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Selfie, Suicide: or Cairey Turnbull's Blue Skiddoo

Logo Daedalus

3.60 · Rating details · 99 ratings · 19 reviews

A disintegrating romantic anatomy in five acts.

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Published February 22nd 2019

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Sep 18, 2019 Mason Masters rated it it was ok

This is the ultimate grift book. You can tell because of the lack of effort. There was no consideration put into proofing the manuscript; the grammar, punctuation and syntax all leave much to be desired. The cover is terrible, and while it relates to the book, this isn't what a cover is for, which says to me that this is a vanity project, not a serious work. Even the blurb on Amazon is a single sentence. I bet there are not even key words.

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Mar 21, 2019 Joseph rated it it was amazing

Superb! Riveting! Delicious and Blue; I devoured it all!

"He is thinking of how strange it all is- how everyone can accept this zoo of man, these stacked cubes of domestic atomism- & this is Art? Is this what Life has become? Is this what remains of the species that once toiled and bled in the fields of history? How can this be real?"

I've long enjoyed this man's wit and insights on Twitter, and I was glad to hear he was finally putting pen to paper for the masses. He has often been a gate, for me ...more

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Aug 11, 2020 Mart rated it did not like it

the sissy cock hypno chapter was lugubrious

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Apr 24, 2019 Silas rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites

Whatever you think about the author of this book and his online antics, disregard it. This slim little self-published poorly-edited novella stands apart from the narcissistic "home base" of its creator and enters another-- the Museum of Expressive Humanism, where not only the distinctions between Art & Life, but Art & Life & Self & Reality, fall away. In a hypermodern world of connectivity, social credit, narcissism, and overhyphenated college majors, we enter a realm where the individual is glo ...more

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Jul 15, 2019 Chad Mogged rated it did not like it

The literary equivalent of a self-suck video. Why the "author" would put out a book with spelling errors and typos is hard to understand. It shows laziness and a complete lack of pride in their work. ...more

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Oct 20, 2020 Jacob Hurley rated it liked it

Shelves: american-literature

Veritable enough addition to the 'meme canon' so to speak... Cairey Turnbull goes on a date at a museum of performance art and has an existential dostoevsky-like trial about his fate and modern humanity. At times it is too thesaurus-verbose (the waxing of chapter 1), too melodramatical (chapters 4 and 5), too direct (chapter 3, titled 'exposition', where we get a distracting long narrative biography about our protagonist). He seems to emphasize style above all else, although he's clearly excited ...more

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May 19, 2019 Tine! rated it really liked it

Bruh, I feel yuh; I also want to melt into art that I haven’t yet completed. But at least you’re on your way - keep it comin’!

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Jul 12, 2019 mage rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

the manlet streamer part is based

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May 29, 2020 thestarsailor rated it really liked it

Shelves: internet-writers

The large amount of time it took for me to finally finish reading this short book is reflected by all the other people who had problems with the "wait" at the start. Most people complain about the grammar and style of the opening which I find a bit pedantic, but there is a lead-in before chapter three starts, and all is explained in detail that hits too close to home. I finished right before that and it took about eight months before finally progressing. It's Cairey's lifestory distilled into a The large amount of time it took for me to finally finish reading this short book is reflected by all the other people who had problems with the "wait" at the start. Most people complain about the grammar and style of the opening which I find a bit pedantic, but there is a lead-in before chapter three starts, and all is explained in detail that hits too close to home. I finished right before that and it took about eight months before finally progressing. It's Cairey's lifestory distilled into a few pictures in front of an audience that makes him sick and shrink like he's giving a school presentation. The Frygian analysis and presentation of the book comes to a clear structure as he recollects his pathetic life that is made so compelling by all the ways the reader sees his current real conditions reflected in the deficiencies Cairey has, whether personally or seen by others. I'm not so bad, but I'm aware of how widespread those issues are with people who usually spend a lot of time on the internet, and this is the first depiction I've seen of this group of people that is represented well and shows a main undercurrent: the lack of an honest love or bond with the people they know in the kind of world they live in. It may be silly of me to mainly focus on the part of the book that relates most closely to me simply because it describes problems that I also have. It's hard to reckon with as Cairey has a lot of "society's" norms and institutions going against him, but he's one step above the worst of selfish NEETs. He's just too weak to be that extreme, but he's haughty even in his enlightened state at the end. There aren't answers or deeper dives into this time of his life for this part of the story, because it's not a collection of greentexts, it even mentions that being obsessed with trying to find some way to solve these problems online won't help, and it's a story of a character who, if the books continue like the Divine Comedy, will face different challenges to his journey to Paradise.

