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Geek Love
by Katherine Dunn
This is my favourite book of all time. Carnies, engineered sideshow freaks, a megalomaniacal cum preacher flipper man, an albino hunch backed dwarf, siamese twins separated at the hips, Fortunato the chick, the kinetic, its enough to make a person breathless.
Apparently Dunn spent 10 years writing this book and it shows, every sentence is poetry, the story finely woven, the imagination, astonishing. She sucks you into the world of the Binewski family traveling circus and you don't draw breath until its over. You know something deeply terrible has happened but you keep reading with hope that its something minor.
There is only one Geek Love. Like the first taste of a drug, you will never get as high as the first time you read it, but it will haunt you forever. Magical, wonder, the wide eyed speechlessness of a child. Do yourself the favour. It will ruin fantasy fiction or any kind of fiction for you forever though, nothing is as good as Geek Love.
Apparently Dunn spent 10 years writing this book and it shows, every sentence is poetry, the story finely woven, the imagination, astonishing. She sucks you into the world of the Binewski family traveling circus and you don't draw breath until its over. You know something deeply terrible has happened but you keep reading with hope that its something minor.
There is only one Geek Love. Like the first taste of a drug, you will never get as high as the first time you read it, but it will haunt you forever. Magical, wonder, the wide eyed speechlessness of a child. Do yourself the favour. It will ruin fantasy fiction or any kind of fiction for you forever though, nothing is as good as Geek Love.