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The Earworm Inception
by
Jon Konrath (Goodreads Author)
A food truck craze involving human cannibalism. A Texas Governor who obsessively listens to Rebecca Black right before every state execution. A chainsaw factory that plays Ozzy Osbourne for its welding robots. An ex-girlfriend drunk-dialing from Kandahar, where she's starting a Shakey's Pizza restaurant chain. And an endless search to find the right mix of prescription med...more
Paperback, 134 pages
Published
January 2012
by Paragraph Line Books
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Konrath's stories read a lot like my dreams -- sick, twisted, and probably suggestive of all sorts of undiagnosed psychiatric issues. The difference here is that, while I've rarely been able to capture the same kind of madness on paper, Konrath succeeds in blending even his most surreal notions with just the right amount of logic necessary for storytelling.
Now, I'm not suggesting that he draws his material from a star-speckled journal on his nightstand or anything so lame as that. Quite to the c...more
Now, I'm not suggesting that he draws his material from a star-speckled journal on his nightstand or anything so lame as that. Quite to the c...more
Oddly enough...I enjoyed it..A little creepy, alot like some messed up dreams that I have had...May just have to make the hubby read this one...May also pass this around to a couple of my insane friends...lmao. Good job, fun writing technique...
Thank you to Goodreads Giveaways for the book!!!
Thank you to Goodreads Giveaways for the book!!!
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The majority of the stories in this collection, which are written in super short flash fiction, feature strange characters in an even stranger universe intriguingly similar to our own. They also seem to revolve around author Jon Konrath, called Kon by his close-friend (in the novel) Rick Perry and the strange circumstances that revolved around his life semi-fictional life. Everyone in these tales are marked with unique character traits,...more
The majority of the stories in this collection, which are written in super short flash fiction, feature strange characters in an even stranger universe intriguingly similar to our own. They also seem to revolve around author Jon Konrath, called Kon by his close-friend (in the novel) Rick Perry and the strange circumstances that revolved around his life semi-fictional life. Everyone in these tales are marked with unique character traits,...more
The Earworm Inception is a collection of about twenty gonzo-nutty short stories wherein Jon Konrath displays his signature techno-nerd cynicism and subversive humor through a writing style where plot and other traditional storytelling devices are sacrificed to the gods of hyperbole, factual distortion, mashed-up pop culture reference, and free association in order to give modern consumer culture the blistering satirical spanking it deserves.
The devil’s in the details. A Subway shop run by Abrah...more
The devil’s in the details. A Subway shop run by Abrah...more
The Earworm Inception is like that awesome metal band you discovered in 11th grade that nobody had heard of and everybody you let listen to it thought it was amazing because you were all cranked up on cheap speed at that age. At least that’s what it is to me… A rare gem in the endless Amazon catalog that nobody will ever hear of or read.
But if ever does get popular, I’m gonna feel like a totally before-my-time hipster that let people borrow the book and fall in love with it one at a time. Just l...more
But if ever does get popular, I’m gonna feel like a totally before-my-time hipster that let people borrow the book and fall in love with it one at a time. Just l...more
I haven't laughed this much since I read my first Bukowski novel! Although the atmospheric overtones of Bukowski's musings are not present here, Konrath fuses words brilliantly to tell bizarre yet entertaining tales. Already cutting another piece of his "bizarro" fiction pie. Loved every minute of it.
This book has all the bizarre fun I've come to hope for from Konrath. I think we aren't truly able to contemplate how messed up contemporary life is until we extend our trends to their extremes and twist that reflection back upon ourselves. Konrath does that, and does it well. I can't wait for his next book.
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Jon Konrath has written and published seven books, including Summer Rain and Rumored to Exist. He is the principal of Paragraph Line Books and editor of the literary journal Paragraph Line (ParagraphLine.com), and written for many other zines and publications. He is also an inventor, computer programmer, and amateur x-ray technician. He lives in Oakland, and has bought 40 acres of land in the moun...more
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