Eeeeeewww! (But I mean that in a good way.)
Rating: ☆☆☆☆
Title: Eating Mammals: Three Novellas
Author: John Barlow
Genre: Fiction / Miscellaneous
Read: 18th June 2005
Comments: The three novellas of this book's title are: the title story 'Eating Mammals' which is about a professional eater called Captain Gusto, (kind of like Kobayashi Takeru {see link below} only he'll literally eat anything), 'The Possession of Thomas Bessie: a Victorian Melodrama' about a strange cat, born with a pair of small wings (don't worry, it's not in the least cutesy or cat-fancieresque), and finally 'The Donkey Wedding at Gomersal, recounted by an inhabitant of that place' about a rather odd wedding (I'll let you guess what exactly was odd about it).
They're all good solid stories, engagingly written, but the title story takes the cake, so to speak. I don't want to spoil it, but one of the last scenes is so perfectly, viscerally, stomach-churningly written that I literally felt sick reading it. Anyone can write a gross-out scene, but this is different, it was kind of a gross-out elevated to the level of art, if you can follow me.
I recommend this book to all comers (provided they have a strong stomach) and I invite you to check out the author's first full-length novel (link below) which was delivered to my door yesterday and is next on my list.
Quote: "There will always be one place, dirty, and perhaps forgotten to all but its inhabitants, deep in a dark corner of a dark country, where the name of Captain Gusto will be rememberd."
posted by Becki at 11:41 AM
1 Comments:
That would be no. 1. Specifically pigs, cows, and... but I don't want to ruin the surprise though, do I?
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