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If Flannery O'Connor has consumed vast quantities of LSD, she might have written like this. (LITERARY REVIEW )
A book of bizarre and brutal beauty, guaranteed to wring from you horror and heartbreak by turns... (COMPANY )
Riveting and extremely well-crafted. There's a real philosophy behind it where it actually touches on the profound. (MARGARET FORSTER )
A novel that everyone will be talking about, a brilliant, suspenseful, heartbreaking tour de force. (PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY )
A book of bizarre and brutal beauty, guaranteed to wring from you horror and heartbreak by turns... (COMPANY )
Riveting and extremely well-crafted. There's a real philosophy behind it where it actually touches on the profound. (MARGARET FORSTER )
A novel that everyone will be talking about, a brilliant, suspenseful, heartbreaking tour de force. (PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY )
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Lil Binewski, born a Boston aristocrat, was in her time the most stylish of geeks. That is to say she made her living by biting the heads off live chickens in front of a Carnival audience. This she gave up for doting motherhood, because she had her fairground- owning husband had a money spinning idea. Throughout each pregnancy Lil gobbles pesticides, experiments with drugs and douses herself with radiation to ensure that she prodcues infants grotesque enough to keep the turnstiles clicking. She does. Arturo the Aqua Boy is a limbless megalomaniac, Electra and Iphigenia are musically gifted Siamese twins with a penchant for prostitution and Fortunato is possessed of stange telekinetic powers. Their story- by turns shocking, tender, touching and cruel- is narrated by their sister Olympia. She is a bald, hunchbacked, albino dwarf.
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When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets, Papa would say, she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing. Read the first page
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
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Electrifying, Unique, Fiction is not dead!,
This review is from: Geek Love (Abacus Books) (Paperback)
This book restored my faith in modern fiction. If you're sick of writers with their heads up their own posteriors writing about how difficult is is to be a rich, succesful writer READ THIS. If this book had been written in the 1930s-50s it would be a Classic read alongside Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Greene etc. If Russell Hoban, James Thurber, Joe Orton and William S Burroughs had got together to write a book it might have been something like this - but probably not as good. It is usually a mistake to try to explain the plot to anyone because it just sounds like some sort of disgusting freak-fest that should only appeal to teenage boys. I just insist that people read it and 99% of them have been hooked from the first page. Dunn writes as though the characters are real people to her - so they appear real to us. The book has a sort of contagious magic about it, I felt happy for a week after finishing it, but it was a "sad" happiness; I had lost the wonderful world I had been drawn into but I felt changed by the experience (a cliche, but true). I thought I would never again feel like I did as a teenager when discovering Graham Greene, or Tolkein, or CS Lewis, or E Nesbitt, but Geek Love made me fall in love with books again. Just one warning: if you read it you will want to buy 10 more copies for your best friends - so it could end up being expensive. Katherine Dunn is truly a genius.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Fantastic Book,
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This review is from: Geek Love (Abacus Books) (Paperback)
I really cannot recommend this book highly enough. I was completely drawn in to the story and could hardly put it down. Very clever and original and I will definitely seek out further offering from this wonderful author.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
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The true nature of love shines throughout this book,
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This review is from: Geek Love (Abacus Books) (Paperback)
I first heard about this book via a song called 'Geek Love' by a band called Bang Bang Machine. (as far as I'm aware, the song is based on the book) The song talks of what is to 'love but never be loved'. Years later I came across the book, and from the minute I picked it up I couldn't but it down. It really does explore the nature of human relationships - of love, of family, and of societies non-acceptance of anything not of the 'norm'. Katherine Dunn really has written a powerful account of what it is to love somebody/something and never really be loved in return. And although the book is centered around 'geeks' it tells a story of human emotion that everyone - even perfect looking humans can relate too.
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