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Love Me
by
Danger Slater (Goodreads Author)
Do you like tales of Cold War espionage? Taut psychological thrillers? Science fiction as a metaphor for U.S. foreign policy? How about cute angst-filled teenage vampire toyboys?
Well, too bad. None of those things are in this book.
Instead you'll join a guy in a Viking suit on an absurdly epic quest to figure out the meaning of life. There will be obstacles, of course: rabi...more
Well, too bad. None of those things are in this book.
Instead you'll join a guy in a Viking suit on an absurdly epic quest to figure out the meaning of life. There will be obstacles, of course: rabi...more
Paperback, 168 pages
Published
July 26th 2011
by Jersey Devil Press
(first published July 16th 2011)
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DO IT FOR DANGER!!
fun!
heh.
this book was a rollicking bit of occasionally dirty-minded fun.
what is it about, you ask? shit, i didn't expect to have to answer this one. okay. well - it is about a very self-confident man who lives in a castle of human skulls surrounded by a moat of crocoweilers, who is horrifically lonely, hundreds of years old, and seemingly invincible. it is also about gangs of geriatric mall-thugs, free pie, hippies, toasters, the university of phoenix,ratsecks and finding true...more
fun!
heh.
this book was a rollicking bit of occasionally dirty-minded fun.
what is it about, you ask? shit, i didn't expect to have to answer this one. okay. well - it is about a very self-confident man who lives in a castle of human skulls surrounded by a moat of crocoweilers, who is horrifically lonely, hundreds of years old, and seemingly invincible. it is also about gangs of geriatric mall-thugs, free pie, hippies, toasters, the university of phoenix,ratsecks and finding true...more
Love Me Love Me ~ Say that you Love Me -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUIElv...
"I'm just contemplating the futility of life and my unintentional impact on it." I shrug. "Nothing Special"
Let’s see what the critics had to say about ‘Love Me’ (the goodreads critics, of course, not that other, useless kind of critic):
• “…a fun strange journey through the psyche of a delightfully deranged author. like vonnegut, but with more erections..” ~ karen
• “A highly impressive first novel, Love Me is fun, f...more
"I am the loneliest man to ever live. This is not a matter of opinion. It is a fact. If there were a prize given out for bleak, soul-crushing loneliness, I would undoubtedly win it, year after year. Of course, no one would come to the ceremony. Which is exactly my point."
So we're told near the outset of Danger Slater's Love Me, a book crammed so tight with slapstick and satire, penises and pathos, it's no wonder the sprawling monstrosity doesn't split the seams of its polyester swish pants. The...more
So we're told near the outset of Danger Slater's Love Me, a book crammed so tight with slapstick and satire, penises and pathos, it's no wonder the sprawling monstrosity doesn't split the seams of its polyester swish pants. The...more
To be perfectly honest I usually stick to the classics or books that are at least twenty or so years old. But, secretly, I've been looking for a book that honestly reflected more modern sentiments. I wasn't let down with "Love Me!"
There are a lot of clever little things going on in this novel so I'll name a few that most impressed me: the false histories (mismatched technology and references throughout create a unique and fun world), the modern pop-culture allusions, the alliterative prose styl...more
There are a lot of clever little things going on in this novel so I'll name a few that most impressed me: the false histories (mismatched technology and references throughout create a unique and fun world), the modern pop-culture allusions, the alliterative prose styl...more
Dec 19, 2011
Kate
rated it
5 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
The Absurdist In All Of Us
Recommended to Kate by:
Danger Slater
Shelves:
bizarro
Hahahahahahaha...I don't even know where to start with this one.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It was hysterically absurd, absurdly bizarre, and bizarrely original. It's about this dude who wears a traditional Viking outfit complete with hat, has lived for thousands of years in a castle made of skulls, does some strange beauty ritual with blue-green algae and is on a mission to discover what the true meaning of life is.
While he is on this mission he has some mishaps which are absolutely hilario...more
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It was hysterically absurd, absurdly bizarre, and bizarrely original. It's about this dude who wears a traditional Viking outfit complete with hat, has lived for thousands of years in a castle made of skulls, does some strange beauty ritual with blue-green algae and is on a mission to discover what the true meaning of life is.
