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randomsome1 (randomsome1) wrote,
@ 2008-02-27 08:13:00

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in ur novel eatin ur book

I have lost a book, and in doing so I've turned into one of our customers.

I know it's in the literature section, I know it's a QP, and I know the author's last name started with a later letter of the alphabet. I know it was released within the past three weeks. I know it had a brownish or grayish cover with a woman in 18th century clothes being held up by a non-Cassie-Edwardsed Native American man.

I know that when I opened it to a random page it damned near melted my brain.

The bit started with some beautiful youngish beautiful beautiful girl on a boat with her two pet baby moose. She was fairly lightly dressed for the season (winter) and was so wildly blindingly beautiful that half the bunch of guys on the boat took one look at her, grabbed the nearest female, and went flying behind some handy curtains for a screaming bout of fornication. The rest were standing there leering but unsure of how to go for her beautiful beautifulness (and certain virginity) . . . So a random blind fiddler (who can't see her to be overcome by her looks) starts playing, and they decide to have a dance-off for the right to nail her.

No. Srsly. Dance-off.

So half of 'em are dancing, and the people nailing each other are shrieking, and a blind pianist turns up from somewhere to play more music, (and the girl's just kinda standing there with her two moose), and the shrieking and stomping and dancing and music keeps going until . . . all their activity sinks the boat.

The guys are wearing winter clothes and all drown. The girl wasn't, and holds onto her moose, and makes it to shore and lives.

See, now I have to find it again to figure out if it's supposed to be parody or not.

ETA: The book was The Translation of Dr. Apelles by David Treuer, and he was supposedly going for beyond parody--and succeeded. :)

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	wingedrivers 2008-02-27 08:26 pm UTC (link)
	I can't tell if that's serious or not. And that kind of scares me. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	randomsome1 2008-02-28 06:33 am UTC (link)
	My one coworker pulled something out of it about how the one character was like if you imagined a woman and then x and y and z happened to her. I wish I could remember it--it painted a picture, though a boggly one. :P (Reply to this) (Parent)

	shikomekidomi 2008-02-28 02:45 pm UTC (link)
	I'm pretty sure that actual intent no longer matters and that book is functionally a parody. Either it is and you read it to laugh, like or it isn't and you still read it to laugh, much like the ever-popular Plan 9 from Outer Space does for watching movies. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	randomsome1 2008-02-28 07:50 pm UTC (link)
	I can't say I've seen that. I'm certainly missing out. :P (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	shikomekidomi 2008-02-29 12:14 am UTC (link)
	I own a copy. Basically Ed Wood knew Bela Lugosi in real life, so he thought he could make a horror movie. He couldn't even with Bela, but Lugosi also dies part way through and they switch to a younger, taller actor who keeps his cape in front of his face, like that'll help. And that's only the first of a litany of errors. (Reply to this) (Parent)