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Boston Posh
Boston Posh: A Bud Malone Thriller!
Why are the white robots trying to kill Malone?
In 2028 AD, the USA is a nation ravaged by hungry dragons and dinosaurs.
In Boston, Massachusetts, private eye Bud Malone is hired to rescue a kidnapped heiress. But nothing is as it seems.
Malone works to unravel a tangled web involving Boston Chinatown, a 200-year-old woman with a 9-year-old body, white humanoid robots, a human-liver-eating psychopath, a golem, a porcelain dragon, and a snake goddess with a crush on him.
There's also a woman obsessed with chicken sex.
Then Malone meets Posh Lane, a gorgeous call girl who's desperate to quit her pimp. Romantic sparks ignite between Posh and Malone, but Posh's past suddenly catches up with her in a BIG way.
To save Posh, Malone agrees to run a quest for Earth's new rulers, the Forks. The quest: recover ex US president Jefferson Lincoln's liver for them.
Malone has no idea that agreeing to the Fork's odd request will send him on the weirdest trip he's ever been on in his life.
Boston Posh. A total mindf*ck. Reality like you've never dared imagine it!
PUBLISHER'S DISCLAIMER/STORM WARNING:
This isn't well-behaved young adult fiction. It is not intended for children, either. This is a graphically violent, EXTREMELY sexually graphic/depraved, quite sick book (in places) . . . seriously, not for the innocent. SERIOUSLY. Er . . . you've been warned
Why are the white robots trying to kill Malone?
In 2028 AD, the USA is a nation ravaged by hungry dragons and dinosaurs.
In Boston, Massachusetts, private eye Bud Malone is hired to rescue a kidnapped heiress. But nothing is as it seems.
Malone works to unravel a tangled web involving Boston Chinatown, a 200-year-old woman with a 9-year-old body, white humanoid robots, a human-liver-eating psychopath, a golem, a porcelain dragon, and a snake goddess with a crush on him.
There's also a woman obsessed with chicken sex.
Then Malone meets Posh Lane, a gorgeous call girl who's desperate to quit her pimp. Romantic sparks ignite between Posh and Malone, but Posh's past suddenly catches up with her in a BIG way.
To save Posh, Malone agrees to run a quest for Earth's new rulers, the Forks. The quest: recover ex US president Jefferson Lincoln's liver for them.
Malone has no idea that agreeing to the Fork's odd request will send him on the weirdest trip he's ever been on in his life.
Boston Posh. A total mindf*ck. Reality like you've never dared imagine it!
PUBLISHER'S DISCLAIMER/STORM WARNING:
This isn't well-behaved young adult fiction. It is not intended for children, either. This is a graphically violent, EXTREMELY sexually graphic/depraved, quite sick book (in places) . . . seriously, not for the innocent. SERIOUSLY. Er . . . you've been warned
484 pages, Paperback
First published December 7, 2013
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About the author
Wol-vriey
70 books201 followersWol-vriey writes eXXXtreme horror fiction, and also some surrealist stuff.
To date, he has published over forty novels in both genres.
His horror novels include: EnterPAINment, LGBT, The Virgin, Marriage, Women, Nightmare Fuel 1 & 2, Haunted House XXX 1 & 2, and How To Succeed in Life.
On the surrealist side of things, he is the author of Vegan Zombie Apocalypse, Vegan Vampire Vaginas, Vagina Mundi, and the disturbing and unsettling Dr. Orgasm.
To date, he has published over forty novels in both genres.
His horror novels include: EnterPAINment, LGBT, The Virgin, Marriage, Women, Nightmare Fuel 1 & 2, Haunted House XXX 1 & 2, and How To Succeed in Life.
On the surrealist side of things, he is the author of Vegan Zombie Apocalypse, Vegan Vampire Vaginas, Vagina Mundi, and the disturbing and unsettling Dr. Orgasm.
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January 2, 2014
Wol-vriey is the L. Frank Baum of our perverted 21st Century!
There are striking similarities in the worlds Wol-vriey builds to the Land of Oz and its various interconnected fairylands. Both authors create patchwork characters out of inanimate objects, animals, and people parts. Geography plays a large role in separating the species they invent. Characters are repeatedly hacked to pieces and reassembled through magic. Their worlds are populated with strong female characters, often wicked and powerful ones. With a few exceptions, their men are often stupid and ineffectual.
You may be asking yourself: Well, what about Wol-vriey's obsession with transgender characters? There's nothing like that in the land of Oz! Well, there you'd be wrong. Baum's Ozma was transgender. She was born a girl, was transformed into a boy to live out most of her childhood before being transformed back into a young girl again and attaining Oz's throne.
In Oz, you'll find Glass Cat. In Wol-vriey's Boston Posh, you'll find Glass Horse. Baum has Utensia, a land populated solely with kitchen utensils. In Boston Posh you have a telekinetic race of sentient Forks. Baum gives us the Wheelers, a race of creatures with wheels for hands. Wol-vriey gives us the Mermaids on Motorcycles. Both authors give us creatures made of porcelain, dragons, talking animals, and transmogrification as punishment. Both authors give us kidnapping schemes, riddles, horrible puns, and absurd quests to find bizarre magical objects. Both authors give us automatons and portals to other realms.
Wol-vriey's Boston Posh is so very much like L. Frank Baum's Oz, just with more genitalia and gore.
Highly recommended.
UPDATE: PLEASE NOTE: Readers should not pick up this book expecting an Oz parody, pastiche, or homage of Baum's work. I draw parallels between the writings of Baum and Wol-vriey to illustrate what I found to be similarities in approach and creative sensibility.
There are striking similarities in the worlds Wol-vriey builds to the Land of Oz and its various interconnected fairylands. Both authors create patchwork characters out of inanimate objects, animals, and people parts. Geography plays a large role in separating the species they invent. Characters are repeatedly hacked to pieces and reassembled through magic. Their worlds are populated with strong female characters, often wicked and powerful ones. With a few exceptions, their men are often stupid and ineffectual.
You may be asking yourself: Well, what about Wol-vriey's obsession with transgender characters? There's nothing like that in the land of Oz! Well, there you'd be wrong. Baum's Ozma was transgender. She was born a girl, was transformed into a boy to live out most of her childhood before being transformed back into a young girl again and attaining Oz's throne.
In Oz, you'll find Glass Cat. In Wol-vriey's Boston Posh, you'll find Glass Horse. Baum has Utensia, a land populated solely with kitchen utensils. In Boston Posh you have a telekinetic race of sentient Forks. Baum gives us the Wheelers, a race of creatures with wheels for hands. Wol-vriey gives us the Mermaids on Motorcycles. Both authors give us creatures made of porcelain, dragons, talking animals, and transmogrification as punishment. Both authors give us kidnapping schemes, riddles, horrible puns, and absurd quests to find bizarre magical objects. Both authors give us automatons and portals to other realms.
Wol-vriey's Boston Posh is so very much like L. Frank Baum's Oz, just with more genitalia and gore.
Highly recommended.
UPDATE: PLEASE NOTE: Readers should not pick up this book expecting an Oz parody, pastiche, or homage of Baum's work. I draw parallels between the writings of Baum and Wol-vriey to illustrate what I found to be similarities in approach and creative sensibility.
January 10, 2014
Then he heard the snuffling sound behind him.
Malone spun around firing.
He got off a shot which hit the fractured window before the raptor's jaws shut over the muzzle of his gun.
"Fuck!" he thought, starring momentarily past the lizard's head at the charred window frame.
The raptor held Malone's gun in a vice-like grip. It wrenched its head left and right, seeking to yank it from his grasp.
The current state of the world is referred to as the New Past.
Dinosaurs are back, and they're ALL ravenous for human flesh. And oh, yeah, there are now dragons. Big, hungry ones. All the police and four-fifths of Boston's population have been eaten by one scaly predator or another.
