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Ass Goblins of Auschwitz

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It's Monty Python meets Nazi exploitation in a surreal nightmare as can only be imagined by Bizarro author Cameron Pierce.

In a land where black snow falls in the shape of swastikas, there exists a nightmarish prison camp known as Auschwitz. It is run by a fascist, flatulent race of aliens called the Ass Goblins, who travel in apple-shaped spaceships to abduct children fro
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Paperback, 104 pages
Published October 5th 2009 by Eraserhead Press (first published 2009)
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Marvin
Jul 19, 2011 Marvin rated it it was ok
Shelves: horror
I am dreading the next book club meeting. We'll be discussing This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War and preparing to read The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary. John will be reading some high brow's autobiography and Fred just can't wait for James Lee Burke's new book. Michelle will be pining for another novel by Christopher Moore. Then they'll turn to me and say, "Marvin, what did you read this week?" And ...more
Kirsten Alene
Dec 10, 2010 Kirsten Alene rated it really liked it
In the first four pages of Cameron Pierce's A*s Goblins of Auschwitz, a row of child slaves are molested, one by one, by a giant a*s-shaped N*zi Goblin. But by the time the main character pulls a bicycle made of other children out of his scrotum, this will not seem shocking.

A*s Goblins of Auschwitz was a difficult book to read. It's been 80 years or so, but I think we can all say that the Holocaust still isn't funny.

A*s Goblins could see a lot of heat from "Serious Literary People" for making
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Jason Koivu
Feb 02, 2016 Jason Koivu marked it as to-read
How is it I've overlooked this undoubtedly fine piece of literature for so long?!
Emory
Jan 17, 2013 Emory rated it it was amazing
Let me guess? The ass with eyestalks covered in Nazi symbols is totally turning you away from this book. Don't. Go ahead, read it. It's worth it.

"Ass Goblins of Auschwitz" certainly looks and sounds like something that was written to be offensive for the sake of offending. It is not very long, the cover makes no attempts to mute the meaning of the title. One might think it is screaming to be thrown on the pyre. But don't be so quick to judge. Cameron Pierce always, whether intentional or not, ha
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Jordan
Nov 06, 2009 Jordan rated it really liked it

Cameron Pierce’s strength lies in his imagination. I personally think an animation company should sign him on to come up with ideas for cartoons, video games, and stuff like that because his work does lend itself to that sort of thing. The book itself is twisted, entertaining, and creative, three traits that I rarely find all in one book.

This is the author’s second book and in many ways it’s better than the first. There is a focus present that wasn’t in the first. Pierce has an extremely strong
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Ruby  Tombstone [With A Vengeance]
I really wanted this to be awesome. I'm a big fan of weird. I'm a big fan of gross. I'm also a big fan of writing, and that's where the book lost me.

I don't mind being made sick to my stomach, and if a book can make me actually clench my sphincter, so much the better, but I CANNOT abide poor writing.

It's not even really terrible grammar or spelling, just the odd continuity error and sentences that, when you think about it, don't actually have any meaning. For example: "Today seems worse, proba
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Christy Stewart
Josef Mengele and Sigmund Freud had a baby and Cameron Pierce shit on it.

This book is probably the most disgusting thing I've ever read and I could not put it down.
Meredith
Oct 02, 2011 Meredith rated it it was ok
It was pointed out to me that my previous review did not include the fact that I recommend the book. So here is a new review.

I was dared to read Ass Goblins of Auschwitz by friends. Unable to turn down this dare, I immediately got the e-book and started reading it. This was my introduction to the Bizarro genre, and it was eye-opening. As a WWII history fan, the incorporation of Nazi imagery appealed to me greatly; the incorporation of ass goblins appealed considerably less. But the first half of
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Scott Emerson
Dec 17, 2011 Scott Emerson rated it really liked it
Conjoined twins 999 and 1001 are laborers in the prison camp of Auschwitz, building bicycles from the corpses of kidnapped children under the tyrannical rule of the Ass Goblins--farting, butt-shaped aliens with a penchant for cider made from fermented kiddies. With their captors frequently drunk of child-cider, 999 and 1001 plot their escape, only to find much weirder obsctacles in their path.

