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Read At My Command, Small Heads!
Feb. 4th, 2004 05:29 pmFrom Kielle: Recommend five weird books. Books you utterly adore, books you think everyone should read, but books that are either terrifyingly obscure or very very strange or both.
KILLER ON THE ROAD by James Ellroy: It's a bizarre bloody Wonderland serial killer love story. Sprawling and violent; sexual and obsessive, the story follows the life and 'triumphs' of a serial killer, from his fumbling beginnings in the suburbs of LA to a cross country journey of death and discovery.
IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A TRAVELLER by Italo Calvino: A scattered and constantly self-referential work that takes and Ecoian glee with langauge and the contructs of fiction, working the structure of a book into the realization of the internal plot. Strange and arrogent and occasionally brilliant, the work challenges the perceptions of the line between reader and read.
NOISE by Russell Smith: The story of a freelance writer best known for his viciously witty food reviews, Smith takes his James Willing through the fringes of the terminal hip and the world around them, absorbing masterfully the jargons of the avent-pop to the Kiwanis Club Ontario Niagria resident. A fabulous story, moreso by the insistant unlikeability of the central character.
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN TOWN & other stories by Charles Bukowski: Bukowski is a weird dirty old motherfucker who lived primarily on quart bottles of cheap bourbon, used typewriter ribbon and constant masturbation. His stories are of nasty bums, low lifes, pricks, child rapists, broken people. Stories that cut like rusty blades and grind glass shards into the wounds left behind. Ugly windows into a mind made sick of the world around us.
THE TASMANIAN BABES FIASCO by John Birmingham: From the primiere Australian gonzo journalist, JB takes his experiences from HE DIED WITH A FELAFEL IN HIS HAND, and works them into a sprawling narrative in FIASCO. It's an insane drunken binge of a book, full of mistimed sex, too many drugs, bizarre occurances and the other consequences of living the life of an Arts degree recipient. With brilliant characters, improbable plots and cascading twists and lurchs, the story crashes back and forth with mad humour.
KILLER ON THE ROAD by James Ellroy: It's a bizarre bloody Wonderland serial killer love story. Sprawling and violent; sexual and obsessive, the story follows the life and 'triumphs' of a serial killer, from his fumbling beginnings in the suburbs of LA to a cross country journey of death and discovery.
IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A TRAVELLER by Italo Calvino: A scattered and constantly self-referential work that takes and Ecoian glee with langauge and the contructs of fiction, working the structure of a book into the realization of the internal plot. Strange and arrogent and occasionally brilliant, the work challenges the perceptions of the line between reader and read.
NOISE by Russell Smith: The story of a freelance writer best known for his viciously witty food reviews, Smith takes his James Willing through the fringes of the terminal hip and the world around them, absorbing masterfully the jargons of the avent-pop to the Kiwanis Club Ontario Niagria resident. A fabulous story, moreso by the insistant unlikeability of the central character.
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN TOWN & other stories by Charles Bukowski: Bukowski is a weird dirty old motherfucker who lived primarily on quart bottles of cheap bourbon, used typewriter ribbon and constant masturbation. His stories are of nasty bums, low lifes, pricks, child rapists, broken people. Stories that cut like rusty blades and grind glass shards into the wounds left behind. Ugly windows into a mind made sick of the world around us.
THE TASMANIAN BABES FIASCO by John Birmingham: From the primiere Australian gonzo journalist, JB takes his experiences from HE DIED WITH A FELAFEL IN HIS HAND, and works them into a sprawling narrative in FIASCO. It's an insane drunken binge of a book, full of mistimed sex, too many drugs, bizarre occurances and the other consequences of living the life of an Arts degree recipient. With brilliant characters, improbable plots and cascading twists and lurchs, the story crashes back and forth with mad humour.
