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lkthomas07's review
2.0
I'd heard about the Bizarro genre and wanted to give it a try. I'm into weird, unrealistic adventure, but I'm not quite sure how I felt about Extinction Journals. It was extremely short - which I think a lot of Bizarro books are - and didn't really have that much going on. It sort of did, but not really. Perhaps it would have helped if I'd read Angel Dust Apocalypse first, which also features the main character Dean.
I didn't get the point. But maybe that just means that Bizarro isn't for me...
I didn't get the point. But maybe that just means that Bizarro isn't for me...
jugglingpup's review
4.0
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This book raises the question of what can survive an all out nuclear holocaust. The answer is clearly cockroaches and tTwinkies The other answer is ants, which you don’t find out until closer to the end of the book.
The main character plans his apocalypse surviving outfit out in advance. He tries out a few different models and settles on a suit from J. C. Penney with cockroaches sewn on in a way where they don’t eat each other. After everything happens, the way he had made the suit actually makes it so he can sleep and still travel because the cockroaches walk for him.
He runs into the president who survived with a Twinkie suit. The cockroaches eat him. That is seriously the best part. The man watches in horror as the president is eaten inches from his flesh. So graphic and cool.
This is the longer version of a story found in Angel Dust Apocalypse. Both books are fantastic. They are both quick reads and should be read in one sitting so you are forced to live through it all at once which makes it even more powerful.
This book raises the question of what can survive an all out nuclear holocaust. The answer is clearly cockroaches and tTwinkies The other answer is ants, which you don’t find out until closer to the end of the book.
The main character plans his apocalypse surviving outfit out in advance. He tries out a few different models and settles on a suit from J. C. Penney with cockroaches sewn on in a way where they don’t eat each other. After everything happens, the way he had made the suit actually makes it so he can sleep and still travel because the cockroaches walk for him.
He runs into the president who survived with a Twinkie suit. The cockroaches eat him. That is seriously the best part. The man watches in horror as the president is eaten inches from his flesh. So graphic and cool.
This is the longer version of a story found in Angel Dust Apocalypse. Both books are fantastic. They are both quick reads and should be read in one sitting so you are forced to live through it all at once which makes it even more powerful.
kilcannon's review
3.0
I was surprised by how much I liked this one. It shied away from the gratuitous shock and lol-so-random nonsense of some bizarro lit.
I would have liked, actually, to see this world expanded.
I would have liked, actually, to see this world expanded.
barb4ry1's review
2.0
Have you ever wondered how it would be to wear a customized business suit coated in living cockroaches on the eve of nuclear destruction?
No?
Bizarre...
A man who anticipates a nuclear war designs a suit made of cockroaches (70% of them being unkillable Blattella germanica). It's perfectly logical, isn't it? They say that only cockroaches can survive the atomic blast.
Dean meets the President clothed in Twinkie suit. Twinkies are tasty so his living coat eats the President and his Twinkie suit. Later on he meets a god-like creature who has come back for mankind only to find a few men left on devastated Earth.
The book follows Dean's journey after food and water. He meets few other survivors and finds love.
I have a regime - one bizarro book per month. I like to discover what sits on the fringe of a normal storytelling and I like to challenge my imagination.
While I appreciate some ideas and imagery conveyed in this one I didn't like it. I didn't expect to relate to a guy who walks through a post-apocalyptic earth in a suit made of cockroaches who may, eventually, eat him. However, I expected a bit more development in the story. There was very little of it.
It's short. It was cool to read it. But truth be told, I didn't like this one.
howifeelaboutbooks's review
5.0
The first Bizarro book I've read, and a great introduction into the genre. I read "The Sharp Dressed Man at the End of the Line," the short story this book is a continuation of, and I'd recommend other readers start with that as well, just because it really rounds out the whole story. Jeremy Robert Johnson is a skilled writer, and the book is filled with beautiful prose, despite being so dark - it's about the start of a nuclear World War III and the end of society as we know it. Dean has survived only because he made a suit of cockroaches who are helping him find safety. There is a lot of black humor in this book, and it's not as grotesque as a lot of Bizarro is rumored to be, so I'd recommend it to a wide variety of readers.
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