Perhaps the most astonishing thing about ASS GOBLINS FROM AUSCHWITZ is that it manages to be shocking an
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Shaun
Feb 03, 2016 Shaun rated it liked it
This reminds me of The Poop That Took a Pee from that episode of South Park. It's just shocking for the sake of being shocking. I'm not that well versed with bizarro fiction. This is only the second or third piece I've read from that genre. It was a readable story but I think I'm more of a Carlton Mellick III guy.
Frau Blücher
Laaaaaaangweilig. Aber immerhin hab ich jetzt eine schöne Um- und Beschreibung für Nazispacken. “Ass Goblins“ trifft es doch ganz gut
Dustin Reade
Jan 31, 2011 Dustin Reade rated it it was amazing
whoah. Look, I've read a lot of bizarro, but this book is the weirdest, most insane thing I have ever read. Ever.
Sheldon
Oct 29, 2011 Sheldon rated it liked it
If you've noticed a recent trend in my reviews, I've been reading a lot of what gets classified as “bizarro fiction.” I remember when I first heard about it, about a year ago, and I pictured stories that would be weird, off-the-wall, and probably containing concepts or imagery that would be purely for shock value. What I had read so far was okay in these regards, but I was more surprised at the way these authors had chosen not to push these boundaries as hard as I expected.

Then I read Ass Goblin
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J. Osborne
Nov 15, 2009 J. Osborne rated it really liked it
Growing up, I watched a lot of TV. Nickelodeon, mostly. Ah! Real Monsters, Rocko’s Modern Life, Ren & Stimpy. They were light-hearted and funny, sure, but deep-down they were kind of unsettling, and with your eyes glued to the tube, you felt like you were given a glimpse into truly twisted minds, minds that were trying their very best to warn their audience of the darkness of adulthood to come. These cartoons with their drab colors and their focus on offal and snot and lint and gas were just ...more
R.A. Harris
May 12, 2012 R.A. Harris rated it really liked it
You obviously expect weird, twisted, demonic, savage, abusive, and disgusting things to occur in a book titled ASS GOBLINS OF AUSCHWITZ, and they do. Perhaps you expect some poignancy, some deep sentimentality and hope, well, there's that too. Perhaps you expect crappy writing? Well, there's none of that. There is the token mad nazi doctor, but he is an assgoblin, so perhaps it's not so bad.

So what else has the book got to offer?

Children forced into a labour camp to make toys for the goblins. P
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Daniel
Feb 21, 2011 Daniel rated it it was ok
Despite the horrifically offensive title, this book isn't torture porn for Neo Nazis. It's an entry in a school of writing known as 'Bizarro' fiction, in which the authors attempt to lampoon, well, something, anything really, by being as strange and outrageously offensive as possible. Curiously, this has the effect of making the book inoffensive on any level beyond the most cursory of glances as you quickly become inured to the cartoonish extremes the writer takes things to and now and again mes ...more
Savvas Katseas
Jan 23, 2012 Savvas Katseas rated it really liked it
Shelves: fiction
Σ' ένα διεστραμμένο σύμπαν, το Άουσβιτς είναι στρατόπεδο συγκέντρωσης "Παιδιών", μιας ιδιαίτερης ράτσας όντων που χαρακτηρίζεται από τα φωτεινά της μάτια, τη σαλλλονικιώτική της ανεμελιά και τα κομμουνιστικά της ιδεώδη. Το στρατόπεδο το τρέχουν οι "Κωλογκόμπλιν", μια εξίσου ιδιαίτερη ράτσα όντων που χαρακτηρίζεται από τα τεράστιά της οπίσθια, το SS μαχητικό στιλ και την εμμονή με τον μηλίτη φτιαγμένο από Παιδιά, και το διοικεί ο Αδόλφος.
Στο βιβλίο μαθαίνουμε για την πορεία δύο ζεύγων παιδιών --
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Matthew Vaughn
Nov 04, 2011 Matthew Vaughn rated it really liked it
Shelves: bizarro, reviewed
When I first learned of the Bizarro genre I thought it would be some truly weird stuff, I read some descriptions of books and some customer reviews and there seemed to be some strange and twisted books out there. One that I was intrigued by was AGOA, I had already read Abortion Arcade and knew that Cameron Pierce was a go to guy for the truly bizarre work. After having finally got around to purchasing AGOA and reading it I’ve got to say this book here is what Bizarro is all about. From the Gobli ...more
G. Munson
Nov 29, 2015 G. Munson rated it really liked it
What the hell did I just read?
Okay, this is both depressing and fun. There’s a bunch of kids in a nazi concentration camp. They’re worked like animals, mentally and physically abused, and eventually killed. There are also twins that are experimented on. Oh yeah, and the nazis are ass goblins.
There are no rainbows or puppy dogs in this book. It’s seriously weird, and that’s pretty much the only thing saving it from being horrible. Not horrible in a poorly written kind of way, but horrible in a “t
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David
Reads like it was written by an intelligent 15 yr old with a serious crack or meth addiction. There was no gravitas,no character development,no mythologizing of the holocaust (beyond the adolescent), no deconstruction of the history, no satire beyond the juvenile.

