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3.64 AVERAGE
3.64 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
funny
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
The worldbuilding? Awesome.
Enough what-the-fuck moments which are the reasons why I consume these books
But the ending? And the general treatment of sexual violence? Ugh, I hate the ending so much
And there were too many battle scenes for my personal preference
But, I'd totally read something else from the setting of McDonaldLand again
Enough what-the-fuck moments which are the reasons why I consume these books
But the ending? And the general treatment of sexual violence? Ugh, I hate the ending so much
And there were too many battle scenes for my personal preference
But, I'd totally read something else from the setting of McDonaldLand again
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gun violence, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Violence
Moderate: Incest, Slavery, Cannibalism, Pregnancy
Minor: Terminal illness
adventurous
funny
In a post-apocalyptic world, the McDonalds Corporation picked up the pieces and rebuild civilization in its own demented image. People live and work in a red and yellow city-state, eating McDonald's three meals a day. When Daniel Togg's two extra arms are discovered, he's cast out into the wastelands, where he is quickly captured by the wolf-women. Will Daniel ever be able to return to McDonaldland? And will he want to if he gets the chance?
Wow. If I wasn't already a fan of Carlton Mellick III before this book, I sure would be now. There are so many things I want to mention but I'm afraid of spoiling too much.
WWWW is a post-apocalyptic tale about a fascist city-state controlled by the McDonald's corp, although it's a lot more than that. It's a tale about conformity, male dominance, fear of female sexuality, corporate evil, lost love, and much, much more.
The world-building in WWWW is the best in any Bizarro book I've read so far. Living in McDonaldland seems horrible in a whimsical kind of way. Imagine living in a world where you have to work two shifts a day, eating only McDonalds, and everything is shades of red and yellow? Throw in Fry Guy policemen and it just gets worse. The world outside McDonaldland is pretty brutal but almost seems preferable to that kind of existence.
Due to generations of eating McDonald's three meals a day, mankind has undergone some changes. Women slowly change into wolves with each orgasm and men undergo mutations as well. The source of the mutations are eventually revealed once Daniel spends some time in the Wastelands.
The Wolves were interesting characters, particularly Pippi, Grandma, Nova, and Talon. The whole plotline of Daniel and Nova slowly getting back together was what sold the book for me. The big Mad Max style battles didn't hurt, either. The swapping of gender roles once Daniel is taken in by the wolves was another of my favorite aspects of the story.
What else should I mention? I guess I'll say that if you find the current incarnation of the Burger King to be super-creepy, you probably won't find Mayor McCheese or the Hamburglar to be very loveable after reading this.
I can't recommend Warrior Wolf Women of the Wasteland enough. It's not just a great Bizarro book, it's a great book. Period. It's also the most accessible of Carlton Mellick III's books I've read so far. If you're looking to give either Bizarro or CMIII a try, you could do a lot worse than this.
Wow. If I wasn't already a fan of Carlton Mellick III before this book, I sure would be now. There are so many things I want to mention but I'm afraid of spoiling too much.
WWWW is a post-apocalyptic tale about a fascist city-state controlled by the McDonald's corp, although it's a lot more than that. It's a tale about conformity, male dominance, fear of female sexuality, corporate evil, lost love, and much, much more.
The world-building in WWWW is the best in any Bizarro book I've read so far. Living in McDonaldland seems horrible in a whimsical kind of way. Imagine living in a world where you have to work two shifts a day, eating only McDonalds, and everything is shades of red and yellow? Throw in Fry Guy policemen and it just gets worse. The world outside McDonaldland is pretty brutal but almost seems preferable to that kind of existence.
Due to generations of eating McDonald's three meals a day, mankind has undergone some changes. Women slowly change into wolves with each orgasm and men undergo mutations as well. The source of the mutations are eventually revealed once Daniel spends some time in the Wastelands.
The Wolves were interesting characters, particularly Pippi, Grandma, Nova, and Talon. The whole plotline of Daniel and Nova slowly getting back together was what sold the book for me. The big Mad Max style battles didn't hurt, either. The swapping of gender roles once Daniel is taken in by the wolves was another of my favorite aspects of the story.
