Recent content by Oliver Humanzee

Worlds collide! Give him a kiss for me!

Can't think of a worse book to assign to children who have, at that point in their lives, read maybe a half-dozen grown up books, none of which were Milton or apocryphal Gospels. Melville had such an agile, absorbing mind that he could effortlessly slip in and out of biblical allusion and a...

I do not! Haven't even heard of it!

Lord of the Flies is a fine horror/adventure book, but its central premise--that people will revert to barbarism and human sacrifice--is false and dumb and sucks ****. I think in Golding's case he's projecting his own bleak view of humanity on to a bunch of kids he made up, and appealing to...

A full 30% of The Godfather novel was dedicated to that ludicrous storyline about the woman with the large vagina.

There's a lot to like about the book. Among my favorite things are: 1. The guy who discovers a time portal in his diner's dry storage and just uses it to buy cheap ground beef. 2. King neatly sidestepping the narrative-crushing pseudo-philosophical cul-de-sacs of time travel paradoxes with...

I really like this book! It's basically The Seven Samurai/Magnificent Seven but with all the Gunslinger lore superimposed. King's seatpants inability to plot a story (let alone a series of novels) really bites him in the *** in these books and creates some truly ludicrous shoehorning and...

Important to note that it is totally enjoyable as a wildly fantastic work of imagination without being fully aware of it as satire.

I dunno, K, you kinda nailed it.

I just started this! Its great! Like an interstellar Canterbury Tales!

Kind of glad you were the one to do the write-ul though. Might be the next thing I read.

Liking all of Krista's transcription because I sound way smarter this way.

I haven't read it in 20+ years, so it might seem that way to me, too.

I have not read this, but reading your description reminded me that I completely forgot about the existence of his The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop, which I discovered at Myopic Books in 2000 or so and it felt like finding a Rembrandt at a thrift store and should...

Love Barth. Endlessly funny and strange.