Book: Geek Love
by: Katherine Dunn
Chosen by: Dre
Dre’s going with this book, after she finished Flashman first. It sounds pretty messed up. Seth says he already read it and wonders if he can pick the next one. The Septagoret agrees, but only because he recently got engaged, and we think Seth might pick something cool.
Review: “A wild, often horrifying, novel about freaks, geeks and other aberrancies of the human condition who travel together (a whole family of them) as a circus. It’s a solipsistic funhouse world that makes “normal” people seem bland and pitiful. Arturo the Aqua-Boy, who has flippers and an enormous need to be loved. A museum of sacred monsters that didn’t make it. An endearing “little beetle” of a heroine. Sort of like Tod Browning’s Freaks crossed with David Lynch and John Irving and perhaps George Eliot — the latter for the power of the emotions evoked.” -Amazon