What else should I mention? I guess I'll say that if you find the current incarnation of the Burger King to be super-creepy, you probably won't find Mayor McCheese or the Hamburglar to be very loveable after reading this.
I can't recommend Warrior Wolf Women of the Wasteland enough. It's not just a great Bizarro book, it's a great book. Period. It's also the most accessible of Carlton Mellick III's books I've read so far. If you're looking to give either Bizarro or CMIII a try, you could do a lot worse than this.
I really enjoyed this book. Mellick is known for his tales of bizarre worlds and powerful women, but never before has he pulled it off so naturally. If you're wondering where to start with Mellick's work, start here.
If you are a fan of Carlton Mellick III, this is a must read.
Daniel Togg is a man living on the edge in McDonaldland. A century after the fall of civilization, McDonald’s, the only remaining company takes over and creates its own Utopia, forcing the citizens to conform to the rules of The Blessed McDonald Corporation. Daniel follows in the footsteps of his grandfather and breaks the rules as much as he can without getting caught, such as, making illegal alcohol out of the food you are required to eat three times a day, in his own private rebellion of the red and yellow state he lives in. Living in McDonaldland comes at price, the food is poisoning the citizens. After generations of eating the chemical filled food, the women turn into wolves with each orgasm and the men began growing extra limbs. Both are thrown out into the wasteland to fend for themselves, creating armies of Warrior Wolf Women and Mutant Men known as Outlanders, who are all avoiding the violent and giant wolves that reside in the woods. Togg, having been taught everything he knows about life from his Grandfather, who knew the world as it once was, makes new friends and enemies as he learns about the dangers and freedom of living in the wasteland.
Under the surface of the often violent and disturbing world that CM3 has created, his characters come alive and fight against the oppression of a government that turned them into the so-called monsters they are. These characters experience love, betrayal, heartbreak, and self awareness that had been stifled during their time in McDonaldland.
Daniel Togg is a man living on the edge in McDonaldland. A century after the fall of civilization, McDonald’s, the only remaining company takes over and creates its own Utopia, forcing the citizens to conform to the rules of The Blessed McDonald Corporation. Daniel follows in the footsteps of his grandfather and breaks the rules as much as he can without getting caught, such as, making illegal alcohol out of the food you are required to eat three times a day, in his own private rebellion of the red and yellow state he lives in. Living in McDonaldland comes at price, the food is poisoning the citizens. After generations of eating the chemical filled food, the women turn into wolves with each orgasm and the men began growing extra limbs. Both are thrown out into the wasteland to fend for themselves, creating armies of Warrior Wolf Women and Mutant Men known as Outlanders, who are all avoiding the violent and giant wolves that reside in the woods. Togg, having been taught everything he knows about life from his Grandfather, who knew the world as it once was, makes new friends and enemies as he learns about the dangers and freedom of living in the wasteland.
Under the surface of the often violent and disturbing world that CM3 has created, his characters come alive and fight against the oppression of a government that turned them into the so-called monsters they are. These characters experience love, betrayal, heartbreak, and self awareness that had been stifled during their time in McDonaldland.
Honestly, not my favorite Carlton Mellick III book. I really enjoyed the parts in and about McDonaldland, the civilization owned and run by The Blessed McDonald's Corporation, but a lot of this story is just action fight scene.
(Originally posted @ CSI:Librarian.)
4.5 Stars - Confession Time. I went into Warrior Wolf Woman of the Wasteland feeling like it couldn't possibly in its wildest dreams remotely resemble the sort of thing I like to read only to wind up feeling like Warrior Wolf Woman of the Wasteland was way more along the lines of I want to read than most of what I've been trying to force myself to finish reading lately.
As unusual and occasionally obscene as this book was, it was also really, really enjoyable. Everything about it was so cleverly conceived and so well done that it's sort of mind-boggling considering this is the story of man-eating wolf women vs. mutant men vs. the Hamburglar and Mayor McCheese. I really liked the ideas at play here particularly that of the McDonalds Corporation taking over, women becoming increasingly wolfish the more sexually active they are and the fearful way men in power seek to control everyone through food and religion only to ultimately combine the two.
