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2.0 out of 5 stars
Biscuits stale., 26 Jun 1999
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Grant Morrison, one of the best and most mind-expanding comic scribes currently writing, blew it with his fictional debut. Stories like The Braille Encyclopedia, The House Where Love Lives, and his two plays clearly fall flat; understandably so since almost all of the material in this book was written over ten years ago. Lovely Biscuits captures Morrison in his "over-the-top-gore-and-kinky-sex='edgy'" phase. Boring. Do yourself a favor and pick up Morrison's brilliant comic series The Invisibles instead; stripped of the ludicrously bad descriptive passages demonstrated in his prose work, Morrison's writing's pretty good.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Dodgy Biscuits, 17 April 2007
I loved Grant Morrison's 'The Invisibles' comic, it was bizarre enough to be cool, mind expanding enough in some of the concepts it introduced and explored it's own textual existence enough to be clever but not end up being so span out that it was impossible to read.
This book is similar, but I would say is a little too weird for most. It's more akin to his comic book 'The Filth'. I think that 'The Invisibles' was Grant Morrison doing mainstream and that these weird textual explorations into alternative sexualities and the nature of language is where he's at.
I would say that he's dangerously close to going too far, to a place where some readers won't be able to follow, to write about and illuminate the outer reaches of mankinds repressed sexual obsessions and desires and make some uncomfortable, and deconstucting his stories so much that they become largely incomprehensible.
I can see Grant Morrison taking a dump and pressing it between a couple of pages and, with a few words here and there, passing it off as his master piece. Come back, Grant, the edge is near!
Having said this I liked the book and will follow his writing with interest. I hope he writes a complete novel, I'd like to read it, where is 'The If'?
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A good mix of lovely short stories, but no biscuits..., 30 May 2002
By A Customer
Morrison is well known for his ground-breaking comics, such as Animal Man, Zenith and The Invisibles and here his prose work is published. It is a collection of short stories and plays that he has amassed over the years and touches on most of Morrison's literary and culteral obsessions. The bulk of the book is made up of his two stage plays, focusing on Lewis Caroll and his alledged paedophilia and Aleistar Crowley. Both are quite impressive, the former being quite reminiscent of Dennis Potter (in particular, his movie screenplay 'Dreamchild'). There is also a nice story about Lovecraft and the final adventure of Aubrey Valentine (An erotic mix of Sherlock Holmes and Dick Barton).
On the whole it's all well written and entertaining, but not, perhaps, the best introduction to Morrison's work. Of note to fans of The Invisibles, the final story, I am a Policeman, first published in Disco 2000, was written as a sort of companion piece to the series. But I can't really spot the connection myself.
Buy this book. You'll like most of it.
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