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Into the Bush
After the overwhelmingly successful premiere of Jungle Jitters, Jennifer, the leader of the Action Girls, is eager to make another jungle adventure movie, and she asks her regular scribe, J. Manfred Weichsel, to write it.His pitch? A three-hundred-mile-long giantess named Patty McGloop lies eternally on her back in the Mojave Desert, with a pubic hair region spanning seven miles from below her navel to between her thighs. Just as the Gargantua ray made Patty McGloop very big, it also enlarged the microscopic animals that live on her skin and hair. Wouldn’t it be fun to go exploring inside her pubic hair jungle in order to document all the interesting flora and fauna?The Action girls excitedly make all the preparations needed to shoot such a bizarre motion picture and take a helicopter to Patty McGloop’s navel, the gateway to her colossal realm. But when the girls become captive to a tribe of zealous lice, it’s up to Manfred to go on a daring mission into the bush to rescue them.About the he became America’s premier writer of subversive fiction, J. Manfred Weichsel cut his teeth in Hollywood, crafting screenplays for the notorious Action Girls, a trio of indie starlets whose on and off-screen antics captivated audiences throughout the 2010s.But while the glitz and glamor of Tinseltown may have seemed like a dream come true, insiders know that life with the Action Girls was anything but ordinary. Weichsel's days were a whirlwind of adrenaline and excess. Rumors of secret romances, bitter rivalries, and drunken nights on set only added fuel to the fiery saga of his Hollywood tenure.In this tell-all memoir, J. Manfred Weichsel dishes out the most salacious details on the making of their most notorious film, Into the Bush. Don't miss out on these behind-the-scenes revelations that will leave you laughing, gasping, and begging for more.
156 pages, Paperback
Published March 18, 2024
About the author
J. Manfred Weichsel
35 books18 followersJ. Manfred Weichsel writes extravaganzas that fuse adventure, horror, science fiction, and fantasy into some of the most original subversive literature being published today.
Weichsel’s shorter works appear regularly in Cirsova Magazine and anthologies from Cirsova Publishing.
His longer self-published works have gained him a broad and dedicated base of rabid fans comprising folks from every segment of society – readers of all stripes who share a dark sense of humor and a desire to see modern culture burlesqued, and age-old human stupidity mocked.
A fiercely independent author, J. Manfred Weichsel aims to give birth to the classics of the future by writing works ungoverned by the constraints of traditional publishing houses and the inhibitions of contemporary society.
Loved by some and hated by others, Weichsel’s funny, unconventional, often grotesque books inhabit a unique space in American literature and will be read, talked about, and debated for generations to come.
Weichsel’s shorter works appear regularly in Cirsova Magazine and anthologies from Cirsova Publishing.
His longer self-published works have gained him a broad and dedicated base of rabid fans comprising folks from every segment of society – readers of all stripes who share a dark sense of humor and a desire to see modern culture burlesqued, and age-old human stupidity mocked.
A fiercely independent author, J. Manfred Weichsel aims to give birth to the classics of the future by writing works ungoverned by the constraints of traditional publishing houses and the inhibitions of contemporary society.
Loved by some and hated by others, Weichsel’s funny, unconventional, often grotesque books inhabit a unique space in American literature and will be read, talked about, and debated for generations to come.
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March 29, 2024
A Horror Bookworm Recommendation
Into The Bush by J. Manfred Weichsel
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The Action Girls are back in the novelization of the film, Into The Bush. This time the babes take on a brand new Gargantuan Ray sized adventure. Experience a once-in-a-lifetime expedition to the surface of a belly button and the dense pubic forest area located due south. What bizarre organisms, unusual insects and extraordinary bacteria await? A trip into this unexplored strange land will soon be revealed.
