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A funny, strange and sad horror tale. This isn't the usual gorefest, but rather about the horror of losing a family. This is a book about Jackie, who's mother died of cancer. But her mother's still around, glowing in the dark and vomiting in the toilet. Jackie has a crush on Ann who's own mother and sister have turned into violent creatures that have to be kept locked up in the basement. Charlie is an old man. His building is haunted by a headless ghost who wants something, but Charlie has no idea what. A weird, wonderful and moving horror story.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Firstly let me say that I am a huge fan of Joey Comeau's work. His web comic is a weekly viewing activity for me and I loved his last book 'Overqualified'. This book is written in a similar sort of style but tries to apply it in a more plot driven format.
The result is disastrous. The characters are unbelievable and very one dimensional, they aren't described well enough to give a clear picture of them, let alone relate or sympathise with them. The writing style, while still containing some of Joey's charm, makes for an infuriating read. Many chapters are only a page in length and contain only content which you have already read.
The whole book feels very forced and reads like a young child's school essay.
AVOID!
Good points:
- It's Cheap
- It's a page turner and very short
- Some quirky descriptions/ideas
Bad points:
- Badly written
- Poorly thought out
- 'Shallow' Characters/plot
The result is disastrous. The characters are unbelievable and very one dimensional, they aren't described well enough to give a clear picture of them, let alone relate or sympathise with them. The writing style, while still containing some of Joey's charm, makes for an infuriating read. Many chapters are only a page in length and contain only content which you have already read.
The whole book feels very forced and reads like a young child's school essay.
AVOID!
Good points:
- It's Cheap
- It's a page turner and very short
- Some quirky descriptions/ideas
Bad points:
- Badly written
- Poorly thought out
- 'Shallow' Characters/plot
Format:Paperback
I'm a huge fan of Joey's works - his short fiction works most of all. Followers of his other stuff (A Softer World, for example) will notice a few in-jokes and themes that have been followed there - it makes you grin, rather than feel like you're reading old stuff again, though.
The story is short, but descriptive and utterly immersive - I read it in a day and couldn't put it down. There are sad bits and utterly exhilarating bits, and you come to realise it's not a story about monsters after all, but about growing up and teenage awkwardness and having to make do with the lot you're given, whether that's monsters or fancying someone you feel you shouldn't.
Pus, Joey is a complete dish.
The story is short, but descriptive and utterly immersive - I read it in a day and couldn't put it down. There are sad bits and utterly exhilarating bits, and you come to realise it's not a story about monsters after all, but about growing up and teenage awkwardness and having to make do with the lot you're given, whether that's monsters or fancying someone you feel you shouldn't.
Pus, Joey is a complete dish.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Best Bloody Book I've Read in Years
23 April 2010
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I love Joey Comeau's a softer world web comic, and have enjoyed seeing how those disconnected panels have developed clear characters in a crazy-quilt of common themes and experiences. One Bloody Thing... is much like a softer world in that you don't get much time to get to know the players but by the end of the book, you do feel a kinship with them. They are infinitely human, they make mistakes, they have to do some questionable things to stay alive, but they are likable and one can empathize with their plights.
Even the blank pages tell a little story... you just have to look carefully to find it.
Even the blank pages tell a little story... you just have to look carefully to find it.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Worth a read
1 May 2010
Format:Paperback
Joey Comeau's "One Bloody Thing After Another" was a quick read at only 165 pages, yet managed to pack in a surprisingly large amount of absurd plot twists. Comeau begins the novel as a serial story following three character's seemingly unrelated lives and as the plot develops, their stories become more entwined as their actions begin to affect each other.
Jackie, a rebellious lesbian teenager spends much of the book smashing things destroying, and escaping danger, all while calling on her late mother's ghost and courting her best friend. Ann enters the scene and draws in the reader with her less than conventional family situation, to say the least. Charlie, his beloved dog, and the decapitated ghost haunting him spend most of the book on the periphery but crosses lives with Ann in a gruesome yet almost comical dog-napping.
Comeau classifies this novel as a horror story, yet provides so little description in his style that almost all of the imaginative work is left up the reader. For instance, he was even able to construct a scenes of a woman eating a live baby and a litter of kittens that barely disgusted me. His lack of description and rampant use of short, bland sentences detracted from what could have otherwise been a terrifying short novel.
Although I was somewhat unsatisfied with the short sentences, one to three page chapters, and lack of detail, I would still recommend this book to someone with a twisted, sick sense of humor or anyone looking for a quick quirky read.
I received a review copy of this book though ECW Press.
Jackie, a rebellious lesbian teenager spends much of the book smashing things destroying, and escaping danger, all while calling on her late mother's ghost and courting her best friend. Ann enters the scene and draws in the reader with her less than conventional family situation, to say the least. Charlie, his beloved dog, and the decapitated ghost haunting him spend most of the book on the periphery but crosses lives with Ann in a gruesome yet almost comical dog-napping.
Comeau classifies this novel as a horror story, yet provides so little description in his style that almost all of the imaginative work is left up the reader. For instance, he was even able to construct a scenes of a woman eating a live baby and a litter of kittens that barely disgusted me. His lack of description and rampant use of short, bland sentences detracted from what could have otherwise been a terrifying short novel.
Although I was somewhat unsatisfied with the short sentences, one to three page chapters, and lack of detail, I would still recommend this book to someone with a twisted, sick sense of humor or anyone looking for a quick quirky read.
I received a review copy of this book though ECW Press.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Very Good Debut Novel
14 April 2010
Format:Paperback
The description of this book leaves out a main character and a storyline, that of Charlie, an older man, his aging, short-on-intelligence dog Mitchie, and the headless ghost that silently and continuously confronts them. I think that the last line of the above "review/description" sums it up best. The only issue is that I didn't see this as a horror novel going in. What I came out from it was a very well written novel that had many elements, including horror, humor, and a real warmth for the characters within. Even with the quick chapters, and staccato pacing as mentioned, it is easy to develop a bond with the characters. Even when Ann is doing something you know is just wrong, so very wrong, you understand why and sympathize with her dilemma.
I am on the fence about the length of the book, though it's a good thing where I am at. The book is short. Rather short. There are quite a few chapters that are only a couple of paragraphs long, and the following page is blank. So to read through 168 pages feels less then 100. And even though we find great depth for such a short book, in both characters and story, it could have easily been longer. But that also might have ruined the pleasure that this quick read did bring along. Lengthening the story though could have helped the ending. Not that it was bad, but there are things that might have been answered. It seemed a bit rushed to me. Not that there was "deus ex machina" or some quick solution to a problem. It just ended where things could have been developed further. Again, this is good and bad, but mostly still good.
I hope that Comeau pursues more writing, as I would like to read what he would come up with next.
I am on the fence about the length of the book, though it's a good thing where I am at. The book is short. Rather short. There are quite a few chapters that are only a couple of paragraphs long, and the following page is blank. So to read through 168 pages feels less then 100. And even though we find great depth for such a short book, in both characters and story, it could have easily been longer. But that also might have ruined the pleasure that this quick read did bring along. Lengthening the story though could have helped the ending. Not that it was bad, but there are things that might have been answered. It seemed a bit rushed to me. Not that there was "deus ex machina" or some quick solution to a problem. It just ended where things could have been developed further. Again, this is good and bad, but mostly still good.
I hope that Comeau pursues more writing, as I would like to read what he would come up with next.
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