Bud Malone, private investigator, has the unfortunate motto - "No case too difficult or dangerous!"
He will live to regret those words...or maybe he won't...when he's hired to find the missing daughter of a breakfast cereal tycoon.
Posh is a prostitute used to doing ANYTHING for money and INDEED, her interactions with clientele wallow in stomach-churning territory. Fearing for her safety, she's decided to leave her pimp and is seeking Malone's help to sever those ties.
This is a colossally inventive and fiendishly imaginative work, bursting with enough plots for a dozen books (or spin-offs!) There are killer robots, blood-thirsty kitchen gods, biker mermaids, and just wait 'til you meet the worman! This freaky acid trip of a novel is not for everyone. It is incredibly violent and gory, and contains the two...okay, FIVE GROSSEST SEX SCENES I've ever read. (No. I'm not going to describe them. They defy description.) BUT, if you've got an open mind and a perverse curiosity about, well...stuff, this one might be right up your...alley.
Oh, and kudos to Wol-vriey for realizing that older women, even conniving widows and transsexual angels, can still be attractive AND possess sex drives. Go for it, grannies!
Malone spun around firing.
He got off a shot which hit the fractured window before the raptor's jaws shut over the muzzle of his gun.
"Fuck!" he thought, starring momentarily past the lizard's head at the charred window frame.
The raptor held Malone's gun in a vice-like grip. It wrenched its head left and right, seeking to yank it from his grasp.
The current state of the world is referred to as the New Past.
Dinosaurs are back, and they're ALL ravenous for human flesh. And oh, yeah, there are now dragons. Big, hungry ones. All the police and four-fifths of Boston's population have been eaten by one scaly predator or another.
Bud Malone, private investigator, has the unfortunate motto - "No case too difficult or dangerous!"
He will live to regret those words...or maybe he won't...when he's hired to find the missing daughter of a breakfast cereal tycoon.
Posh is a prostitute used to doing ANYTHING for money and INDEED, her interactions with clientele wallow in stomach-churning territory. Fearing for her safety, she's decided to leave her pimp and is seeking Malone's help to sever those ties.
This is a colossally inventive and fiendishly imaginative work, bursting with enough plots for a dozen books (or spin-offs!) There are killer robots, blood-thirsty kitchen gods, biker mermaids, and just wait 'til you meet the worman! This freaky acid trip of a novel is not for everyone. It is incredibly violent and gory, and contains the two...okay, FIVE GROSSEST SEX SCENES I've ever read. (No. I'm not going to describe them. They defy description.) BUT, if you've got an open mind and a perverse curiosity about, well...stuff, this one might be right up your...alley.
Oh, and kudos to Wol-vriey for realizing that older women, even conniving widows and transsexual angels, can still be attractive AND possess sex drives. Go for it, grannies!
December 28, 2013
Read the majority of this today. Overall, very imaginative novel which kept me reading, even though I had serious issues with some of it (the revolting chicken scenes for example. I hate any type of animal cruelty, so I really found them hard to get through). This is an extremely graphic novel and there is a lot of sex in it, much of it grotesque rather than erotic. (I assume that was the intention). It certainly won't be for everyone.
I received a free copy in return for a review. I had previously read one other bizarro, and was interested to read more, so was quite pleased to be asked. This one seemed more extreme than the previous one I read (by a different author). I'm honestly at loss to describe what I just read.
I have rated it highly as it was fast paced and highly original. The author obviously has talent. Did I actually like it? Not exactly. But I couldn't put it down, even when I wanted to several times, so it can't have been entirely awful. It is rare for me to be so conflicted on a review. Generally I either like something or I don't. I guess the closest I can get is horrible, but entertaining.
Thank you again for the chance to read this book. I am sure it will find its audience, as it is a twisted little story, which will no doubt appeal to bizarro fans.
I received a free copy in return for a review. I had previously read one other bizarro, and was interested to read more, so was quite pleased to be asked. This one seemed more extreme than the previous one I read (by a different author). I'm honestly at loss to describe what I just read.
I have rated it highly as it was fast paced and highly original. The author obviously has talent. Did I actually like it? Not exactly. But I couldn't put it down, even when I wanted to several times, so it can't have been entirely awful. It is rare for me to be so conflicted on a review. Generally I either like something or I don't. I guess the closest I can get is horrible, but entertaining.
Thank you again for the chance to read this book. I am sure it will find its audience, as it is a twisted little story, which will no doubt appeal to bizarro fans.
January 10, 2014
The man who defines weird returns with a 400 page bizarro tale, that takes place in the state capital of the town I grew up in.
Do you like chicken straight off the cutting board? Or how bout liver? and that pre packaged garbage at the grocery store, Human liver. Assuming no one raised there hand to second one lets go in to more details.
Boston 2026 over-taken by dragons and dinosaurs. (I kept picturing Super Mario brother alternative Brooklyn, but without the plumbers) Pimps, strange sexual situations and a group of cutlery who is saying "Fork the world and everyone in it"
Just read this Wol-vriey's work doesn't even need a synopsis, if you read his other books you know your in for a ride. If not start here and hang on to your jaw because it may drop to the floor.
Do you like chicken straight off the cutting board? Or how bout liver? and that pre packaged garbage at the grocery store, Human liver. Assuming no one raised there hand to second one lets go in to more details.
Boston 2026 over-taken by dragons and dinosaurs. (I kept picturing Super Mario brother alternative Brooklyn, but without the plumbers) Pimps, strange sexual situations and a group of cutlery who is saying "Fork the world and everyone in it"
Just read this Wol-vriey's work doesn't even need a synopsis, if you read his other books you know your in for a ride. If not start here and hang on to your jaw because it may drop to the floor.
October 7, 2014
"You've been warned".
Nothing can prepare you for the world Wol-vriey has created.
There is a lot going on in this book. I'll start with a brief synopsis:
Bud Malone is a detective living in 2028 AD, in an era called "New Past". Dinosaurs and dragons roam free, the world's de facto rulers are a group of living, sentient cutlery simply known as the "Forks" and people of Boston live under a security grid that protects them.
Ah, buildings are laid by massive beetles, and there are transexual angels.
In this wonderful scenario masterfully crafted by Wol-vriey, Bud Malone is hired to bring back the kidnapped heiress to a sex-crazed widow.
From there, the book spirals out of control. There are a lot threads to follow, and this makes the experience of reading this book a really deep one. It's dense, but easy and enjoyable to read. It's graphic in some parts, so reader discretion is advised. But for those who are fans of Bizarro, and just plain weird literature, this book will be a delight.
Nothing can prepare you for the world Wol-vriey has created.
There is a lot going on in this book. I'll start with a brief synopsis:
Bud Malone is a detective living in 2028 AD, in an era called "New Past". Dinosaurs and dragons roam free, the world's de facto rulers are a group of living, sentient cutlery simply known as the "Forks" and people of Boston live under a security grid that protects them.
Ah, buildings are laid by massive beetles, and there are transexual angels.
In this wonderful scenario masterfully crafted by Wol-vriey, Bud Malone is hired to bring back the kidnapped heiress to a sex-crazed widow.
From there, the book spirals out of control. There are a lot threads to follow, and this makes the experience of reading this book a really deep one. It's dense, but easy and enjoyable to read. It's graphic in some parts, so reader discretion is advised. But for those who are fans of Bizarro, and just plain weird literature, this book will be a delight.
May 17, 2015
I’m often worried when authors send me their books to read in case I absolutely hate it. No worries on account of Boston Posh however because I simply could not put this down.
Where do I begin? At its heart it’s a pulp detective story about a PI called Bud Malone asked by a nympho sexagenarian to conduct an exchange to get back her kidnapped daughter Rachel. Malone soon finds out that Rachel engineered her own kidnapping to get the cash to fund her pet project of world domination. Things go downhill from there.