The Jungle Jitters masterpiece follows up with J. Manfred Weichsel latest feature presentation, Into The Bush. Jennifer the blonde, Jackie the redhead and Stephanie the brunette enter the “Giant Exclusion Zone” that exists within the desert, rocks and sands of several U.S. States. Here lies voluptuous Patty McGloop, a three hundred mile from head to foot female. Weichsel’s wildly imaginable characters of epic torso proportions doesn’t stop there! Not only is there Cletus, the ultimate annoying nemesis, there’s also menacing inchworm creatures, giant crab-like beasts, monstrous red mites and creepy purple organisms all within the dark chasms of fleshy ground and pubic hair.
J. Manfred Weichsel, that handsome author in his mid-thirties, will be your tour guide. While reading this book I haven’t made this many highlights since college and high school combined. If Douglas Adams were to write for Heavy Metal Magazine, you would have the writing style of J. Manfred. The blend of science fiction, dark fantasy and a splash of erotica…welcome to the weird, forbidden world of Weichsel.
Into The Bush is the most important literary event of 2024. It pleads the reader to wonder…”if a giant pubic hair falls in a forest of pubic hairs and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” A five star ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Horror Bookworm Recommendation.
Into The Bush by J. Manfred Weichsel
https://horrorbookwormreviews.com/
The Action Girls are back in the novelization of the film, Into The Bush. This time the babes take on a brand new Gargantuan Ray sized adventure. Experience a once-in-a-lifetime expedition to the surface of a belly button and the dense pubic forest area located due south. What bizarre organisms, unusual insects and extraordinary bacteria await? A trip into this unexplored strange land will soon be revealed.
The Jungle Jitters masterpiece follows up with J. Manfred Weichsel latest feature presentation, Into The Bush. Jennifer the blonde, Jackie the redhead and Stephanie the brunette enter the “Giant Exclusion Zone” that exists within the desert, rocks and sands of several U.S. States. Here lies voluptuous Patty McGloop, a three hundred mile from head to foot female. Weichsel’s wildly imaginable characters of epic torso proportions doesn’t stop there! Not only is there Cletus, the ultimate annoying nemesis, there’s also menacing inchworm creatures, giant crab-like beasts, monstrous red mites and creepy purple organisms all within the dark chasms of fleshy ground and pubic hair.
J. Manfred Weichsel, that handsome author in his mid-thirties, will be your tour guide. While reading this book I haven’t made this many highlights since college and high school combined. If Douglas Adams were to write for Heavy Metal Magazine, you would have the writing style of J. Manfred. The blend of science fiction, dark fantasy and a splash of erotica…welcome to the weird, forbidden world of Weichsel.
Into The Bush is the most important literary event of 2024. It pleads the reader to wonder…”if a giant pubic hair falls in a forest of pubic hairs and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” A five star ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Horror Bookworm Recommendation.
June 19, 2025
DNF @23% Unfortunately I just couldn't get into this one
March 22, 2024
Weichsel blends pulp action with gross humour and harsh satire, creating a tale that is both an embodiment of classic adventure tales and a subversion of everything they are held up as representing.
This is the second book of “The Action Girls in…” series. Possible spoilers ahead.
With Jungle Jitters, the Action Girls’ first film, winning awards at a film festival organised by the Action Girls, Jennifer their leader decides to do another jungle expedition film—but to somewhere even less visited. Having declared it, she leaves it to Manny, her screenwriter and (possibly) boyfriend, to do all the planning. Fortunately—for Manny—a science experiment has turned Patty McGloop into a giant, creating the opportunity for the Action Girls to be the first people to make a film in the thickets of someone’s pubic hair.
Weichsel uses the same blend of real-world details, utter fantasy, and disregard for sensibilities displayed in the first volume to riff off Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman. Thus, his giant woman is large enough to cover several US states but needs to lie down to avoid her body collapsing under its own weight and many of the characters are physically accurate bacteria, viruses, and parasites that live on humans but with human personalities and language. Tension between the accurate and the absurd is always broken in favour of body humour or social satire.