While he is on this mission he has some mishaps which are absolutely hilario...more
Danger slater was so kind as to provide a copy of this book for download on Valentine's Day. I must say, this was far better than the traditional romantic fare that one would get on such a holiday. Much better indeed.
Love Me is... well, difficult to describe. Either Danger Slater has produced a masterpiece of satire and glory, or something more akin to Chuck Palahniuk post-Haunted fare. Which I reckon some people would call a masterpiece anyway, so that may make my point moot. Well, I wavered be...more
Love Me is... well, difficult to describe. Either Danger Slater has produced a masterpiece of satire and glory, or something more akin to Chuck Palahniuk post-Haunted fare. Which I reckon some people would call a masterpiece anyway, so that may make my point moot. Well, I wavered be...more
This is apparently my week for finally catching up on a few reviews that have been in the hopper. I really tried to love Love Me. There are a number of genuinely funny bits. But overall, it’s just too much. There’s not enough plot to hold the funny bits together.
“I’ll have the Jesus Fish sandwich,” one diner requests.
“A double-bacon Buddhaburger with cheese,” says another.
“The Muhammad Special,” demands a third. He is served seventy-two french fries cooked in extra-virgin olive oil and four chic...more
“I’ll have the Jesus Fish sandwich,” one diner requests.
“A double-bacon Buddhaburger with cheese,” says another.
“The Muhammad Special,” demands a third. He is served seventy-two french fries cooked in extra-virgin olive oil and four chic...more
If you haven't read the back cover/product description on Amazon for Love Me, my advice is this- don't take anything too seriously about the book. It's nothing more than a fun experience to read and there is a good moral to it all. It starts out with a strong opening and concludes with a better closing that really ties everything together and doesn't let the reader down. In between the opening and closing is the story of a protagonist who: is never really given a name-except for one chapter by a...more
I edited it, so clearly I'm biased, but hear me out: I read this book FOUR GOD DAMNED TIMES. And it never got old. I kept laughing, I kept enjoying it. Do you know how rarely that happens? I mean, how often do you read a book, finish it, and go, man, I'm gonna read this again right now! You don't. But I did. Four times. Because this shit is that fucking good.
This book is definitely intended for a narrow audience. But for that audience it is hilarious and awesome. But it's not just all zany humor. Slater also demonstrates a clear understanding and knowledge of the rise of Western society and culture. Underneath the humor and the allusions though what the book really is is a parable for anyone who ever searched for the meaning of life and wound up agnostic or atheist. The one drawback to the novel is that this work needs an editor (or another editing...more
Indie press has been hitting it out of the park lately. LOVE ME by Danger Slater is batting clean up and just launched one into the 2nd level. Who cares about the big names on the shelves for 5 times the price? There is no point any longer. Danger Slater is a name that needs to be up in neon lights.
LOVE ME is the story of a god-like being who can do and be anything he can think of in his brilliant mind. He his handsome beyond the likes of Brand Pitt, he is brilliant beyond the likes of Dr. Michi...more
LOVE ME is the story of a god-like being who can do and be anything he can think of in his brilliant mind. He his handsome beyond the likes of Brand Pitt, he is brilliant beyond the likes of Dr. Michi...more
If you like to laugh, while simultaneously pondering your existence, read this book immediately! In Love Me, we follow the fantastical, yet somehow completely relatable, main character through a life changing journey as he tries to figure out his place in the world while accidentally creating the fundamentals of our existence. He’s sometimes sad, often vulgar, definitely blunt, and always funny. Sound complicated and hard to read? It’s not! While the underlying themes of Love Me might be ones ph...more
This book is... Oh my wow. This has to be the most random crazy book I have EVER read. The story line has an important meaning but you have to read the whole book to get it. Its so bad its funny. The fact that it is crazy is what makes it so memorable. It actually reminds me a lot of my ex. It has many perverted things in it so its not for the faint hearted. Sorry this is all over the place. Hilarious. Whatever you're expecting forget about it. I challenge anyone to find a story like this anywhe...more
Love Me by Danger Slater (with whom I share a publisher) is philosophical, filthy and funny. The novel is about a god-like being's existential quest for Answers to the Question. If you ever wondered would it would be like to pull the Big Bang's pants down and crawl up its rectum, this is the book for you. I cracked a smile on every page and laughed out loud at least once per chapter. When Danger Slater commands you to love him, you better do it.
