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Flesh Gothic
by Edward Lee
by Edward Lee
HE BEGINS OPTIMISTICALLY
Already by page 7 we have had a self-throat-cutting incident in broad daylight and then this on page 10
The large milk-laden breasts wobbled erotically.
You know you could scour Proust and Henry James for a sentence like that. And you wouldn't find one. Go Flesh Gothic!
EXPERIENCE TEACHES ANOTHER HARD LESSON
Holy sex muffins, what was I thinking? Who recommended this? I may have to hunt them down like a dog.
It stood tall, lank but globose in the hell-rendered fat that made up its atrocious physique. It had no face but it looked right at them. The rimmed seam for a mouth gaped, showing a great flap of tongue. Between its legs hung large, abominable genitals.
'One of the buried Adiposians!' Karen shrieked. 'It was resurrected when the Rive opened, and it'll remain alive until the charge of the house is totally dead!'
A SORRY CONCLUSION TO AN ILL-ADVISED EXPERIMENT
So modern horror is two parts microwaved HP Lovecraft imagery stirred lightly with dialogue from 1950s B movies and lovingly sauteed with several stained copies of Hustler and the lesser-known Abominable Genitals Monthly.
Already by page 7 we have had a self-throat-cutting incident in broad daylight and then this on page 10
The large milk-laden breasts wobbled erotically.
You know you could scour Proust and Henry James for a sentence like that. And you wouldn't find one. Go Flesh Gothic!
EXPERIENCE TEACHES ANOTHER HARD LESSON
Holy sex muffins, what was I thinking? Who recommended this? I may have to hunt them down like a dog.
It stood tall, lank but globose in the hell-rendered fat that made up its atrocious physique. It had no face but it looked right at them. The rimmed seam for a mouth gaped, showing a great flap of tongue. Between its legs hung large, abominable genitals.
'One of the buried Adiposians!' Karen shrieked. 'It was resurrected when the Rive opened, and it'll remain alive until the charge of the house is totally dead!'
A SORRY CONCLUSION TO AN ILL-ADVISED EXPERIMENT
So modern horror is two parts microwaved HP Lovecraft imagery stirred lightly with dialogue from 1950s B movies and lovingly sauteed with several stained copies of Hustler and the lesser-known Abominable Genitals Monthly.
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Jan 18, 2009 06:44pm
My thought exactly!
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A little bit of horror is a sure cure for those twiddling-your-thumbs moments. You can read about someone twiddling someone else's thumbs instead.
Oh, Mr. Bryant, you sourpuss, this sounds hilarious. Any author who correlates "wobbling" and eroticism must be capable of only the most profound feats of humor, right?
"Globose in hell-rendered fat" is my new all-time favorite phrase, and I shall endeavor to use it whenever occasion permits. I'll just sit here and wait patiently until that occasion arrives. If nothing else, it makes for evocative Weight Watchers ad copy.
"Globose in hell-rendered fat" is my new all-time favorite phrase, and I shall endeavor to use it whenever occasion permits. I'll just sit here and wait patiently until that occasion arrives. If nothing else, it makes for evocative Weight Watchers ad copy.
If I ever start that death metal group then Hell-Rendered Fat sounds like a pretty good name, it's true.
Who recommended this? I may have to hunt them down like a dog. Give him a kick for me when, as I somehow own this as well.
I don't even know how or where I got the book. There's a used copy on my shelf and it holds no appeal for me. Even less, thanks to your description. Although I would like to see someone try to actually shriek One of the buried Adiposians! It was resurrected when the Rive opened, and it'll remain alive until the charge of the house is totally dead! Bit of a mouthfull, wot?
If this book's only redeeming quality--and that appears to be the case--is that it made you write this review, then it deserves to exist.
Ya know, sometimes I think people read shitty books so they can write funny demolition reviews on Goodreads. An activity I endorse heartily.
MJ you're damn right. People definitely read Twilight for that very reason. For me it was true for Been There Done That - guilty as charged (And - slightly different - I knew I was going to hate a novel called Spare Key and I read it so I could hang an essay off it).
Yeah, I suppose you can't really write a page full of witty nasty sarcasm regarding books you actually really liked, eh? <_<
It's a reprehensible tendency. It's easy to mock something with humour. I reviewed records for a local music mag for a few years, and had to stop - the majority I heard were fairly bad and my amusing dismissals of them just got too cruel. On GR I am in the process of trying to review all my five star books, and that's not easy at all.
reading ed lee is like scrubbing a toilet, minus that satisfying feeling of accomplishment & cleanliness at the end.
arrgh, Goodreads has done me in!! I moved a bunch of novels over from one shelf to another and I very carefully un-ticked the ADD TO MY FEED box, and they've all been added to my feed - everyone will think I'm going mad .... very sorry but it was goodreads that done it.
