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The House (1997)

por Edward Lee

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The Prime Minister is bland, ineffectual and ready to be put out to grass. His party chairman is Charles Bannister, crisp-collared and very much from the right regiment. Between them connives Home Secretary Dougal Baxter, adulterous purveyor of Family Values and a man with an eye for the top job.
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I was a little concerned when I read my first Edward Lee novel, that he was an author that might be mistaking hooliganism and thuggery for horror. That novel was called 'The Bighead' and it was about an inbred human so I gave him the benefit of the doubt because the violence and degradation and so on actually fit quite well with the story and characters, but then we come to 'The Pig and The House' and I begin to wonder if our Mr Edward Lee has nothing else to offer but that thuggery and purposely in-your-face violence.

So I picked up this next novel. A novel that got rave reviews. I thought if I was to get a really good horror novel from Mr Edward Lee then this must be it. So, it seems to be about a man forced to make extremely hard-core pornographic videos for the mafia to pay off a debt. All very well you might think, but where's the horror? Oh don't get me wrong, after passing the 20% mark in what is actually the first of two novellas there's been plenty of disgusting activity and plenty of scenes that seem to be saying 'look at how disgusting I can make this bit', but apart from that nothing that I recognise as 'horror'. It's horrible, yes. It's certainly disgusting, yes. But it isn't what I recognise as horror.

Maybe I gave up on it too soon. Maybe the real horror story kicks in a little later. Or maybe it's just a vile progression of violence and scenes intended to further disgust the reader, I don't know really, and I've no real desire to find out now. I'll just point out at this juncture that I always give any novel a good try before ditching it as wasting my time. The 20% mark seems fair as far as I'm concerned. If after reading 1/5th of the novel it hasn't got any better then I feel fully justified in casting it aside.

I'm going to try one more before I give up on Mr Lee. I've read a synopsis of a novel called 'Flesh Gothic' which sounds like it could be quite interesting, so I'm going to give that one a go.

Suffice to say, this one turned my stomach, but for reasons other than those I was looking for. The part of it I read didn't impress me at all and makes me wonder how it got so many great reviews.

Not good. A complete waste of my time. Try something else.
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  SFGale | Mar 23, 2021 |
Eigentlich wollte Leonard nur an einem Talentewettbewerb für Filmemacher teilnehmen.
Doch nach einer Verwicklung unglücklicher Umstände sieht er sich in den Fängen der Mafia wieder. Auf einem entlegenden Grundstück wird er gezwungen Pornos zu drehen, die an Brutalität, Obszönität und Ekel kaum zu übertreffen sind.
Allein gelassen mit zwei heroinabhängigen Prostituierten und einem Haufen verschiedener Tiere (Hunde, Schweine, Pferd) produziert Leonard, um am Leben zu bleiben und seine Schulden zu begleichen. Als das Essen knapp wird, beschließt er ein Schwein zu schlachten…doch was dann passiert ist folgenschwer.

Zu hart, zu brutal…der Handel verweigert den Verkauf einiger Bücher. Doch da es für alles einen Markt gibt, bringt der FESTA Verlag einige Titel als Privatdruck ohne ISBN heraus. Dies ist das erste Buch dieser Reihe.

Das Buch beginnt etwas plump in seiner Ausdrucksweise, doch je länger man liest, desto mehr fängt einen die Geschichte ein.
Besonders viel Wert legte der Autor Edward Lee natürlich auf die Ausschmückung der sexualen Praktiken. Doch mit normaler Pornographie hat das wenig zu. Man stelle sich das Extremste vor, das man in den Abgründen menschlicher Sexualität findet…Edward Lee setzt noch einen drauf.
Dinge, über die der normale menschliche Geist noch nie nachgedacht hat, sind hier an der Tagesordnung.
Brutalität in seiner extremsten Form – Sexualität, die nur ein kranker Geist empfinden kann. Normal ist hier nichts mehr.

