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Garth Jones

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Born

Broken Hill, Australia

Website

https://www.passtheamyl.com/

Genre

Fiction, Contemporary, Humor and Comedy

Influences

Mongrel Punk | Ozploitation | David Lee Roth | Zodiac Mindwarp | Lemmy ...more

Member Since

December 2021

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Garth is a writer from Wilyakali country in the deserts of far western New South Wales, Australia – the Mad Max zone.

His first job was designing ads for phone sex lines; he did time as resident Atheist provocateur at a church newspaper, and drew comics for DAVID LEE ROTH just out of uni.

Garth’s first novel, HOME BREWED, VAMPIRE BULLETS, was shortlisted for a variety of prizes. Walkley award winning journalist Richard Cooke reckons “there’s nothing like Home Brewed... – it’s new, weird, and out there, and that makes it too good not to get into!”

Garth's next project, BLACK PILLS, is a collection of genre-bending short fiction exploring the shit show that is our present reality.

It features the Ronald Hugh Morrieson Literary Award winning ‘Hug ...more

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Average rating: 4.92 · 53 ratings · 44 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	Home Brewed, Vampire Bullets, Vol One 4.94 avg rating — 18 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Pills 4.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Home Brewed, Vampire Bullets, Vol Two it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cheapa Skips: The Feel-Bad Sessions '20/21 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Home Brewed, Vampire Bullets, Vol Three 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Home Brewed, Vampire Bullets, The Novel it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Home Brewed, Vampire Bullets: Yarns from the Fuck-You-Ni-Verse it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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BLACK PILLS 7 TALES TO ASTONISH AND CONFOUND! by Garth Jones

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BLACK PILLS is a collection of genre-bending short fiction exploring the unmitigated sh*tshow that is our present reality.

“Garth’s work is not literary, and yet it is. He hides his considerable emotional intelligence under a bushel of belchingly funny, low brow humour and sickening concepts. I find myself throwing up and eating it up at the same time, which I put down to his talent Read more of this blog post »

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Garth Jones rated a book really liked it Courtney Love: The Real Story by Poppy Z. Brite (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Feels like it’s time for a sequel.
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Excruciating.. And not in the “we have such sights to show you” sense of the word.
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Take me back to that last analogue decade, MaDM.
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Garth Jones and 347 other people liked Kristina 's review of The Book of Elsewhere: "Couldn’t do it. DNF 20% 🫡 to anyone who finished this. I hear it gets better but I do not care enough to continue. This is overwritten and flat. I couldn’t make it far enough to see if it’s actually ‘cerebral’ as some reviewers say, or if it’s more li" Read more of this review »
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Terminally unreadable drivel.
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