God Jr.
by Dennis Cooper
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Read in September, 2008
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Stackedsrecommends it for: People Who Like Video Games
Novels sticking to the topic of video games and especially a various facsimile of a banjo-kazooie game and a bunch of stoned people who want to variously play/ bask in the video game landscape which is a particular glitch in one cartidge mayhap that becomes a "monument" the dad builds the son.
I found myself skimming the area where he describes, in horribly vague detail because of a veiled reference to a Nintendo lawsuit (the company is infamous for protecting brand. parody, beware!...more
I found myself skimming the area where he describes, in horribly vague detail because of a veiled reference to a Nintendo lawsuit (the company is infamous for protecting brand. parody, beware!...more
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Read in July, 2008
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stoned video game aficionados
I have been a fan of Cooper's trangressive fiction since the mid 90s, when I was a teenager and when most of his sickest work was published. I couldn't get enough of it; my desires were nowhere near as radical as those of Cooper's characters, but I was fascinated with how he pushed the limits of sex, violence, culture and desire. And his pop culture references were right in line with my underground obsessions.
That said, I really didn't get much out of this most recent and much-acclaimed shor...more
That said, I really didn't get much out of this most recent and much-acclaimed shor...more
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A quiet meditation of sorts about a father's grief over his deceased son. To get into his head, the father starts playing the son's favorite computer game. Unusual Dennis Cooper novel in that it doesn't deal with 'Gay' characters, but really, his work has never been about "Gay" subject matters. More about desire and where that leads...
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Read in March, 2007
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Answers the question, "what would a Dennis Cooper book be like if all the salacious stuff rang sensationalistically hollow, and then the second half of the book was 100 pages of an unsympathetic jerk you didn't care about having stoned conversations with the characters in a Nintendo game?" Fuck this book.
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The first thing I read by Cooper. It's his latest novel, and far more accomodating to the mainstrea. It reads more like a Douglas Coupland than anything else (not that there is anything wrong with it.) A good, quick read, but not the place to start. For that, get Closer.
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Read in November, 2007
An interesting read until the book devolves into stoned conversations with video game characters, which perhaps was meant to be a foray into surrealism but actually was just silly. This was a little too Douglas Coupland-lite for my tastes.
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Read in August, 2008
A strange book about a guy who basically loses his mind playing the video game of his dead son. I liked it. There were a few choice passages that made it worth while, and it was short as hell, so not much of a time commitment.
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This book is worth reading for one hilarious line near the beginning, it is seriously so great that you'll be glad you read it. Overall I like this book although I got a little lost when the video game world takes over.
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Read in July, 2008
Dear contemporary novel, thank you for being contemporary, or at least aiming to be in the best way imaginable. Cheers to those who can imagine more. In the meantime, Cooper makes good on what writers write for.
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Read in October, 2007
Not my favorite of Cooper's, but a very odd and weirdly affecting depiction of grief. Plus half of the book is narrated from the perspective of a bear in a video game.
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Read in June, 2008
very interesting. Not what I was expecting. Definitely made you think about the repercussions of life and death. Also probably would've been good to read high! :)
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Read in June, 2007
Less graphic than what I've encountered from Cooper in the past. Got a little bored with the video game angle. Quick read, nevertheless.
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Do people like this? How does this stuff get published? Just crappy, crappy writing. And everything's bleak. And life sucks. The end.
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