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A Map of Kex's Face
"A Map of Kex's Face is a story with a lasting impression." -- D.L. Denham
"The prose is beautiful and thought provoking . . . I'm glad I read this." -- Ofelia Sainz
"This is not a book, but a work of modern art made with words." -- Damien Clauzel
"Pure brain damage" -- Glenn Conley
Kex is the administrator of the Eidon Academy, a college with an interdimensional porthole on campus, and the intellectual center of a recently seceded Southern California.
Roberto and his wife Sasha are busy acting out a bad campus novel, with infidelities and academic intrigues, when the known universe undergoes some fundamental changes.
Kex is more than a human being, it appears, but also an avatar around whom mandala-like emanations revolve, frequencies whose meaning Roberto must discern if he is to legitimize his new Department of Cartography . . .
"The prose is beautiful and thought provoking . . . I'm glad I read this." -- Ofelia Sainz
"This is not a book, but a work of modern art made with words." -- Damien Clauzel
"Pure brain damage" -- Glenn Conley
Kex is the administrator of the Eidon Academy, a college with an interdimensional porthole on campus, and the intellectual center of a recently seceded Southern California.
Roberto and his wife Sasha are busy acting out a bad campus novel, with infidelities and academic intrigues, when the known universe undergoes some fundamental changes.
Kex is more than a human being, it appears, but also an avatar around whom mandala-like emanations revolve, frequencies whose meaning Roberto must discern if he is to legitimize his new Department of Cartography . . .
214 pages, Paperback
First published December 30, 2014
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October 31, 2014
This book is amazing in its effort to suck donkey balls. I mean, it just doesn't give up. It slathers them balls like you wouldn't believe. What the fuck am I saying? I'm saying this book should be pissed on, then burned, then stomped on until your feet hurt.
Because, fuck this goddamn book. Like that scene in Office Space, when they take that piece of shit printer out to some park and just pound the shit out of it with baseball bats and such. That's how I feel about this book. I need to hurt it, real bad. I need it to feel the pain it inflicted on me.
This book is, apparently, about some guy who kills his wife because she banged his alter ego Kex. Like some split-personality thing. Because the guy is fucking bat-shit insane. I think. Who the fuck knows. It doesn't make any goddamn sense.
In finishing this book, I had to endure so much trauma to my brain. It still hurts. If I ever meet someone named Kex, you can be sure that I will swiftly kick them in the balls and scream "That's for A Map of Kex's Face you goddamn cunt!"
So yea, for the love of all that is holy stay the fuck away from this book. It's pure brain damage.
Because, fuck this goddamn book. Like that scene in Office Space, when they take that piece of shit printer out to some park and just pound the shit out of it with baseball bats and such. That's how I feel about this book. I need to hurt it, real bad. I need it to feel the pain it inflicted on me.
This book is, apparently, about some guy who kills his wife because she banged his alter ego Kex. Like some split-personality thing. Because the guy is fucking bat-shit insane. I think. Who the fuck knows. It doesn't make any goddamn sense.
In finishing this book, I had to endure so much trauma to my brain. It still hurts. If I ever meet someone named Kex, you can be sure that I will swiftly kick them in the balls and scream "That's for A Map of Kex's Face you goddamn cunt!"
So yea, for the love of all that is holy stay the fuck away from this book. It's pure brain damage.
October 29, 2014
I received an electronic copy of this story in exchange for a review.
And I really hate this story. It's everything I least like about a story -- the words make little sense. Or rather, all are understandable, but the way that they have been organized makes no sense whatsoever. And I'm sure that someone somewhere, particularly the so-called intelligentsia will find this novel 'brilliant' and 'moving' and other such faint praises, which only makes me more sick of it, because I don't get it. Sure, it's a book about a man going mad and cheating on his wife and killing her, but both he and the book are so insane that for all I know, he could have been imagining that as well.
Call me dim-witted if you like, but I cannot like a book that I cannot make sense of. And this book does not make sense.
And I really hate this story. It's everything I least like about a story -- the words make little sense. Or rather, all are understandable, but the way that they have been organized makes no sense whatsoever. And I'm sure that someone somewhere, particularly the so-called intelligentsia will find this novel 'brilliant' and 'moving' and other such faint praises, which only makes me more sick of it, because I don't get it. Sure, it's a book about a man going mad and cheating on his wife and killing her, but both he and the book are so insane that for all I know, he could have been imagining that as well.
Call me dim-witted if you like, but I cannot like a book that I cannot make sense of. And this book does not make sense.
February 11, 2015
In the beginning, I had difficulty following the storyline. Then I realized it is being told by someone suffering from mental illness. The prose is beautiful and thought provoking. This is a story that one must stay focused on (no skimming), otherwise one can easily lose its meaning; keeping in mind that the meaning of a mad man is not that of the reader. I'm glad I read this. I think I'll re-read in the future and see what I grasp from it then. (I received a free pdf copy via Library Thing Early Reviewers)
November 3, 2014
The text is very descriptive, and a lot of thought went into the characters, however the organization and thought process off the book seemed a bit jumbled. It was hard to follow along at times. I had received an advanced copy through library thing..so maybe there will be another edit before the book is available :)
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