Matt Hlinak
Author of DoG
Matt Hlinak
Author of DoG
Sort of like Candide on bath salts.
Witty, conceited, well-hung, and horribly lonely, the narrator-hero of Love Me is a 243-year-old man who preserves his youth and good looks with a special exfoliating salve of his own making and lives by himself in a castle built from skulls. When he forsakes his castle to go seek out the meaning of life and existence and whathaveyou, a series of zany misadventures and disillusionments ensues.
A highly impressive first novel, Love Me is fun, funny, picaresque,...more
Witty, conceited, well-hung, and horribly lonely, the narrator-hero of Love Me is a 243-year-old man who preserves his youth and good looks with a special exfoliating salve of his own making and lives by himself in a castle built from skulls. When he forsakes his castle to go seek out the meaning of life and existence and whathaveyou, a series of zany misadventures and disillusionments ensues.
A highly impressive first novel, Love Me is fun, funny, picaresque,...more
As others have gone on about the text, let me just open with how awesome the art in this book is, if you grew up on the original art for Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, you will love Shawn Vales art. A bit more whimsical perhaps, but Vales is more nuanced. If nothing else this is why you should buy a copy. Also, very good quality binding for something not bound in Caspian tiger leather.
Others have mentioned the dick jokes and scat oriented humor. I for one am unamused by scat jokes. I've read...more
Others have mentioned the dick jokes and scat oriented humor. I for one am unamused by scat jokes. I've read...more
This was a very strange book that I cannot say was good or bad. It was strange and I will say that I really didn't get it. There is lots and lots of swearing and toilet humor and I.....don't understand what the story was really about. I will be giving a longer review on my blog in a few weeks. Maybe if I think about what I read I will understand it better....as it stands right now....I don't have a clue.
I read this book and after I finished it I wondered why I had wasted my time. I didn’t unders...more
I read this book and after I finished it I wondered why I had wasted my time. I didn’t unders...more
I'm a sucker for stories that push the edge, that take pop-culture obsessions and tear them to pieces, so when Danger Slater came to me with Love Me, describing is as "a tongue-in-cheek satire heavily steeped in speculative-fiction/absurdism/bizarro.....think Forrest Gump if it were directed by David Lynch," I was only too happy to take up the challenge.
With a set-up like that, any book should be doomed to failure - except he tosses in just enough Monty Python, Douglas Adams, and even Looney Tu...more
With a set-up like that, any book should be doomed to failure - except he tosses in just enough Monty Python, Douglas Adams, and even Looney Tu...more
Love Me is an epic quest through the eyes of one viking who (some of the time...) lives in a castle constructed from skulls. It's absurd and hilarious. While the book brings up big issues--what is the purpose of life? how does one find happiness?--thankfully, it never takes any of those questions particularly seriously, because where the f*** would that get us. Mostly Danger Slater is concerned with entertaining and baffling readers as his viking romps through a surreal world.
I know what your thinking, but no, I am not the same Danger Slater that wrote this book. Weird that we share the same name, right? So speaking at a completely objective third-party observer who has absolutely no stake in the success of this novel, even though a few positive reviews and some good word of mouth could make or break the author's budding career as a world-class novelist and, quite possibly, the greatest lover that mankind has ever known, I have to say that THIS IS THE BEST BOOK I HAV...more
Dec 19, 2011
Kate
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
The Absurdist In All Of Us
Recommended to Kate by:
Danger Slater
Shelves:
bizarro
Hahahahahahaha...I don't even know where to start with this one.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It was hysterically absurd, absurdly bizarre, and bizarrely original. It's about this dude who wears a traditional Viking outfit complete with hat, has lived for thousands of years in a castle made of skulls, does some strange beauty ritual with blue-green algae and is on a mission to discover what the true meaning of life is.
