Jump to ratings and reviews
Rate this book

Die You Doughnut Bastards

Rate this book
"Like William S. Burroughs on crack!" - Thomas F. Monteleone, New York Times bestselling author

The bacon storm is rolling in. We hear the grease and sugar beat against the roof and windows. The doughnut people are attacking. We press close together, forgetting for a moment that we hate each other.

In Die You Doughnut Bastards, amputees, lonely young people, and talking animals struggle for survival against the freakish whims of nature. A typewriter made of fetuses is the source of woe for an expecting couple. A girl with a glass jaw hides an otherworldly secret. A demonic loner goes to a birthday party in Hell. You'll encounter a killer in a marsupial mask, a prison for anorexics, haunted pancakes, and a songwriter with a cult following.

Surreal prose poems give way to personal accounts of alienation and modern love. Vegetarian narwhals are sold at the supermarket. And in a city that might be your own, zombie doughnuts are rising up. Kill yourself before they kill you. Or just kill yourself.

Featuring original illustrations in the style of Daniel Johnston, Die You Doughnut Bastards is the latest way to drown, brought to you by Wonderland Book Award-winning author Cameron Pierce.

196 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 1, 2012

10 people are currently reading
340 people want to read

About the author

Cameron Pierce

54 books197 followers
Cameron Pierce is the author of eleven books, including the Wonderland Book Award-winning collection Lost in Cat Brain Land. His work has appeared in The Barcelona Review, Gray's Sporting Journal, Hobart, The Big Click, and Vol. I Brooklyn, and has been reviewed and featured on Comedy Central and The Guardian. He was also the author of the column Fishing and Beer, where he interviewed acclaimed angler Bill Dance and John Lurie of Fishing with John. Pierce is the head editor of Lazy Fascist Press and has edited three anthologies, including The Best Bizarro Fiction of the Decade. He lives with his wife in Astoria, Oregon.

Ratings & Reviews

What do you think?
Rate this book

Friends & Following

Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!

Community Reviews

5 stars
61 (42%)
4 stars
37 (25%)
3 stars
25 (17%)
2 stars
12 (8%)
1 star
8 (5%)
Displaying 1 - 30 of 42 reviews
Profile Image for Misty Marie Harms.
559 reviews727 followers
January 9, 2022
I have mixed reviews, as is usually the case when it comes to a collection of short stories. I didn't see the point of the drawings, and the poetry was awful. Lucky, there were a few excellent tales in there to redeem itself. The cover is fantastic and deserved a star by itself. Maybe if my Krispy Crème doughnuts resembled this, I would lose a few pounds.

🐱🐱🐱
Profile Image for Seb.
449 reviews122 followers
March 26, 2024
This is what I'd call "vintage bizarro". That is, the main part is clearly intended to shock the reader. But there's not always another point than the shock itself, though, and that dilutes the quality of the short stories.

Some stories were quite good and I enjoyed them but other ones were not up to the others.
The poems, however, are among the sh*ttiest I've ever seen published 😐
And I don't really get the connection between the drawings (doodles ?) and the stories.

All in all, I expected more from this collection. I hope the next one of Cameron Pierce I'll choose will be better (because yes, I'll read others ^^).

