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Grundish and Askew

by Lance Carbuncle (Goodreads Author)

3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 · rating details · 193 ratings · 107 reviews

Strap on your athletic cup and grab a barf bag. The Dr. Reverend Lance Carbuncle is going to kick you square in the balls and send you on a wild ride that may or may not answer the following questions: what happens when two white trash, trailer park-dwelling, platonic life partners go on a moronic and misdirected crime spree?; can their manly love for each other endure whe...more

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Published September 1st 2009 by Vicious Galoot Books

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Jun 25, 2010 Lance rated it 5 of 5 stars · (Review from the author)

Shelves: pulitzer-prize

Good Lord. Sometimes I am just so amazed with myself. Did I write this masterpiece? Could I really be the literary genius who penned such a compelling tale? When I think about it, it makes me want to do some stretches, dab some cologne behind my ears, curl up in a ball, and kiss my special place. Once again I must say, “Excellent job, Carbuncle! Keep up the good work you handsome bastard!”

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Apr 10, 2011 Charlie rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: dark-absurd-bizarro-pulp-fiction, indie, twisted-tales

I’m taking a different slant to reviewing this novel. Too much of the pullit-surprise awesomeness would be exposed and you really should take the cult-fiction journey naked.

Grundish and Askew is an unconventional 5-star novel that rules its own genre with tenacity and confidence. Nothing is off the table or taboo here. You’ll get language, violence, grossness (I think I just made that word up) and dysfunctional characters that will make your weird relations appear normal. Scary!

Interestingly, a...more I’m taking a different slant to reviewing this novel. Too much of the pullit-surprise awesomeness would be exposed and you really should take the cult-fiction journey naked.

Grundish and Askew is an unconventional 5-star novel that rules its own genre with tenacity and confidence. Nothing is off the table or taboo here. You’ll get language, violence, grossness (I think I just made that word up) and dysfunctional characters that will make your weird relations appear normal. Scary!

Interestingly, a fantastic revenge is inserted mid-way through the novel when the author addresses a previous critic’s comments and shoves them in the mouth of a character. For this, I get on my knees and bow whiling chanting god-like phrases. Presto, the pretentious, bloated, pompous windbag is instantly infamous! In the indie literary world we’ve named this type of reviewer Nestor Maronski(see Facebook, Twitter and Bestseller Bound for details). Yep, go ahead and Google it!

Lets examine. The windbag complains, “If this is a novel, it seems to me that the author has just speckled it with bizarre characters, footnotes and profanity, hoping that the shock value will be enough to carry the story. “ I could not disagree more! The characters are symptoms of our own stereotypical ideologies. As a society, we’ve come together to create Grundish, Askew, Turleen and collectively provide the setting, and behaviors of their neighbors. It’s the most honest reflection of contemporary thinking. Is it shocking, in your face, blunt and downright offensive? Yes, and that is the beauty of the story.

Shall we continue…back to our favorite critic. “…But, the book’s most painful flaw is its lack of any thoughtfully crafted deeper meaning or unifying theme.” I can not directly comment on the previous story for which this addresses, but in Grundish and Askew there is undoubtedly several deep and meaningful themes and if a reader misses them, a hex on you! So, what are these delightful themes? I’ll give it a shot by brainstorming a few off the top of my cliché head. Friendship (the bromance is outstanding), Family (what is a family and then of course, loyalty to Turleen), Economic limitations: culture, race, geography and education. Crime and justice- role of juvee, prison and revolving door. Ageism. Mental health and illness, dependency, and co-dependency. The value of life and death…blah, blah, etcetera. The comedic attributes do no lessen the greater importance of the message. In fact, ironically, it enhances the seriousness and the message(s) the author are conveying. The most obvious example is presented in the repetitive story Grundish tells Askew whenever they face separation. It begins, “Guys like us, you know, the ones that work the shit jobs and scrape by, are the loneliest guys in the world. Can’t keep jobs. Don’t fit in. They ain’t got nobody in the world that give a sideways $@*! about them…” Here’s the sign, the big whooper, the deeper meaning, the theme and/or thesis statement. This is the psychology behind the literary curtain as it pertains to this creative story.

