Friday the 13th meets Visitor Q. Apeshit is Mellicks love letter to the great and terrible B-horror movie genre. Six trendy teenagers (three cheerl...
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Jul 30, 2011
Dan
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Six teenagers go to a cabin in the woods for a weekend of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Little did they know they'd end up with a psychotic monster trying to kill them...
Wow. This was the goriest, craziest, goriest book I've read this year. I realize I said "goriest" twice but this book is so gory I thought one "goriest" wasn't going to cut it. It started out like a typical slasher movie. Three guys, three girls, various sexual entanglements. Then the inbre More...
Wow. This was the goriest, craziest, goriest book I've read this year. I realize I said "goriest" twice but this book is so gory I thought one "goriest" wasn't going to cut it. It started out like a typical slasher movie. Three guys, three girls, various sexual entanglements. Then the inbre More...
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May 13, 2011
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Mellick writes in the so-called “Bizarro”-genre. This is the second book I read of Mellick and this time it’s not the story that is so bizarre, it’s what happens in the story.
The cover says it all. “Apeshit” is a slasher. A slasher with a simple story about 3 teenage girls and boys, staying in a cabin in the woods in the middle of nowhere, with a mutant killer creature roaming around.
What this story mades it so bizarre, is the love-triangle between the characters, “ce More...
The cover says it all. “Apeshit” is a slasher. A slasher with a simple story about 3 teenage girls and boys, staying in a cabin in the woods in the middle of nowhere, with a mutant killer creature roaming around.
What this story mades it so bizarre, is the love-triangle between the characters, “ce More...
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Dec 28, 2011
Speaking as someone who's read --and completely enjoyed-- a lot of crack fic, parody novellas, and disturbing horror stories; this was extremely badly written crack fic at its worst. Perhaps there are people who want to read stories where none of the characters are relatable, redeemable, or even remotely realistic. It tries so hard to shock while not realizing that you have to care to some degree to be shocked. The characters are so removed from reality that it's impossible to care for them even
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Aug 03, 2011
Matthew
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Stop me if you’ve heard this before…
Six teenagers go to an isolated cabin for a party weekend of booze and sex, only to discover themselves being stalked by a mutant freak lurking in the woods.
Familiar? Of course it is. The author is an unapologetic fan of bad slasher B-movies, and this book is his indulgence. The problem can be that parodies of this kind often end up as a checklist of clichés masquerading as homage. But not here. We have Carlton Mellick III at the helm, More...
Six teenagers go to an isolated cabin for a party weekend of booze and sex, only to discover themselves being stalked by a mutant freak lurking in the woods.
Familiar? Of course it is. The author is an unapologetic fan of bad slasher B-movies, and this book is his indulgence. The problem can be that parodies of this kind often end up as a checklist of clichés masquerading as homage. But not here. We have Carlton Mellick III at the helm, More...
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Jul 17, 2011
Anthony
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Wooo boy what a doozy. I haven't read Carlton Mellick before but man was this a thrill ride. He definitely takes you to the edge of bizarro as many have stated, but watch out because if you are easy to get queasy you might wanna get off the ride before it starts. I'm not sure if this was the right book to introduce myself to Carlton Mellick as I have heard others of his have more witty and clever ideas but this definitely was a good book nonetheless.
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Jun 29, 2011
William
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4 AND 1/2 STARS.
After reading this book, it took me less than one minute to go online and order more titles from this author. He's that good. I've heard his name mentioned as one of the better writers of the new Bizarro genre, but I don't think that does him justice. Forget whether you like Bizarro or not, or even if you know that heck that is. Mellick is a great writer. Period. His prose is simple and direct, always cutting through the fat to get to the meat... and I mean the juicy More...
After reading this book, it took me less than one minute to go online and order more titles from this author. He's that good. I've heard his name mentioned as one of the better writers of the new Bizarro genre, but I don't think that does him justice. Forget whether you like Bizarro or not, or even if you know that heck that is. Mellick is a great writer. Period. His prose is simple and direct, always cutting through the fat to get to the meat... and I mean the juicy More...
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May 23, 2009
Ross
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"Friday the 13th meets Visitor Q" promises the back cover copy of Carlton Mellick III's Apeshit, and that's exactly what the book delivers; this is the literary equivalent of a Takashi Miike slasher flick, reveling in the conventions of B-movie horror, yet layering on enough gore, gristle, and grotesquerie to make even Kane Hodder squeamish. At the heart of the novel's plot is the requisite group of horny teenagers, heading out to the requisite isolated cabin in the woods for the requi
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Oct 14, 2011
Sarah
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This book is an 80s splatter/slasher B movie with the volume turned up to 11. Six teenagers go to a cabin in the woods for the weekend and gory mayhem ensues. To say that this book pushes boundaries would be a falsity. "Ape****" is written with boundaries nowhere in sight. They simply don't exist and that's what makes Mr. Mellick and the Bizarro genre extremely important.
I liked this book, but I didn't love it. One character's freaky and disgusting fetish was too much for me, More...
I liked this book, but I didn't love it. One character's freaky and disgusting fetish was too much for me, More...
Dec 19, 2011
Bob
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The back cover describes Apeshit as "perhaps one of the most f*cked up books ever written." That's an apt description. This is either the most revolting, graphic, offensive piece of splatterpunk horror I've ever read, or the most brilliant, original, insightful piece of satire upon the genre ever written.
