Lance Carbuncle

Of Carbuncle's books this is probably my least favorite, but still a whole helluvalota fun. If you're into the absurd, if you find characters quoting song lyrics as if they're mystical wisdom hilarious, and if you're not easily made queasy, you need to hop on the icky train, just remember to bring a towel.

This was a crazy, almost fantasy story, some of the jokes got a little repetitious, but for some reason I laughed every time. I was a little confused by the ending, but not enough to ruin the story. Also very curious where the name Android Lovethorn came from.… (más)

This book was ok. There were some really funny things like flumpkins, nitsiks, and cheliveks. There were also some memorable characters, the whole three tooth group, jod, and alf. None of those were named John the lead character.

Could be some spoilers below.

I just didn't buy the John character. Do-gooder in this life and terrible person in another. I didn't see any bad in the character and was hoping for a link to the other John. I feel the book could've benefited from the link.

I will say that I listened to the audiobook version and the narration of John fell way flat. Also the deliver of the narrative was a bit choppy. That shouldn't discount the fantastic character acting by the narrator, which really made the book fun and easy to listen to.

All and all it was a silly, queasy, fun book to listen to.… (más)

I wouldn't say that Mr (Rev?) Lance Carbuncle and I are soulmates or anything, but I believe we share certain twists in personality. Really other than his fascination with all things scatological and his not liking Ronnie James Dio in Black Sabbath (or was that just his character?) I think we would get along just fine.

This is the second book of his that I've read and I think I actually liked it better than [book:Grundish and Askew|6774979] which was a more serious novel about scat (and maybe Ronnie James Dio too, I can't remember). This was just really freaking funny.

I wanted to call it "white trash noir" but it's not really that (maybe because that's not a thing? Is that a thing?) There's a bunch of metaphysical stuff going on so maybe "Trailer Supernatural"? I mean it's definitely in the "absurd", "gonzo" thing but I feel like it could be further categorized, maybe for no other reason than to create a category that Mr. Carbuncle can be made famous for.

So what I'm saying is read it, it's probably not like anything you've read before.… (más)