Reviews tagging 'Excrement'

The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovich, Steve Erickson

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paperknotbooks's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark reflective sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

This book feels like a series of Polaroid pics of dingy, triply scenes. There’s a lot of sucking of miscellaneous fluids from various orifices… mostly human and animal, occasionally inanimate objects. A lot of decomposition and sexual situations, which basically blend together.

While gross, the writing is engaging. I didn’t like this book for 98% of it, when I finally clicked as to what it was trying to do. I had an “oh!” moment. But I never wasn’t to reread this book. 

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mcdal's review against another edition

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Reading this gave me the same feeling I had when watching the movie Limbo (1999) and I mean that in the best way and worst way possible

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