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Jan 06, 2012
c.vance
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thought girls were to grow out of this phase of angst in their mid/late teens... when they run away from home, drink to justify opening legs to older men then sit in coffeeshops and write in journals about it all. so much of these stories seem from that stereotype of an era, albethem tolerably better written in verbiage if not construct.
and it reinforces the fact that genders should rarely write from the POV of another's... here, they come across as base and insipid. however, and thi More...
and it reinforces the fact that genders should rarely write from the POV of another's... here, they come across as base and insipid. however, and thi More...
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Apr 02, 2011
Jasmine
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There is another review I wrote a while ago that talks about how fiction is kind of a response to a feeling that hume metaphorizes as when we live we can only live a sketch, there isn't time for drafting or going back to fill in the missing pieces. And basically in that review I concluded fiction was a way of trying to draft things to go and color in an experience we'd never had and never will have, basically to live a different life. I don't suddenly disagree with that, but reading this book I
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Mar 09, 2011
David
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In the early pages of Daddy’s, Lindsay Hunter’s brain-blistering collection of short stories, a restless wife who endures frequent sessions of rough sex with her husband finds pleasure in their invisible electric fence. She puts their dog Marky in front of the TV to watch Animal Planet, then goes out to the edge of the yard:
I wind the vinyl part of Marky’s collar around my hand, holding the plastic receiver in my palm, and then I press the cold metal stimulator against my underwear, step More...
I wind the vinyl part of Marky’s collar around my hand, holding the plastic receiver in my palm, and then I press the cold metal stimulator against my underwear, step More...
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Jan 04, 2011
Ethel
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I'd like to lock myself in a room with Goodreads for a week. I've read so many great books in the past year and I want to write about them, to spread the good word. So many books, so little time, and I've let that hugeness and those annoying Goodreads's star ratings overwhelm me.
Star ratings are hard. I prefer to discuss a book rather than rate it, but everyone else has to work with those screaming red blots, so I'll have to suck it up and play along. I'm going to take it book by book More...
Star ratings are hard. I prefer to discuss a book rather than rate it, but everyone else has to work with those screaming red blots, so I'll have to suck it up and play along. I'm going to take it book by book More...
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Sep 04, 2010
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In this book, Lindsay Hunter brings you along for a ride through a world where the everyday is coated in a thin film of grime and sass. The characters and situations that emerge in this book will call to mind for a casual reader the act of submission to the eerily beautiful and sublimely disgusting. Certain images stick to you as you pass under the veils of each story, a humanity car wash complete with hot wax... a boyfriend trying to top himself with shocks for his lady friend - taking it to
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Aug 06, 2011
Mike
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Throughout Daddy's, Lindsay Hunter invites readers into places they're unsure they want to visit: worlds with monstrously precocious babies, the minds of adolescent perverts, the sexual adventures of couples role-playing as God and the Devil. The brilliance in Hunter's writing in this debut collection of short fiction is not that she dares to venture into these places, rather, it is in her ability to reveal beauty in such places to those with the courage to follow. And those who do follow are re
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Feb 14, 2010
featherproof
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Lindsay Hunter tells the stories no one else will in ways no one else can. In her down and dirty debut, she draws vivid portraits of bad people in worse places. A woman struggles to survive her boyfriend's terror preparations. A wife finds the key to her sex life lies in her dog’s electric collar. Two teenagers violently tip the scales of their friendship. A rising star of the new fast fiction, Hunter bares all before you can blink in her bold, beautiful stories. In this collection of slim sout
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Jan 05, 2012
Jennifer
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In my world, reading and meals often go together. I’ll read a bit in the morning while I eat a bowl of raisin bran, read a bit more at my desk between bites of my sandwich. In the evenings, I often find myself trying to finish a chapter as I prepare dinner. Then there are the times when I don’t feel much like reading, and instead I will take a walk to a restaurant by myself, forgo the book and just eavesdrop on the conversations around me. More often than not, I’m surrounded by university studen
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Aug 25, 2011
Alan
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You know when you’re reading something and you think this is it! this is exactly what you should be reading now? When the stories hit you everywhere – in your guts and in your mind and in your senses – leaving you a bit breathless, a bit bedraggled and a lot dazzled and moved somewhere to the left of yourself? It doesn’t happen often (although it’s not that rare either – I had the same feelings for Alan Heathcock’s Volt, earlier this year) but Daddy’s packs this kind of punch, and more. I’d just
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Feb 16, 2011
jess
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This is a collection of 24 short stories around issues of family, sexuality and violence. The stories are sort of sad and dirty, and it made me feel like I was carrying around the secrets that Ms. Hunter unloaded on me. I can't decided if it is better to devour this all at once and totally immerse yourself in her world, or if it would be better to draw it out and read one story a day like a IV drip. The stories are fearless and don't hold any punches. There is a careless, wild, careening madness
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Nov 16, 2010
Richard
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The following review was originally published at The Nervous Breakdown.
