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A review by mwx1010
House of Holes by Nicholson Baker
3.0
It’s difficult to know where to start with this one. Baker’s acid trip of a satire on contemporary (hetero)sexuality and the pornification of culture is a completely overwritten magical realist porn novel.
We’re definitely in Alice in Wonderland territory here (people getting sucked into holes to enter an exclusive and very weird kind of brothel) and this is mostly as mad a a box of frogs whilst remaining studiedly un-erotic. Overall it works - just, and you can tell that Baker was having a great time writing it.
There’s not much I can add to perhaps my favorite review of this book (and one of my favourite reviews of all time):
“It's like if someone wrote a story based on a dream they had after reading a Murakami novel and replaced all the sheep and moping with penises and vaginas.”
We’re definitely in Alice in Wonderland territory here (people getting sucked into holes to enter an exclusive and very weird kind of brothel) and this is mostly as mad a a box of frogs whilst remaining studiedly un-erotic. Overall it works - just, and you can tell that Baker was having a great time writing it.
There’s not much I can add to perhaps my favorite review of this book (and one of my favourite reviews of all time):
“It's like if someone wrote a story based on a dream they had after reading a Murakami novel and replaced all the sheep and moping with penises and vaginas.”