I feel like it's hard to say too much without giving a lot away or spoiling the way the storyline unfolds, but even if the summary or anything I've typed thus far seems like the makings of a ridiculous, epic joke, that isn't how it comes across in the book. Yes, everything that happened in Warrior Wolf Woman of the Wasteland was decidedly bizarre and certainly unique, but somehow it all worked in a way that didn't feel accidental or merely fortuitious. Although very few characters outside of Daniel were all that likable, it was pretty easy to care about the vast majority of them. Their issues and relationships were a lot of fun to read about. I also really liked the general unpredictability of what was going to happen in regards to any single one of them.
Some parts of Warrior Wolf Woman of the Wasteland didn't sit as well with me as others, but nothing seemed to really be there simply to shock or dismay a potential reader. And just about all of it seemed to fit the mood of the novel and the character's personalities. The most significant of the complaints I could have is that no library anywhere near me seems to own a single book by Carlton Mellick III, which leaves me with no choice but to probably buy them since the odds of my co-workers ever looking at me the same way again should I request any of his titles is relatively low.
In conclusion, incredibly good. If you enjoyed Yarn by Jon Armstrong or the occasional Grindhouse film, you owe it to yourself to get ahold of Warrior Wolf Woman of the Wasteland ASAP. Obviously it is not a one size fits all sort of book and if you're not sure how you feel about B-Grade anything, I wouldn't recomend this book to you. Particularly not if you plan on eating McDonalds any time soon.
4.5 Stars - Confession Time. I went into Warrior Wolf Woman of the Wasteland feeling like it couldn't possibly in its wildest dreams remotely resemble the sort of thing I like to read only to wind up feeling like Warrior Wolf Woman of the Wasteland was way more along the lines of I want to read than most of what I've been trying to force myself to finish reading lately.
As unusual and occasionally obscene as this book was, it was also really, really enjoyable. Everything about it was so cleverly conceived and so well done that it's sort of mind-boggling considering this is the story of man-eating wolf women vs. mutant men vs. the Hamburglar and Mayor McCheese. I really liked the ideas at play here particularly that of the McDonalds Corporation taking over, women becoming increasingly wolfish the more sexually active they are and the fearful way men in power seek to control everyone through food and religion only to ultimately combine the two.
I feel like it's hard to say too much without giving a lot away or spoiling the way the storyline unfolds, but even if the summary or anything I've typed thus far seems like the makings of a ridiculous, epic joke, that isn't how it comes across in the book. Yes, everything that happened in Warrior Wolf Woman of the Wasteland was decidedly bizarre and certainly unique, but somehow it all worked in a way that didn't feel accidental or merely fortuitious. Although very few characters outside of Daniel were all that likable, it was pretty easy to care about the vast majority of them. Their issues and relationships were a lot of fun to read about. I also really liked the general unpredictability of what was going to happen in regards to any single one of them.
Some parts of Warrior Wolf Woman of the Wasteland didn't sit as well with me as others, but nothing seemed to really be there simply to shock or dismay a potential reader. And just about all of it seemed to fit the mood of the novel and the character's personalities. The most significant of the complaints I could have is that no library anywhere near me seems to own a single book by Carlton Mellick III, which leaves me with no choice but to probably buy them since the odds of my co-workers ever looking at me the same way again should I request any of his titles is relatively low.
In conclusion, incredibly good. If you enjoyed Yarn by Jon Armstrong or the occasional Grindhouse film, you owe it to yourself to get ahold of Warrior Wolf Woman of the Wasteland ASAP. Obviously it is not a one size fits all sort of book and if you're not sure how you feel about B-Grade anything, I wouldn't recomend this book to you. Particularly not if you plan on eating McDonalds any time soon.
If that title did not make your mouth water already, feel free to continue reading my review! You will either want to read this book right away and run to your next online retailer (I don’t think you will be able to find this at your local book store…) – or you will be disgusted and never want to read my blog again. I just have a handful of readers, so I really hope for the first option.
