All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By, by John Farris: DNF

This opens with an absolute banger of a horror scene in which the groom goes berserk with his dress sword at a fancy 1944 Southern wedding, written in overheated Southern prose like Pat Conroy's Prince of Tides. It then slows down. A lot. There's a lot of racism of the sort where the author is sometimes clearly depicting rather than endorsing (Black people in America), and sometimes not so much (Africans), and even more weird sex.

I was in more of a "bloodbath at the wedding" mood than a "bizarre snake hallucination sex" mood, but I might return to it some time.

Cut for weird sex. (  Read more...  )

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