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Shark Hunting in Paradise Garden Paperback – 27 October 2008

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What would you expect to find if you traveled back in time to the Garden of Eden? Adam and Eve? The tree of knowledge? A wicked serpent? How about some giant fucking flying sharks! That's right, I said sharks. Biblical sharks. Sharks that are bigger than city buses. Sharks that can swim through the air and through the ground just as easy as swimming through water. The Garden of Eden is swarming with these mammoth killing machines and they'll eat just about anything or anyone they come across. A group of fanatical religious tourists from the future travel back in time to meet Adam and Eve. Unfortunately, their time ship crashes, killing the majority of the crew (including the leprechauns) and leaving them stranded in this strange shark-infested land. Among the survivors are: Ernest who has the ability to turn people into mannequins, Ira who wields a razor-edged bible for a weapon, Wayne a giant wizard head with fat lizard legs, Donkey the hunchback halfwit, Anton the birdman, Rattlesnake Doctor, Ancestor, and Sturgeonwolf. This cult of deranged priests soon discover that Eden is a far more surreal and dangerous place than they ever could have imagined. It is going to take everything they've got in order to survive long enough to find another way back home. Shark Hunting in Paradise Garden is a crazy, wild ride of a story. It is what William Burroughs's imagination would look like if turned into Japanese anime.

Print length

128 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Eraserhead Press
Publication date

27 October 2008
Dimensions

14 x 0.69 x 21.6 cm
ISBN-10

1933929774
ISBN-13

978-1933929774
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Eraserhead Press (27 October 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 128 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1933929774
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1933929774
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 14 x 0.69 x 21.6 cm

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Cameron Pierce

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Cameron Pierce is the author of eleven books, including the Wonderland Book Award-winning collection Lost in Cat Brain Land. His work has appeared in The Barcelona Review, Gray’s Sporting Journal, Hobart, The Big Click, and Vol. I Brooklyn, and has been reviewed and featured on Comedy Central and The Guardian. He was also the author of the column Fishing and Beer, where he interviewed acclaimed angler Bill Dance and John Lurie of Fishing with John. Pierce is the head editor of Lazy Fascist Press and has edited three anthologies, including The Best Bizarro Fiction of the Decade. He lives with his wife in Astoria, Oregon.

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D. Schwent

There's never been a shark hunt like this

Reviewed in the United States on 31 May 2011

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A group of priests from the Dawn of Yahweh sect goes back in time to hunt sharks in paradise garden with Adam and Eve, only to have their ship crash, killing most of the people on board. Exploring a hostile landscape populated by flying sharks, jellyfish whiskey addicted robots, and wheeled wild boars, can Ernest and the rest of the survivors find Adam and Eve and find their way back home?

Maybe it's a lifetime of being interested in weird things but some bizarro books don't seem all that weird to me, like I've been desensitized. Shark Hunting in Paradise Garden managed to tear free the calluses from the weirdness sensors in my brain and poke at them for 120 pages.

This is one crazy book. From Ernest's abilities to change into a frogman and turn living things into mannequins to a bible with razor sharp pages to a man who's a wizard's head with legs, it starts out weird and the weirdness level climbs until the karate fight between the Tree of Knowledge and the giant shark son of God. Just when you think it can't get any stranger, it does. By the end, I completely stopped trying to predict what was going to happen.

With the amount of weird things going on, it would have been easy to lose track of the plot by Pierce never does. The weirdness moves the story along rather than obscuring or confusing it. While it may be fifteen varieties of bizarre, it still makes sense.

If you're looking for a mind-blowing bizarro tale, this is it. Go get it!

JB

Where did this come from?

Reviewed in the United States on 7 July 2011

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Where did this come from? You know what: sometimes this isn't a bad question to ask. Too many novels which claim to be bizarre spoon feed you strange situations which don't stray too far from the middle. Pierce leaves the middle far behind with this novel, I'm not even sure the middle is in the same area code within these pages. This is a VERY good thing. Pierce's novel jumps from one illogical point to the next with the same deftness of Lewis Carroll. If you are new to the Bizarro genre, then this is the place to start. Pierce is the very definition of Bizarro, and his wonderful novel will take you for a great ride.

Scott Cole

Good insane, not bad insane

Reviewed in the United States on 20 August 2011

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In just a few short years, Cameron Pierce has become one of the greatest names in Bizarro fiction, and this is his extremely impressive debut. It's completely insane, wildly imaginative, and just plain fun. I mean, when the first chapter of a book features time-traveling mutants, dead leprechauns, a razor-edged bible, and Dracula slugfish (among other things), how could you go wrong?

Mike Robertson

Trying a little too hard to be "weird"

Reviewed in the United States on 21 September 2012

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I was initially sold on this book by the description, which is accurate. However, the execution was disjointed, and the character development was very thin. While some might think plot and character would be superfluous in a book about flying sharks, limb-amputating robots and a girl who uses Bible pages as weapons, it's actually just as, if not more, essential to the reader's experience.
What was frustrating was that I could feel the author start to develop a coherent plot structure and relationships between the characters, but then it was like he remembered "oh yeah, this is supposed to be REALLY WEIRRRRD!" and would go off on a tangent about something unrelated but surreal and/or grotesque.
As a result, I was somewhat entertained but I don't remember many specifics about the book. It's like cheap Halloween candy; it's good enough to warrant eating if it's in your pumpkin pail, but you're not going to tell your friends about it later.

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