The novel reads like a surrealist’s nightmare with so many freaky elements it leaves the reader breathless. There’s a parade of: hookers, pimps, drug addicts and triad members, dinosaurs, dragons, robots, kitchen gods – humanoid giant forks, trangels (transsexual angels), wormen (humans turned into worms) , talking and morphing body parts, mermaids on motorcycles, and a petty snake hybrid goddess in a freaky landscape which ranges from a post apocalyptic Boston to a fantasy realm of giant breasts, anuses and a sexually frustrated giant penis, oh and beware in the ‘real world’ sometimes the walls have teeth!
Wow! This is like an x-rated version of Robert Rankin on acid with a little of the Eddie Murphy movie The Golden Child thrown in for good measure. The sheer scope of imagination at work here is staggering. What is also amazing is that the author has managed to sustain such an insane narrative for nearly 500 delirious pages that not only make sense, but also keep the reader interested. Normally volumes of this type are much shorter and the human characters mere cyphers against the backdrop of the ‘interesting stuff’ – here the characters are fully realised and interesting in and of themselves, in addition to the weird external stuff going on around them. The story is pacy and reasonably written, I didn’t detect the avalanche of mistakes I often find in indie books. Thumbs up there.
So that’s all the good stuff. On to the negatives. The title really doesn’t do this justice or even begin to hint at the insanity within. I probably wouldn’t have found this if it hadn’t been sent to me which is a crying shame. Then with the story itself, I didn’t particularly see the need for dinosaurs in the story – Dragons and Forks more than enough menace out there and the dinos never really did anything interesting other than eat people – which dragons and forks do too but in much more interesting ways. I also didn’t think there was enough exploration of the OD’s – doorways to other realms. I’m presuming Traven, the breast milk sea etc are in another dimension but the story never made that particularly clear – nor why these doorways keep dis/appearing.
I guess I also ought to mention the sex, since that seems to be what other reviewers are focusing on. The sex scenes are frequent, freaky and graphic. The infamous chicken scenes made me wince as did Malone’s encounter with the gargantuan Blubber. You want shock value? This novel delivers it in spades! The scenes are too visceral and OMG you didn’t really go there did you? To be in any way erotic. I actually didn’t mind at all – it fit with the style of the book and enhanced the bizarro feel. This won’t be a title I forget in a hurry. I can however see why they would disturb some readers. Equally however it will also delight others.
Whether you love it or hate it, Boston Posh has cult classic written all over it, but is certainly not for the squeamish or straight-laced.
Where do I begin? At its heart it’s a pulp detective story about a PI called Bud Malone asked by a nympho sexagenarian to conduct an exchange to get back her kidnapped daughter Rachel. Malone soon finds out that Rachel engineered her own kidnapping to get the cash to fund her pet project of world domination. Things go downhill from there.
The novel reads like a surrealist’s nightmare with so many freaky elements it leaves the reader breathless. There’s a parade of: hookers, pimps, drug addicts and triad members, dinosaurs, dragons, robots, kitchen gods – humanoid giant forks, trangels (transsexual angels), wormen (humans turned into worms) , talking and morphing body parts, mermaids on motorcycles, and a petty snake hybrid goddess in a freaky landscape which ranges from a post apocalyptic Boston to a fantasy realm of giant breasts, anuses and a sexually frustrated giant penis, oh and beware in the ‘real world’ sometimes the walls have teeth!
Wow! This is like an x-rated version of Robert Rankin on acid with a little of the Eddie Murphy movie The Golden Child thrown in for good measure. The sheer scope of imagination at work here is staggering. What is also amazing is that the author has managed to sustain such an insane narrative for nearly 500 delirious pages that not only make sense, but also keep the reader interested. Normally volumes of this type are much shorter and the human characters mere cyphers against the backdrop of the ‘interesting stuff’ – here the characters are fully realised and interesting in and of themselves, in addition to the weird external stuff going on around them. The story is pacy and reasonably written, I didn’t detect the avalanche of mistakes I often find in indie books. Thumbs up there.
So that’s all the good stuff. On to the negatives. The title really doesn’t do this justice or even begin to hint at the insanity within. I probably wouldn’t have found this if it hadn’t been sent to me which is a crying shame. Then with the story itself, I didn’t particularly see the need for dinosaurs in the story – Dragons and Forks more than enough menace out there and the dinos never really did anything interesting other than eat people – which dragons and forks do too but in much more interesting ways. I also didn’t think there was enough exploration of the OD’s – doorways to other realms. I’m presuming Traven, the breast milk sea etc are in another dimension but the story never made that particularly clear – nor why these doorways keep dis/appearing.
I guess I also ought to mention the sex, since that seems to be what other reviewers are focusing on. The sex scenes are frequent, freaky and graphic. The infamous chicken scenes made me wince as did Malone’s encounter with the gargantuan Blubber. You want shock value? This novel delivers it in spades! The scenes are too visceral and OMG you didn’t really go there did you? To be in any way erotic. I actually didn’t mind at all – it fit with the style of the book and enhanced the bizarro feel. This won’t be a title I forget in a hurry. I can however see why they would disturb some readers. Equally however it will also delight others.
Whether you love it or hate it, Boston Posh has cult classic written all over it, but is certainly not for the squeamish or straight-laced.
December 15, 2013
Like a Catholic school girl whose fear of damnation limits her uncontrollable promiscuity to the singular act of fellatio, the average Bizarro aficionado has had to satisfy their guilty pleasure with novellas that only fulfill their burning desire in short quick spurts.
But not anymore.
Veteran Bizarro writer Wol-vriey took a short story concept about the theft of a Presidential liver and turned it into an epic hundred-thousand word transgressive masterpiece called "Boston Posh." The myth that bizarro story-telling cannot sustain a reader's interest (or in some instances, patience) past one or two hundred pages is shattered with this epic sci-fi/noir tale.
Weighing in at about 500 pages, "Boston Posh" paces itself brilliantly, starting out with a few dinosaurs and dragons wreaking havoc on the remaining Bostonian survivors, but progressively gets more and more bizarre as the main characters face off against animated silverware and transvestite angels of the `AfterWife.'
What begins as an atypical pulp-style detective story, where private eye Bud Malone teams up with a sultry ex-prostitute named Posh (who is on the run from her sadistic pimp and her ultra-perverted clients) to infiltrate Bean Town's cannibalistic criminal underground, eventually puts Malone on a mystical flying glass horse for an anti-neoclassical Odyssean journey over seas of breast milk and semen clouds.
No matter how many of the main characters' organs get eaten, how much of their skin rots away or what abomination they have to have nonconsensual sex with, Wol-vriey's dielectric duo presses on against all oddities and keeps the reader fascinated with his immeasurable imagination. This book redefines the concept of a page-turner, because every new page contains events and characters that will both shock and awe the reader.
Not only will "Boston Posh" serve as a perfect introduction of Bizarro fiction to genre virgins, but will also satisfy the most babble-scarred of bizarro brigadiers. I can only hope that this latest novel brings Wol-vriey the recognition and praise his body of work rightly deserves within the Bizarro community.
Newbies be forewarned, however, this book contains extreme and graphic descriptions of violence and sex (including violent sex), but it will also have you laughing out loud if you like your humor weird and dark (which Wol-vriey is, by the way).
But not anymore.
Veteran Bizarro writer Wol-vriey took a short story concept about the theft of a Presidential liver and turned it into an epic hundred-thousand word transgressive masterpiece called "Boston Posh." The myth that bizarro story-telling cannot sustain a reader's interest (or in some instances, patience) past one or two hundred pages is shattered with this epic sci-fi/noir tale.
