THE Garrett Cook?: My Review of Jordan Krall's King Scratch on Goodreads

Thursday, July 15, 2010

My Review of Jordan Krall's King Scratch on Goodreads

King Scratch by Jordan Krall

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Jordan Krall's work redefines "cult", it redefines good taste and it takes you into awful places that you're nonetheless grateful that you went to. The word vertiginous comes to mind when I think of King Scratch, as in dizzying, as in challenging your sense of balance, as in spiraling downward, deeper into something dark and inexplicable. King Scratch is a vertiginous, dantesque night journey into a very special, very demented American Noir Hell of obscure starlets, golden showers and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

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I'm Garrett Cook and I'm a 27 year old author of horror and Bizarro fiction. I'm the winner of the First Annual Ultimate Bizarro Showdown. I have four exciting pulp novellas in print. Find out about them or buy them here.
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"Brian's Girl" Exquisite Corpse, May 2008 The Aklonomicon
"The Bruise" Anomalous Appetites
"Hundred Year Old Murders" Polluto#3
"Bradley Sands is a Dick" Bradley Sands is a Dick
"Mr. Plush, Detective" The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction#1
"A Proper Ghost Story" Furniture Fangs
"Octopus", Hatterbones (ENE anthology)
"Phoenix" 8clouds
"The Man in the Film Noir Hat" Kek-w Quarterly
"Re-Mancipator" The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction#3 The Bizarro Starter Kit (purple)

"Hit and Fun" Houdini Gut Punch

"Of Mice and Men and Cats" (with Ash Lomen)

The New Flesh

"Orpheus in the Underwear" Kizuna

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Authors on Murderland Part 1: H8

"Perhaps he’s right. Perhaps that meat cleaver is our best hope for salvation. Or maybe he belongs in an asylum. MURDERLAND is a brutally shocking book. Demented. Logical. Disturbing. It can be crudely powerful one moment, tenderly skillful the next, so the reader never knows what’s coming. There’s no way to prepare. No way to protect yourself. Garrett Cook’s work has an edge … and it’s at your throat. "
~ Robert Dunbar, author of THE SHOR E and MARTYRS & MONSTERS

"The offbeat brilliance of this book will freak your face off!"-
Gina Ranalli, author of MOTHERPUNCHER and SKY TONGUES

"A savage, very original satire that openly mocks the American demigod-like worship of worthless celebrity with a future where despicable murderers become our new focus of adoration. It's as farcical as Swift's "A Modest Proposal," yet no less poignant."-
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"Action! Explosions! Hot broads! Garrett Cook is two-fisted Bizarro pulp. I love his stories"-
Jeff Burk, author of SHATNERQUAKE on my work in general

"One star"- Swiftyloop, Editor of the Paris Review, Professor of Bizarro Studies at the Sorbonne

"Garrett really does come up with the best stuff-"
Laws of Attraction Expert and Internet Personality Terri Plewa

"This book is so beyond good and evil ... it's beyond positive and negative reviews, beyond star-counting, beyond being liked or disliked. It describes a future in which serial killing, as a practice, has been rehabilitated through media exploitation and liberal sensitivity until it's finally legalized as a sport, with its own scorekeeping commentators and an infatuated subculture of filking fanboys. And then against that dire background, Garret Cook tells a love story -- a love triangle, actually, between a sweet young fangirl, her caring boyfriend, and the voices in his head telling him to kill.

If you have the serial-killer infatuation, then you've got to read this book. Cook's portrayal of Reap culture disturbs because it's so utterly how the world could be, if serial killer infatuation was just ten or fifteen percent broader than it is already.

I'm impressed by the ambition of this book. It's an interesting new step for the psychonovel; the first-person madman as a mixture of identities and warring tendencies barely aware of each other is a spot-on model of a certain kind of human mind. The best parts, worthy of Jim Thompson, are those subtle moments where we see the warring personalities complaining about one another, manipulating one another, sneaking past each other like grumpy housemates in dark hallways."-
Mykle Hansen author of Help! A Bear is Eating Me

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Thursday, July 15, 2010

My Review of Jordan Krall's King Scratch on Goodreads

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