This Town Needs a Monster Andersen Prunty 9781941918180 Books
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Bathos! Crippling ennui! Mind-numbing drudgery!
Brad Renfield is a white, middle-aged, lower middle class, Midwestern man stuck in Gethsemane, Ohio. Most of his friends have either died or moved away and his one remaining friend is so depressed he’s on the brink of suicide. Brad hasn’t really given much thought to the chasm of emptiness within him. He’s mostly been a loner, content with his job and his tiny apartment. He’s never thought much about being part of something. He’s never really thought about the bigger picture. Until he meets a beautiful (and possibly psychotic) girl named Dawn. Dawn leads Brad into a vicious world as hedonistically carnal as it is brutal, forcing Brad to decide if he’s going to dig deep within himself and continue to resist the community he’s remained apart from his entire life or embrace it and accept his new reality.
This Town Needs a Monster Andersen Prunty 9781941918180 Books
Gethsemane, Ohio may not appear to have anything in common with the garden in Jerusalem. It gives the impression of being a quiet, sleepy town. Sure, some of the citizens are a bit peculiar. The upper echelons don't leave their homes. The working class caters to them because there is not much else to do for work. People sit on park benches in the middle of the night without realizing what they're doing there. A store clerk stands dazedly behind the counter with little connection to his surroundings. People work miserable jobs with little hope of achieving more. Yet those who leave Gethsemane always return. They have to. They are addicted to their home town.Brad works for a local landscaper. He cuts lawns, trims plants and empties garbage from the indoor plant pots of one of his clients. Apparently, the well-off do not need to do anything. Brad has no ambition, but he becomes worried about a friend who has suddenly disappeared. Enter Dawn. To Brad, she is a goddess. The more he becomes involved with this beautiful, enigmatic woman, the further he steps away from his mundane life. Brad finds himself involved in situations that become increasingly violent and sexual, but he is powerless to deny Dawn's requests. The story goes to extreme territory, and while Brad is occasionally wary of taking chances, he allows himself to be seduced. More people disappear. What is really happening in Gethsemane? And where are these perfect, beautiful young women coming from?
I could not put this book down. It was my first by Andersen Prunty, and far from my last. The dialogue and developments are seamlessly integrated. Yes, terrible and offensive things happen, but it is impossible to look away. This book may not be for everyone, but for me, it was compulsively readable.
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This Town Needs a Monster Andersen Prunty 9781941918180 Books Reviews
I love this author. All of his books have the same cycle of turning you on, grossing you out, and leaving you wanting more. The story in this book starts out in a weird place and leaves you squirming with thoughts of weird glowing mutant slugs and armies of unborn sex robots. Apocalyptic and morbid, this book is well worth its asking price and when the paperback comes out, I'll get that too.
Squirm With Me was such a departure from the usual Prunty fare that I didn't know what to expect with the new one, except that it'd be good. I was right. The weirdness creeps up and then explodes, and the sense of dread that hangs over everything is beautiful. It was like watching some kind of alien car crash uncomfortable, gross, increasingly unpleasant but impossible to look away from.
The conversational tone of the narrator, Brad, grounds the whole thing, because he sounds like a guy you know telling a story. The cast is awesome. I recommend this to anyone who wants to feel their skin crawl.
Brad is a middle aged man who has basically given up on changing his life for the better. He's resigned to being content with failure and mediocre. So when a hot younger woman enters his life, he will do whatever she wants. And what she wants is sadistic twisted and wild. That sounds fine to Brad as long as he gets to hang out with a hot woman . Prunty has written many novels where the main character is struggling to find purpose in life and he really excells at this. At over 300 pages it never got slow or boring. I looked forward to reading this daily. Always a sign of an excllent book and this is one hell of an original plot. Everytime I finish one of his books, I think, well he can't top that one, that will be his best book. Then I am proven wrong. Thankfully. Highly reccomended.
Buried within the bowels of the American cultural landscape is a trans-formative malevolence.
No one really knows where it came from, but I suspect it came with the corn. Probably benevolently at first, slowly growing from stalk to stalk. Then as the years drifted into centuries and villages gave way to towns and cities it changed, growing more violent, twisted, greedy and incorporated with the poetry of suffering.
What made it slide into evil? Perhaps the commotion and disconnect of urbanization drove it insane. At any rate, irrespective of those questions, today that presence permeates the epidermis of the land. It’s tendrils extend up to the surface of the streets and into our homes, hungry for drugs, sex, money and power.
Andersen Prunty has a vision of that monster and he provides it here for us as only the truly damned can do.
Gethsemane, Ohio may not appear to have anything in common with the garden in Jerusalem. It gives the impression of being a quiet, sleepy town. Sure, some of the citizens are a bit peculiar. The upper echelons don't leave their homes. The working class caters to them because there is not much else to do for work. People sit on park benches in the middle of the night without realizing what they're doing there. A store clerk stands dazedly behind the counter with little connection to his surroundings. People work miserable jobs with little hope of achieving more. Yet those who leave Gethsemane always return. They have to. They are addicted to their home town.
Brad works for a local landscaper. He cuts lawns, trims plants and empties garbage from the indoor plant pots of one of his clients. Apparently, the well-off do not need to do anything. Brad has no ambition, but he becomes worried about a friend who has suddenly disappeared. Enter Dawn. To Brad, she is a goddess. The more he becomes involved with this beautiful, enigmatic woman, the further he steps away from his mundane life. Brad finds himself involved in situations that become increasingly violent and sexual, but he is powerless to deny Dawn's requests. The story goes to extreme territory, and while Brad is occasionally wary of taking chances, he allows himself to be seduced. More people disappear. What is really happening in Gethsemane? And where are these perfect, beautiful young women coming from?
I could not put this book down. It was my first by Andersen Prunty, and far from my last. The dialogue and developments are seamlessly integrated. Yes, terrible and offensive things happen, but it is impossible to look away. This book may not be for everyone, but for me, it was compulsively readable.
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