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Title: Kiss Me, Judas by Will Christopher Baer ISBN: 0-670-88175-9 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: October, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.07 (27 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Interesting noir thriller without dialogue quotes
Comment: I happen to randomly pick this book up, and disover that it's remotely close to a screenplay I just optioned. Well, that happens...seems it won't be too long when a plethora of urban myth kidney hijacking tales will be cluttering the marketplace.
For a genre novel, I was surprised Baer's publsher (the intrepid Viking Penguin) let him get away without putting quatation marks around dialogue. I've had publishers place these marks there when it was never my intention, on the manuscript. "Oh, but the general genre reader will get confused..."
Seems some publishers feel the lack of quotes around dialogue is for esoteric literary authors only.
I was immediately sucked into this book. Scary stuff. Haunting images. I think from pages 100-150 it was all padding. "I need this novel to be 80,000 words or it won't sell!" I see Baer saying (as I have seen myself saying).
Baer couldn've cut a good 15-20,000 words off this book and streamlined it. I almost didn't finish it. Then I got hooked again.
The ending left me cold and empty...which is a good thing, for a book like this.
The memories of his dying wife, her suicide (or murder) struck a home chord.
I will definitely look for this guy's next book.
Rating: 4
Summary: Hauntingly Dark
Comment: I am not certain that I am a particular fan of this type of work. I only know that once I started reading this Kiss Me, Judas I couldn't stop. Sure, I wanted to find out who took Phineas' kidney and why. But it was author Will Christopher Baer's hypnotic narrative and the sense that something macabre was happening that had me hooked. Overlay the fact that Phineas was drugged (thus making it difficult to delineate what, in his mind, was real, what was a hallucination and what was a flashback) then add a bunch of characters that were incredibly sexual, highly sinister and wholly without a moral compass and you have the formula for a very dark yet highly riveting novel.
As mentioned, I am not certain that I like this type of work but I do know that Baer wrote a second book to this one and I am going to have to read it as well.
Rating: 4
Summary: You've got to be kidney me.
Comment: I am a huge fan of Chuck Palahniuk, Augusten Burroughs, Neal Pollack. While this book was as dark as any of the author's works I've mentioned, there was just something "ugly" about this book. It is well written, although the edition I borrowed was poorly edited (at least two typos). The kidney....believable.....the relationship between Mr. Kidney and Jude was not. But then he did seem to have a deathwish. I read that Mr. Baer is working a screen play for this book. The book definately reads like a vivid, raw film and will be a success. I like to snort laugh with my darkness....this book just was not funny. I felt like I needed a shower afterwards...or....wander into a foaming drive thru car wash.
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Title: Penny Dreadful by Will Christopher Baer ISBN: 0670889202 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 06 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Contortionist's Handbook by Craig Clevenger ISBN: 1931561486 Publisher: MacAdam/Cage Publishing Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.50 |
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Title: Syrup by Maxx Barry, Max Barry ISBN: 0140291873 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 03 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Reasons to Live: Stories by Amy Hempel ISBN: 0060976721 Publisher: Harperperennial Library Pub. Date: August, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
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Title: Diary: A Novel by CHUCK PALAHNIUK ISBN: 0385509472 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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