I enjoyed its outrageousness. This is the kind of book you can write because you have nothing to lose so you can do as you like. I read it because of this article. I can see the Japanese quality, or maybe I can't but only think I can.
People like David Gordon really annoy me. I can't believe he was able to produce a book like this on his first attempt. The main character is a lovable loser, content to waste his writing talent on producing serial science fiction novels, along with the occasional pornography just to balance it out. His latest hit is a series of novels about vampires, written under a fictitious name and wearing his dead mother's clothes for the author picture (I felt there was an implied dig at the new vampire craze sweeping the country-not very subtle, either). He is approached by a man on death row to write his (the criminal's) biography, and soon after 3 women are killed in an identical manner to the way in which the condemned man had killed several young women years earlier, for which he was about to die. Throughout the narrative are snippets of books …
People like David Gordon really annoy me. I can't believe he was able to produce a book like this on his first attempt. The main character is a lovable loser, content to waste his writing talent on producing serial science fiction novels, along with the occasional pornography just to balance it out. His latest hit is a series of novels about vampires, written under a fictitious name and wearing his dead mother's clothes for the author picture (I felt there was an implied dig at the new vampire craze sweeping the country-not very subtle, either). He is approached by a man on death row to write his (the criminal's) biography, and soon after 3 women are killed in an identical manner to the way in which the condemned man had killed several young women years earlier, for which he was about to die. Throughout the narrative are snippets of books that Harry (the narrator/protagonist) have written. It's fascinating, twisted, and an elaborate love song to literature and what "art" really is. LOVED it. Intrigued and grossed out simultaneously.
