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Geek Love
by Katherine Dunn
A mad rip-roaring read living on the ethos “a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.”
This book had so many phrases that I have never ever read before. The story revels in the ‘freak’ classification that falls on any creature/action/endeavor that forces the “norms” of the world to consider themselves and their positions.
The story veers from disturbing to endearing unceasingly and ends with a stillness that makes my skin crawl just a little!
Chapters like “Enter the Bag Man”, “Popcorn Pimp”, and “Flesh - Electric on Wheels” set the stage for the Binewski clan’s foray into a backwards eugenics that shapes the lives of each family member and the carnival that they collectively staff.
Statements like “Breathless shrieks pumped out of the murderer’s throat and vibrated through my teeth in adrenal heroics that lit my skull’s interior with an epileptic torch” and “she soars and stomps and burns through her life with no notion of the causes that formed her. She imagined herself isolated and unique. She is unaware that she is part of, and the product of, forces assembled before she was born” establish this as a book for folks who love raw stanzas as much as plot, and the story tells of love and yearning in unacceptable, revolting, and inadmissible ways that make you feel much more than making you think.
This book had so many phrases that I have never ever read before. The story revels in the ‘freak’ classification that falls on any creature/action/endeavor that forces the “norms” of the world to consider themselves and their positions.
The story veers from disturbing to endearing unceasingly and ends with a stillness that makes my skin crawl just a little!
Chapters like “Enter the Bag Man”, “Popcorn Pimp”, and “Flesh - Electric on Wheels” set the stage for the Binewski clan’s foray into a backwards eugenics that shapes the lives of each family member and the carnival that they collectively staff.
Statements like “Breathless shrieks pumped out of the murderer’s throat and vibrated through my teeth in adrenal heroics that lit my skull’s interior with an epileptic torch” and “she soars and stomps and burns through her life with no notion of the causes that formed her. She imagined herself isolated and unique. She is unaware that she is part of, and the product of, forces assembled before she was born” establish this as a book for folks who love raw stanzas as much as plot, and the story tells of love and yearning in unacceptable, revolting, and inadmissible ways that make you feel much more than making you think.