3.5 stars rounded down
Profile Image for Kyle Muntz.
Author 7 books121 followers
March 27, 2013
A fantastic, awesome, and (as expected) extremely weird collection. From what I understand, the Bizarro being written now basically has two modes, pastiche (parodies or Bizarro re-imaginings of certain genres), and then something closer to pure absurdism, which is where I think Cameron Pierce falls. The stories in this collection are like grotesque dreams, written in clean prose that accents how fucked up they are. But also, I think, there's a tenderness to some of the stories that makes them stand out, especially "Lantern Jaws", the longest story in the collection and probably my favorite. Another big standout is "Death Card", which isn't a Bizarro story at all almost, but a great picture of a basically real relationship with great surreal undertones. Also, the collection has poems/drawings between most of the stories that I really liked as well. Of course, some are better than others, but I don't think there's a story in here I didn't enjoy. Obviously I need to read more of Cameron's stuff; there's a book about Lovecraft and vampires I think I'm going to check out next. After how awesome this book was I'm really looking forward to it.
Profile Image for David.
Author 12 books150 followers
January 27, 2014
Saying something is bizarro tells me some things but still leaves me almost completely in the dark. There are so many different ways to do bizarro: funny, disgusting, violent, just plain weird, and so on. I look on this book as primarily surreal. There's weirdness, and quite wild weirdness at that, but there's something underneath...something that eludes easy grasping. Some bizarro is just fun and some resonates deeper. This definitely resonates deeper.
Profile Image for Ms. Nikki.
1,053 reviews318 followers
July 27, 2016
2 1/2 stars- Die You Doughnut Bastards- It's the end of the world. Doughnuts have taken over. Only a few survivors remain. Gotta be careful or there will be no one left.

2 Stars- The Prisoners- A correctional facility made of Pizza.

2 Stars- Ant Fat

2 Stars- Moop and the Woggle- A creature that ate too much

3 Stars- The Honesty of Marsupials Is a Marvelous Thing- A poem

2 Stars- Death Card- Original, but boring

3 Stars- Three People Lose Their Genitals While Getting Naked

2 Stars- A Birthday In Hell - A guy craps in a litter box as a joke.

There are too many little stories so I'll stop trying to list them as I'm finding this read original, but not to my liking. Some of the stories contain no excitement what-so-ever. This read is not for me.

Not trying to be mean, but I am so thankful to the lady who let me borrow this as I would have been really disappointed spending $7 on a new-to-me author. I'm afraid to try more like these due to the high prices.


Profile Image for David Hudnut.
Author 6 books20 followers
October 29, 2012
Wonderfully Weird

Have you ever thought to yourself "Man, movies and books and TV shows are the same thing over and over again. Why can't Hollywood and the publishing industry make something different for a change?" I wonder this myself all the time. Everything is a remix of a re-hash of a remake of a book that was originally a folktale.

Cameron Pierce's story collection Die You Doughnut Bastards is none of those things. This book is actually different. It's original from top to bottom. It is chock full of stories like nothing you've ever read before. It is strange, surreal, morbid, poignant, intimate, and it's really good.

I've never read anything from the new-to-me sub-sub-genre called bizarro fiction, but I'm glad I stumbled across it. After reading a fair amount of commercial fiction lately, I was in the mood for something fresh and original. Bizarro fiction sounded like the perfect place to start. Die You Doughnut Bastards delivered, and then some. It's a collection of short works that includes poems, flash fiction, short stories, and a novella. There are also dozens of quirky drawings by the author, one at the beginning of each story, which reminded me of Tim Burton's "The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories."

Overall, the content of these stories are what I'd describe as a combination of the works of William S. Burroughs, Splatterpunk, Pulp noir, Surrealism, Magical Realism, the film-making of Michel Gondry (think of that Youtube video "Michel Gondry solves a Rubik's Cube with his nose"), some good old North American alternative comic book sensibility (Crumb, Harvey Pekar, Chris Ware), a bit of Ripley's Believe it or Not circus freak freakiness, and hallucinogens. It's everything weird and counter-culture you could possibly want.

At first, as I read through the stories sequentially (I can hear the die-hard anti-commercial types telling me I should have read the stories randomly or backwards or in a mirror or hanging upside down in a tree) I thought I was going to get a giant spaghetti bowl of weirdness where you never quite know what's going on, but you can't stop reading because it's all so vividly fascinating. This in itself would have satisfied me. Some of the shortest stories in Mr/ Pierce's book remind me of looking at abstract art or outsider art, where nothing fully makes sense in a familiar left-brain narrative capacity, but it's captivating and engrossing in an open-ended right-brain way.

