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Title: Apocalypse Culture II by Adam Parfrey ISBN: 0-922915-57-1 Publisher: Feral House Pub. Date: 01 July, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.05 (19 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Walk On The Wild Side, by fermed
Comment: Adam Parfrey has put together his second volume of what he delicately calls "the extreme societal tendrils" of our culture. Volume II is even finer than the first volume: bigger, more varied and with greater depth.
So what have we got here? From the banal : descriptions of the exquisitely realistic female sex dolls, with orifices (it is said) more pleasure-giving than the real thing, for a mere $5,750.00 plus shipping. From the horrendous: satanism, the sexual vicitimization of children, necrophilia. From the in-between: a writing by Ted Kaczynsky (a rather dull fantasy); Danny Rolling (the Gainesville serial murderer)contributes a letter and a painting from death row; Sondra London has a short, thoughtful piece about "Murder Light," and Jim Goad writes a piece justifying (he thinks) the brutal beating of his girl friend. Jim wrote a very funny and intelligent "Redneck Manifesto," which I reviewed not so long ago. He wrote the Apocalypse piece from the Oregon State Penitentiary, where he resides on account of the above mentioned violence.
This book is full of asperities and venom and razor-sharp protrusions. It is guaranteed to scrape and not to sooth. I cannot think of any normal (or abnormal) person who will not bleed a bit, here and there, just from browsing this book. With that warning, it is highly recommended. 60 articles, lots of pictures, 457 pages.
Rating: 5
Summary: Thrilling, "Mondo Cane"-esque look at cultural extremes
Comment: "Apocalypse Culture II" is the eagerly-awaited sequel to the 1987 underground classic "Apocalypse Culture." Like its predececcesor, "Apocalypse Culture II" is a series of articles chronicling cultural extremes.
The articles take many forms. Some are essays written by the editor, Adam Parfrey, and other contributors (Jim Goad, Crispin Glover, Michael Moynihan). Others are interviews with assorted artists, writers, and mass murderers. Some are documents reprinted from other sources (i.e. an analysis of the song "American Pie" by the Aryan Nations, love letters to Jodie Foster by John Hinckley Jr.). As Parfrey states in his introduction, the book is "designed to assist the reader in finding front-row seats to its perverse pleasures and strange solutions." Much of the content is extremely disturbing, but as Parfrey advises, "Readers are urged to contemplate the strange and often contradictory information within, and make up their own minds regarding its value."
Like real life itself, "Apocalypse Culture II" is simultaneously frightening, thrilling, hilarious, perverse, and disturbing. This book is NOT for the squeamish or easily offended. No matter how "progressive" and "open-minded" you think you are, there is something in here that will DEFINITELY offend you. Given the extremity of the viewpoints and artwork/ photos, it's also not a book to casually leave on your desk at work or on your coffee table.
However, if you have a strong stomach and an open mind, you're in for quite a ride.
Also highly recommended: the original "Apocalypse Culture," "Cult Rapture" (a series of lengthier articles by the editor Adam Parfrey), "Amok Fifth Dispatch" (a 500+ page directory of extreme texts and information), "Psychotropedia" (another 500+ directory of extreme texts, but with lengthier reviews and analyses by the editor, Russ Kick), "Rapid Eye Movement" (a compilation of articles by the late Simon Dwyer), and "Critical Vision" (a compilation of articles from the amazing British journal "Headpress").
Rating: 4
Summary: One thing not mentioned in this book: 9/11
Comment: I have to say a lot of what this book talks about sounds VERY hokey. But there is one extremely good thing about this book that puts all the other seeming silliness in a scary new light: Please note the copyright date this book was released on. At least a full year before 9/11. And the information obviously arrived to the publisher's hands well before this date. This is the best example of a written work that chronicles a man who actually KNEW what was going to happen before 9/11. And nobody believed him. He went to the CDC, the FBI, the CIA, and no one listened. He asked these people in power, "Does America have a plan in case of biological attacks?" The answers will surprise you, and if anything, you will get a chilling sense that there is DEFINITELY something wrong with a country that denied a man the right to warn his country of impending danger. Think how that man must feel today... A MUST READ...
P.S. For those further interested in some of this book, an excellent interview was done with the musical rock group The Hidden Hand. Many things were explored, like the Moon landing, and secret societies in power. The interview will be run hopefully by the end of February 2003, so look for it in the 38th issue of Vibrations of Doom Magazine.
http://vibrationsofdoom.com
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Title: Apocalypse Culture by Adam Parfrey ISBN: 0922915059 Publisher: Amok Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Amok Fifth Dispatch: Sourcebook for the Extremes of Information by Stuart Swezey ISBN: 1878923129 Publisher: Amok Books Pub. Date: 24 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Lazy by Peter Sotos ISBN: 1840680105 Publisher: Creation Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The REDNECK MANIFESTO: HOW HILLBILLIES HICKS AND WHITE TRASH BECAME AMERICAS SCAPEGOATS by Jim Goad ISBN: 0684838648 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Shit Magnet: One Man's Miraculous Ability to Absorb the World's Guilt by Jim Goad ISBN: 0922915776 Publisher: Feral House Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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