While he is on this mission he has some mishaps which are absolutely hilario...more
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It was hysterically absurd, absurdly bizarre, and bizarrely original. It's about this dude who wears a traditional Viking outfit complete with hat, has lived for thousands of years in a castle made of skulls, does some strange beauty ritual with blue-green algae and is on a mission to discover what the true meaning of life is.
While he is on this mission he has some mishaps which are absolutely hilario...more
This book was actually a lot of fun. It is wild, imaginative, and humorous. It will give you the answers to all your questions and then give you all new questions. Though that'll end up really being a wash, your new questions will be highly superior to your old questions. Only a fool won't be able to tell the difference between your new questions and your old questions. Regardless, it's a fun book to read.
I couldn't finish it. I wanted to like it but about 50% in, I gave up. The book pretty much falls into every trap the bizarro genre sets. The weirdness seems forced, the jokes are unfunny and the whole story is terribly formulaic. For a genre that encourages creativity, the books seem very much alike. Too often it boils down to the same pattern of sex, fecal matter and Jesus jokes, loosely connected by a story that doesn't really go anywhere.
Keep trying, Mr. Slater.
Keep trying, Mr. Slater.
Discombobulated and otherworldly, this book sits very firmly within the genre of bizarro; meaning if you don't know what you're getting into there is no preparing you but if you are already a connoisseur there will be nothing to surprising you.
Funny, sexual, and crude this is the perfect beach read for those who drive to the beach only to prefer being locked in the car.
Funny, sexual, and crude this is the perfect beach read for those who drive to the beach only to prefer being locked in the car.
I'm not even sure what I just read.
This is delightfully random, absurdity at its zenith, sprinkled here and there with hard, Serious Truths that sneak up out of nowhere.
The author says that his book wouldn't be here without Kurt Vonnegut, but this is more Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy than Slaughterhouse Five. Entertaining for sure.
This is delightfully random, absurdity at its zenith, sprinkled here and there with hard, Serious Truths that sneak up out of nowhere.
The author says that his book wouldn't be here without Kurt Vonnegut, but this is more Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy than Slaughterhouse Five. Entertaining for sure.
I like this book, so I will review it. It will be that greatest review in the universe. When other reviews read my review they will wish they were my review. They will write my review letters, asking for advice, begging to be 1/1,000,000,000th as awesome as my review. My review is kind, but it is only a review and incapable of responding to so much fan mail.
My review will write a review to handle the fan mail. My review's review will not be awesome, for I did not write it. Billions of reviews w...more
My review will write a review to handle the fan mail. My review's review will not be awesome, for I did not write it. Billions of reviews w...more
Oh. My. God. Where do I even begin? This book is just amazing. I have to urge EVERYONE to read this.
Love Me is book that defies the very definition of logic and science. It's a story about an extremely narcissistic, absurdly egocentric guy in a Viking Suit that embarks on a journey to find the meaning of life. Along the way, you'll get to experience the bizarre, senseless and insanely hilarious situations he gets himself into.
A relatively easy read. I had a good laugh the whole way through. Al...more
Love Me is book that defies the very definition of logic and science. It's a story about an extremely narcissistic, absurdly egocentric guy in a Viking Suit that embarks on a journey to find the meaning of life. Along the way, you'll get to experience the bizarre, senseless and insanely hilarious situations he gets himself into.
A relatively easy read. I had a good laugh the whole way through. Al...more
Whatever your expecting from this book . forget about it . Its hilarious laugh out loud funny .I especially loved when he got into an arguement with the moon and punched him in the face. I bought it on kindle, wish i had bought the paperback, so i could share it more easily. looking forward to more books by this author
If Kurt Vonnegut and Martin Millar were to reside in a dimension where they could create a literary love child, this book would be the result of their crazy love passion. Weird. Funny. Very cool.
Hilarious. Whatever you're expecting forget about it. I challenge anyone to find a story like this anywhere.
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