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Grundish And Askew (2009)

by Lance Carbuncle(Favorite Author)

3.76 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0982280009 (ISBN13: 9780982280003)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Vicious Galoot Books

review 1: It's never a good sign when, on page 67, you find yourself checking to see how many pages are left in the book. Somewhere around page 100 a pair of newscasters break the fourth wall to brag about how shitty the book is. Setting aside several meta-contextual statements by the narrator, this was the second time in 100 pages that characters in the novel broke the fourth wall. This time the author himself put in an appearance, presumably to do something terrible to the characters in question but, I will never know because it was one indulgence too far and I put the book down at that point.Lance Carbuncle must have quite the cult following to have so many positive reviews both here and on Amazon. I don't get it. My tastes run towards the dark (Jim Thompson) and the bizarre... more (Patrick deWitt) so don't for a second believe that my objections to this book have anything to do with the "shocking" puerile content. Grotesque and disturbing is all well and good if it is done well or, if at very least, it is funny. The gross-out material in Grundish and Askew is neither handled well nor particularly funny and the result is a childish bit of self-indulgent nonsense.It's very rare that I don't finish a book. In the case of Grundish and Askew, my decision to stop reading had little to do with the gross-out content and everything to do with the fact that it's just a terrible book. Anyone looking for similar content from an author with actual talent should check out James Boice's The Good and The Ghastly. I was luke-warm on The Good and The Ghastly when I read it but Lance Carbuncle makes James Boice look like James-f'ing-Joyce.
review 2: Epub/Absurd Humor: First a disclaimer that I got the epub free from the author. That being said, I liked the book. While I didn't find the book laugh out loud funny, I did find it humorous and entertaining. Absurd humor isn't for everyone, mostly because it equals gross and lewd. This is the story of two friends who are trailer park losers. They are both sociopaths who have no real sympathy for people or other people's property. Grundish could probably make it okay in the world, but unfortunately he met Askew early in life. Askew is one hot mess. He doesn't seem to have any impulse control. As unlikable as they may seem, I did start to find myself rooting for these two numbskulls. My favorite character was Alf the mule. He had a hard life and I felt sorry for him. If you like absurd novels, you will love this one. It's like Of Mice and Men, only grosser. less

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