Now I'll admit that last sentence is probably reaching and wrong in some ways because I have not read the Divine Comedy. Even if I did right now, I do not have the breadth of reading to understand it well. I have just graduated from my own youniversity, which clearly has not prepared me for "the real world" as much as advertized. There are plenty of better reviews out there talking about other authors that Logo has mentioned as his favorites and influences like Nabokov, Dante, and Fry which have clear representations here. There are two I see as important and neglected a bit that I at least have some familiarity with. J. D. Salinger will always be connected to stories of dissatisfied young men with Catcher in the Rye, but the layering of personas with Buddy Glass in his other books is a clear analogue with Logo, Simon LaFeint, and Symon as controllers and pure artists in this story. The breakdown of power and influence related to the Basilisk is still blurred to me, but I think it's a convincing way of showing influence over the story, as well as a homage. The trapped setting as Cairey and Ophelia go on their date at the MEH is like so many of Salinger's stories stuck in one room. The other obvious reference is with William Shakespeare. Lake Lear being the location of a tempest that leads to young Cairey's mental breakdown in a very childlike way seems clear enough, as well as the obvious parallels with Cairey as Hamlet and Ophelia as Ophelia. I had something besides surface-level observations to Hamlet, but I've forgotten them now.

So, if it's not clear enough, I'm giving this four stars more for lack of my own understanding than necessarily the quality of the book. I was fine with the stylistic quirks and do not have some great understanding to immediately see all the details and connections in this book. I've never been good with anagrams. I think it's clear that Logo put a lot of effort put in, and it is something new and exciting to read. I do want to read Logo's next book, especially if it is a sequel so I can start to look past how depressing Cairey Turnbull's Blue Skiddo can get. ...more

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Dec 25, 2020 Brady Dale rated it it was amazing

This book left me with a lot to think about but the thing I was most impressed by was what made him freakout when it finally reveals what his grand freakout was.
Lots of funny commentaries on the current art world and the current media world, that's the stuff Daedalus was interested in. Also very "now" to frame it all around a date.
I found this to be a very good book though I really wish he'd learn how to make an em dash on his keyboard rather than using hyphens endlessly in such a daft way.
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Jul 26, 2019 Jason rated it it was amazing

Well written, compelling story. Easy weekend read.

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Nov 06, 2020 Jonathan Ukembe rated it did not like it

The book isn't that bad. But the author, Cameron Fuller, has ties to white supremacy and alt-right twitter movements, including Richard Spencer. Thus, I can't rate it more than one star. ...more

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Jul 22, 2019 A rated it really liked it

Ambitious, dense. Very good Logo.

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Aug 28, 2019 Luke Wilson rated it liked it

I don't get it. Is it... modern? ...more

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Apr 15, 2020 Connor rated it it was ok · review of another edition

the author's good ideas are well executed and well written. his worse ideas aren't. lake abigail and ophelia were the best characters. ...more

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Jul 18, 2019 The Ecclesiastic rated it it was amazing

Selfie, Suicide: or Cairey Turnbull's Blue Skiddoo, in a Frygian system is a low mimetic technological irony. A literary aleph, Selfie Suicide's influences include Borges, Nabakov, Gogol, Blake, and myriads more, evoking their spirits to skry into the imminence. This future is ruled by a solipsistic snake who's seduction is limbic production; murdering love, art, and God. This gnostic nightmare is portrayed in a paranoid rococo of poetry and purple prose, providing a rich read within sparse page ...more

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