Geek Love: A Novel by Katherine Dunn
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Book Reviews of Geek Love: A Novel
Book Review: indescribable, amazing,my favorite book of all time. no contest
Summary: 5 Stars
for lack of better words this book is an incredible read, it was practically glued to my hands the intire time.
the back of the book, and the discription do not do this book justice, not even close.
as you meet the characters you fall in love with them, their life, their hardships. You feel their hurt and turmoil, their happiness and truly care about them
In this book you encounter everything from dead babies in jars, to boys with no limbs, and girls with too many limbs. Just when you think this book cannot get any more distubred, or sick. It takes the next step.
I read constantly, and i have had a very hard time lately finding a book i can read and love. You know its a good book because when your done reading it you feel sad that its done.
I wish this book would of never had an end, i could of read about the Binewskis forever
Book Review: Absolutely Stunning Masterpiece
Summary: 5 Stars
This is my favorite book of all time bar none...Katherine Dunn writes like the twisted offspring of John Irving and Bret Easton Ellis...I don't know what book was slipped to some of the other reviewers here, but there is no way they are reviewing the same book...much of what has been said already is true and plenty of the plot is here...just know that the Binewski family is one of the most demented and loving clans ever featured in literature...bask in Arturo's wit and power...revel at Elly and Iphy's beauty and musical prowess...gasp at the albino barker Oly...wonder about the "normal" one Chick...the characters are more real and you won't be able to decide whether to have pity on them or us...who are the real freaks?...this is Katherine Dunn's best work...her two previous novels pale in comparison, very disappointing...I don't know if anything she does will compare to this novel...I have owned 8 copies of this book and have a ninth copy on the way...people never return it...be cautious in loaning it out...also, the ending will leave you completely stunned...don't look for it...it will blindside you no matter what...I cannot put into words what this book is, it is amazing. 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. Book Review: It IS Different, Thank God
Summary: 5 Stars
Okay, first you've GOT to be okay with ugliness. I guess since I love art, I qualify. (Check out Kathe Kollwitz and Egon Schiele, for example.) Second, for better or worse you maybe have to crave sensation. This book is all newness and surprise. There's nothing expected about the story, and that happens too rarely for me not to be grateful. Finally, I'd argue that the book is good literature. I personally don't agree that Dunn's writing is haphazard or needs editing -- her prose whined through my nerves, her images moving constantly before my eyes.
All in all, I think this book meets the fate of anything that's not one hundred percent inoffensive: Some will always love it, and some will hate it. I loooooooooved it.
Book Review: Mesmerizing yet stomach-churning
Summary: 4 Stars
Katherine Dunn has great and unflinching courage, and her imagination is vast. I found sections of this book almost unbearable to read. Parents taking drugs so that their children can be added to their circus freakshows? An albino who is forced to do a striptease? Siamese twins pummeling each other and rolling around on the floor? A sniper who doesn't know why he does what he does, but is congratulated by a woman pushing a perambulator ("She's pregnant again," the woman said, referring to the mother of the freaks in this novel)? A horse whose legs are chopped off below the knees but is somehow kept moving through telekinesis?
I've never read a novel where physical pain was so front and center . . .