Für alle, die Extrempornos abstoßend finden, die bei dem Gedanken an Tierpornos sich beschämt von ihren eigenen Gedanken abwenden und schon bei Analsex „iieh“ schreien: Finger weg.
Für alle anderen: eine sexuelle Grenzerfahrung.
Für mich: Schon eklig und menschenverachtend…aber keine literarische Grenzerfahrung. Meine persönliche Grenze ist noch nicht erreicht.Eigentlich wollte Leonard nur an einem Talentewettbewerb für Filmemacher teilnehmen.
Doch nach einer Verwicklung unglücklicher Umstände sieht er sich in den Fängen der Mafia wieder. Auf einem entlegenden Grundstück wird er gezwungen Pornos zu drehen, die an Brutalität, Obszönität und Ekel kaum zu übertreffen sind.
Allein gelassen mit zwei heroinabhängigen Prostituierten und einem Haufen verschiedener Tiere (Hunde, Schweine, Pferd) produziert Leonard, um am Leben zu bleiben und seine Schulden zu begleichen. Als das Essen knapp wird, beschließt er ein Schwein zu schlachten…doch was dann passiert ist folgenschwer.

Zu hart, zu brutal…der Handel verweigert den Verkauf einiger Bücher. Doch da es für alles einen Markt gibt, bringt der FESTA Verlag einige Titel als Privatdruck ohne ISBN heraus. Dies ist das erste Buch dieser Reihe.

Das Buch beginnt etwas plump in seiner Ausdrucksweise, doch je länger man liest, desto mehr fängt einen die Geschichte ein.
Besonders viel Wert legte der Autor Edward Lee natürlich auf die Ausschmückung der sexualen Praktiken. Doch mit normaler Pornographie hat das wenig zu. Man stelle sich das Extremste vor, das man in den Abgründen menschlicher Sexualität findet…Edward Lee setzt noch einen drauf.
Dinge, über die der normale menschliche Geist noch nie nachgedacht hat, sind hier an der Tagesordnung.
Brutalität in seiner extremsten Form – Sexualität, die nur ein kranker Geist empfinden kann. Normal ist hier nichts mehr.

Für alle, die Extrempornos abstoßend finden, die bei dem Gedanken an Tierpornos sich beschämt von ihren eigenen Gedanken abwenden und schon bei Analsex „iieh“ schreien: Finger weg.
Für alle anderen: eine sexuelle Grenzerfahrung.
Für mich: Schon eklig und menschenverachtend…aber keine literarische Grenzerfahrung. Meine persönliche Grenze ist noch nicht erreicht. ( )
  TheFallingAlice | Jan 15, 2017 |
The problem with writing about debauchery, is that there are only so many variations of brutal sex and torture. Or at least that's what I'm assuming, with this book. Because Edward lee repeats himself often in this book. He borrows from his other sick and twisted books, instead of coming up with new and interesting debauchery.

Well, except for the bestiality, of course. That sick and twisted porn is exclusive to this book, as far as I can tell. Because that's what this book is. Porn. The most disgusting porn I've ever read, that's for sure. There's pig fucking, where the junkie whore catches the pig's jizz in a shot glass and downs that shit with a grin. Then, there's the dog fucking. And the horse fucking.

And it's all captured on film, by our hero, the geeky Leonard D'arava. Leonard is a film school nerd who was looking to make his first film, fresh out of school. Like an idiot, he got a loan from a brutal loan shark, to make his film. Of course, when the time came to pay back the loan, Leonard didn't have the cash.

So now, Leonard is owned by the mob. They keep him at an old farmhouse, out in the middle of nowhere, to make his dirty animal porn. With two strung out junkie whores to keep him company.

One day, the mobsters show up with some white bitch who was the daughter of some judge. I guess the judge didn't take kindly to bribery, so the mobsters took his daughter to the farm, to make a nice snuff film. Leonard films the whole thing. He's not happy with his lot in life, but there's not much he can do about it.

The mobsters didn't give a fuck about Leonard, or the skanky whroes, so the only food they left at the farmhouse was dogfood. So, after a brutal pig-fucking session, where the whores ended up killing the pig, Leonard decided something... Fuck this shit. He'd eat that motherfucking pig.

