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1704908 No.1704908 [Reply] [Original]

Thoughts on this book/author.

Obviously it was a fucking awesome book, as good as the Grossbarts.

What does /lit/ think?

>> No.1704911

necrophilia bump

>> No.1704918

none of you sick fucks have read this yet?

for shame

>> No.1704922

what is it?

>> No.1704927

>>1704922

it's a book you better read

or else

http://jessebullington.com/

>> No.1704930

How good was Grossbarts? I have it but I haven't paid it much attention.

>> No.1704932

sounds interesting

>> No.1704933

Jeff Vandermeer priase on the cover? Hmm... I am quite fond of Vandermeer. OP, sell me on this book.

>> No.1704934

>>1704930

I guess I would describe it as disturbing/hilarious.

There is a lot of vomiting and murder and it is just a bizarre book. I really recommend it

>> No.1704937

>>1704933

Ok. The main themes are necromancy/necrophilia (even lesbian necrophilia). Other themes- the crusades, huge warrior dykes, whorehouses, torture and a lot of drinking of alcoholic beverages.

>> No.1704943

>>1704937
... FUND IT!
Oh, wait... good!

>> No.1704986

>>1704930

It was an entertaining book. The setting was like a cross between Canterbury Tales and Berserk (i.e. medieval Europe with horny witches, vengeful demons, and a tragic ending), and the dialogue was very Tarantinoesque. It was a pretty fun satirical read.

>> No.1704989

Haha, the author of this book went to my high school AND my uni. Wicked.

>> No.1704991

>mfw this entire thread is Jeff Vandermeer trolling /lit/ to promote his buddy Jesse's work

>> No.1704996
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1704996

>>1704937

>> No.1705000

>>1704933

>sell me on this book

A Moorish king has recently been defeated by Isabel and Ferdinand, but they'll spare his life if he sends them a beautiful woman. He sends them his daughter, with her slave, but the daughter and the slave crash on shore and are taken in by an evil necromancer. The necromancer (who is also a necrophiliac that fucks every dead body he raises, including animal corpses) teaches the slave girl how to revive the dead. The necromancer puts a curse on the slave girl where ten years after the necromancer dies the slave girl will inherit his spirit.
Slave girl also kills her abusive mistress, the Moorish princess, and has sex with her corpse, so the princess later comes back from the dead and swears vengeance.
In order to protect herself, the slave girl has to seek out the age of the mad Dr. Paracelsus, the kind, conflicted soldier and artist Nikolaus Manual Deutsch and a trash-talking lesbian soldier in his company.
Then a bunch of weird shit happens involving a witch hunter, a hyena, and a zombie trying to hunt down and kill the slave girl.

It's a decent book, though not as good as Grossbarts. The writing is a bit weak by comparison imo but it's an entertaining quick read.

>> No.1705005

>>1705000
*seek out the aid