NEXT! Wingbag continues, “The characters are outright unlikable and the author fails to provide us with a point as to what, exactly, he is trying accomplish.” Unlikeable? I believe that depends on each readers own experience. You might not like them, but unless the wizard forgot to give you a heart I’m certain most can sympathize. The end game of a character is not to make readers like them – how lame would that be? Characters are often devices utilized by authors to communicate. In this case, a talking donkey works perfectly. Characters may manifest in many forms spreading the spectrum from fuzzy-feel-good or horrifyingly disgusting.

Alrightly almighty douche, moving on….”To be fair, it also cannot be said that this book is completely without any talent or redemption. “ By far this is a unique, creative, inventive, character-rich, language exploring, boundary breaking and imaginative book. In my singular opinion, the author is incredibly talented, daring and unapologetic. *Note: I am not related, previously befriended, or paid by the author to state this, but if he becomes rich I might claim to be a long lost third-removed cousin by marriage.

Wait for it…this is my favorite part of the review and the kick’em while they’re down death blow, ‘the editing is not awful. BUT…” POW! Suckerpucnch! The EDITING? Really? All I can say is see footnote: [regarding made up words] author is attempting to help move words in the direction of standardization, if for no other reason then to irritate snooty vocabulary police.” My response to the final nugget and to all who include such nonsense in a review, “Oh Nestor Maronski I thought we killed you in Cutting The Fat by Maria Savva and Jason McIntyre (Google it, then buy it).

BTW: The author gets an extra golden star for creating the best pen name ever! If it’s not a pen name, my apologies – your parents probably have another son named Sue.

This book in a nominee to make my Top 11 of 2011 at Bitsy Bling Books (less)

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Nov 03, 2009 Doug rated it 2 of 5 stars

Having just finished the novel last night, I'm still in the process of forming an opinion of the book as a whole (hence the lack of review stars). There are elements that I can comment on quite readily, but when attempting to answer the question of "What do you think of the book?", I feel like I don't have an answer yet.

The craft of the good Reverend Carbuncle is on display in this book. The writing is tight, and the dialoge is natural. His characters are realized and rounded to a degree (and by...more Having just finished the novel last night, I'm still in the process of forming an opinion of the book as a whole (hence the lack of review stars). There are elements that I can comment on quite readily, but when attempting to answer the question of "What do you think of the book?", I feel like I don't have an answer yet.

The craft of the good Reverend Carbuncle is on display in this book. The writing is tight, and the dialoge is natural. His characters are realized and rounded to a degree (and by that I mean that they are rounded to a degree that doesn't lift them above the savage, over-the-top motif that dominates the book from cover to cover).

I would call this a meta-book. The author is speaking directly to the reader with this novel, through the use of footnotes (a peevish device that I don't readily accept in fiction) and several instances in the main narrative where the "fourth wall" (to use a film and television term) is not only acknowledged, but obliterated often.

So it should follow that if the novel, the characters of Grundish, Askew, Turleen, Dora and Idjit Galoot, are mouthpieces for Carbuncle, then the author has something important to communicate to the reader. Maybe that's true and maybe it isn't. If it is, I haven't figured out what he was trying to tell me yet.

The novel is a rocket propelled grenade of caricatures and escalatingly violent and base events, with bodily fluids, appendages, and verbal assaults flying seemingly on every page. The main characters are irredeemable and spectacularly misguided simpletons who wake up one day on the wrong side of sanity, then spend the rest of the book going back and forth across the division, as one horribly ill-concieved attempt to find freedom and peace after another self destructs, often with horrific results to the people around the titular characters. The addition of prophetic dreams with talking dogs just pushes the whole experience to as close to an LSD high as I have ever been.

Yet the book, for all its attempts to shock and disgust, and despite the slight self depracation that the author heaps on himself in the instances when he breaks out of the narrative to chat with the reader, is a thoughtful look at what it means to love someone, even a raging hurricane of violence and stupidity like Askew, and what kind of person would choose to stand by that love no matter what it costs them. For what it's worth, despite his hygene difficulties, I would love a friend like Grundish.

So I still haven't developed a short answer to that question I posed above, "What do you think of the book?" I don't know what I think of it. But I do know that I'll be thinking about it for a while, and maybe that's as good an answer as any.

