When Tuck Bingle receives an email explaining that he’s been nominated for science fiction literature’s most prestigious award, he’s left utterly confused. On one hand, Tuck is a successful writer of gay, science fiction erotica, but on the other, this email is addressed to someone by the name of Chuck Tingle.
Tuck replies, but his message is not delivered because the recipient exists in another layer of The Tingleverse, a revelation that will take Tuck on a journey into the deepest realms of his butt’s heart.
Soon, Tuck is breaking fourth-walls and anal limits, pounded hard by a handsome sentient Hugo Award nomination named Kelpo and learning the true meaning of homoerotic love!
This erotic tale is 4,500 words of sizzling human on prestigious award nomination action, including anal, blowjobs, rough sex, cream pies and gay interdimensional love.
Chuck Tingle is a mysterious force of energy behind sunglasses and a pink mask. He is also an anonymous author of romance, horror, and fantasy. Chuck was born in Home of Truth, Utah, and now splits time between Billings, Montana and Los Angeles, California. Chuck writes to prove love is real, because love is the most important tool we have when resisting the endless cosmic void. Not everything people say about Chuck is true, but the important parts are.
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The best thing to come out of this sad puppies-hugo awards charade.
Selected quotes :
1. The deeper into the Tingleverse one gets, the gayer the universe becomes, until eventually you reach the bottom layer, which is known as The Tingularity. There is some speculation about what The Tingularity entails, whether it is an entire universe of abs, calves, or cute butts, but one thing is for sure, it is the epitome of hot, sweaty gayness in it’s rawest form.
2. Sure, he’s penetrating deep within my throat, but he’s also penetrating my heart.
3. “I’m gonna cum!” I start to scream. “I’m gonna cum so fucking hard from this Hugo Award slamming me up my tight little parallel-universe-author ass!”
I'm almost afraid to say this, but actually? The book was quite brilliant. I loved the fourth wall breaking and the author speaking to his characters and to the readers through the characters. Highly entertaining.
This book is freakin hilarious. I had way to much fun reading this. I saw no flaws in this at all. Even when there were flaws like Chuck breaking the fourth wall and mentioning spelling errors in his stories. I really love this. I even read a few passages to my GF and to my satisfaction her face turned into utter disgust as I roared with laughter. When I finished I asked her if she wanted me to read her any more of this gem. To which she replied, "god no. I'm trying to read my book."
This book is a real treasure. I never thought I would read anything like this and get real joy out of it. I haven't laughed this hard in months. If I must blatantly steal from another reviewer. "This is everything you expected, nothing that you wanted, and everything that you needed."
Had the opportunity to download this for the Hugo awards this year. Chuck Tingle has been a bit of a cultural phenom, and there is great speculation who is the author. Given the circumstances of this year and last year's Hugos, there are a couple of people who sprang to mind, some of whom I have read a bit. I thought it might be fun to see if I recognized writing styles of Chuck and one of my author guesses. I'm not prepared to go public on my guess who is behind Chuck (ha!) but I do have a guess or two.
Day 14 of waiting until I have a novel (exciting) novel (book) to read (Lucky Day)
"Do you know who George P.P. Martin is?"
Chuck asks us to evaluate what success looks like in the face of an infinite Tingleverse. Do our choices matter? Will our work be worthwhile without recognition from an authority? Does love really conquer all?
Chuck says yes. Well here I am having not read or watched any Game of Thrones and instead read fourteen (and counting) tinglers.
Gay erotica is not my thing. However, the author has a wonderful sense of humor. This book had me laughing out loud. There was also a bonus story, which was a bit more out there (sex with a living anthropomorphized cobb of corn) The structure of the story was the same. I would get bored reading a compilation of his short stories if all of them follow the same pattern. But one story every once in a while, they're hilarious.
Popped my Chuck Tingle cherry, because I admire the way he's putting those bigoted puppies in their place - as the butt of jokes.
This was way funnier and more sophisticated than I expected. I gasped with delight when he broke the 4th wall. (Prepping by viewing his hand-drawn schematic of the Tingleverse on Twitter helped me too.) Plus, the bonus corn story rocked (until the end). I can see how these would be addictive. Like Nacho cheese Doritos or thin mints. Just one more....
Fourth-wall breaking meta-fiction commenting on events that happened days before. It's amazing that we live in a time when this book can exist. Plus, it's actually fun to read, especially if you are familiar with the larger Tingleverse (which includes Chuck's social media feeds in addition to his past books). I hope he wins!
This is everything you expected, nothing that you wanted, and everything that you needed. I feel like Mr. Tingle has thoroughly pounded my brain in the butt--and in Tingle's universe, that's the kind of thing that can actually probably happen.