He butchered it up, and ate that pig. Then, he literally turned into a demon. Because, apparently, that pig was cursed or something. His body turned green. His cock went from being 5 inches erect, to being 10 inches flaccid. Oh, and he started growing horns on his head. Like you do.

At night, he went across the field to an Amish community, and fucked all the virgin Amish girls with his 15 inch cock. Because, that's what you do when you're a green demon with a huge cock. You go impregnate a bunch of pure-as-the-driven-snow Amish girls with your literal demon seed.

I liked this book, because it was sick and disgusting. It made me cringe more than once, that's for sure. I hated this book, because it was just more of the same Edward Lee porn. For him, it wasn't very original. ( )
  gecizzle | Mar 5, 2015 |
I'm usually not very fond of haunted house books. They're just not that scary, or offensive at all. But that can't be said about this book. It's scary as fuck. And OMG is it brutally offensive in every way.

I had just finished reading The Pig, and figured, what the fuck, I might as well read this book, which is the story of what becomes of the farm house that The Pig was set in. Because the end of The Pig was quite horrific. So of course, The House is haunted as fuck.

It's 30 years later, and geek-nerd Melvin has been sent to The House, to write a piece for the newspaper, about life in rural, upstate New York. Sounds simple enough. He drives to the house with his new hot-as-fuck stepmom. His dad says she's got the best tits in New York, and soon enough, Melvin gets to see them with his own eyes.

Because shit gets crazy, and his new stepmom ends up banging a whole biker gang, because apparently she's possessed by one of the whores that used to live in the house 30 years earlier. So, Melvin spies on his stepmom, while she bangs a bunch of bikers. While some other whore's foot is deep in her ass.

Melvin watches, as his stepmom eats someone's fresh, steaming shit, off a pool table, as she's banged in the ass by more biker guys. So this book is pretty standard Edward Lee porn. But, I have to say, it's a bit more original that usual. I've read several of his books, and this is the first time I've read about some hot bitch getting fucked in the ass, then pissed the ass, then squirting chocolate syrup into her ass, to make a nice chocolate piss shake.

It's amazing to me that nerdy Melvin remains a 30 year old virgin, throughout all the debauchery happening around him. Hell, a whore even offers to suck him off for 20 bucks. She even offers her pussy to him instead, but he just keeps getting distracted by all the horrifying visions from the haunted house.

I get it man, it's pretty sick and twisted, what happened in that house. But come on... Get your priorities straight. Fuck that whore. Bang that pussy man. Pop that cherry. Then, and only then, should you worry about all the crazy visions from that fucked up house. Just sayin'. ( )
  gecizzle | Mar 5, 2015 |
This book by Lee is actually two related novellas: "The Pig" and "The House". Both involve the same house / location and naturally fit together. While they were written years apart from each other, "The House" should be considered a sequel to "The Pig," but since they are in the same book, it's easier to consider them two chapters of the same story. However you consider them though, definitely consider them intense and graphic. There are detailed scenes of bestiality, sodomy, scat, and necrophilia, and the usual graphic, imaginative deaths. And not just one scene but multiple. This is Lee at his grossest.

The basic story for "The Pig" is that Leonard, a down-and-out, wanna-be film maker, gets forced by the mob who he owes money to make hardcore porn films for them. The basic story for "The House" is Melvin, an introvert junior journalist, is assigned to write about a haunted house, the same house that Leonard was forced to make his films. The story for each novella is definitely light as the concentration is on the gross-out aspect. I actually thought "The Pig" was better than "The House"; there seemed to be more story and more mystery about where the story was going. It also was the grosser of the two but that really wasn't part of the reason why I liked it more. At least I don't think it was. Either way, I also hoped for more from "The House". There was a lot more potential for scary than for gross that I think was missed. Only catch this book if you don't mind reading total, over the top, seriously gross descriptions. ( )
  dagon12 | Sep 1, 2014 |
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