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Jan 07, 2012 Foxthyme rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: literary-fic-poetry, humour, fiction-general

Confederacy of Dunces meets The Trailer Park Boys' poorer more delinquent cousins meets Chuck Palahniuk. No clichéd writing here. Rather, strangely eloquent passages mashed between scatological rants of such aroma I want to hold the book gingerly away from me with the tips of two fingers, preferably triple-gloved, while still peering to read what’s going to happen next. Because I can’t bear the thought of never knowing, but then again, I don’t think I really want to know. Especially not while ea...more

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Dec 17, 2009 Corby Anderson added it Recommends it for: To a blind nun

Recommended to Corby by: Author

Reasonably Deranged: Grundish and Askew, by Lance Carbuncle, reviewed by Corby Anderson

Imagine that John Steinbeck was forced to mainline a gallon of liquefied salvia divinorum while being strapped down to a chair made of ten penny nails, his eyelids propped open by the freshly-plucked rib bones of a small, rare mammal, all the subjected to watching Natural Born Killers for 24 hours straight, only to be released to his oaken writing desk and given a month to express his thoughts on the experienc...more

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May 20, 2011 Amanda rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Anyone who likes their fiction raw and dirty

Recommended to Amanda by: Lance Carbuncle

If George and Lenny lived in a trailer park, drank beer, had few ambitions and a violent streak, they’d be Grundish and Askew. This is the second book by the good Dr. Reverend Lance Carbuncle, but the first one I’ve had the pleasure of reading. I’m looking forward to satiating myself on more raunchy, cult inspiring awesomeness.

Grundish and Askew are soul mates and hetero life partners who haven’t been dealt the best hand but are determined to make the most of what they have. Askew is determined...more

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Oct 26, 2010 Andy Senior rated it 5 of 5 stars

Lance Carbuncle has a knack for creating absurd characters that we actually give a damn about. Grundish and Askew are incorrigible screw-ups that most of us would cross the street to avoid. Yet they are big-hearted incorrigible screw-ups, a trailer-park Damon and Pythias or (perhaps more significantly) Lennie and George. Steinbeckian overtones persist throughout the book, but Steinbeck was never this much fun. Carbuncle, a gifted humorist in every sense of the word, is thoroughly comfortable wit...more

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Feb 12, 2010 Betty rated it 4 of 5 stars

If you like raunchiness, you will love G&A...

I read Lance Carbuncle's debut novel, Smashed, Squashed, Splattered, Chewed, Chunked and Spewed, even though it's not my usual choice of reading. I had many laughs with his riotous characters, so decided to get this second book, Grundish and Askew.

I found it to be equally as outrageous, and his tale quite original. Grundish and Askew are the quirkiest characters to come down the pike (via the trailer park stereotype) since Dumb and Dumber (Unrate...more

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Dec 04, 2009 Alison rated it 5 of 5 stars

What do you do if you make a promise to someone? You keep that promise, right? Well, that's what Grundish is trying to do, but his best buddy and hetero-life-partner, Askew, isn't making it easy. You see, Grundish has been taking the fall (and doing the time) for his best friend all their lives... but now, well, it's getting a little out of hand.

I didn't think it was possible, but Lance Carbuncle has managed to out-do himself. "Grundish and Askew" takes it's readers on an outrageous ride, follo...more

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Jun 23, 2011 Joanie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: kindle, funny-stuff

Lance Carbuncle's second book is every bit as off the wall as his first. Grundish and Askew is a grosser, more obscene version of "Of Mice and Men." It's filled with pop culture references and song lyrics, reading it was like being on a crazy scavenger hunt. I absolutely loved Askew's misuse of words, it made me smile every time.

This book is definitely not for everyone but if you've got a strong stomach and you're not easily offended then this may very well be your type of book.

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May 03, 2011 Lloyd rated it 3 of 5 stars

Of Mice and Men for the Fight Club generation. If you're a fan of Chuck Palahniuk's upside-down Americana or the fourth-wall breaking antics and general zaniness of Christopher Moore, then you should give this book a look.
If there was one thing I would criticize, I would point to a short scene involving a couple of TV news anchors. A wink and a nod to the audience is one thing. Hell, even an internal monologue to the audience is traditional. I've even read a well written piece where a character...more

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Sep 06, 2009 Marvin rated it 4 of 5 stars

Grundish and Askew is Of Mice and Men on steroids and meth. It is Thelma and Louise except with two loser guys and no socially redeeming message. It is Lance Carbuncle's second novel and it continues his pathological love for the bizarre, the scatological and general bad taste made ecstatically entertaining. I'm pretty sure there is not a social taboo left untouched in this madhouse of a story. If he was not so damn good as a writer I would probably be calling the police for a psychological asse...more

