Monday, December 04, 2006
Geek Love
by Katherine Dunn
Okay, I'm getting lazy. I read this about three weeks ago. This book, this book is a train wreck. I'm not saying it is depressing, only a little morbid and while reading it I could see that something bad was slowly chugging from down the valley. All the better cast are the deliberately mutated children of a circus troupe couple. And the worse half - or rather the worst child - an unhappy resentful legless and armless Arturo, "Wonder of the Sea!" Something like that, its a traveling circus, everybody has that kind of catchy title. You spend the entire book, chapter upon chapter, wondering when he's gonna blow up.
The first time that I heard about Geek Love, it was in the late 90s on NPR. It is to me one of those books that passes by on the periphery. If it weren't for my friend KRao I'd never have read it. Hmm, thanks?
Okay, I'm getting lazy. I read this about three weeks ago. This book, this book is a train wreck. I'm not saying it is depressing, only a little morbid and while reading it I could see that something bad was slowly chugging from down the valley. All the better cast are the deliberately mutated children of a circus troupe couple. And the worse half - or rather the worst child - an unhappy resentful legless and armless Arturo, "Wonder of the Sea!" Something like that, its a traveling circus, everybody has that kind of catchy title. You spend the entire book, chapter upon chapter, wondering when he's gonna blow up.
The first time that I heard about Geek Love, it was in the late 90s on NPR. It is to me one of those books that passes by on the periphery. If it weren't for my friend KRao I'd never have read it. Hmm, thanks?
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