Not a horrible book, perhaps I might have gone for 3 stars...but I paid money for this yack festival.

And if you are going to introduce pedophilia then you have to add some weight to your psychological analysis and social reading of th
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Alex
Jul 24, 2010 Alex rated it it was amazing
This has the potential to be THE most fucked up book, you will ever read in your life. I have now broken all my vital organs laughing in the process, and will go through life existing as a mushy sack of blood and meat.

An EXTREMELY strong stomach is required for this. Warped doesn't even cover it. I don't do spoilers, just pick this fucker up and read it.
Tristan Goding
Dec 17, 2015 Tristan Goding rated it did not like it
If you decide to read ASS GOBLINS OF AUSCHWITZ based on the title, you will definitely get your money's worth. Kind of fun in a wacky sort of way. Its novelty isn't enough for me to recommend it to anyone, but I kind of enjoyed it for what it is.
Robert Lewter
Dec 12, 2014 Robert Lewter rated it liked it
Why?
Why was it written?
Why in hell did I read it?
Agent
Mar 17, 2014 Agent rated it did not like it
terrible and based completely on shock value, i got 3 pages in before i got sick of this edgy shit
Kaitlynn
Dec 10, 2015 Kaitlynn rated it liked it
Shelves: sci-fi-fantasy
The best book that I never, ever want to read again.
Jeff
Er...um...what? Seriously...what? Entertaining and funny, but like...what?
Ben Brackett
May 24, 2017 Ben Brackett rated it did not like it
When will I ever learn novelty sci-fi is terrible.
Aj Macpherson
Jan 28, 2017 Aj Macpherson rated it did not like it
I gave it 1 star for quality.
It is at least 3 stars for entertainment/gross out quality
Jonathan
Oct 23, 2009 Jonathan added it
Recommends it for: Bizarro fans with *very* strong constitutions
Chock-full of bile, feces, vomit, torture, cannibalism, and gore--all involving children--this is probably the most repulsive book I've ever read, and I'm no stranger to Bizarro. That's not necessarily a bad thing, of course, and though I can't say I exactly *enjoyed* this, it was an interesting, if thoroughly uncomfortable, read. It's a bit like Ren & Stimpy mixed with Naxi-exploitation, except taken to an extreme. We're talking things entering all the private holes--some sharp, some too bi ...more
Matthew Revert
Dec 10, 2009 Matthew Revert rated it really liked it
The outrageously named, 'Ass Goblins of Auschwitz' is the kind of book that a potential reader can ascertain whether or not they'll enjoy based on their reaction to the title. If the title tickles most of your funny bones, there's a pretty good chance you'll enjoy it. If not, perhaps steer clear. Being an avid fan of Nazi Exploitation films, I responded quite favorably to the title.

Gross out tomfoolery abounds as we are taken to an alternate Auschwitz, ruled by a flatulent race of beings called
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Cameron Pierce is the author of eleven books, including the Wonderland Book Award-winning collection Lost in Cat Brain Land. His work has appeared in The Barcelona Review, Gray's Sporting Journal, Hobart, The Big Click, and Vol. I Brooklyn, and has been reviewed and featured on Comedy Central and The Guardian. He was also the author of the column Fishing and Beer, where he interviewed acclaimed an ...more
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