- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Serpent's Tail; paperback / softback edition (28 Jun 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1852429291
- ISBN-13: 978-1852429294
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.2 x 1.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 112,616 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Mechanical ducks, shark women that taste of liquorice, perverted sexual shenanigans in cramped office spaces, double-crossing Nazi apologists, bald-headed cultural subversives and celebrity deer-culling ? this is just a glimpse into the wonderful and frightening world of Perverted by Language. Twenty-three writers choose a song by The Fall and use it as inspiration for a short story. Kicking off with Niall Griffiths? scalding take on the 1978 single, ?Bingo Master?s Break-out?, the book culminates with Rebbecca Ray?s devilishly saucy take on ?I Can Hear The Grass Grow?.
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Peter Wild comes from a music journalism background. He is editing a collection of fiction based on the songs of The Fall called Perverted by Language, which will be published by Serpent's Tail in June 2007. Peter is the co-founder of www.bookmunch.co.uk. His writing and fiction have appeared in Noo Journal, Word Riot, The Big Issue, Nude magazine, Alt Sounds, City Life, 3AM magazine and Eyeballkid. He lives in Stockport.
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It probably seemed like a good idea at the time - let's get a group of writers and ask them each to write a short story based on a song by The Fall. Sadly, however, this selection reveals the limitations of taking your title first and then trying to create a story around it. None of the writing is particularly bad, it's just that in the main the stories are tedious:there are a lot of predictable "twists in the tail", attempts to be bizarre that come across as just stupid ("City Hobgoblins" being a case in point), or humorous stories where the joke runs out of steam ("Iceland"). The desire of some of the writers to lever in other lyrics by the Fall into their stories is also quite irritating.
That's not to say that all of these stories are awful - John Williams "memoir" of being on the periphery of the early days of The Fall ("An Older Lover etc") stands out, as do the sci-fi of "The Man Whose Head Expanded", and the one effective "twist" story, "Godbox"
Two final points - two of the stories aren't even based on Fall songs (but other people's songs they have covered), and despite the amazon photo of the cover, there is no "introduction by Mark E Smith" - allegedly the old curmudgeon is none too impressed with this book either.
That's not to say that all of these stories are awful - John Williams "memoir" of being on the periphery of the early days of The Fall ("An Older Lover etc") stands out, as do the sci-fi of "The Man Whose Head Expanded", and the one effective "twist" story, "Godbox"
Two final points - two of the stories aren't even based on Fall songs (but other people's songs they have covered), and despite the amazon photo of the cover, there is no "introduction by Mark E Smith" - allegedly the old curmudgeon is none too impressed with this book either.
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