But Mr. Pierce is more than just an abstract artist. He also knows how to tell a good story and evoke emotion. Several of the stories in the book had a strong and finely-honed emotional narrative thru-line. "Death Card" tells the touching story of a quirky young couple facing the challenges of having a baby and dealing with mortality in their own creative way. "Pablo Riviera, Depressed, Overweight, Age 31, Goes to the Mall" makes some subtle yet enlightened observations about the nature of loving relationships. "Lantern Jaws" is the longest piece in the book, and would make a wonderful stop-motion animated film in the vein of "Coraline" or "Corpse Bride."

In case you're worried, this book isn't all just a touchy-feely mushroom-fueled hippie love-in. There's also guns, violence, amputations and blood. Lots of blood.

And hordes of savage, killer doughnuts.

Die You Doughnut Bastards was a fabulous read, original and creative to the highest level. Cameron Pierce reminds all of us what art can be when an artist disregards the demands of commercialism and instead strives to be true to his own artistic vision.

Five stars
Profile Image for S.T. Cartledge.
Author 17 books30 followers
January 16, 2013
The first Bizarro book I read was Cameron Pierce’s ‘Lost in Cat Brain Land’. It was November 2010, and I was captivated by this collection of short, surreal stories. Two years later, I have read his latest collection that displays Cameron’s transformation into a wizard of the short story form. It’s a larger collection, yet the stories range from single page poetry and prose poems to stories spanning about 20-30 pages. I found that I read this collection in bits and pieces, picking it up every so often and choosing what I felt like reading next. This is in contrast to the single sitting in which I read Cat Brain Land. Doughnut Bastards shifts focus away from the surreal plots and settings of his first collection, and more towards the absurd. Some stories center around the most mundane things, yet Cameron’s writing renders them spectacular, often bringing about a quirkiness of thought or dark humour to his storytelling. At times it feels like his writing has taken on a dash of Sam Pink. It’s less straight up Eraserhead Press Bizarro, and more Lazy Fascist Bizarro. It’s creative, comical, and spectacularly written. There are little illustrations throughout the book, captioned with lines taken from sone of the stories. These illustrations reminded me of the artist/poet, Brian Andreas, with the juxtaposition of strange/simple drawings with absurd thoughts. The illustrations in this collection serve to highlight the beauty of Cameron’s writing at times, my favourite being: “Champions always die with a smile on.”

‘Die You Doughnut Bastards!’ is a fantastic collection for everyone who loves their short stories to be creative and clever.
Profile Image for Jeremy Maddux.
Author 5 books153 followers
November 27, 2013
I'd flirted with Bizarro on and off ever since 2002, but it was this book that converted me to a full fledged resident of the Bizarro universe once and for all. Cameron flexes some serious literary muscles here, as the stories range from poignant (Mitchell Farnsworth, Lantern Jaw) to hopeless (Die You Doughnut Bastards, Death Card) to whimsical (The Grown Family Destroyed, Blood Guineas).

The best comparison I can draw to Cameron's style for those who need to be sold on this one is the clown in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci. "Turn your tears into jest. Laugh at the pain that poisons your heart!"

He also has the rare ability to bridge that sense of tragicomedy, to bring it to the hip, alternative crowd. With every new release at Lazy Fascist Press, he bridges the gap between serious, contemporary literature and the bastard genre of Bizarro. Yes, we can all co-exist. It is possible! We are better off with Cameron Pierce publishing!

Profile Image for Jamie Grefe.
Author 18 books61 followers
October 14, 2012
If you are wondering what Bizarro is and could be, where its future lies, then devour this book. Or, if you are simply looking for well-written tales that will spin your imagination into hyperspace, dig in and grab a doughnut, you bastard.

