false 4748221 7 <DIV>“You have two days to pass your audition. You better pass it, feller. You’re joining the circus. Ain’t that the best news you ever got?” Delivered by a trio of psychotic clowns, this ultimatum plunges Jamie into the horrific alternate universe that is the centuries-old Pilo Family Circus, a borderline world between Hell and Earth from which humankind’s greatest tragedies have been perpetrated. Yet in this place—peopled by the gruesome, grotesque, and monstrous—where violence and savagery are the norm, Jamie finds that his worst enemy is himself. When he applies the white face paint, he is transformed into JJ, the most vicious clown of all. And JJ wants Jamie dead! Echoes of Lovecraft, Bret Easton Ellis, Chuck Palahniuk, and early Stephen King resound through the pages of this magical, gleefully macabre work nominated as Best Novel by the International Horror Guild.</DIV> 4812858 book 1 3 2007 The Pilo Family Circus total:74|5:22|4:27|3:18|2:6|1:1| 74 285 176 27 5 1 false false Sat Dec 02 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sat Sep 20 22:00:01 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 22 22:00:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Oct 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 14:58:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 14:59:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 14:41:36 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 17:03:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed May 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 06 18:52:50 -0700 2009 Sat May 30 18:29:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Apr 08 14:00:10 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 14:29:52 -0700 2009 ...more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Dec 11 21:03:16 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 11 21:09:35 -0800 2007
Things I like about this: creepy clowns. Grotesque carnival hijinks. A nice tonal highwire act which grounds the surreal in a sense of mundane, concrete reality. (The author is upfront in interviews about his own schizophrenia, and it's temp...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 16 06:20:11 -0800 2008 Mon Oct 19 02:47:51 -0700 2009 1 I think I really want to like it because the cover is gorgeous and the general idea is a good one but somehow it was just... mostly disgusting. It contains a lot of violence and things that wouldn't look nice in a movie.
Apparently it wo...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Oct 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 11:07:12 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 11:09:52 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 18:18:52 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 18:20:40 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 20:20:59 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 20:25:56 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 04 10:14:01 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 04 12:57:38 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Nov 11 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Aug 22 20:40:52 -0700 2008 Thu Nov 13 21:02:53 -0800 2008
Jamie discovers tha...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Apr 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 11:09:38 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 11:10:48 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Sep 24 14:31:22 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 14:31:42 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 06:00:50 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 02:55:21 -0700 2009
I thought the book would be much scarier, but it wasn't really, though gross sometimes. But it was well written. I liked it!]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jul 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 18:28:56 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 12:27:38 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Mar 20 21:52:52 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 14:07:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 15 15:46:16 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 15 15:46:17 -0700 2007
Jamie, a twenty-something from Brisbane, Australia, finds himself an unwilling circus clown. And the...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Apr 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 18:24:46 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 21:46:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Feb 08 16:46:28 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 08 16:49:41 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=4748221