Steve Aylett opens your skull and bashes your brain with a potatoe masher, he has this way of writting that makes you want to read more.I have no idea the plot of this book, maybe something about an election, but I will say you will laugh and wonder on every page.
The Bizarro Starter Kits are designed to give newcomers a nice sampling of the bizarro genre. Here are just a few of the wonders The Bizarro Starer Kit (blue) contains:The Longheads - Jordan Krall: Tommy Pingpong and his partner Jake are looking to buy some guns for a heist, all the while evade the...
The Crime Studio is a collection of absurd and hilarious crime stories set in the city of Beerlight.How does one go about reviewing a collection of short stories, most of which are four pages long or less? Should I talk about Brute Parker, the owner of an all night gun shop? Or Billy Panacea, ace ...
A great book Steve Aylett is one of my favorite authors cant wait to read the rest of his books..While reading to the end of this book i came across page 118 & 119. They were identical pages same words on each page. Did anyone else come by this same error??
A Great book, enjoyed every page.Laugh out loud, bank robbing, gang affiliations, or being locked in the slammer... Aylett hits it on the head with his surrealism in a Tarantino way.
Hmmm, I guess I'm not in the mood for this right now. I tried reading three different stories in this collection and just couldn't stay focused on any of them. Men in diapers and men with sexual "problems" couldn't even keep me focused. I'm surprised because I like and mostly get David Lynch, Tak...
A collection of pirate stories, ranging from sf to fantasy to a HMS Pinafore/Peter Pan cross-over. The stand-outs were:"Boojum," by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette. A low-level grunt on a living space-ship grows increasingly uneasy about their latest cargo. "Skillet and Saber," by Justin Howe. ...
Some of the more notable stories here were "Boojum" by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette; "The Nymph's Child" by Carrie Vaughn; "Araminta, or, the Wreck of the Amphidrake" by Naomi Novik; "The Adventures of Captain Black Heart Wentworth: A Nautical Tail" by Rachel Swirsky; "The Whale Below" by Jayme ...
I think you either share his taste in stories or you don't, and I don't. Most of the stories were very abstract and I'd say only a quarter dealt with the apocalypse in a traditional sense, the rest seemed to deal more with cataclysmic change in an individual's life. Only a few were character based...
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