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mrfrank's review
5.0
Bizarro perfection achieved! IS WINONA RYDER STILL WITH THE DUDE FROM yadda yadda yadda is a masterpiece of bizarre and absurdist short form fiction. Collectively, these stories represent my perfect vision of bizarro fiction. As a long time reader of Douglas Hackle's work, it is clear this is a culmination of everything he has written to this point and he brings it all together to preform his Magnum Opus to which he's the muthafuckin' Richard Dreyfuss!
This is the second Hackle book I've read this year and neither disappointed. I really enjoyed reading Hackle work in long form with THE HOTTEST GAY MAN yadda yadda yadda but after reading IS WINONA RYDER STILL WITH THAT DUDE FROM yadda yadda yadda there can be no doubt that he simply basks in the short story format. The shining star of The Hackle Trope, his ability to make anything a sentient character in a story is brought to a crescendo in this collection. If he is able to find a new concept in inventing an obscure sentient being after this I will be floored.
While I absolutely love Hackle's style of absurd storytelling, I don't know that its for everyone. I love it so much I can't imagine how anyone couldn't read this without cracking a giant delighted smile. So what I'm saying is if you enjoy Hackle you're going to love yadda yadda yadda. And if you've never read Douglas Hackle, start here. But maybe, start at Clown Tear Junkies. There is a sort of weird mythos that exists throughout all of Hackle's work but I think it can work in reverse too. Just read Douglas Muthafuckin' Original G Hackle.
I just want to know when Brofessor Hackle is going to start offering classes on how to flip tables and whittle TERROR PUPPETS and give us smooth pickup lines on how to get with that chick from Heathers if she's not actually with that guy from yadda yadda yadda.
This is the second Hackle book I've read this year and neither disappointed. I really enjoyed reading Hackle work in long form with THE HOTTEST GAY MAN yadda yadda yadda but after reading IS WINONA RYDER STILL WITH THAT DUDE FROM yadda yadda yadda there can be no doubt that he simply basks in the short story format. The shining star of The Hackle Trope, his ability to make anything a sentient character in a story is brought to a crescendo in this collection. If he is able to find a new concept in inventing an obscure sentient being after this I will be floored.
While I absolutely love Hackle's style of absurd storytelling, I don't know that its for everyone. I love it so much I can't imagine how anyone couldn't read this without cracking a giant delighted smile. So what I'm saying is if you enjoy Hackle you're going to love yadda yadda yadda. And if you've never read Douglas Hackle, start here. But maybe, start at Clown Tear Junkies. There is a sort of weird mythos that exists throughout all of Hackle's work but I think it can work in reverse too. Just read Douglas Muthafuckin' Original G Hackle.
I just want to know when Brofessor Hackle is going to start offering classes on how to flip tables and whittle TERROR PUPPETS and give us smooth pickup lines on how to get with that chick from Heathers if she's not actually with that guy from yadda yadda yadda.
kingjason's review
4.0
Man! I have no idea how to review this book, have you ever read a book and you think you know how the story is gonna play out and then it does in fact play out just how you thought it would play out? Well this book is a bit like that, it's pretty obvious how it is going to end, unfortunately Douglas Hackle doesn't end each story like it should (I would say he gets it all wrong). In fact if you do correctly guess one of the endings, or even somehow get in the ball park area then please at your earliest convenience submit yourself to your local lunatic asylum for a good old check up.
This book contains more puppets than any other book, poppits and foo faps, and many more blockbuster stores than ever existed. The stories are entertaining, probably the best absurd fiction since the bible.
For me though there were too many stories, part of the absurdness is the repetition and for me the book hiccupped a bit, a couple of times I started to become dulled to the experience. Still it was a fun read, even telling people the name of the book you are reading is fun.
Whilst reading this I did come up with a conspiracy theory about Douglas Hackle and this book...for some reason I now can't remember it, it was literally only 5min ago that I discovered it and yet now it is gone....Is that a conspiracy too?
This book contains more puppets than any other book, poppits and foo faps, and many more blockbuster stores than ever existed. The stories are entertaining, probably the best absurd fiction since the bible.
For me though there were too many stories, part of the absurdness is the repetition and for me the book hiccupped a bit, a couple of times I started to become dulled to the experience. Still it was a fun read, even telling people the name of the book you are reading is fun.
Whilst reading this I did come up with a conspiracy theory about Douglas Hackle and this book...for some reason I now can't remember it, it was literally only 5min ago that I discovered it and yet now it is gone....Is that a conspiracy too?
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