Geek Love: A Novel
by Katherine Dunn
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Author: Katherine DunnEdition: Paperback
Published: 2002-06-11
ISBN: 0375713344
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Vintage
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Book Review: Leaves a Bad Taste
Summary: 1 Stars
After hearing so many raves about this book I was looking forward to something unique and engaging. I was completely disappointed. The writing is choppy, uneven, and failed to pull me in. The bulk of the characters were awful, without any redeeming qualities. I just didn't care about them, their cruelty wasn't fascinating to me. Overall I found the entire premise and execution pretentious and completely lacking. Missed the mark.
Summary of Geek Love: A Novel
A wild, often horrifying, novel about freaks, geeks and other aberrancies of the human condition who travel together (a whole family of them) as a circus. It's a solipsistic funhouse world that makes "normal" people seem bland and pitiful. Arturo the Aqua-Boy, who has flippers and an enormous need to be loved. A museum of sacred monsters that didn't make it. An endearing "little beetle" of a heroine. Sort of like Tod Browning's Freaks crossed with David Lynch and John Irving and perhaps George Eliot -- the latter for the power of the emotions evoked.Geek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out–with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes–to breed their own exhibit of human oddities. There’s Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan . . . Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese twins . . . albino hunchback Oly, and the outwardly normal Chick, whose mysterious gifts make him the family’s most precious–and dangerous–asset.
As the Binewskis take their act across the backwaters of the U.S., inspiring fanatical devotion and murderous revulsion; as its members conduct their own Machiavellian version of sibling rivalry, Geek Love throws its sulfurous light on our notions of the freakish and the normal, the beautiful and the ugly, the holy and the obscene. Family values will never be the same.
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