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Mar 20, 2012 Clifdisc rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: too-terrible-to-finish

It's never a good sign when, on page 67, you find yourself checking to see how many pages are left in the book. Somewhere around page 100 a pair of newscasters break the fourth wall to brag about how shitty the book is. Setting aside several meta-contextual statements by the narrator, this was the second time in 100 pages that characters in the novel broke the fourth wall. This time the author himself put in an appearance, presumably to do something terrible to the characters in question but, I...more

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Mar 31, 2013 Gabriel rated it 4 of 5 stars

[Thank you, Carbuncle, for the review copy!]

I don't know if Mr. Lance Carbuncle considers himself a "bizarro" author, but this book definitely fits into the best of that set. One of those few bizarro books that seems completely realistic, doesn't depend on jokes to sell itself and is - for all the sophomoric humor and gory violence - a serious story about serious people.

First off, this is NOT "Thelma and Louise" with men. That's what I thought at first ... but I was so far off-base it's not eve...more [Thank you, Carbuncle, for the review copy!]

I don't know if Mr. Lance Carbuncle considers himself a "bizarro" author, but this book definitely fits into the best of that set. One of those few bizarro books that seems completely realistic, doesn't depend on jokes to sell itself and is - for all the sophomoric humor and gory violence - a serious story about serious people.

First off, this is NOT "Thelma and Louise" with men. That's what I thought at first ... but I was so far off-base it's not even funny. This is too much like a Noir (granted, a pre-Hayes Code Noir ... or "unrated exxxtra long" Noir) for something like "Thelma and Louise." And it's no "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" ... I mean, they ride bicycles and sing Burt Bacharach songs. Grundish and Askew would smack them upside their pretty-boy faces and let them in on the real world. A world full of cheap smokes, cheaper beer, and cheapest women.

But a world that is so suffocatingly (I took a lesson from Carbuncle and made up a word there) real, that one can't help but feel for everyone involved. Except the F**kers. There's only hatred for those guys.

And despite the vile (as in gross; not poorly written) details that ooze from the pages (my computer screen needs to be washed now ... it's rather disgusting), the story feels restrained. It's not out to just drown the reader with guts and sperm and blood and snot and fecal matter - not like the worst Troma films - but rather, the bile and such are sprinkled lightly throughout the book ... like one would do cheese on pasta.

All of this work, though, and I still feel a little cold. I'm not sure what I was missing to truly love this book (maybe it's just because I finished Harbor which is up on my top books of all time list ... poor timing), but when I come back to it in a couple of years I'm sure I'll find lots of what I was missing.

I'll just skip the prologue though. I think the story reads better when told linearly instead of in medium rays , as Askew would say.(less)

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Jan 21, 2010 Logan rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, humor, joyous_nihilism

Chaos, wanton destruction, irrational behavior in the face of the massed forces of The Man- it's always been a good bet that if a book has any of these elements then it's a book that I want to read. As such I was incredibly happy to hear that Lance Carbuncle had released his follow-up to Smashed, Squashed, Shattered..., his hilarious first novel- a book hilarious enough to have been banned from my bedroom due to incessant laughter at late-night hours.

The titular Grundish and Askew are a pair of...more Chaos, wanton destruction, irrational behavior in the face of the massed forces of The Man- it's always been a good bet that if a book has any of these elements then it's a book that I want to read. As such I was incredibly happy to hear that Lance Carbuncle had released his follow-up to Smashed, Squashed, Shattered..., his hilarious first novel- a book hilarious enough to have been banned from my bedroom due to incessant laughter at late-night hours.

The titular Grundish and Askew are a pair of down-on-their-luck losers living among a trailer park of pedophiles. These best friends have never caught a break: Grundish is stalked by the lustful parole officer who wants to get her hands on the strap-on penis that he regularly uses to pass drug tests, Askew's one-lunged Great Aunt Turleen has just been kicked out of a nursing home for strangling a dog. It's a life, sure, but it's up for debate as to whether it's worth living. Regardless, deciding to get back at all of The Fuckers who have been making their lives miserable for so long, the duo find themselves on the run after Askew beats a man to death.