Weighing in at about 500 pages, "Boston Posh" paces itself brilliantly, starting out with a few dinosaurs and dragons wreaking havoc on the remaining Bostonian survivors, but progressively gets more and more bizarre as the main characters face off against animated silverware and transvestite angels of the `AfterWife.'
What begins as an atypical pulp-style detective story, where private eye Bud Malone teams up with a sultry ex-prostitute named Posh (who is on the run from her sadistic pimp and her ultra-perverted clients) to infiltrate Bean Town's cannibalistic criminal underground, eventually puts Malone on a mystical flying glass horse for an anti-neoclassical Odyssean journey over seas of breast milk and semen clouds.
No matter how many of the main characters' organs get eaten, how much of their skin rots away or what abomination they have to have nonconsensual sex with, Wol-vriey's dielectric duo presses on against all oddities and keeps the reader fascinated with his immeasurable imagination. This book redefines the concept of a page-turner, because every new page contains events and characters that will both shock and awe the reader.
Not only will "Boston Posh" serve as a perfect introduction of Bizarro fiction to genre virgins, but will also satisfy the most babble-scarred of bizarro brigadiers. I can only hope that this latest novel brings Wol-vriey the recognition and praise his body of work rightly deserves within the Bizarro community.
Newbies be forewarned, however, this book contains extreme and graphic descriptions of violence and sex (including violent sex), but it will also have you laughing out loud if you like your humor weird and dark (which Wol-vriey is, by the way).
February 3, 2014
All I can say is that Mellick better watch out for Wol-vriey! This guy has some amazing talent for the weird and warped! Overall, I loved the book. The one fault is that some of the stuff in the middle was a bit slow going due to the book's length. There was, however, enough shit going on to really keep you interested. Private eye Bud Malone has been hired to rescue a kidnapped heiress. In a world where dragons and dinosaurs have destroyed most of mankind, and omnipotent cutlery seems to be in control, one would think it couldn't get stranger. Guess again. Malone's quest unravels a mystery (conspiracy?) that involves bizarre chicken sex, killer robots, mermaids, transsexual angels glass horses, penis whales, teleportation, a breast milk sea, and a North Pole consisting of a giant purple penis. The list goes on and on! This was a great, fun read! Not at all for the faint of heart, but if you enjoy bizarro, you should have fun with this.
February 14, 2014
Firstly let's get this out of the way: if you do not want to read graphic, bizarre (some might say perverted) sex scenes then do not pick up this book. Don't even look at the cover. Seriously, it's not that the book is mostly those type of scenes but when they come (so to speak) they are over the Top with a capital 'T'.
If you enjoy those (or can at least tolerate them) then this is a great book. It is a great example of the Bizarro genre; it has many bizzare characters and concepts and is introducing new ones right up until the end. I thought the author did a good job with characterization from Malone to Posh, from Ma Cure to Lucy Tang. There are much stranger characters which I don't want to spoil for you here, suffice to say that each one seems to be stranger than the last.
I really enjoyed the concept of the New Past, what with dinosaurs and dragons running and flying about. There was not much explanation of how this came to be until the very end of the book but in this case that didn't bother me at all; I just enjoyed reading it and didn't even notice myself suspending my disbelief. Dragonreich was another thing that went without much explanation of cause and effect but I didn't care because the story was that good.
The one thing that was noticeable and in fact cost the book almost an entire star was the (what seemed to me) unacceptably large number of typos and/or grammatical errors. I understand that there are very few books where the proofreaders catch 100% of these errors but there were so many in this book (more so in the second half I think) that it did start to detract from the story a bit for me. This is definitely a subjective thing and every reader will have a different tolerance level for this, in my case it crossed my threshold and I found myself thinking "geez, I wish I had been a proofreader on this since I would have caught most if not all of the problems".
Niggling technical details aside I would definitely recommend this to anyone with a strong stomach who wants to try the Bizarro genre. I can't wait to read more Bud Malone stories in the Bizarro anthologies out there.
If you enjoy those (or can at least tolerate them) then this is a great book. It is a great example of the Bizarro genre; it has many bizzare characters and concepts and is introducing new ones right up until the end. I thought the author did a good job with characterization from Malone to Posh, from Ma Cure to Lucy Tang. There are much stranger characters which I don't want to spoil for you here, suffice to say that each one seems to be stranger than the last.
I really enjoyed the concept of the New Past, what with dinosaurs and dragons running and flying about. There was not much explanation of how this came to be until the very end of the book but in this case that didn't bother me at all; I just enjoyed reading it and didn't even notice myself suspending my disbelief. Dragonreich was another thing that went without much explanation of cause and effect but I didn't care because the story was that good.
The one thing that was noticeable and in fact cost the book almost an entire star was the (what seemed to me) unacceptably large number of typos and/or grammatical errors. I understand that there are very few books where the proofreaders catch 100% of these errors but there were so many in this book (more so in the second half I think) that it did start to detract from the story a bit for me. This is definitely a subjective thing and every reader will have a different tolerance level for this, in my case it crossed my threshold and I found myself thinking "geez, I wish I had been a proofreader on this since I would have caught most if not all of the problems".
Niggling technical details aside I would definitely recommend this to anyone with a strong stomach who wants to try the Bizarro genre. I can't wait to read more Bud Malone stories in the Bizarro anthologies out there.
January 31, 2014
There's so much going on in this strange and twisted tale that I was not able to enjoy it as much as I think I would have if it had focused more on certain players.
We start out with Malone searching for the kidnapped daughter of a rich woman. Malone takes a beating and keeps going while being followed by robots. He meets Posh, the prostitute, who gets paid to have chickens cut up on her back while performing cunnilingus on a customer. She's addicted to dragon crack and becomes a killer when she's high. Malone needs to have sex with a very obese woman (for lack of a better word) and the craziness go on and on.
To me, it was all over the place, causing pacing issues, but for the author, everything was right where he wanted it or else he wouldn't have published it.
There were some things that happened to the characters in the story that were easily avoidable and would have made the situation more believable, but alas, the author wants you to work your brain. I was confused at times and it took me longer than normal to get through it.
Be warned. This story contained some off-the-wall, you-can't-unread-it sexual stuff. It wasn't sexy. Just as an example, there were husband transsexual angels, and dragon snap pus*y clenches that could strip a penis and sex with men whose skin peels off (gag).
Wol-vriey does explain that his reads are weird and that his philosophy is to:
"Warp/Write everything into realistic ridiculous readable distorted dream dimension description.
I could not, in my wildest dreams, have explained it better. He did as he stated.
It was just an okay read for me.
*I was given a copy of this read in exchange for an honest review*
You can check out my blog for interviews and reviews:
http://www.ravenousreads.blogspot.com/
We start out with Malone searching for the kidnapped daughter of a rich woman. Malone takes a beating and keeps going while being followed by robots. He meets Posh, the prostitute, who gets paid to have chickens cut up on her back while performing cunnilingus on a customer. She's addicted to dragon crack and becomes a killer when she's high. Malone needs to have sex with a very obese woman (for lack of a better word) and the craziness go on and on.
To me, it was all over the place, causing pacing issues, but for the author, everything was right where he wanted it or else he wouldn't have published it.
There were some things that happened to the characters in the story that were easily avoidable and would have made the situation more believable, but alas, the author wants you to work your brain. I was confused at times and it took me longer than normal to get through it.
Be warned. This story contained some off-the-wall, you-can't-unread-it sexual stuff. It wasn't sexy. Just as an example, there were husband transsexual angels, and dragon snap pus*y clenches that could strip a penis and sex with men whose skin peels off (gag).
Wol-vriey does explain that his reads are weird and that his philosophy is to:
"Warp/Write everything into realistic ridiculous readable distorted dream dimension description.
I could not, in my wildest dreams, have explained it better. He did as he stated.