http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/rthom...
Chuck Palahniuk said something about writing that echoed in my head while reading the debut collection of dysfunctional short stories in Daddy’s (Featherproof) by Lindsay Hunter. I paraphrase, but it goes something like this: “Teach me something, make me laugh, and break my heart.” And that’s what Lindsay Hunter does in this gut-wrenching collection of short ficti More...
http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/rthom...
Chuck Palahniuk said something about writing that echoed in my head while reading the debut collection of dysfunctional short stories in Daddy’s (Featherproof) by Lindsay Hunter. I paraphrase, but it goes something like this: “Teach me something, make me laugh, and break my heart.” And that’s what Lindsay Hunter does in this gut-wrenching collection of short ficti More...
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Oct 25, 2010
Jesus
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AMELIA GRAY & LINDSAY HUNTER ON THE BIG UGLY (first published 10/25/10 on Vol. 1 Brooklyn)
Say we’re trapped in a heart-shaped box where meanness, ignorance, dementia and brutality make up the walls around us. There’s no way out, no chance for escape. Even if we manage somehow to move through the world, this box defines our every thought and action, the smear from its walls an indelible imprint, soaked into the marrow of our bones. We pass it on to our children, our partners, everyone w More...
Say we’re trapped in a heart-shaped box where meanness, ignorance, dementia and brutality make up the walls around us. There’s no way out, no chance for escape. Even if we manage somehow to move through the world, this box defines our every thought and action, the smear from its walls an indelible imprint, soaked into the marrow of our bones. We pass it on to our children, our partners, everyone w More...
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Feb 24, 2011
Kate
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This week I felt really under the weather. It all started Monday morning when I woke up with a sore throat. Yesterday was the worst because I couldn't breathe at all and had that medicine head feeling all day long. So, my attention span just wasn't there for a long novel, but I was totally in the mood for some awesome short story action and this book didn't disappoint at all. I read it in between work, eating soup, and sleeping.
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Dec 22, 2010
Mark
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I may have picked out my five books of the year a little early. Daddy's is a collection of 23 jagged little micro-fictions set in the rural south. They're dark as hell, even within the context of the genre. Hunter's spare, sharp prose doesn't so much grab you as hold you down and give you a kicking. It's tough stuff about folk so far down on their luck they've long since lost hope of ever hauling it back. Packaged up like a bait box, it tempts you in deeper even though you know you don't really
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Aug 11, 2011
David
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Plan to be at least a bit unsettled when reading these stories, if not downright disturbed. If you aren't, then you should really worry. These stories are gritty, visceral, imaginative, and sometimes creepy. Now, don't get me wrong, I mean all that in the best possible way. These are dynamite stories, dynamite in tiny packages, but they aren't exactly "feel-good" kind of stories. You will feel things, but not necessarily comfortable things. Definitely not something you should mis
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Sep 12, 2010
Book
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Want to be on the cutting edge of literature?
