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mxsallybend's review against another edition
4.0
I'm a sucker for stories that push the edge, that take pop-culture obsessions and tear them to pieces, so when Danger Slater came to me with Love Me, describing is as "a tongue-in-cheek satire heavily steeped in speculative-fiction/absurdism/bizarro.....think Forrest Gump if it were directed by David Lynch," I was only too happy to take up the challenge.
With a set-up like that, any book should be doomed to failure - except he tosses in just enough Monty Python, Douglas Adams, and even Looney Tunes to make it all work.
This was a wonderfully absurd read, and one that had me frequently laughing out loud. It's twisted and perverted (which isn't a bad thing!), and wildly inventive. Every time you figure you've reached the heights of absurdity, and have found a rare lull in the story, he dangles something even more ridiculous in front of you . . . and then sneaks up behind you and macks you over the head with something even more unexpected. I could list a dozen favourite scenes from the book (none of them with a straight face), but I'm wary of spoiling the experience.
If you're not open to a read where tangents make the book, this will likely try your patience at times, but I still suspect it will make you beg for more. So long as you don't mind people staring at your public laughter, then give this a read.
With a set-up like that, any book should be doomed to failure - except he tosses in just enough Monty Python, Douglas Adams, and even Looney Tunes to make it all work.
This was a wonderfully absurd read, and one that had me frequently laughing out loud. It's twisted and perverted (which isn't a bad thing!), and wildly inventive. Every time you figure you've reached the heights of absurdity, and have found a rare lull in the story, he dangles something even more ridiculous in front of you . . . and then sneaks up behind you and macks you over the head with something even more unexpected. I could list a dozen favourite scenes from the book (none of them with a straight face), but I'm wary of spoiling the experience.
If you're not open to a read where tangents make the book, this will likely try your patience at times, but I still suspect it will make you beg for more. So long as you don't mind people staring at your public laughter, then give this a read.
egumeny's review against another edition
5.0
I edited it, so clearly I'm biased, but hear me out: I read this book FOUR GOD DAMNED TIMES. And it never got old. I kept laughing, I kept enjoying it. Do you know how rarely that happens? I mean, how often do you read a book, finish it, and go, man, I'm gonna read this again right now! You don't. But I did. Four times. Because this shit is that fucking good.
bigbookgeek's review against another edition
3.0
This was a bizarre little book. Quite funny and always very quirky, it was a good way to spend the weekend.
monteirogh's review against another edition
4.0
A fever dream that seemed that it was going to lead nowhere, and I can't say that wasn't the case. I loved it.
debumere's review against another edition
4.0
There were a few stand out moments but my favourite was definitely the creation of the Lunar phases. This is a good read, chuckled a fair bit through it. Really liked the Moon.
risa_di's review against another edition
5.0
If you like to laugh, while simultaneously pondering your existence, read this book immediately! In Love Me, we follow the fantastical, yet somehow completely relatable, main character through a life changing journey as he tries to figure out his place in the world while accidentally creating the fundamentals of our existence. He’s sometimes sad, often vulgar, definitely blunt, and always funny. Sound complicated and hard to read? It’s not! While the underlying themes of Love Me might be ones philosophers have pondered for centuries, the delivery of the story is not only light and easy to read, but completely original. I mean it. There is a castle made of skulls, some talking rats, and a nosy neighbor who happens to be the Moon (just to name a FEW of the weirdos that pop up throughout the story). Yet despite this fantasy world, Danger Slater brings us the story of a guy we can relate to. I often found myself commiserating with the main character as I laughed at the preposterous and completely improbable situations he found himself in. Love Me is as loveable, as ridiculous, and as rude as your favorite Judd Apatow film, and as hilariously self-aware/referential as the best episode of Arrested Development. If you’re looking for something serious, dry, sane, and emotionless, go read Ernest Hemingway. If you’re looking to laugh, gag, roll your eyes, say “what the hell?”, empathize, laugh some more, and possibly even think, read Love Me. NOW!
sarahconnor89757's review against another edition
3.0
Discombobulated and otherworldly, this book sits very firmly within the genre of bizarro; meaning if you don't know what you're getting into there is no preparing you but if you are already a connoisseur there will be nothing to surprising you.
Funny, sexual, and crude this is the perfect beach read for those who drive to the beach only to prefer being locked in the car.
Funny, sexual, and crude this is the perfect beach read for those who drive to the beach only to prefer being locked in the car.
mrfrank's review against another edition
5.0
Indie press has been hitting it out of the park lately. LOVE ME by Danger Slater is batting clean up and just launched one into the 2nd level. Who cares about the big names on the shelves for 5 times the price? There is no point any longer. Danger Slater is a name that needs to be up in neon lights.
LOVE ME is the story of a god-like being who can do and be anything he can think of in his brilliant mind. He his handsome beyond the likes of Brand Pitt, he is brilliant beyond the likes of Dr. Michio Kaku. He can do, be, have anything he wants. Yet he is a complete social miscreant. The protagonist needs, wants, craves loves, companionship and camaraderie. This is the story of the man who has everything, everything except love.
It is brilliant. It is simple. It is hilarious. It is poignant. I want to compare him to Chad Kultgen with a better sense of humor. Alas, I can not because Danger Slater is too unique a voice. This is big press story published by a small press company. If your going to give something a little "not mainstream" then give this one a shot. This is the story that will ring true with every soul who reads it.
LOVE ME is the story of a god-like being who can do and be anything he can think of in his brilliant mind. He his handsome beyond the likes of Brand Pitt, he is brilliant beyond the likes of Dr. Michio Kaku. He can do, be, have anything he wants. Yet he is a complete social miscreant. The protagonist needs, wants, craves loves, companionship and camaraderie. This is the story of the man who has everything, everything except love.
It is brilliant. It is simple. It is hilarious. It is poignant. I want to compare him to Chad Kultgen with a better sense of humor. Alas, I can not because Danger Slater is too unique a voice. This is big press story published by a small press company. If your going to give something a little "not mainstream" then give this one a shot. This is the story that will ring true with every soul who reads it.
mhanlon's review against another edition
3.0
This was a good-ish book. It's very original, or the voice is, at any rate, and it skates by on that for a good while. It gets bogged down a little in the middle, and fans of the scatalogical will love it (foes of the scatalogical will not, though you then have the honor of being known as a "Foe of the Scatalogical").
It was a very pleasant way to pass an evening or two, at any rate.
It was a very pleasant way to pass an evening or two, at any rate.
mhanlon's review
3.0
This was a good-ish book. It's very original, or the voice is, at any rate, and it skates by on that for a good while. It gets bogged down a little in the middle, and fans of the scatalogical will love it (foes of the scatalogical will not, though you then have the honor of being known as a "Foe of the Scatalogical").
It was a very pleasant way to pass an evening or two, at any rate.
It was a very pleasant way to pass an evening or two, at any rate.
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