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This is an unreal/irreal, everything but the kitchen sink type of book. It is more successful than other everything but the kitchen sink type books because the writing is strong.
I really wish I had been able to afford the print version rather than e-book because the writing was a little too rich to be read on screen.
Everything but the kitchen sink-type books are often written by first time novelists, but I assume Garrett Cook at least wrote the first Murderland volume before this book, which i ...more
I really wish I had been able to afford the print version rather than e-book because the writing was a little too rich to be read on screen.
Everything but the kitchen sink-type books are often written by first time novelists, but I assume Garrett Cook at least wrote the first Murderland volume before this book, which i ...more
This was the first book I've read connected with the "Bizarro Fiction� genre. It was, as I’d been warned, weird, concise, experimental, and a little self-indulgent in a positive way. The book was also very archetypal as if the author was digging around inside himself and sharing something very personal disguised in strange characters and encounters.
The book takes genetic engineering and global warming to an extreme to foretell of a strange future full of dangerous variations of the human specie ...more
The book takes genetic engineering and global warming to an extreme to foretell of a strange future full of dangerous variations of the human specie ...more
Just finished "Archelon Ranch." Maybe I should wait and let my impressions settle- but no, that would do the book a disservice. All the pertinent details are covered in other reviews and the official descriptions, so it's likely you know what it's about, but here are my impressions. First off, the IRL layer has this book being written and published in the same circumstances as my own forthcoming book, so I immediately felt that resonance. This is a metafictional text of the highest order- it fro
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This is a weird book, but you knew that going in right? It's a bizarro novel by Garrett Cook who won the first ever bizarro showdown at the first bizarrocon so I knew it would be weird. In a way I would say this novel is a mix of dark city and Adaptation. Bernard the main character is being used in an experiment, the world seems to be trying to convince him that he is a hat. Sometimes other objects, all the while he is being shot with hallucinogenic mud.
The point is not that he is an object, as ...more
The point is not that he is an object, as ...more
This is my favorite of my books thus far. You can get it as am ebook for just $3.50 here:
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