Let Lindsay Hunter and featherproof books be the leather strap (or strop) with which you sharpen the razor that is yourself.
These "slim fictions" have some sad, some sexy, some dirty twinges of Souther Gothic -- hey, sometimes all at once.
Read 'em one at a time or have the satifaction of a complete marathon one-sitting emersion. Heck, do whatever you want to do, I'm not your mom tellin you what to do here
Let Lindsay Hunter and featherproof books be the leather strap (or strop) with which you sharpen the razor that is yourself.
These "slim fictions" have some sad, some sexy, some dirty twinges of Souther Gothic -- hey, sometimes all at once.
Read 'em one at a time or have the satifaction of a complete marathon one-sitting emersion. Heck, do whatever you want to do, I'm not your mom tellin you what to do here
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Aug 13, 2011
Matt
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Squirmy, sad, dirty minutiae-encrusted tales filled with private moments and relationship games and all the blood and ooze and exhaustion residing in the corners. The shock of reality, brief blips of relief, perhaps grace. 24 snapshots of characters who don't want you to know them, revealed in words printed sideways, literally, on this pocket-sized book of sharp prose by a fearless writer who should continue writing and continue being fearless.
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Nov 15, 2011
Tom
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The best thing I can say about this book is that I don't know if I loved it or hated it, but I'm still sitting here thinking about it. This book is haunting in the way Palahniuk's Haunted is haunting. It's not frightening except in the possibility that some of this is true. Hunter's writing leaves a lot to be desired, specifically a lot more of these tales. And while the brevity might leave you unsatisfied, Daddy's will linger with you long after you've put it down.
Jan 21, 2011
Cortney
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Fan-fucking-tastic. It would feel totally cheesy to fangirl crush all over this sexy book because I know Linsday, so I won't. I'll just say hot damn and hot shit and leave it at that.
Nov 23, 2010
Kevin
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All of the five star reviews for this are warranted. Hunter is fearless when it comes to content AND the style that she dresses it in. There are moments in this beautifully designed book that threaten to go over the top (and sure, it probably does!)--but sometimes great books do that. The envelope is not just pushed, but it's pulled as well. Torn apart with wild spasms. Hunter should be read widely and she should be watched closely. I will bet that she fucks shit up for a long time. At least I h
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May 31, 2011
Tucker
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By far my favorite collection of short stories I have ever read. Difficult, surreal and they worm their way under your skin like nightcrawlers.
Nov 27, 2011
Jessica
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This is one of those little books that you pick up entirely by chance sometimes that spin your head right round baby right round like a record. I don't even know where I found it, or how, or if alcohol or Twitter were involved (I find a good few books that way) but whatever strange twist of chance it was, I have one thing to say: this is one of the best things I've read this year.
Nov 23, 2010
Michael
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Some of these stories stick better than others (there are 24, so this makes sense), but it's pretty good overall. Hunter definitely has a unique voice/vision that I look forward to seeing more of in the future.
Dec 03, 2010
Matt
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Too many stories, not enough variety for me. A fuller review coming in DIAGRAM in the new year.
Feb 14, 2010
Zach
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This book got my black heart jealous.
This book got my black lungs pregnant.
This book got my black lungs pregnant.
May 22, 2011
Lindsay Hunter's fiction makes me smile. Down there. This is the type of book I would've passed around on the back of the school bus on a middle school field trip, dog-earing all the pages with the dirty parts and making my friends read.
Aug 10, 2011
J.A.
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This is one of those books that sat on my shelf for a long while and then, when I finally started reading it, I kicked myself for waiting so long. What sexual prowess, what daring vignettes, what language wrapped in fist-blows. This is a righteous wonderful poison-tipped book.
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Aug 02, 2011
Joseph M.
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This book totally blew me away. I finished it in just over 24 hours. Keep and eye on PANK Magazine's PankBlog for my full review!
