 5 stars An Incredibly Amazing Take on a Much-loved Cartoon, December 27, 2012
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This review is from: The Last Friends of Willie Coyote (Kindle Edition)
Who doesn't love the eternal chase that is the "Sisyphean" Willie Coyote/Roadrunner saga? When I was a kid, the Coyote devising all kinds of crude Rube Goldberg machines (complicated contraptions meant to trap the blithely unaware Roadrunner), all of which ends up exploding in his face, was a source of endless laughter. Only when I got older and, uhh, well, more "mature" did I realize that there's something more to the story--the sheer ingenuity and perseverance of Willie Coyote seems to have deeper layers of meaning. How can you not admire a character that stays unfazed with his perpetual failure to capture what he thinks is the best lunch/dinner ever?

The Coyote speaks to the Everyman and stirs up some sort of inspiration--but served as a cartoon, much of such meaning simply goes over our heads. I've always felt that the Coyote/roadrunner thing needs some sort of a "mish mash" to reach out to audiences of all ages and persuasions.

Now, thank the cartoon stars, Stephen Thor has written something that redeems us all: `The Last Friends of Willie Coyote: The Movie."

Meet Mike, Vaughn and Ella--three friends looking for some sort of personal redemption. And they find it in the unlikeliest of places: the desert. What was supposedly a road trip ends up in a strange place--they were like Dorothy in the `Wizard of Oz', whisked away to a mind-boggling place where the boundaries between reality and fantasy goes missing.

Yes, this ebook is the screenplay to what I hope will be optioned as an actual Hollywood movie in the future. It's not a novel, so those who are expecting the usual long prose should be properly forewarned. But that doesn't mean this is any less gripping--having grown up watching movies, I believe that the screenplay format actually makes the story more lively and engaging--you read the scenes and picture them in your head, you see things as they happen, and the effect can be visceral--I actually had some sort of a life-changing moment reading that part when Willie Coyote finally gets what he has always wanted, then realizing that the truth is not as simple as capturing the Roadrunner. I felt like Anton Ego (`Ratatouille') must have felt upon tasting his mother's dish--it transported me back to those childhood afternoons watching the eternal Coyote/Roadrunner chase, loving the cartoon but never realizing why. That's why Stephen Thor's take on the tale is immensely satisfying. It just felt right.

Yes, `The Last Friends of Willie Coyote' is an awesome tale, and I want it so badly to become a full-length animated film.

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