- Hardcover: 250 pages
- Publisher: Savoy Books (5 Aug 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 086130098X
- ISBN-13: 978-0861300983
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.4 x 2.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 677,669 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A review from The New Statesman.
"A bizarre and outrageous confection of riotous, Rabelaisian imagery it may be, but Motherfuckers does offer a consistent view of fascism. This is also the terrain of unfetted imagination; where the macabrely-detailed dreamscape of Lautréamont and Sade meet the popular common-sense fantasy of L. Frank Baum and Roald Dahl. The book draws on the fantastic current in English writing (the gothic, Swift, Carroll, Hodgson, Graham, Ballard) but there's a strong input from the more specifically continental transgressors, both social and textual, Huysman, Bataille and Céline. Motherfuckers is a truly frightening book." Julian Petley, The New Statesman
"A bizarre and outrageous confection of riotous, Rabelaisian imagery it may be, but Motherfuckers does offer a consistent view of fascism. This is also the terrain of unfetted imagination; where the macabrely-detailed dreamscape of Lautréamont and Sade meet the popular common-sense fantasy of L. Frank Baum and Roald Dahl. The book draws on the fantastic current in English writing (the gothic, Swift, Carroll, Hodgson, Graham, Ballard) but there's a strong input from the more specifically continental transgressors, both social and textual, Huysman, Bataille and Céline. Motherfuckers is a truly frightening book." Julian Petley, The New Statesman
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Brilliantly over the top with shock and disgust, but really not that well written for all that
19 Jan 2009
I was surprised that there weren't a host of one and five star reviews for this book. The Auschwitz of Oz (just think of the conceit of the title!) has been championed by Michael Moorcock, and the book has been tangled in British legal action via the Obscene Publications Act.
And you start to read it! Unrelenting high-energy nastiness. Rock and roll. The Holocaust. Murder for laughs. Cosmetic surgery. Venereal disease.
But it really isn't all that well-written. Maybe it's William S. Burroughs without skill? Some of the attitude, plus you have to do more to shock today, but none of the style or ability.
So, this is the three star rating. Totally over-the-top thrill-kill cool in theory, but just not that good in practice.
And you start to read it! Unrelenting high-energy nastiness. Rock and roll. The Holocaust. Murder for laughs. Cosmetic surgery. Venereal disease.
But it really isn't all that well-written. Maybe it's William S. Burroughs without skill? Some of the attitude, plus you have to do more to shock today, but none of the style or ability.
So, this is the three star rating. Totally over-the-top thrill-kill cool in theory, but just not that good in practice.
Hell for me and you
18 April 2012
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This is one heck of a book it might be expensive but it has three of the craziest characters ever think of alice in wonderland and the wizard on acid and then add natzies and this is the right dark fairy tale for you
2 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Sucker for profanity
25 Oct 2008
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This book is as inane as its title suggests. Even an avid reader like myself could not get through the first fifty pages. I passed it on to several other strong readers and no one got any further than I did. It's a funny conversation piece, but a waste of good shelf space. Now it sits on the floor of an unused closet.
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