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Brien Piechos

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The awful shit I experience every day.

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June 2011


Brien Piechos lives and writes in Minneapolis, MN, which is a shit hole now.

"I have to say that this is one of the most disturbing things I have ever read. Mr. Palahniuk himself must have cringed a few times while reading this one. Brien Piechos is seriously twisted and wonderfully talented. His writing is masterful, his imagery horrifying. This was a hard story to get through, I really had to force myself, but also in the end maybe my favorite in the collection. This is quintessential transgressive fiction. Just remember, you can't unread it." - SF Reader
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Average rating: 3.79 · 1,964 ratings · 209 reviews · 1 distinct work
Burnt Tongues

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3.79 avg rating — 2,505 ratings — published 2014 — 23 editions
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The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
"As I read the reviews I am fascinated by the fact that I agree with aspects of many of them, whether they rate the book one, two, three, or even four stars. Even the positive reviews point out the very many flaws. I suppose it all comes down to what " Read more of this review »
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"Currently reading this one and all I can think of is a passage from a writing-fiction manual that I read. The guy who wrote the article said that he once wrote a whole book and his publisher told him that it was good back-story, it was good for the A" Read more of this review »
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Could have done without the anti-White race sermon. Otherwise a really good read.
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I read quite a lot of comic books but do not log them for obvious reasons. However I felt compelled to leave a review of just how utterly horrid this idiotic drivel is. The degree of retconning and post-war reprogramming of the Bat-Man mythos is so o ...more
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“Besides, what's in a name? Actually, a lot. Whether taken from a parent or grandparent, some saint, or even the late great Elvis, your name insists another person's dream of what you should have been. The portrait of some ancestral ideal lingers through heirloom names. Gender specific names imply all sorts of expectations. More than just a signifier used to summon, instruct, address, accuse, sometimes praise us, our names define and thereby limit us. They put us in a cage.”
Brien Piechos, Burnt Tongues

“Besides, what's in a name? Actually, a lot. Whether taken from a parent or grandparent, some saint, or even the late great Elvis, your name insists another person's dream of what you should have been. The portrait of some ancestral ideal lingers through heirloom names. Gender specific names imply all sorts of expectations. More than just a signifier used to summon, instruct, address, accuse, sometimes praise us, our names define and thereby limit us. They put us in a cage.”
Brien Piechos, Burnt Tongues

“Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal, while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before”
Herodotus, The Histories

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