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58th out of 100 books
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D*u*c*k (Rickey and G-Man #5)
Hardcover, 132 pages
Published
January 30th 2007
by Subterranean Press
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I was trying to figure out what to call this book—was it a novella, a novelette, fuck you I'm not counting the words in this thing—and it occurred to me that, independent of its form, it was kind of like a children's book for grown-ups. It's light and fluffy; the characters don't face much in the way of overwhelming troubles, and it doesn't really go anywhere particularly exciting. It reminded me of a bunch of mostly-forgotten kids' books where people come up with a project, and they do stuff, a...more
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D*U*C*K is a series of vignettes put together featuring G-man and Rickey. They’re somewhat related but also has a random feel to the collection. I guess there is an over reaching arc in that a former employee is rising to kind of challenge Rickey while Liquor is getting ready to serve at an out of town banquet featuring Rickey’s hero crush. The stories do have common elements but they also feel disconnected and arbitrary. That said it’s a fun, quick novella to read without the punch and impact o...more
In 2005, Hurricane Katrina put the Crescent City on the world stage, a horrifying and profoundly decimated stage that touched a nerve in the consciousness of anyone who had either witnessed the destruction firsthand or who sat safely in front of the television, thousands of miles away, and mourned for the unspeakable loss and punishing aftermath.
D*U*C*K is Poppy Z. Brite’s love letter to not only New Orleans but to Rickey and G-man and all the other wonderful and colorful characters that have po...more
D*U*C*K is Poppy Z. Brite’s love letter to not only New Orleans but to Rickey and G-man and all the other wonderful and colorful characters that have po...more
It's no secret among my friends that I have mixed feelings about Poppy Z. Brite. I devoured her early fiction during my teenage years. I think she has a great talent, but that her characters were often too stereotypical - caricatures of goths and gays. With the "Liquor" novels, I feel she really came into her own. The characters of Rickey and G-Man were better developed, more accessible, and their preferences less distracting. With this in mind, I decided to pick up D*U*C*K, her novella regardin...more
More a novella than a novel, the fourth book in Poppy Z. Brite's "Liquor" series is clearly her love song to pre-Katrina New Orleans. It is a quiet, gentle book where small amounts of violence still happen, but overall it is a memorial of a New Orleans where people can go about their daily lives, where the biggest tragedy to befall the Dome is the sports team that plays inside it, and where even though you can take the boys out of New Orleans, you can't take the New Orleans out of the boys.
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All the Liquorverse stories are very personal in how they deal with small moments in private lives, usually without a grand story arc or a ticking clock; PZB has always been good at showing how character development and Freytag's pyramid don't have to sync up simplistically. DUCK feels more personal than most, though, because it's intimately tied to PZB's personal experience of the Katrina disaster.
That connection is discussed in the forward and mostly disappears in the main action--a trip out...more
That connection is discussed in the forward and mostly disappears in the main action--a trip out...more
A very quick read -- only about 137 pages. Set in a kinda-sorta parallel-universe New Orleans without levee failures, the book is about a pair of gay chefs who run a New Orleans restaurant called "Liquor" where every dish contains liquor. Not a bad gimmick, really!
The "gay chef" angle was a little ham-handed, I thought, with all the ball fondling and yanking of cranks and such a little gratuitous. The kitchen scenes, too, were a little hackneyed, with lots of kitchen shenanigans, cocaine snortin...more
The "gay chef" angle was a little ham-handed, I thought, with all the ball fondling and yanking of cranks and such a little gratuitous. The kitchen scenes, too, were a little hackneyed, with lots of kitchen shenanigans, cocaine snortin...more
Sadly, this was only a novella, so I blew through it and it ended too quickly. As usual, I loved the follies of G-Man and Ricky, two Lower Ninth Ward lovers who also are immaculate chefs. One thing I should mention, though, I'm not sure I personally would actually eat the food they make. Guess I'm more of a comfort food person myself. Or maybe I've just never eaten food from the South. Either way, this book left me anxiously anticipating the next installment of these two guys.
I'm going to have to read more Poppy Z. Brite. If she can make the preparations for a banquet dinner that interesting, I wonder what else she can do. And this book made me really hungry.
I must find some juniper sorbet now!
Not so great.
You can read my review of this title at Black Heart Magazine, here:
http://blackheartmagazine.com/2010/07...
http://blackheartmagazine.com/2010/07...
I am really excited to read this book and I would like to meet the charters.
I didn't realize how much I'd missed Rickey and G-man--and will miss them if PZB never writes them again--until I read this book. They're such great characters and fit each other perfectly, which PZB shows rather than tells.
Short novella, but so great for fans of the characters and the Liquorverse.
Short novella, but so great for fans of the characters and the Liquorverse.
I love her writing, though this book feels more like a visit to old friends instead of something new and exciting. Still, the culture of food is very strong here, and her writing style is alway so smooth and easy to enjoy.
~PZB's Liquor books are my favorite comfort reading, I think. I reread this in a single day. I love this universe and I hope to see more of it someday.
Read our review at http://blackheartmagazine.com/2010/07...
I wish I could read Poppy Z's "Liquor" books ALL THE TIME and NOTHING ELSE.
Good book about New Orleans(without the disaster), food and friendship.
Aug 22, 2008
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D*U*C*K by Poppy Z. Brite (2007)
Surreal, funny as hell, touching.
May 16, 2013
Charlotte
marked it as to-buy
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Poppy Z. Brite (born Melissa Ann Brite) is an American author born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Born a biological female, Brite has written and talked much about his gender dysphoria/gender identity issues. He self-identifies almost completely as a homosexual male rather than female, and as of 2011 has started taking testosterone injections.
He lived in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and Athens, Georgia...more
More about Poppy Z. Brite...
Born a biological female, Brite has written and talked much about his gender dysphoria/gender identity issues. He self-identifies almost completely as a homosexual male rather than female, and as of 2011 has started taking testosterone injections.
He lived in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and Athens, Georgia...more
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