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Geek Love (Abacus Books) Kindle Edition
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Katherine Dunn
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If Flannery O'Connor had consumed vast quantities of LSD, she might have written like this. - LITERARY REVIEWRiveting and extremely well-crafted. There's a real philosophy behind it where it actually touches on the profound. - MARGARET FORSTERThe most romantic novel about love and family I have read. It made me ashamed to be so utterly normalI felt electrocuted when I read that first page with Crystal Lil and her freak brood. I stood there in the bookstore and my jaw came unhinged. No book I've read, before or since, has given me that specific jolt
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Book Description
National Book Award finalist and a cult classic.
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From the Publisher
Katherine Dunn was a journalist, an advice columnist, and a boxing correspondent for the Associated Press. She died in 2016.
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From the Inside Flap
ove is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set outwith the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopesto breed their own exhibit of human oddities. Theres 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 familys most preciousand dangerousasset.
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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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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About the Author
Katherine Dunn lives in Oregon.
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From the Trade Paperback edition. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Review
"A Fellini movie in ink. . . . Geek Love throws a punch." --San Francisco Chronicle "Wonderfully descriptive. . . . Dunn [has a] tremendous imagination." --The New York Times Book Review "Like most great novels, this one keeps the reader marveling at the daring of the author." -Philadelphia Inquirer "Unrelentingly bizarre . . . perverse but riveting. . . . Will keep you turning the pages." -Chicago Tribune
--This text refers to the paperback edition.
--This text refers to the paperback edition.
From the Back Cover
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. --This text refers to the paperback edition.
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. --This text refers to the paperback edition.
Product details
- ASIN : B00PIOMK5G
- Publisher : Abacus; New Ed edition (4 December 2014)
- Language : English
- File size : 1378 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 393 pages
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What a stupid convoluted story. Didn’t bother to finish it.
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The ending of this book was a bit weak but the rest was fantastic.
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JG
2.0 out of 5 stars
Failed to deliver...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 June 2019Verified Purchase
Nobody could say this book isn’t original. The characters are fascinating and the overall story is like nothing I’ve ever read before. I was hooked to start with and excited to read something so different. However, this book sadly failed to deliver for several reasons:
1. I was often confused whilst reading this. There were a lot of random sentences that made no sense and descriptions of events that had no real link to the story.
2. There is no solid plot. The story just seems to plod along with sometimes mundane descriptions of daily life and then a major event happens in one paragraph at the end. The ending felt pointless.
3. The characters were extremely well described and highly original... but also very unlikeable. I felt no empathy for any of them, even the narrator, Oly. I didn’t really care what happened to any of them which hindered my enjoyment of the book.
4. I’m sad to say that it was just too weird for me in places.
5. I found many parts of this book confusing. I read and re read sections and still had no clue.
6. I don’t feel that the book had a message.
I’m disappointed by this book. Original and well written but it just didn’t work for me.
1. I was often confused whilst reading this. There were a lot of random sentences that made no sense and descriptions of events that had no real link to the story.
2. There is no solid plot. The story just seems to plod along with sometimes mundane descriptions of daily life and then a major event happens in one paragraph at the end. The ending felt pointless.
3. The characters were extremely well described and highly original... but also very unlikeable. I felt no empathy for any of them, even the narrator, Oly. I didn’t really care what happened to any of them which hindered my enjoyment of the book.
4. I’m sad to say that it was just too weird for me in places.
5. I found many parts of this book confusing. I read and re read sections and still had no clue.
6. I don’t feel that the book had a message.
I’m disappointed by this book. Original and well written but it just didn’t work for me.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
It's a fascinating read and I would thoroughly recommend it.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 May 2015Verified Purchase
The book starts with a couple who meet at his circus, she works as a geek, that is, she bites the heads off live chickens while wearing a white dress and singing Schubert. They are not doing too well due to freak staffing shortages, so, by drug and radiation manipulation during her pregnancies, they try to create their own family freak show, resulting in a boy with flippers for hands and feet, Siamese twin girls, a bald albino dwarf girl and a boy with strange powers; and six jars of strange and deformed Human foetuses. Then it all starts to get a bit weird.
The book is narrated by Olly, the dwarf girl. I don't want to give anything away, but this book is spiritual, ethical, philosophical, and it examines some deep aspects of inter-family behaviour. It's a fascinating read and I would thoroughly recommend it.
The book is narrated by Olly, the dwarf girl. I don't want to give anything away, but this book is spiritual, ethical, philosophical, and it examines some deep aspects of inter-family behaviour. It's a fascinating read and I would thoroughly recommend it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
You must read this book.....
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 August 2019Verified Purchase
This is one of the best books I have ever had the pleasure of reading. I would challenge anyone to not love it. I just couldn't put it down and didn't ever want it to end.
My only criticism would be that I felt towards the end of the book more detail should have be given to a significant event (no spoiler).
My only criticism would be that I felt towards the end of the book more detail should have be given to a significant event (no spoiler).

TheHairyWotsit
5.0 out of 5 stars
If you're squeamish and quick to offence, don't read.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 November 2017Verified Purchase
I don't want to give away any spoilers, this is a cult classic that makes the 1930s film Freaks, look like Mary Poppins. Heartbreaking, poignant, horrific and genuinely funny. This is a book that will haunt you for a very, very long time.
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Roxie
5.0 out of 5 stars
Worthwhile!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 December 2013Verified Purchase
I struggled at the very start, having left my studies and taking a medical break I really wasn't ready for long words and thinking. Breaking in to a new book can always be difficult but this felt like walking through treacle. Until of course, my heart was captured. the occasional glances over a mug of tea quickly turned in to fevered reading and emotional leaps. So so much better than I expected, gorgeously written, twisted, stomach wrenching. Everything you need to forget yourself.
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