It was just an okay read for me.
*I was given a copy of this read in exchange for an honest review*
You can check out my blog for interviews and reviews:
http://www.ravenousreads.blogspot.com/
March 3, 2014
I fucking HATE you, Goodreads app!!!! I just had, like, the *most brilliant* review ever (it even had blocks of goddamn quotes in it!!! I used LOTS of HTML!!!). Alas, apparently my phone is thwarting my attempts at telling everyone how incredibly awesome this book is for some reason...I WILL write a good review for this book (A-FUCKING-GAIN) tomorrow or the next day. No...tomorrow. 'Or the next day' turns into 3 months and you forget what they hell you're talkin about. I already said I was toughening up my rating system, and the whole 'lost review' was about WHY I still gave this 5 stars after promising to ratchet up reviewing standards. Anyways whatevs...my mind is still kinda reeling anyway...I was thinking of all the crazy stuff in this book, but, shit, you'd need a damn notebook. Anyhow, longer review ASAP (i.e., tomorrow, of course)
~Teresa~
~Teresa~
December 31, 2013
Boston Posh: Wol vriey
Imagine what would happen if the world you are about to enter and created by author Wol vriey really existed. Or maybe it does and we just don’t know it! The USA has been destroyed, burned, ruined and taken over by dragons and dinosaurs that are deadly. They go out each day seeking not to rule the world but to eat its inhabitants and wreak havoc, fear and take control of anything that seems to look tasty. Within this world we have a woman named Ma Cure is 200 years old and has the body of a 9 year old. Wouldn’t we all like to have the body of someone younger and the ability to heal those that are injured, practically at death’s door with special potions and abilities that are definitely not known in our world today? Boston, Massachusetts is the setting for this bizarre story. Kidnappings, murders and a state segregated and fenced off you might say to protect those that are not in danger from the wrath of those who would like nothing better than to eat them for lunch, breakfast and dinner. But, there is much more to this story as those that are allowed to roam not free but pretty safe have to watch where they go because you see, or maybe you don’t see there are no police, no judges or juries to decide who is guilty and prosecute them. But, one private eye, our star, our hopefully our hero, Bud Malone is fearless, dangerous and has been hired by a woman named Sara Fischer to find her daughter Rachel who has been kidnapped.
.Meeting with Bud Malone is handed five million dollars to rescue her. In his mind this seems to a simple case that will take a short period of time. But, things do not go well for Malone when he finds the kidnapper’s hideaway and comes face to face with a lunatic named Frank. Words pass, the money exchanged and then Malone finds himself in deep and dire trouble. Realizing that he lost the money and never found Rachel he returns to tell Sara who seems really unconcerned about the money and advises him on how to learn by going to see Ma Cure. One visit to this Chinese woman and her magic she performs will surprise readers as Malone takes the bait you might say and once again winds up at the toy factory where Rachel is supposedly being kept. But, sometimes traps are set and you are not always ready fro them. A story filed with unusual occurrences, cannibalistic characters, white humanoid robots, psychopaths that eat human livers and microwave them to heat them up this story will either make you lose your appetite for many different foods, especially liver or keep you wondering about what is going to happen next. But, before you decide you will meet many more strange and weird figures such as a golem, a porcelain dragon and a snake goddess name Yang Yang that loves Bud and helps him in his quest to find Rachel. Or does she?
The title is Boston Posh so it’s time to meet Posh Lane. She is beautiful, a hooker who is into all sorts of kinky and strange stuff and is stuck with a pimp named Herbie whose idea of going out to do a trick will make you wonder just how any of these girls do what they do. The scenes are graphic and quite odd and the interactions and interplay among the clients and the girls might make want to think before reading more or you might enjoy reading them. Posh is trying to leave Herbie who has caused her to become infected by a client whose affliction will make your skin peel and crawl. When things get tough she finds her way to Malone’s house but he is at this time or was being served up as dinner for Rachel and Frank. Yes, you guessed it, the kidnapping was a fake to get the money for Rachel to use for her research. She is a scientist and does not want to go down the married with children route and men make her sick except as you will learn Frank. Their love hate relationship is hilarious and what Malone does while his liver is being eaten will definitely help you understand why he feared by so many. Next, we meet the ruling class of the USA: THE FORKS! Yes you heard me some are gold, some silver and those poor ones at the bottom of the prongs are tins.
To save Posh, Malone agrees to run a quest for Earth's new rulers, the Forks. The quest: recover ex US president Jefferson Lincoln's liver for them. Malone has no idea that agreeing to the Fork's odd request will send him on the weirdest trip he's ever been on in his life.
Posh had a strange mishap and when her skin peeled Ma Cure and Jade Cure did all they could along with Malone to restore her to normal. But, the answer was Dragonreich and I cannot reveal what that is to you because the Forks might learn the secret and it would make them too powerfully pronged. When they administered this to Posh what happens to her transforms her into a white ceramic dragon and scares the you know what out of everyone. Poor Posh and even worse wait until you learn what she does to Ma Cure and what happens will well you have to read it for yourself. As we return to Sara who is with President Jefferson Lincoln whom the Forks have kidnapped and whose fate is sealed when he decides to be overly affectionate with Sara. Poor Sara cannot win in the mate department and when she learns and sees her daughter’s fate you won’t believe what she does. With the President gone Sara needs to keep her leverage with the Forks and unfortunately Malone is her bait. Wanting to bury Jefferson-Lincoln with dignity she has no choice but to agree to allow the Forks to take his liver and keeping preserved in his memory forever. But, as you can tell the best intensions never seem to pan out and what happens to his liver and who decides it take it as his own tasty morsel is none other than Frank the kidnapper who while he is at it decides to take Rachel’s head too. Thus, starts a chain of events that only this author with his creative and extensively graphic mind can visually describe for readers. What happens to Malone and how what he has to endure is too painful and scary to relate to you. Reading it might make you more appreciative of you own mate and make you realize just how far he will go to save Posh from a fate that has already befallen her but possibly could be reversed. When Posh becomes a victim of a drug that is so powerful that when imbibed it changes her into a white porcelain dragon who not only is dangerous but loves munching on live people to keep her or its strength up. So, poor Malone is on a quest to get back this liver from Frank, play along with those he meets along the way including trying to figure out his riddles and what they mean all in the name of true love.
Malone is dedicate to saving Posh and the experiences he has as related to you by author Wol vriey will show you to what extent he and his helper, Glass Horse, who comes to his aid for a while, go to in order to save Posh. From dealing with his Hetero Fist to his Gay fist and finally to his Lesbian First when he meets the Moms and tries to help them from being annihilated by the white robots, Malone comes to the rescue but never seems to ever really escape. The carnage he sees when the MOMS and the Robots fight for control, power and just to see who will win is more than he can handle and is devastating. When a close friend and ally are no longer there he begins to reflect on what might happen next. But, what happens when he is with the MOMS and after in the North Pole: -well read it to believe it! Let’s not forget dear Herbie and his gang. Bulldog his brother, Gorgeous who is anything but, Sookie the drug dealer and Lucy Tang. Added in we have two others Stacy and Blondie and we have a cast of characters that are so diametrically different and diverse. What Gorgeous lacked in looks she made up for in brains as Bulldog was no match for her. But, poor lovesick Lucy would learn the fate of her man and will she want revenge?
A voice rings out and his final fate although seems sealed. Caught in Frank’s web will anything or anyone save Malone? A secret weapon that he’s not sure will work and an ending on this author could write. Deceptions, lies, betrayals and one man who would risk it all to save the woman he loved. But, does it and would you do the same? Lord Tav and Lady Yaz the head Forks change the rules and what happens to Posh you will have to learn for yourself. An ending so filled with hiccups, burbs and laughs as Malone’s fate is decided and I think there might be more to come. This book is totally unique, original, graphically depicted and definitely original. Since part of the time it rained popcorn: let’s give this book: 4 and half bags.