Review forthcoming SOMEWHERE.
Profile Image for M Griffin.
160 reviews26 followers
April 29, 2013
Die, You Donut Bastards is the latest collection of short fiction and prose poetry by Cameron Pierce. The whimsical title and cover art may suggest a mostly humorous approach to Bizarro, a genre which can range from arty surrealism to shock-focused extremity, and also at times encompassing more conventional storytelling with a subtler twinge of the surreal. While many authors focus on a single approach, Pierce here shows himself capable of covering all the bases.

Most of the pieces are just a page or two, and focus on wild invention and playful absurdity. I detect in these shorter works the influence of Russell Edson, the master of surrealist prose poetry, though Pierce is less oblique, less blatantly symbolic, and more confrontational. Readers approaching this book from outside the Bizarro realm can expect a lot of zany humor and intentional absurdity, but will also discover a great degree of subtlety and sensitivity. In fact, those seeking a full-on Bizarro blast may be surprised by the restraint and emotional honesty present in the longer stories.

The lengthiest of these, "Lantern Jaws," is a lovely tale of wonder and emotion, both subtle and graceful, reminiscent of something Kelly Link might create. In it, a teenage boy falls in love with a girl schoolmate who carries a vaguely Lovecraftian doom or curse. It's a gentle, touching story, characteristics which may seem at odds with some of the extremes on display elsewhere in the book, yet it's also quite dreamlike and surreal.

Another longer story, "Death Card" shows a couple, Tristan and Emily, shifting from youthful, carefree obsessions, such as Tristan's comics and his collection of vinyl figures, to more adult concerns now that Emily is pregnant. Tristan goes along, half-reluctantly boxing up his collection to make a room for the baby. The story focuses the feelings of impending loss and disconnection from self, arising from Tristan's recognition that life's simple freedoms and youthful pleasures are soon to change.


In "Pablo Riviera, Depressed, Overweight, Age 31, Goes to the Mall," an odd outsider catalogs an endless stream of pleasures, mostly fast food, during a trip to a shopping mall. This litany of cheeseburgers, taco corn dogs, and other excessive treats could be seen as Pablo's attempt to numb the pain of his solitude and isolation, or perhaps simply exhibits the weirdly alienating effect of our obsession on grotesque, commercialized pleasures.

"Disappear" is the weird story of a pregnant woman's baby disappearing right out of her belly. It turns out the fetus was stolen by horror author Stephen King, who apparently steals unborn babies and installs them into his typewriter as fuel or grist for new stories.

In "Mitchell Farnsworth," one of the more transgressive pieces, Katie recollects once having sex with her boyfriend, the Mitchell Farnsworth of the title, while watching the movie Alien. After Mitchell moves on, the story recounts Katie's long string of boyfriends, forming a detailed catalog of explicit sex acts, foods and drinks consumed, and the movies she watched with each -- often Alien, sometimes The Exorcist or other horror films. Katie is increasingly stuck, unable to stop and reflect on this pattern, until she hears news about Mitchell Farnsworth.

In Die, You Donut Bastards, the shorter, weirder stories are greatest in number, and seem more geared toward a Bizarro audience. The longer stories, comprising about half the collection's page count, exhibit greater emotional realism and even a bit more seriousness mixed in with the strange pop surrealism. I enjoyed the provocative range of styles, moods and approaches on display in Die, You Donut Bastards. It makes me eager to check out more Pierce's work. 4 1/2 stars.
Profile Image for Craig.
79 reviews12 followers
January 19, 2013
'Die You Doughtnut Basards' is a short story from bizarro author Cameron Pierce, who has been releasing books for the past five years and always seems to get good reviews. This is actually my second Pierce book, the first being the novel 'Gargoyle Girls of Spider Island', which I found to be average, so was hoping this would give me a better chance to see if I would like his style or not.