Warrior Wolf Women Of The Wasteland is a book of the bizarro fiction genre. This genre is fairly new, it exists since about the early 2000s. So what is this genre about? Imagine cult films, like the famous midnight movies from the 70s, Takashi Miike films, Tim Burton, maybe Quentin Tarantino – so cult films – as books. Really weird, sometimes disturbing, absurd, satiric storytelling is what bizarro fiction is all about. Now that, I believe, is really polarizing. Either at this point you are really interested or you already know you’ll hate those books.
I started reading this book almost by accident. I had just gotten my Kindle and my boyfriend was looking through the available books and read this title out loud. We laughed about it, since it sounded like the worst book in the world. I told him to get the sample on my Kindle and read it to me while I was getting ready. And we were surprised how good it sounded! After finishing the sample, I knew I wanted to read the whole book! It was that good.
The book is set in a post-apocalyptic world. After almost everything was destroyed by a nuclear war, the only remaining company took over and formed a new country – McDonaldland. The McDonalds regime is strikt, cooking is against the law, you have to eat three times a day and pray five times. The government controlls every aspect of life. But there is something terribly wrong with the people of McDonaldsland. The more sex the women have, the more they turn into giant wolves, and some man grow extra limbs. Of course, McDonaldsland cannot let this happen. So sex is against the law and women who broke the sex law and the male mutants are thrown out of McDonaldsland into the Wasteland, where the wolves live.
I just loved the story. The setting is brilliant, it is twisted and weird and all I could wish for. The plot was action packed and fast paced, and there where a lot of fight scenes. This is definetly not a book for sensitive people. There is blood, gore and characters that you just learned to like are brutally killed. There also is sex and rape, as I said, not for sensitive people. Oh, on this note, don’t read the book right before you go to bed. You certainly don’t want to dream of the stuff that goes on in this book. I can tell you that.
I really don’t want to give too much away, if you are interested, you really should experience it on your own. If you are into weird, disturbing, satiric cult films, I think you will love this book as much as I did. If you hate that kind of films, you certainly don’t want to touch this book with a ten-foot pole.
5/5 Nuff said.
Warrior Wolf Women Of The Wasteland is a book of the bizarro fiction genre. This genre is fairly new, it exists since about the early 2000s. So what is this genre about? Imagine cult films, like the famous midnight movies from the 70s, Takashi Miike films, Tim Burton, maybe Quentin Tarantino – so cult films – as books. Really weird, sometimes disturbing, absurd, satiric storytelling is what bizarro fiction is all about. Now that, I believe, is really polarizing. Either at this point you are really interested or you already know you’ll hate those books.
I started reading this book almost by accident. I had just gotten my Kindle and my boyfriend was looking through the available books and read this title out loud. We laughed about it, since it sounded like the worst book in the world. I told him to get the sample on my Kindle and read it to me while I was getting ready. And we were surprised how good it sounded! After finishing the sample, I knew I wanted to read the whole book! It was that good.
The book is set in a post-apocalyptic world. After almost everything was destroyed by a nuclear war, the only remaining company took over and formed a new country – McDonaldland. The McDonalds regime is strikt, cooking is against the law, you have to eat three times a day and pray five times. The government controlls every aspect of life. But there is something terribly wrong with the people of McDonaldsland. The more sex the women have, the more they turn into giant wolves, and some man grow extra limbs. Of course, McDonaldsland cannot let this happen. So sex is against the law and women who broke the sex law and the male mutants are thrown out of McDonaldsland into the Wasteland, where the wolves live.
I just loved the story. The setting is brilliant, it is twisted and weird and all I could wish for. The plot was action packed and fast paced, and there where a lot of fight scenes. This is definetly not a book for sensitive people. There is blood, gore and characters that you just learned to like are brutally killed. There also is sex and rape, as I said, not for sensitive people. Oh, on this note, don’t read the book right before you go to bed. You certainly don’t want to dream of the stuff that goes on in this book. I can tell you that.
I really don’t want to give too much away, if you are interested, you really should experience it on your own. If you are into weird, disturbing, satiric cult films, I think you will love this book as much as I did. If you hate that kind of films, you certainly don’t want to touch this book with a ten-foot pole.
5/5 Nuff said.