Ok, I read it, and I’m still alive to tell the tale. Here’s my official Goodreads take:
I’m torn on whether this book deserves 2 or 3 stars… ultimately I’m giving it 3 for potential’s sake, because I think that the author must be fairly new at his craft but I think if he keeps writing, someday he’ll be pretty good.
So, I found this book on https://lousybookcovers.com – and the cover is, in fact, lousy, in a spectacular, maybe intentional, Miley Cyrus’s forray into sculptural art, what the fuck is happening here kind of way. I was intrigued, and because it only cost 99 cents, I took the plunge (as Macklemore would say in that foul year of our lord 2013, shiiit).
Appropriately, I had pretty low expectations going into this – it’s a collection of 5 flash fiction stories comprising a grand total of 17 pages, and I wasn’t entirely sure it would be written in a literate version of English. Surprisingly it was, putting it heads and shoulders above 85 percent of the drivel self-published on Amazon, and from there things got predictably weird.
There are talking, severed toes, anuses with razor teeth, Cajun recipes for human flesh, and and… well, I think I picked up on a theme, at least. I won’t spoil it – it’s only 17 pages. Most of the stories are imaginative and creepy and surreal in a fun way, and all of them could be developed into longer pieces that continue the macabre tone Ridge is striving for.
I was pleasantly surprised at how not-awful this was, and while I can’t say that it’s good, I do wish that the author had some sort of web presence I could follow him on because I think given a few more years of practice he’ll be writing really decent stuff.
“Anuses with razor teeth.”
I’m sure that’s on the cover somewhere. Seems like he was taking on a challenge to see how much body horror he could fit in 17 pages.
![cover[1]](https://lousybookcovers.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/cover1-33.jpg)
Gonna be kind of hard to, ahem, cut the “cheese” if you have no exit orifice to expel it from! 🙁
You didn’t catch the two “cuts” in the title. You’re slacking, man.
That’s what the “typo” tag is for.
Ah. I see. New to site. Hope my books never appear here.
Yeah, this book cover design definitely has me asking “Aw, man, who farted!?” as well as “Who barfed?”
I hear a Bizarro World Hendrix singing that title … and cannot unhear it.
I have the same ear worm.
LOL! 🙂
‘Scuze me…
(You’re showing your age, man!)
That’s a pretty Lovecraftian cheese that just got cut.
I can actually feel my sanity meter depleting the longer I look at that.
I wonder if farts of someone on LSD have hallucinogenic properties. Looks like somebody inhaled.
I bought it, god help me I was intrigued. It’s only 17 pages, will report back on whether the insides match the cover.
I only read the “Look Inside.” You’re a far more brave person than I.
Now leaving before my bad grammar catches up with me.
Please update us!
17 pages of nothing but solid acid tripping, I imagine.
Ok, I read it, and I’m still alive to tell the tale. Here’s my official Goodreads take:
I’m torn on whether this book deserves 2 or 3 stars… ultimately I’m giving it 3 for potential’s sake, because I think that the author must be fairly new at his craft but I think if he keeps writing, someday he’ll be pretty good.
So, I found this book on https://lousybookcovers.com – and the cover is, in fact, lousy, in a spectacular, maybe intentional, Miley Cyrus’s forray into sculptural art, what the fuck is happening here kind of way. I was intrigued, and because it only cost 99 cents, I took the plunge (as Macklemore would say in that foul year of our lord 2013, shiiit).
Appropriately, I had pretty low expectations going into this – it’s a collection of 5 flash fiction stories comprising a grand total of 17 pages, and I wasn’t entirely sure it would be written in a literate version of English. Surprisingly it was, putting it heads and shoulders above 85 percent of the drivel self-published on Amazon, and from there things got predictably weird.
There are talking, severed toes, anuses with razor teeth, Cajun recipes for human flesh, and and… well, I think I picked up on a theme, at least. I won’t spoil it – it’s only 17 pages. Most of the stories are imaginative and creepy and surreal in a fun way, and all of them could be developed into longer pieces that continue the macabre tone Ridge is striving for.
I was pleasantly surprised at how not-awful this was, and while I can’t say that it’s good, I do wish that the author had some sort of web presence I could follow him on because I think given a few more years of practice he’ll be writing really decent stuff.
“Anuses with razor teeth.”
I’m sure that’s on the cover somewhere. Seems like he was taking on a challenge to see how much body horror he could fit in 17 pages.
Oh, and for those who are keeping score, there is not one single thing on the book cover that ties into the story even remotely.