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"We already have Brautigan, Vonnegut, and Russ Meyer but who can claim to be Vincenzo Bilof?"
--The Novel Pursuit

From Detroit, Michigan, Vincenzo Bilof has been called “The Metallica of Poetry” and “The Shakespeare of Gore”. With a body of work that includes gritty, apocalyptic horror (The Zombie Ascension Series), surrealist prose (The Horror Show), and visceral genre satire (Vampire Strippers from Saturn), Bilof’s fiction remains as divisive and controversial as it is original. He likes to think Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and Charles Baudelaire would be proud of his work. More likely, Ed Wood would have been his biggest fan.

During the day, Bilof repairs arcade machines in semi-operational billiards clubs, or he chases his children around the ...more

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Average rating: 3.97 · 594 ratings · 184 reviews · 36 distinct works

	Necropolis Now (Zombie Ascension #1) 3.81 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Horror Show 4.24 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nightmare of the Dead 3.79 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gravity Comics Massacre 4.14 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Violators really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark Rising 3.25 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Escape From Dinosauria by Vincenzo Bilof (Goodreads Author), Max Booth III (Goodreads Author) 3.62 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vampire Strippers from Saturn 3.57 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Queen of the Dead (Zombie Ascension #2) 3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Japanese Werewolf Apocalypse 4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The environment that surrounds a child plays a major role in their development, and author Matthew Revert explores the moment of crisis between two men that serves as both an origin story and moment of (possible) catharsis; Human Trees is an exploration of balance, Yin and Yang, and brotherhood. Revert, with Faulkner-esque sentence structures, expl

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Animal Money

by Michael Cisco

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Vincenzo Bilof said: " VOICE: “What can you tell us about Animal Money?”
Assiyeh awoke after the conference and began to wonder if all of her revolutionary technologies had made a difference, but it is not the difference that she wondered about, but rather, the idea of the VOICE: “What can you tell us about Animal Money?”
Assiyeh awoke after the conference and began to wonder if all of her revolutionary technologies had made a difference, but it is not the difference that she wondered about, but rather, the idea of the technologies being revolutionary and what it meant for those technologies to be revolutionary. There is a sort of awareness that occurs for Assiyeh while reflecting upon the definition of a revolution and whether or not something can be revolutionary, and her mind began to consider the idea that a revolution is a movement that can only exist in opposition to stagnation and that same movement might better be understood during her attempt to create a state of absolute rest. Assiyeh began to experiment, and her conclusion that we are always moving to search for something that is better than ourselves by constantly creating materials that will enhance our state of existence—whether it is a brand new television set or a new way to have sex by using only your fingertips—each new idea both a quantitative and qualitative doubling from nonexistence to existence. Through discussing the idea or the awareness of the idea there is a doubling that occurs between all individuals who partake in the exchange, for if they did not have the idea before they now have the idea. When you consider what you know about Animal Money and then begin to learn about it, your experience with the very literature that discusses Animal Money doubles your knowledge from zero to something more than zero, which is a sort of doubling. There is always a sort of self-awareness that the exchange is taking place; that an author of a book, for example, knows they are composing a piece that becomes a medium of exchange with the reader, because the reader starts with zero experience with that book and upon completing it becomes the beneficiary or inheritor of a type of currency that is qualitative relative to the reader and the author; the book need not be about Animal Money, but it could be a science fiction novel in which the idea of Animal Money becomes a sort of metaphor for those people or characters who first talked about the idea of Animal Money but could not exactly determine where the idea came from, because their own knowledge of Animal Money became itself an exchange of experiences and ideas…. and the only way to review such a book is to ask what Animal Money is and to wonder whether or not we should expect a certain kind of answer or whether or not there is an answer, or maybe whether or not we are capable of understanding that the question itself exists and we are aware of the question…

(Note: I don't think you can actually review the book, on a philosophical level, but it is very good, interesting, a challenge to read, with aliens or maybe not aliens, with ideas, some action or maybe not action depending on whether or not everything is a dream, and if it is a dream or not a dream then what is fiction if not Animal Money...?) ...more "

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The Nightly Disease

by Max Booth III (Goodreads Author)

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Vincenzo Bilof said: " Working with the public in an entry-level job can be demoralizing; whether you work in retail or fast food, the dregs of humanity and the individual’s desire to lord their power over the laborer send shivers down the spines of those who know. Some pe Working with the public in an entry-level job can be demoralizing; whether you work in retail or fast food, the dregs of humanity and the individual’s desire to lord their power over the laborer send shivers down the spines of those who know. Some people make a career out of it and go into management, while others find a way to move into another career or end up suffering through it for a very long time. The Nightly Disease is Max Booth III’s novel of an existential crises suffered by a young man who works in a hotel—Isaac—and we find reason to laugh at the horror of the character’s all-too-familiar struggles, and we are thankful it’s him rather than us. If you work in any customer service industry, Isaac is the anarchic, lovable character who is never heroic but is every bit of hardass we want to be on the job. If you’ve thought about doing it, Isaac has, too, and he is probably acting on it…

Storytellers usually craft characters we can empathize with, and in the case of Isaac, we are going to ask a lot of the same questions that people ask of anyone who hates their job: why don’t you get another job? Why don’t you get an education, pursue a career? Booth gives us the snapshot of a character who inherits the damning position, and we’re able to experience the debilitating conditions that imprison people in menial jobs that they hate. We ask these questions of people all the time, but more importantly, why are they here, and how did they get to this point? This is where the narrative shines brightest; Isaac is “committed” in the way that a mental patient is committed to a clinic, and the emotional/mental cost allows for Booth’s touch of surrealism to creep into the narrative in believable fashion. If we can believe how awful people are willing to act toward another human being in public, it’s not a stretch for talking owls to appear. I realize how unbelievable that seems, but in the context of the narrative, Booth’s ability to add surrealism underscores the plot’s chain of events.

Present is Booth’s flair for dialogue and situational tragic-comedy in the vein of Cohen Brothers slapstick. This book did manage to get a few guffaws out of me, and Isaac’s cognizance of his plight ensured that I never pitied the character or found him pathetic, despite moments of wallowing and despair; if I found the character helpless and pitiful without any qualities that would engender further exploration of Booth’s world, I would have put this one down quickly. As with the majority of Booth’s work, his ability to weave self-loathing into a fantastical situation elevates the comedic elements and allows the dialogue to shine. Booth, and by extension, Isaac, is a juggler of chaos, and even more objects are tossed into the air near the novel’s conclusion, as Isaac’s gradual unraveling teaches our protagonist a bleak and realistic life lesson.

A dark comedy that hits all the right emotional notes at the right time. Whenever I attempt to review a novel, I always review in the context of its genre with consideration to overall personal entertainment; Booth’s approach is unique, which is why I pick up each new novel with one big question: how is he going to do it this time? By IT, I mean get me to laugh, wince, and connect. Another engaging Boothian read. ...more "

Apr 12, 2017 02:53PM · see review

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Love in the Time of Cholera

by Gabriel García Márquez

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