Fran Lewis: reviewer
February 4, 2016
Of all the bizarro authors I have read, Wolvriey takes the cake on quantity while maintaining quality. I don't know how he is able to construct so many concepts, plots, and characters and weave them together in such a coherent way that you are immersed into his bizarre world which at times are epically violent and disturbing with a perfect balance of dry humor with the best character development among the chaos. I have yet to be disappointed or disinterested in any of Wolvrieys giant tomes of bizarre, inventive, fascinating worlds. This book, as many of his others are as well, contain extreme violence and sex and with it topping out over 400 pages it can be a lot to take in if this is your introduction to this genre. Pace yourself cause this book goes to some dark places.
Meet Malone. A private detective with the skills to take on any case no matter how weird or dangerous. When the scientist daughter of a very rich, sexually driven woman is kidnapped, Malone is hired to her bring her back preferably without giving away the ransom money. Needless to say things go sour for Malone when he attempts to safely retrieve Rachel. This is no easy task given that the world is now ravaged by larger than usual dinosaurs roaming around and dragons in the sky threatening to make you dinner. When things go terribly awry with the rescue mission, Malone now finds himself being hunted by a crazy scientist cannibal while trying to find a cure for his addict girlfriend/prostitute whose addiction transforms her into something much more deadly.
Enter Posh, our lovely redheaded prostitute that works for Herbie, a money hungry pimp who in all honestly I actually kind of liked (that is until he's turned into a Worman...yeah...I'll let you break that word down to it's meaning....). He seemed as sympathetic as one could be towards his "property" and he did get involved in the depravity when the money was right. And wholly shit, depraved isn't even the word to describe some of the clients poor Posh has to pleasure. Her worst client ends up giving her a terrible skin condition where the cure for it doesn't seem much like a cure. Ancient Chinese magic and conjuring are the only things that can save Posh when she gets herself into some trouble. This is where her and Malone's paths cross.
With her skin falling off in strips and Malone's flayed open body, both are in some terrible shape and in dire need of medical attention and their encounters with those that wish to cause them harm and those that want to help become a whirlwind of amazing storytelling. My emotions for what Posh has to go through and what she endures are absolutely nothing but sad. The character of Beth just fucking pisses me off to know end, and the fact that Posh can't catch a break at any turn upset me. It's only when the sentient Forks step in to protect her due to their deal with Malone, but even that rescue mad me so mad because of Beth. I hate Beth. I did very much love Glass Horse. He gave me a Falkor feel.
The world's basically gone to chaotic shit and people are just trying to get by. Between the dragons and the dinosaurs, there is a race of sentient Forks and giant beetles that excrete concrete becoming buildings. The sky rains cereal and old chinese woman can reattach their heads to younger bodies. I loved everything about the Chinese characters including the statue that has a thing for Malone. There are worlds within worlds including Traven, a place for very bad men who cheat and the like go to be the wife of two transangels, and lets not forget the the conflict between Tranangels and the Mermaid biker club called MOM.....this is a Wolvriey world, boys and girls, anything and everything is possible and it seems that he has written this book with all that in mind. As usual there is so much going on here but it does read coherently and it keeps the pace. Towards the end, I'd say the last 100 or so pages, Malone's adventures start to take on an Alice in Fucked Up Land feel which I really enjoyed. The absolute ending was a bit hokey and kinda felt like, "Well this is as good as any ending..." but there are two more books in this series so my judgement is reserved. I have super excited hopes for the final two books!
Meet Malone. A private detective with the skills to take on any case no matter how weird or dangerous. When the scientist daughter of a very rich, sexually driven woman is kidnapped, Malone is hired to her bring her back preferably without giving away the ransom money. Needless to say things go sour for Malone when he attempts to safely retrieve Rachel. This is no easy task given that the world is now ravaged by larger than usual dinosaurs roaming around and dragons in the sky threatening to make you dinner. When things go terribly awry with the rescue mission, Malone now finds himself being hunted by a crazy scientist cannibal while trying to find a cure for his addict girlfriend/prostitute whose addiction transforms her into something much more deadly.
Enter Posh, our lovely redheaded prostitute that works for Herbie, a money hungry pimp who in all honestly I actually kind of liked (that is until he's turned into a Worman...yeah...I'll let you break that word down to it's meaning....). He seemed as sympathetic as one could be towards his "property" and he did get involved in the depravity when the money was right. And wholly shit, depraved isn't even the word to describe some of the clients poor Posh has to pleasure. Her worst client ends up giving her a terrible skin condition where the cure for it doesn't seem much like a cure. Ancient Chinese magic and conjuring are the only things that can save Posh when she gets herself into some trouble. This is where her and Malone's paths cross.
With her skin falling off in strips and Malone's flayed open body, both are in some terrible shape and in dire need of medical attention and their encounters with those that wish to cause them harm and those that want to help become a whirlwind of amazing storytelling. My emotions for what Posh has to go through and what she endures are absolutely nothing but sad. The character of Beth just fucking pisses me off to know end, and the fact that Posh can't catch a break at any turn upset me. It's only when the sentient Forks step in to protect her due to their deal with Malone, but even that rescue mad me so mad because of Beth. I hate Beth. I did very much love Glass Horse. He gave me a Falkor feel.
The world's basically gone to chaotic shit and people are just trying to get by. Between the dragons and the dinosaurs, there is a race of sentient Forks and giant beetles that excrete concrete becoming buildings. The sky rains cereal and old chinese woman can reattach their heads to younger bodies. I loved everything about the Chinese characters including the statue that has a thing for Malone. There are worlds within worlds including Traven, a place for very bad men who cheat and the like go to be the wife of two transangels, and lets not forget the the conflict between Tranangels and the Mermaid biker club called MOM.....this is a Wolvriey world, boys and girls, anything and everything is possible and it seems that he has written this book with all that in mind. As usual there is so much going on here but it does read coherently and it keeps the pace. Towards the end, I'd say the last 100 or so pages, Malone's adventures start to take on an Alice in Fucked Up Land feel which I really enjoyed. The absolute ending was a bit hokey and kinda felt like, "Well this is as good as any ending..." but there are two more books in this series so my judgement is reserved. I have super excited hopes for the final two books!
January 5, 2014
I was given a copy of this book to review by the author. To start off with, I have read some Bizarro books before and was entertained even though they were a little strange. The premise for this book had me interested, private detective, dinosaurs and dragons...very interesting. However, the extremely kinky and twisted sex scenes in this book completely ruined the actual plot of the book for me. I couldn't finish this book because of it. The actual plot gets buried underneath all this weird sex and the sexual thoughts of all the characters in it. I found myself skipping whole chapters to try and get back to the actual plot with Malone.
I enjoyed the scenes with Malone fighting the dinos and all the world building with the dragons and Forks. I didn't like any of the other characters, just didn't care about their story or what happened to them. I liked Malone as a character and the parts of the book with him was entertaining. However it wasn't enough to balance out the other characters and the terribly graphic sex scenes. I got about 1/3 of the way through the book and had to give up. This is just a personal preference, this book was just not my thing. I gave it 2 stars because the writing is mostly good and there were very few editing errors, it was just the story that needs help. Thank you to the author for sending me a copy to read and review.
I enjoyed the scenes with Malone fighting the dinos and all the world building with the dragons and Forks. I didn't like any of the other characters, just didn't care about their story or what happened to them. I liked Malone as a character and the parts of the book with him was entertaining. However it wasn't enough to balance out the other characters and the terribly graphic sex scenes. I got about 1/3 of the way through the book and had to give up. This is just a personal preference, this book was just not my thing. I gave it 2 stars because the writing is mostly good and there were very few editing errors, it was just the story that needs help. Thank you to the author for sending me a copy to read and review.