At which point the novel drinks a big tall glass of crazy juice. Now, I mentioned above that I'm a big fan of the wantonly insane in books. I like that mixture of titillation and repulsion that comes with reading about Thalidomide babies or homeless men performing stripteases on street corners. Carbuncle just goes crazy with it, though. Cringe-inducing descriptions of the sweatily obese and the liver-spotted ancient, tonsilliths (Google it- but be ye warned), burros that barf up rancid hair balls, frozen meat sticks- it all gets thrown in the kitchen sink and blended into a fine mess.

I think I'd have been fine with these macabre details had the plot hung together toward the end, but the last 30 pages just read as though the book needed to be rushed to print and an ending hurriedly constructed. Characters did things not keeping with the selves that we've gotten used to over the preceding pages and the surprise twist which we've been gearing up for just left me feeling "meh." Still, this book is an absolute riot for the most part and I'll definitely be first in line to read Carbuncle's next.(less)

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Sep 12, 2009 Lori rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: signed-by-author, fiction, fricken-awesome, arc-reviewers-copy, indie-awesomeness

What is there not to love about this book?

The two main characters are hilarious.
Grundish, a big ole hairy bear of a man, has been in and out of juvee/prison for most of his life, taking the heat for his best friend. Askew, aforementioned BF, is a short overwieght goofball who is famous for using big (incorrect) words to enhance his sentences, and avoiding jail time due to sheer luck and a sympatheic friend.

Enter Turleen, a one lunged second-hand-smoke breathing cooking machine; Alf the Sacred B...more

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Mar 03, 2013 Michael rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: kindle-e-books, bizarro

I received a free copy in exchange for a review and after reading what the book is about I would have bought a copy any way. The footnotes were a nice touch and fulk of weird facts. Inrerestingly the only charcters are likeable are Askew and Grundish. I would even say that they're antiheroes.

Grundish And Askew are an updated version of Lenny and George from Of Mice And Men. Instead of being retarded though Askew goes batshit crazy and that is when the book really kicks into high gear. The bond...more

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Mar 09, 2011 Lea rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: acquired-2011, read-2011, love-the-cover, bizarro, reviews

Throw Trailer Park Boys, "Of Mice and Men", and Carbuncle's "Smashed, Squashed, Splattered, Chewed, Chunked and Spewed" into a blender, and this is what you'd come up with -- a surreal and violent odyssey through central Florida, where "tell me about the rabbits" becomes "tell me about the ladies", and dogs and donkeys visit your dreams to dispense advice.

While this book features some old friends from the author's previous book, "Grundish and Askew" is much darker. There is a lot more violence h...more

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Feb 21, 2010 Angela rated it 5 of 5 stars

After reading Lance Carbuncle's debut novel Smashed, Squashed, Splattered, Chewed, Chunked and Spewed, I wasn't sure he could top the vulgarity, the insanity, or the overall raunchy hilarity, but luckily, he did, and another warped nugget of literature was bestowed upon the world... so hold your breath!

Carbuncle is back with a new cast of crazies on a new adventure of lunacy. Grundish and Askew are a match made in the trailer park, and while their lives appear directionless at first, with only...more

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Jul 29, 2011 Shaun rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Grundish and Askew will certainly leave you almost at a loss for words; at least that's where i'm at right now. As I try to form an opinion of this little gem of vulgar bromance meets unplanned psycho killing spree I keep chuckling to myself about the Of Mice and Men undertones..."tell me again Grundish. Tell me about the ladies...", and the overall this-should-offend-me-but-it's-actually-really-good quality the book has. The Reverend Carbuncle has created two main characters you can't help but...more

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Sep 11, 2009 Brooke rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: bury-these-with-me-when-i-die, absurdist-fiction

Another incredibly entertaining read from a terrific author. I laughed, I cried, and I was, at one point, nearly overcome by a wave of nausea. These are the same range of emotions I felt while reading Smashed, Squashed, Splattered, Chewed, Chunked, and Spewed (L. Carbuncle's first masterpiece).

Lance Carbuncle, once again, delivers a story that begs to be devoured from its first page right through to its last, leaving you licking your fingers, smacking your lips, and waiting for another course.

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Jan 28, 2011 Amy rated it 4 of 5 stars

Another whirlwind adventure from the sick and twisted mind of Lance Carbuncle. He has managed to write a second book just as outlandish, disgusting, nasty, crazy and fun as his first book. These poor characters take a ton of internal and external abuse to their bodies for our entertainment. Irregardless of how one may feel about his characters, it's hard not to be intrigued by them.