Then again, maybe it's both. Or neither.
As far as basic plotting goes, this is part Friday the 13th, part Evil Dead, and part The Hills Have Eyes. Basically, a More...
Then again, maybe it's both. Or neither.
As far as basic plotting goes, this is part Friday the 13th, part Evil Dead, and part The Hills Have Eyes. Basically, a More...
Aug 02, 2009
Heather
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Apr 23, 2011
Mark
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This book was silly. Not being a fan of b-horror movies it didn't do much for me. The author trots out plenty of taboo material in the hopes of shocking (trans-people, vagina dentata, mutants, abortion, explicit gore) but it falls flat.
The characters feel like they're just in the story to have foulness and tragedy inflicted on them - it reminds me of how I feel when I watch the Saw movies. Actually that's a pretty good parallel! I'm left with the same question at the end of both More...
The characters feel like they're just in the story to have foulness and tragedy inflicted on them - it reminds me of how I feel when I watch the Saw movies. Actually that's a pretty good parallel! I'm left with the same question at the end of both More...
Oct 13, 2011
Bandit
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As a long time horror fan, I'm tough to gross out and/or disturb, but this book just about managed to do it. Mellick's take on the classic "teenagers go to a remote cabin in the woods, crazy things happen" is so amped up, so extreme, so incredibly messed up, that's sort of mesmerizing in a way. I think what I liked the most is how the author peels back layers upon layers (figuratively and literally) from the main characters revealing the ugliness and profound degree of "messedupne
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Oct 17, 2011
Jeremy
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The Slasher movie genre that provides the framework for this book is so tired and clapped out, a yawning pastiche of a pastiche of pastiche.
However it serves Mellick's sparse style - the kind of synopsised prose you find in the instructions for flat pack furniture - rather well, since it frees him from the chore of making his characters engaging or believable.
Hackneyed cliche follows cliche and is then is finally nuanced as the author strives to shock the reader with es More...
However it serves Mellick's sparse style - the kind of synopsised prose you find in the instructions for flat pack furniture - rather well, since it frees him from the chore of making his characters engaging or believable.
Hackneyed cliche follows cliche and is then is finally nuanced as the author strives to shock the reader with es More...
Dec 30, 2008
Rose
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Most fucked up book I've ever published
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Feb 26, 2010
Tressa
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It's going to be hard for me to explain why I didn't like Apeshit because it is supposed to be gory and over-the-top and full of implausibilities. Even given those things, I just didn't like it.
This book didn't disgust me, let me just clear that up right away. I've read gorier books and enjoyed them.
I know we aren't supposed to like the characters, none of whom have any redeeming qualities at all, and I certainly didn't. There are six characters, and I still couldn't ke More...
This book didn't disgust me, let me just clear that up right away. I've read gorier books and enjoyed them.
I know we aren't supposed to like the characters, none of whom have any redeeming qualities at all, and I certainly didn't. There are six characters, and I still couldn't ke More...
Sep 16, 2010
Kurt
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The most awesome cover... though i have to say it DOES feel like some of the characters are overdone... Weirdness for Weirdnesses sake is not cool... just weird is ok. Every Character is more messed, or has a darker secret than the last and the centre of the book is pretty much broken into a chapter per character and revealing said dark secret. Once you get past THAT the carnage of the ending makes up for the Secrets.
Jan 04, 2010
Hossthomas
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this is hands down the most fucked up book i've ever read, and i can't stress enough that it will most likely offend pretty much everybody who reads it in some way. with that said, i also thought it was a great book. no matter how bizarre and outrageous it is at times, it never seems like these things happen purely for shock value. i recommend it for someone who's not easily offended and is looking for a new twist on an old horror cliche.
Dec 09, 2011
Jennifer
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Even after reading the introduction from the author and mentally preparing for a gruesome and shocking story I was pretty disturbed. There were parts of this story where I actually cringed and felt a bit nauseous. It didn't stop me from reading though, out of the morbid curiosity that draws me to this genre in the first place.
Jun 15, 2011
Hailey
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Another great one. I love gory horror films and I am devout in my love for Evil Dead, so this book just combined all of my favorite things in a nice little package. I would read this again. And I am now a definite fan of Bizarro books.
Aug 03, 2009
William
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Crazy....I read this book in one setting. A group of teenagers go camping to a remote area. Sure enough, people start getting killed (or should be dead), lots of sex ensues, etc. This book has all the stuff to make it good...violence, sex, danger.
Jan 25, 2010
Jason
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One of CM3's more 'straightforward' works is still awesome! 3 cheers for zany slasher stories.
Jan 22, 2012
Joseph
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bizarre, mocking, socially unacceptable, disgusting, and hard to put down.
May 30, 2011
Dave
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An interesting travel book. A genre I've not come across before.
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Oct 19, 2010
Matt
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The book that sucks you into a funnel of increasingly sick absurdity.
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Apr 26, 2011
Matt
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Don't read this book. I thought it was kinda cool, but you would disagree. Trust me.
Jan 22, 2012
Tina
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this may be the biggest pile of shit i've ever come across... i can't wait to see what happens next!
May 11, 2011
Dustin
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there are things in this book you do not mention even on the internet. Read it.
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