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The Complete Works of Marvin K. Mooney
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Marvin K. Mooney, the enigmatic philosopher, has gone missing. Vanished. But we're left with his work—rambling, encyclopedic, destructive texts that call into question Marvin's own identity. Who is Marvin K. Mooney? And what has Christopher Higgs done with him? Only you, as reader, can find out.
Paperback, First, 352 pages
Published
February 12th 2010
by Sator Press
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A strange, bizarre
Novel (no)
Story (no)
Collection of alphabetical symbols (maybe)
Meta-fiction
or
Post-fiction
or
Non-fiction fiction?
Entrancing.
And I still don't know where Marvin K. Mooney is. (He's so far out that he's no longer in left field; instead he's probably lurking & smoking on a street corner far away.) ...more
Novel (no)
Story (no)
Collection of alphabetical symbols (maybe)
Meta-fiction
or
Post-fiction
or
Non-fiction fiction?
Entrancing.
And I still don't know where Marvin K. Mooney is. (He's so far out that he's no longer in left field; instead he's probably lurking & smoking on a street corner far away.) ...more
I loved this book so much I published it.
Some of my thoughts on the book:
"...it caused me to question and question some more and wonder about my own approach to writing and the arts."
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"...it caused me to question and question some more and wonder about my own approach to writing and the arts."
http://tieryas.wordpress.com/2013/09/... ...more
This was ambitious and occasionally really interesting, but it's just too much, man. Higgs is so paranoid you're going to dismiss the book as not really a book that you eventually just end up dismissing the book as not really a book. It's just a little too tedious with not enough payoff. I might come back to it again though. I think if you're in the right mood and know what you're expecting, it might be a much livelier read.
...more
p. 321:
"Hey, what's that you're reading?"
You could answer a number of things, one of them being: "It is a new work of creative nonfiction by Marvin K. Mooney."
In a follow-up, you may be asked:
"What's it about?"
To which you can safely reply: "It is a text about itself. It is pretentious, egomaniacal, megalomaniacal, and hardly worth my time; but for some reason I continue to read it - perhaps I am being forced to at gunpoint, perhaps I am slightly enjoying it."
*****
And to that I would add that it ...more
"Hey, what's that you're reading?"
You could answer a number of things, one of them being: "It is a new work of creative nonfiction by Marvin K. Mooney."
In a follow-up, you may be asked:
"What's it about?"
To which you can safely reply: "It is a text about itself. It is pretentious, egomaniacal, megalomaniacal, and hardly worth my time; but for some reason I continue to read it - perhaps I am being forced to at gunpoint, perhaps I am slightly enjoying it."
*****
And to that I would add that it ...more
I do not know how to articulate my enjoyment of this book. It's a book that begins before the title page, whatever that means. Or it begins on the title page, maybe. It kind of doesn't matter, it is still fun though.
It's technically a book w/ words, but sometimes there are images, and some times there is a page w/ a single word on it. Example, chapter seven, The Eight Word Essay:
p. 136 This
p. 137 essay
p. 138 is
p. 139 about
p. 140 the
p. 141 destruction
p. 142 of
p. 143 nature.
Some people may -- w ...more
It's technically a book w/ words, but sometimes there are images, and some times there is a page w/ a single word on it. Example, chapter seven, The Eight Word Essay:
p. 136 This
p. 137 essay
p. 138 is
p. 139 about
p. 140 the
p. 141 destruction
p. 142 of
p. 143 nature.
Some people may -- w ...more
If the broad description of the book is intriguing to you, then you will probably enjoy the journey that is this book. If not, then it is probably not likely to be an enjoyable read for you.
The experience of this book is extremely different. It is more work and more involved for the reader and yet it is more readable in that you don't have to follow a plot and characters through a typical narrative arc. I enjoyed it immensely.
I also listened to the audiobook and found it to be intriguing in its ...more
The experience of this book is extremely different. It is more work and more involved for the reader and yet it is more readable in that you don't have to follow a plot and characters through a typical narrative arc. I enjoyed it immensely.
I also listened to the audiobook and found it to be intriguing in its ...more
This book was so odd, I don't really know WHAT to say about it, but I guess that was the point. That IS generally the point of meta-fiction, isn't it?
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(b. 1978) in Kansas, grew up in Wyoming, went to film school in Las Vegas, worked in the film industry in Los Angeles, volunteered for the Peace Corps in West Africa, received MA in English from the University of Nebraska, received MFA in creative writing from The Ohio State University, received PhD in Post-1900 American Literature & Culture from Florida State University.
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“I will be in the afterlife, which as we all know controls the actual life. I will haunt you for the rest of your life until you die and then when you get to the afterlife I will continue to bother you for all of eternity. I am not your subconscious talking, I'm your indecision. Should you give up now? Should you say fuck you Marvin K. Mooney! I abhor your personality! But a personality is what constitutes this voice speaking, but I'm not speaking am I? I am a construction of words on a page. I am forever mute. I am forever the equivalent of hieroglyphics. My intentions are completely different. Valuing more group decision requiem. They will thrive in this. My game defends with absolute confusion. Lurid phantasm, very good defensive ballclub.”
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