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A review by helpfulsnowman
Apeshit by Carlton Mellick III
3.0
This one definitely goes in the "shocking for the sake of shock" category. That might sometimes be a valid critique of a book, buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut this one is called Apeshit, it has a blood-spattered woman wielding a machete with...let's call it 3/4 of her boobs out, and it's by Carlton Mellick III. So me being mad that this book does some shock for the sake of shock would be like being mad because Demolition Man has a few too many 'splosions for my taste. For the record, I'm fairly certain that Demolition Man has the exact right number of 'splosions, but because we can't add more in later, I'll never be completely sure. Perhaps one more would've really sealed the deal.
I've read a few CMIII (that's what I call him because we're tight like that. By us being "tight" I mean his name is kinda long for typing) books in the recent past that were pretty good and weren't so much going for shock value. Clownfellas, Quicksand House, and Tumor Fruit had more going for them, believe it or not. Apeshit didn't quite reach that level. I THOUGHT it was headed that way, but it takes a hard turn into crazytown.
I wouldn't recommend this as your first CMIII or trip into bizarro lit. Because I think this one is fun, but it also fulfills every idea people have about bizarro going in. This one is for the fans, I think. If you're that person who thinks maybe you'll never read anything shocking ever again, but you'd like to go ahead and try, this might be your jam.
I've read a few CMIII (that's what I call him because we're tight like that. By us being "tight" I mean his name is kinda long for typing) books in the recent past that were pretty good and weren't so much going for shock value. Clownfellas, Quicksand House, and Tumor Fruit had more going for them, believe it or not. Apeshit didn't quite reach that level. I THOUGHT it was headed that way, but it takes a hard turn into crazytown.
I wouldn't recommend this as your first CMIII or trip into bizarro lit. Because I think this one is fun, but it also fulfills every idea people have about bizarro going in. This one is for the fans, I think. If you're that person who thinks maybe you'll never read anything shocking ever again, but you'd like to go ahead and try, this might be your jam.