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Ken HPoJ
Supreme Potentate
USA
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 Posted - 10/26/2005 : 11:58:23 AM
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Lobster (Paperback)
by Guillaume Lecasble, Polly McLean (Translator)
[Review From Publishers Weekly]
The latest in Dedalus's Euro Shorts series is a surreal anti-fairy tale featuring a bizarre trio of star-crossed lovers. Plucked rudely from the sea, Lobster finds himself in a tank in the Titanic's dining room, watching in horror as Angelina, a beautiful young opium addict, devours his father. Lobster himself is dropped into boiling water three days later, but is saved when the Titanic hits the iceberg and, red but alive, he's sent careening through the flooding ship. He finds Angelina trapped in the death grip of her male companion, frees her with his pincers, realizes that he feels human lust for her and, in a startling scene, brings her to her first-ever orgasm. They escape to a lifeboat, but Lobster falls overboard, and the book's next movement concerns the lovers' attempts to experience such ecstasy again. Angelina loses her clitoris to the pincers of the wrong lobster, and Lobster, feasting on Titanic dead, befriends Jules, a Newfoundland tattoo artist/fisherman, whom he hopes will somehow take him to Angelina. Meeting Angelina on a ship to France, Jules (who's brought Lobster along in a basket) falls in love with her too. With its fortuitous encounters and near misses, its moments of sweet affection and suicidal despair, Lecasble's tale manages to be both tender and appalling.
PEGGY: I don't see how having a girl on the team would ruin it. Did a woman judge ruin the Supreme Court?
HANK: Yes, and that woman's name was Earl Warren.
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GalahadPC
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
380 Posts |
Posted - 10/26/2005 : 6:57:37 PM
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Originally posted by Ken HPoJ
...in a startling scene, [Lobster] brings her to her first-ever orgasm.
Uh huh... the book might almost be worth perusing if only to figure out how the author makes that go down.
But "tender and appalling?" |
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Atomic Glee
Archdeacon of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 10/26/2005 : 8:39:05 PM
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Wow.
Just...wow.
Wow.
I don't...I can't...
...wow.
Kevin Buchanan
Atomic Glee - The blog/modern pulp mag. http://www.atomicglee.com |
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hbrennan
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Philippines
1455 Posts |
Posted - 10/26/2005 : 9:46:39 PM
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I don't see anything unusual about that.
"...yet it hadn't destroyed his brain."
re: Charles "The Butcher" Benton (1956)
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UnknownSubject
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Australia
212 Posts |
Posted - 10/27/2005 : 01:04:52 AM
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Originally posted by GalahadPC
quote:
Originally posted by Ken HPoJ
...in a startling scene, [Lobster] brings her to her first-ever orgasm.
Uh huh... the book might almost be worth perusing if only to figure out how the author makes that go down.
Did you really have to use that particular phrasing? ;-)
Spandex Cinema
http://sc.thebeholder.org
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twitterpate
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Canada
1026 Posts |
Posted - 10/27/2005 : 08:48:37 AM
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Let me ask myself "Why am I not a published author by now?"
Perhaps because I'm not totally insane.... |
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Flangepart
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
2329 Posts |
Posted - 10/28/2005 : 1:08:36 PM
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Ok-ey...mind is officialy boggled...
Bet the producers of DELICATESSEN are drooling over this story.
I'm...gonna go look for some aprperate medications now...anyone else comming?
"Reality is arguable...lunch time is not." H. Flangepart.
"One Weekend a month my ass!" Crow- The Beginning of the End.
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KurtVon
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
387 Posts |
Posted - 10/29/2005 : 09:16:14 AM
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I think I'll wait for the movie.
No, on second thought, maybe not.
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John Nowak
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1017 Posts |
Posted - 10/29/2005 : 12:49:54 PM
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My new "Little Lulu" collection arrived this week, which cheered me up until I realized how weird it was to like these stories, but now I feel better.
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We've always been united in stupidity. That's why there is no hope. But, then again, when has that ever stopped us?
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