It's hard to describe what happens within these pages, mainly because it is a bizarro short story collection, but also because there are no links between the stories so one minute you could be reading about killer doughnut men, the next about goth animals and then love. Sandwiched between these tales are both pictures of strange monsters, and poems, which make this a very quick read. This eclectic mix of variety does make it an interesting read, and if there is a tale which is less interesting you know it won't last long before your sampling something else.

Whilst I have tried several bizarro books to date and tended to enjoy them; I did find this short story collection harder to enjoy. I think it may be just my own personal tastes but I didn't enjoy the jumping around which came from so many unreleated stories. If you are a bizarro short story fan then I think you will really enjoy this book as it is well written, if your new to bizarro then this might be too strange for you.

The novel was received in exchange for an honest review.
Profile Image for Aaron McQuiston.
603 reviews21 followers
February 18, 2014
This is a collection of nonsense. The stories are silly and absurd, and there is really very little that does not go far far into left field. The ideas are mostly in the vein of "why would someone even think of writing this?" For those reasons, I love this collection. Some of the highlights are "Disappear" a story where Stephen King is stealing babies from wombs, "The Human Centipede 2 (UFSI Sequence) by Tao Lin: A Novel", and "Pancakes are Spooky." It seems as if many of these strange little stories make a great deal of sense in an abstract way, and with this, "Die You Doughnut Bastards" makes a mark on me as a reader. I liked this collection, even when I didn't exactly understand what was happening, what happened, or can make any sense of any of it. There are little drawings in between many of these stories, strange little creatures that you can stare at for a long time without understanding. All of this seems like it could be confusing, but sometimes it is fun to be confused, fun to scratch your head and not be able to have it all make sense. If you like this feeling at all, this book is for you.
Profile Image for Nicholaus Patnaude.
Author 11 books36 followers
Read
November 25, 2025
The title probably sounds overly goofy, silly, and inane–but this book will surprise on many levels with its inventiveness. It is a very unique collection of Russell Edson-inspired poems, childish drawings, and short stories as only Cameron Pierce can write them–which combines absurd content imbued and emblazoned with a tragic and haunted human element. My favorite in the entire collection was “Lantern Jaws.” Although I only read it this morning in my flat in Istanbul, I already know that it will remain one of my favorite short stories. Cryptic, sad, simple, surprising, and genuine. I will not soon forget the image of what lay beneath Vanessa’s bandage, which proves to be both beautiful and horrific or the comedic yet haunting (and very Lovecrafitan) scene when David joins Vanessa’s parents for dinner. I could ramble on and on about the intricate beauty of each and every piece, but I ask that you discover them for yourselves, take a chance on Mr. Pierce’s dreams, and wander beyond the threshold of your previous imaginative barriers.
Profile Image for Ryan Bradford.
Author 9 books40 followers
February 26, 2013
Probably my first experience with Bizarro, but had a really great time with it. Pierce's voice really grounds the narrative and gives it some genuine emotion, especially the last story Lantern Jaws, which was my favorite.

There's a noted sadness to a lot of these stories, which elevates the fantastic situations. Almost like knowing a great dream is about to end. Something just out of reach.

Also, it seems like there's a couple Oregon/Portland details that make it into these stories--surely a killer donut story could be made away from the vicinity of Voodoo Donuts, but would it be as good?
Profile Image for Alan Clark.
Author 139 books322 followers
May 27, 2013
Die You Doughnut Bastards is hilarious and irreverent. Pierce’s writing has an impromptu feel to it that makes it fresh, yet is thoughtfully put together. While the collection often has an absurdist tone, Pierce finds meaning in the chaos, offers glimpses of that meaning in the prose and poetry, but allows his readers to decide whether it has value. Life and death, conflict, sex, companionship, and love. They’re all there. And, yes, I find it valuable.
Profile Image for C.V. Hunt.
Author 36 books592 followers
November 25, 2012
This is a good variety of the author's work. I have to point out the story titled "Lantern Jaws" as my favorite. I'll be looking for more.
Profile Image for Michael Seidlinger.
Author 32 books459 followers
April 3, 2013
Doughnuts can and will devour every inch of my body. Right before they do, I will ask, "Can I get one last lick of frosting before you feed me to the eclair?"
Profile Image for Cassie Tweten.
7 reviews3 followers
December 8, 2013
Most of the stories are entertaining, but the writer seems to sacrifice good writing for shock value in several of them.
Profile Image for Hugo.
Author 46 books115 followers
June 27, 2016
Good compilation of poems, short fiction and some experimental pieces.
The "Die You Doughnut Bastards" and "Lantern Jaws" are just brilliant. Do yourself a favor and read some Pierce.
Profile Image for Vincenzo Bilof.
Author 36 books116 followers
December 28, 2013
I love reading a book and deciding that I have found an author whose work I need more of RIGHT NOW, and I’m thankful they’ve written a lot more stuff.

