Blurred Line

Four more books arrived on my doorstep today, the last of my gift card haul. After pawing the covers and reading all of the blurbs (as is my custom when I get a new book - a weird sort of "Hello, welcome to my collection" thing), I came to the conclusion that whoever was packing these titles at the Chapters depot may have come to the conclusion that I'm a deeply disturbed individual. You, of course, already knew that. But apparently it affects my reading choices, too. So, here to give a little insight into me as a reader, are back cover blurbs from the four books I picked up.

Provo, Utah. Home of sex, violence, and porn - for the whole family! - Rated F, Todd C. Noker

...narrated by two terrorists and occasional lovers, Thivai, a pirate, and Abhor, part robot and part human. Together and apart, the two undertake an odyssey of carnage, a holocaust of the erotic. - Empire of the Senseless, Kathy Acker

Mark Leyner is a leather-blazer-wearing, Piranha 793-driving, narcotic-guzzling monster who has potential rivals eliminated by his bionically enhanced bodyguards, has his internal organs tattooed, and eavesdrops on the erotic fantasies of Victoria's Secret models - which naturally revolve around him. - Et Tu, Babe, Mark Leyner

Welcome to the blood-drenched chaos that is Beerlight, where to kill a man is "less a murder than a mannerism" and crime the "new and only art form." - Slaughtermatic, Steve Aylett

I'm not sure why, but any literature that's even remotely associated with the tag "subversive" is instantly fascinating to me. Personally, I blame Chuck Palahniuk and Bret Easton Ellis, two of the more mainstream "subversive" writers, for writing such damn good books. Or maybe I'm just not a very wholesome character. That's right, people, I'm actually a crazed sociopath.

Pictures of me holding a kitten, see, that's just to throw you off the scent. For all you know, I may have later eaten the kitten (I didn't, but only because it clawed the inside of my mouth).


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