January 10, 2014
I’m not a reader of bizzaro; not that I dislike it, I just haven’t come across much. So I went into this book with no idea what I was in for.
It’s the oddest book I’ve ever read. We’ve got dinosaurs, dragons, horrific deaths, holy utensils, cannibals, murderous robots, a talking walrus, and the weirdest/most horrifying sex scenes I have ever read. This is not hyperbole! The most disgusting ever! Numerous times I found myself saying out loud, "JESUS CHRIST!"
I read this in one sitting because I needed to see what insanity would come next. This book isn’t for the faint of heart but I enjoyed every perverse, demented, mind boggling word of it.
It’s the oddest book I’ve ever read. We’ve got dinosaurs, dragons, horrific deaths, holy utensils, cannibals, murderous robots, a talking walrus, and the weirdest/most horrifying sex scenes I have ever read. This is not hyperbole! The most disgusting ever! Numerous times I found myself saying out loud, "JESUS CHRIST!"
I read this in one sitting because I needed to see what insanity would come next. This book isn’t for the faint of heart but I enjoyed every perverse, demented, mind boggling word of it.
November 10, 2015
4.467852 stars. The master of the weird really shows his skills here by writing a book that at least double the length of the average bizarro novel. The many characters and plot lines were fleshed out very well. It all came together nicely over the course of the book. There were also a few scenes that went into new territory in terms of how odd and disturbing. I have come to expect all of these things from the author. My favorite characters were Ma and Beth. There was so much going on in this book, yet it never felt overwhelming.
June 4, 2014
My thanks to the author for providing a copy for review.
First, I must say that the writing itself is quite good. Characters are fully developed and interesting. The story is engaging. These are the positives, and they are strong positives.
However, it just isn't the book for me. I'm a very squeamish reader and am clearly not the target audience. If you have a strong stomach and such things don't bother you, read away! You will probably enjoy this one very much.
In closing, I would definitely be interested in reading anything less graphic by this author, as his is a genuine talent.
First, I must say that the writing itself is quite good. Characters are fully developed and interesting. The story is engaging. These are the positives, and they are strong positives.
However, it just isn't the book for me. I'm a very squeamish reader and am clearly not the target audience. If you have a strong stomach and such things don't bother you, read away! You will probably enjoy this one very much.
In closing, I would definitely be interested in reading anything less graphic by this author, as his is a genuine talent.
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June 25, 2015May the fork be with you
Reads like a dream. Humor,horror and hard ons. Imagine Jurassic park on Viagra. Great characters who boldly go where no one has been before.
Reads like a dream. Humor,horror and hard ons. Imagine Jurassic park on Viagra. Great characters who boldly go where no one has been before.
August 17, 2018
Not even...
I just skipped to the end to write a review. Such an interesting plot. The profanity was just off the change. Turned the whole book into a pile of garbage. Won't be reading any more of his book. Skipped thru as much of the sex scenes as I could. The f worry was on so many pages that I just gave up and skimmed for a while. Then I gave up on that. No way. Don't buy this book unless u just don't care. So looking forward to a good dino story. This was not it.
I just skipped to the end to write a review. Such an interesting plot. The profanity was just off the change. Turned the whole book into a pile of garbage. Won't be reading any more of his book. Skipped thru as much of the sex scenes as I could. The f worry was on so many pages that I just gave up and skimmed for a while. Then I gave up on that. No way. Don't buy this book unless u just don't care. So looking forward to a good dino story. This was not it.
February 28, 2018
Wow, just wow. This book should be a mandatory read for Creative Writing classes. This was the most bizarre Bizarro book that I've read so far. The setting and characters were wonderfully imaginative. This book was extremely perverse and disgusting with quite a few WTF moments, and it was fun as hell, but read with caution. And to think that there are two more books in the series.
June 12, 2018
Weird
Very interesting. My second read from Wol-Vriey. I admire his imagination and plan on reading more from this Nigerian gentleman.
Very interesting. My second read from Wol-Vriey. I admire his imagination and plan on reading more from this Nigerian gentleman.
December 14, 2013
Superbly executed, brilliantly written!
Very rarely does a book engage my imagination to the point where I enjoyed it so much that I want to experience it again. However, when reading Boston Posh, I can honestly say, it was a blast! Not only did I read it twice, I read it thrice – and back-to-back! It was just honestly so entertaining that I absolutely loved it.
Sometimes you can catch a great movie in the theaters and want to see it again just to catch the parts that you missed. Boston Posh is like that. It is sensory overload and an imagination trip, all wrapped up into one.
Boston Posh has the feel of a pulp fiction/detective novel, only bizarro style. The story takes place in a dystopian future that is overrun by dinosaurs and dragons. Set in Boston, it centers around two primary characters: a private detective named Bud Malone and a high class prostitute named Posh.
Early on, before the two meet, Malone is hired by a rich widow to locate the widow’s missing daughter and must brave the dangers of the monster-overrun town and the evil abductor “Frank” to put together the missing clues of the daughter’s disappearance.
Meanwhile, Posh is trying to escape from her pimp, a guy by the name “Herbie” and his thug-enforcer brother “Bulldog”. As Herbie arranges some very perverse sexual encounters that Posh must endure, she eventually gets fed up, and well, you’ll just have to read the book to see how this all goes down.
Let’s just say that as all hell is breaking loose, Posh and Malone finally get together and what takes place is something only the cleverest wordsmith can pull off, and well, Wol-vriey does it splendidly.
I give Boston Posh an enthusiastic two thumbs up. It is wonderful dark humor, horror, erotica, and transgressive fiction at its best. For adults only, this might be the best novel I have read all year!
Very rarely does a book engage my imagination to the point where I enjoyed it so much that I want to experience it again. However, when reading Boston Posh, I can honestly say, it was a blast! Not only did I read it twice, I read it thrice – and back-to-back! It was just honestly so entertaining that I absolutely loved it.
Sometimes you can catch a great movie in the theaters and want to see it again just to catch the parts that you missed. Boston Posh is like that. It is sensory overload and an imagination trip, all wrapped up into one.
Boston Posh has the feel of a pulp fiction/detective novel, only bizarro style. The story takes place in a dystopian future that is overrun by dinosaurs and dragons. Set in Boston, it centers around two primary characters: a private detective named Bud Malone and a high class prostitute named Posh.
Early on, before the two meet, Malone is hired by a rich widow to locate the widow’s missing daughter and must brave the dangers of the monster-overrun town and the evil abductor “Frank” to put together the missing clues of the daughter’s disappearance.
Meanwhile, Posh is trying to escape from her pimp, a guy by the name “Herbie” and his thug-enforcer brother “Bulldog”. As Herbie arranges some very perverse sexual encounters that Posh must endure, she eventually gets fed up, and well, you’ll just have to read the book to see how this all goes down.
Let’s just say that as all hell is breaking loose, Posh and Malone finally get together and what takes place is something only the cleverest wordsmith can pull off, and well, Wol-vriey does it splendidly.
I give Boston Posh an enthusiastic two thumbs up. It is wonderful dark humor, horror, erotica, and transgressive fiction at its best. For adults only, this might be the best novel I have read all year!
July 4, 2014
This book took me a really, REALLY, long time to read. However, that is not because I did not like it. In fact, it was SUPER entertaining. It just took so long because 1) It is a bit long, especially for bizarro (by far the longest bizarro book I have read) and 2) Because I read it as a PDF on my computer. I ALWAYS take much longer to read books when they are PDFs on my computer, as opposed to print. With that said, this book was fun.
There is never a dull moment in this story even though it is super long. I feel it is difficult to create bizarro that truly works as a long novel, and although Boston Posh is far from perfect, it does succeed quite well. I love the dinosaur and dragon aspect of the book, and the forks are pretty cool, too. All in all, this is damn good bizarro detective fiction.