I think some of these stories are good enough to stand on their own, but the composition of the entire collection enhances the overall experience. There is a sense of poetic unity among the pieces, and the little illustrations between stories enhanced the sense of loneliness and longing that I felt pervaded throughout the book. There are unifying thoughts and concepts which indicate this is not a haphazard book full of an author’s stories, but rather a book that is supposed to represent a concept. I couldn’t help but keep thinking about Max Booth III’s They Might Be Demons; both authors use flash fiction in a methodical demonstration of theme and a strange progression of plot (I would argue that Pierce’s collection has something of a progressive plot); however, Pierce approaches his work with a schoolboy charm that accepts our perception of madness as nothing more than natural occurrences in thought and action.

My biggest problem with bizarro is that a lot of stories seem to include a bunch of random things that just “happen”, and while that’s usually okay, it sometimes just feels, well, random and contrived. Pierce makes bizarro work as a contextual element; he has infused his stories with a sense of heart and humanity that reflect the poetic elements that seem to either answer questions or provide new ones, with a sense of finality. Pierce did not include random elements, nor did he just throw things into his stories to give readers “more weird” because the book is “bizarro.” I read the majority of this book in one sitting because I wanted to see how Pierce would continue to use his collection as a vehicle for discussing similar themes, but with different symbols and characters. By the time I finished the book, I felt deprived of an awesome discussion that compares Alien to The Metamorphosis. I hope Pierce wrote an essay on it somewhere. But this deprivation is similar to the deprivation the characters felt; I wanted Pierce to give me something his characters wanted, something absolute and definite that I can take with me forever, but Pierce didn’t surrender. He remained consistent.

The opening story demonstrates everything you will discover in the book, which makes me think the design is intentional; or I’m just over-analyzing Pierce’s work. Food and animal references, in addition to that Zen-like observation on loneliness are threads that are woven throughout the entire book, which concludes with enough of a connection to the whole damn thing to make me believe Pierce really meant to design this collection as an isolationist wonderland. I will never forget “Lantern Jaws,” or “Mitchell Farnsworth.” “Disappear” also happened to be a favorite of mine, thought that’s because I dislike Stephen King so much.
Profile Image for Steven Shroyer.
146 reviews
January 4, 2013
Cameron Pierce wowed me when I read "The Ass Goblins of Auschwitz" back in 2010. Since then Cameron has done well for himself, becoming one of the forces behind Avant-Garde lit press Lazy Facist, and editing a deliriously funny collection of stories based on The Flying Spaghetti Monster, as well as routinely wishing me a happy birthday on Facebook. Now with his most recent book, he has done something else, he has made one of the best books of 2012.

Die You Doughnut Bastards is a collection of stories, flash fiction, and poems. It is a world where doughnut zombies run rampant alongside Martin from The Human Centipede 2, where an iconic horror author has an odd secret, and where a young boy finds acceptance with a most odd girl. It is a world where laughing and crying alternate from page to page. In short, this book is nothing short of genius.