Not only does Lance write a fun and fast paced adventure novel, he manages to educate us along the way. I am now c...more

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Jun 19, 2011 Felonious rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: A Select Few (Adults Only)

Shelves: topshelf

Before I decided to read this book I looked it up on http://goodreads.com It said to strap on a jock strap grab a barf bag and be prepared to get kicked in the nuts (paraphrasing).

This book does contain strong language, sexual situations and vivid descriptions of things most people would be happy not to have described.

Once I sat down and started to read Grundish and Askew it was hard to put down. The story is full of great characters and the plot was interesting and intriguing enough that I jus...more

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Oct 21, 2009 Marjorie Frum rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: anyone who loves twisted humor.

I couldn't wait to read this book. Lance Carbuncle's first book, Smashed, Squashed, Splattered, Chewed, Chunked and Spewed was hilarious, so I was really excited to read this. I was curious to find out if Lance was a one-hit wonder with his first twisted masterpiece. I was thrilled to discover that this tale delivers page-after-page of the same sick brand of humor that made me fall in love with his first book. Grundish and Askew drew me in with its duo of underachievers and had me rooting for th...more

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Jan 13, 2010 Mykle rated it 4 of 5 stars

Forget about stars -- this book is so beyond good and evil, it's beyond stars. Lance Carbuncle has a way with disgusting, and it's in fine form here. But beneath the layers of sweat and grime and pus and drool and spooge and snot and phlegm and bits of coughed-up lung there is a story about fucked up people who love each other, look out for each other, and fuck up each other by trying to take care of each other. Every single cum-stained, diarrhea-seeping, beer-farting moron in this story is a fi...more

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Mar 04, 2012 Amy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Epub/Absurd Humor: First a disclaimer that I got the epub free from the author. That being said, I liked the book. While I didn't find the book laugh out loud funny, I did find it humorous and entertaining. Absurd humor isn't for everyone, mostly because it equals gross and lewd.
This is the story of two friends who are trailer park losers. They are both sociopaths who have no real sympathy for people or other people's property. Grundish could probably make it okay in the world, but unfortunatel...more

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Feb 19, 2012 Jonathan Culver rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: bizarro, gifts

There is so much to love in this book, and I see so much of my own writing style in it. I loved the footnotes linked to useless fun facts, the Palahniuk influence, and, frankly, the first 50 or so pages. But then something goes wrong. Something is just missing. Granted, there were points that perked up my interest, but for the most part I just didn't really enjoy the book any more after roughly the first 1/6th. Part of it may be the over the top crudeness, which didn't even offend me, it just g...more

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Aug 06, 2010 Norm rated it 5 of 5 stars

If you've been missing the twisted, sick humor of Hunter S Thompson, or you're wondering what Carl Hiassen would write ... if he were on an acid trip ... of if life is just a little too vanilla, too bland, Grundish and Askew is your book.

Grundish and Askew are two pitiful losers. Nothing has gone right in their lives, except their own lifetime bond. They would kill for each other, or, under the right circumstances, kill each other.

When Askew beats a man to death, they must flee, bringing Askew'...more

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May 22, 2010 David Katzman rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: literary low-lifes

Recommended to David by: Your Mom

I sing the body poop-centric.

What is Grundish & Askew? Well, the human body is quite grundish at times and definitely askew. After all, we all get sick, we all eventually get old and die (unless we’re crushed by a large object before it’s really time for us to go…and such events are, perhaps, uber-grundish). This book purports to be a buddy story, about two downtrodden fools, but I think it’s more of a meditation on all the fucked up shit that makes us physically tick. It’s reminding us that...more

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Feb 04, 2010 Lisa rated it 5 of 5 stars

Mr. Carbuncle has done it again and produced another fliptastic page turner. The story is amuzing and the comedy is just divine. I will continue to follow his work to see what new tricks he's going to have up his sleeve.

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The Dr. Reverend Lance Carbuncle was born sometime during the last millennium and he’s been getting bigger, older and uglier ever since. Carbuncle is an ordained minister with the Church of Spiritual Humanism. Carbuncle doesn’t eat deviled eggs and he doesn’t drink cheap beer. Carbuncle doesn’t wear sock garters. Carbuncle does tell stories. Carbuncle’s stories are channeled through a pathetic lit...more

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