And on a side note, there is a lot of sex in this book and it is certainly bizarre (hence, bizarro). But, the sex certainly isn't pointless or crude for crude's sake, as many reviewers have pointed out. Posh is a prostitute, and that is a fucked up line of work. And in this book, Wol-vriey shows the dehumanizing shit Posh has to go through in order to make a living and/or save her skin. Yes, the sex is plentiful and strange, but it doesn't take away from the story. I would even argue that it adds to it immensely.
There is never a dull moment in this story even though it is super long. I feel it is difficult to create bizarro that truly works as a long novel, and although Boston Posh is far from perfect, it does succeed quite well. I love the dinosaur and dragon aspect of the book, and the forks are pretty cool, too. All in all, this is damn good bizarro detective fiction.
And on a side note, there is a lot of sex in this book and it is certainly bizarre (hence, bizarro). But, the sex certainly isn't pointless or crude for crude's sake, as many reviewers have pointed out. Posh is a prostitute, and that is a fucked up line of work. And in this book, Wol-vriey shows the dehumanizing shit Posh has to go through in order to make a living and/or save her skin. Yes, the sex is plentiful and strange, but it doesn't take away from the story. I would even argue that it adds to it immensely.
June 5, 2014
Alright, full review (which I swear I wrote already, but maybe that was one of those things I did in my sleep).
At base, this book was promising. There's some very cool concepts that haven't often or really been explored in bizarro fiction. The first couple of chapters I was into it. Dinosaurs are always a big plus to be honest, as is over the top ridiculous gory sex.
And then... Well, there's something stylists say about accessories: Look at what you have, take off three items and you're good to go. I don't subscribe to that. I'm a big fan of bigger and more. Turns out maybe not so much in my fiction. There's a point where the story starts to feel like the author threw in every idea he had, no matter how fleeting, without a whole lot of thought to the story line.
Step three, got to the second half of the book. And the story was absorbing and finally started moving in a forward progression and lost (most) of the red herrings.
All in all, I recommend it to bizarro enthusiasts. It's definitely not the book that's going to make you love the genre, but if you already do, it's worth the fairly quick read.
At base, this book was promising. There's some very cool concepts that haven't often or really been explored in bizarro fiction. The first couple of chapters I was into it. Dinosaurs are always a big plus to be honest, as is over the top ridiculous gory sex.
And then... Well, there's something stylists say about accessories: Look at what you have, take off three items and you're good to go. I don't subscribe to that. I'm a big fan of bigger and more. Turns out maybe not so much in my fiction. There's a point where the story starts to feel like the author threw in every idea he had, no matter how fleeting, without a whole lot of thought to the story line.
Step three, got to the second half of the book. And the story was absorbing and finally started moving in a forward progression and lost (most) of the red herrings.
All in all, I recommend it to bizarro enthusiasts. It's definitely not the book that's going to make you love the genre, but if you already do, it's worth the fairly quick read.
December 1, 2014
I always like the first 1/3 of a Wol-vriey book. They start out as a decent story with a few interesting bizarro elements that appear to have some kind of stable mechanics. Then they devolve into what sounds like someone explaining a particularly weird dream that is difficult to relate to.
I can deal with dinosaurs and dragons, post apocalypse, cannibalism, and dragonreich, but could do without the:
Otherworld doors
Transexual heaven/angels, wormen
MOMs vs. robots
The North Pole
The Forks (stupid, really stupid)
The blood arm
Beetle buildings
Breast milk ocean
Posh ceramic figurine dragon
Most of which occurs is the last 1/3 of the book, which is very different from the the rest of it. Also, rushed. I've noticed with this author the farther along you get the more spelling, punctuation, and grammatical errors pop up. It can't be an ebook formatting thing because of the nature of the mistakes. Frustrating. I have two other books from this author that are 300+ pages and I don't think I can handle them.
I can deal with dinosaurs and dragons, post apocalypse, cannibalism, and dragonreich, but could do without the:
Otherworld doors
Transexual heaven/angels, wormen
MOMs vs. robots
The North Pole
The Forks (stupid, really stupid)
The blood arm
Beetle buildings
Breast milk ocean
Posh ceramic figurine dragon
Most of which occurs is the last 1/3 of the book, which is very different from the the rest of it. Also, rushed. I've noticed with this author the farther along you get the more spelling, punctuation, and grammatical errors pop up. It can't be an ebook formatting thing because of the nature of the mistakes. Frustrating. I have two other books from this author that are 300+ pages and I don't think I can handle them.
January 30, 2014
First of all, my copy of the book was generously provided to me by the author. :D
So yeh... well. Interesting.... awkward... and GROSS. Now that is not meant in any sort of negative fashion, and after reading what he wrote, I don't think Wol-vriey will interpret it as such.
It was a fun read, but it is not for the easily grossed out or the faint of heart. This book contains -a lot- of really graphic, bizarre sex and violence, but the way that the story progresses none of it seems particularly out of place. Surprising, unexpected and often icky-- yes. Out of place for the story and the world created here-- absolutely not.
So while I would definitely recommend this to anyone looking for a unique noir-ish read, I gotta warn you it's a bumpy, sticky, disease-infested ride.
So yeh... well. Interesting.... awkward... and GROSS. Now that is not meant in any sort of negative fashion, and after reading what he wrote, I don't think Wol-vriey will interpret it as such.
It was a fun read, but it is not for the easily grossed out or the faint of heart. This book contains -a lot- of really graphic, bizarre sex and violence, but the way that the story progresses none of it seems particularly out of place. Surprising, unexpected and often icky-- yes. Out of place for the story and the world created here-- absolutely not.
So while I would definitely recommend this to anyone looking for a unique noir-ish read, I gotta warn you it's a bumpy, sticky, disease-infested ride.
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May 23, 2014I truly wanted to like this book. I was provided a copy by the author which immediately gave me hope that this was an undiscovered gem. And maybe it is, but just not a gem that caught my eye.
Generally, the novel felt shallow and flat. I wanted to know WHY the world changed, WHY the characters seemed to be purely driven by their genitalia, etc. Perhaps if I'd finished the story, some of my questions would have been answered.
I did like the dialogue. The author's writing style flowed well when his characters were speaking. I just wish that same flow would have carried into the world-building.
Generally, the novel felt shallow and flat. I wanted to know WHY the world changed, WHY the characters seemed to be purely driven by their genitalia, etc. Perhaps if I'd finished the story, some of my questions would have been answered.
I did like the dialogue. The author's writing style flowed well when his characters were speaking. I just wish that same flow would have carried into the world-building.
July 8, 2015
What a read! This book is one of the best Bizarro books I've read to date! I've read a good few CM2 books but I've gotta say this takes the cake! It was my first experience of this particular author who gifted me a few of his books including his latest: Boston Corpse. I thought it logical that I start with the first in the series though. There's a large cast of very unique characters and Bud Malone I found to be very likeable. Chapter to chapter it goes from sub-plot to sub-plot usually focusing on 1 or 2 characters. I found this a nice set-up and also loved Wol-vriey's writing style! All in all an easy 5 stars and highly recommended to any Bizarro heads out there!
January 20, 2016
A veritable Bizarro epic. As if the return trip of Odysseus took place during a particularly intense acid trip. But once you get past the fact that the content is in some ways so repulsive, a very entertaining story is going on at the same time. Recommended, but with the note that there are things in here that you haven't heard and would probably live a long happy life never hearing again. Open mindedness is essential.
December 28, 2013
I was asked to read this and review it..........what a chore. I could not finish it. I could not get past about page 100. There is so much kinky and twisted sex in this story that I couldn't even tell you what this story is suppose to be about. I have no problem with sex in books........but come on.........really??
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