I loved this book, if anything it is probably the most enjoyable time I have spent with a book during my lunch and breaks. I found myself being caught up in the emotional world of these stories, laughing, choking up and staring wide eyed in amazement.

If you are wondering about Bizarro, this is the book to go with. Pierce is a standout amongst the many young authors in this daring genre and I look forward to checking out more of his works in the near future(tax time is right around the corner you know).

I should leave you with this note. When I was going to sit down at work and read, my orientation trainer and personnel associate, Lisa, asked me what I was reading. Showed her the book and she read the title out loud.
"That's different." She said.
Its more than that, Lisa, It's brilliant
Profile Image for Andrew Stone.
Author 3 books73 followers
July 22, 2013
I absolutely LOVED this collection. Before this collection of stories/poems, I had never read anything written by Cameron Pierce. Granted, I have read many of the books he has published as the editor of Lazy Fascist Press (possibly my favorite small press). Therefore, I figured I needed to give him a go. And I loved just about every minute of it. My favorite pieces in this collection were "Die You Doughnut Bastards," "Blood Guineas," "Disappear," "Brief History of an Amputee," "Marsupial," "Lantern Jaws," and "The Prisoners." The only thing that bothered me about this collection was that I felt some of the poems were lacking. But those make up the minority of the collection. And as an added bonus, each story is displayed with an illustration by Pierce himself (in the style of Daniel Johnston). If you are a fan of bizarro fiction (or of anything strange in nature), then you need to buy this book.
Profile Image for Michael.
Author 54 books67 followers
February 28, 2014
What makes Die you Doughnut bastards so good is that it doesn't try and be so bizarre that it alienates you. It is surreal and absurb but it's the characters that are bizarre and not the situations themselves.

Pierce is a talented writer that writes bizarro yet there's a likeability to it. If you''ve never read bizarro before this would be a good place to start. Among the stories are poems but they work well in the context of the book.

Highlights here are Moop And The Woogle, Die You Doughnut Bastards, Dissapear, and well actually they're all very well written which makes this a must read collection.
Author 52 books151 followers
December 3, 2012
Mini Tour Of Everything Bizarro Can Be

The bizarro label covers a lot of ground, and this book is proof of that. Zany adventure horror with evil pastries? You got it. Thurston Moore-referencing poetry? Sure, why not. It's all here. My favorite is "Death Card." No less weird than any of the other stories, it's the clearest example of the emotional depth that can be encased in the weirdness of bizarro.
Profile Image for Ben Arzate.
Author 35 books136 followers
January 16, 2013
I read a large chunk of Cameron Pierce's collection, Die You Doughnut Bastards, while feeling sick. After reading the title story and then trying to take a nap, I had a fever dream of being attacked by evil breakfast pastries.

I'm glad I let myself recuperate a little before I finished it.

Full Review
Profile Image for Derek.
408 reviews7 followers
March 6, 2014
What a strange and thought-provoking collection about body image, our relationship with food, and family trauma. This collection was put together very well and grew unexpectedly throughout my reading. Although some stories were hit-or-miss, and although I enjoyed this differently than I did compared with 'Ass Goblins,' I was still content to read something that was so personal and brutally open from one of my favorite Bizarro authors.
Profile Image for Ame.
1,451 reviews
October 3, 2014
This book is a mish-mash of everything bizarro can be. There were times it made me hungry, then disgusted, then depressed, then hungry, then disgusted and happy at the same time. Great collection of poetry and stories. "Lantern Jaws" is the best - beautiful, creepy, and sad.
86 reviews
July 7, 2018
To be all on his house because he’s at his book. He didn’t mention that he has short stories in it so I was a bit confused as to the title. But it was humorous honestly in a bit sick. If you want to fast reason I recommend Cameron pierces work or introductory to Bizarro fiction.
Displaying 1 - 30 of 42 reviews

Can't find what you're looking for?

Get help and learn more about the design.