In addition to the new plot of Jennifer and the other two Action Girls making a film in a giant’s pubic hair, Weichsel reframes the first volume of the series as being the novelisation of a film rather than actual events and frames this volume as a novelisation of both a second film and behind-the-scenes footage captured during its filming. As part of this, he inserts himself as the Action Girls’ screenwriter. In addition to opening up an opportunity to satirise the indie movie industry, this allows freedom for returning characters to be both the same and different, avoiding the risk of staleness from repeating ‘three ditzy girls stumble into situations’.
As with Weichsel’s other works, this one is deliberately offensive: the lesbian is fat and has poor hygiene, the redneck is ugly and perverted, people nearly drown in menstrual blood, and the giganticised creatures live like stereotypical jungle tribespeople. But, again as with previous works, there is no belief or topic that is treated with reverence, including Weichsel’s self-insert screenwriter. Thus, even if one sees a certain laddish cachet in Manny’s flaws compared to the flaws of others, the overall sense is of mocking pretence and dogmatism rather than considering one group as better than another.
While the book can be read as a scathing commentary on many areas of modern US socio-political structure, it is also filled with fast-paced action, sudden reveals, dramatic escapes, and the other traits of a rip-roaring pulp action tale; thus, readers might find it gross or insulting but are not likely to find it stodgy.
As befits the overall tone, all the characters have many flaws and no defining virtues; however, they are divided into those who are merely examples of human imperfection and those who actively embrace vice. Despite the book appearing as a display of crass jokes and schlock action on the surface, this distinction subtly underpins events; thus, while there are no heroes, there are characters who the reader is likely to feel deserve to overcome their opponents’ machinations.
Overall, I enjoyed this book. I recommend it to readers seeking humour that does not merely accept no limits but seeks them out so it can tarnish their sense of purity.
I received a free copy from the author with a request for a fair review.
This is the second book of “The Action Girls in…” series. Possible spoilers ahead.
With Jungle Jitters, the Action Girls’ first film, winning awards at a film festival organised by the Action Girls, Jennifer their leader decides to do another jungle expedition film—but to somewhere even less visited. Having declared it, she leaves it to Manny, her screenwriter and (possibly) boyfriend, to do all the planning. Fortunately—for Manny—a science experiment has turned Patty McGloop into a giant, creating the opportunity for the Action Girls to be the first people to make a film in the thickets of someone’s pubic hair.
Weichsel uses the same blend of real-world details, utter fantasy, and disregard for sensibilities displayed in the first volume to riff off Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman. Thus, his giant woman is large enough to cover several US states but needs to lie down to avoid her body collapsing under its own weight and many of the characters are physically accurate bacteria, viruses, and parasites that live on humans but with human personalities and language. Tension between the accurate and the absurd is always broken in favour of body humour or social satire.
In addition to the new plot of Jennifer and the other two Action Girls making a film in a giant’s pubic hair, Weichsel reframes the first volume of the series as being the novelisation of a film rather than actual events and frames this volume as a novelisation of both a second film and behind-the-scenes footage captured during its filming. As part of this, he inserts himself as the Action Girls’ screenwriter. In addition to opening up an opportunity to satirise the indie movie industry, this allows freedom for returning characters to be both the same and different, avoiding the risk of staleness from repeating ‘three ditzy girls stumble into situations’.
As with Weichsel’s other works, this one is deliberately offensive: the lesbian is fat and has poor hygiene, the redneck is ugly and perverted, people nearly drown in menstrual blood, and the giganticised creatures live like stereotypical jungle tribespeople. But, again as with previous works, there is no belief or topic that is treated with reverence, including Weichsel’s self-insert screenwriter. Thus, even if one sees a certain laddish cachet in Manny’s flaws compared to the flaws of others, the overall sense is of mocking pretence and dogmatism rather than considering one group as better than another.
While the book can be read as a scathing commentary on many areas of modern US socio-political structure, it is also filled with fast-paced action, sudden reveals, dramatic escapes, and the other traits of a rip-roaring pulp action tale; thus, readers might find it gross or insulting but are not likely to find it stodgy.
As befits the overall tone, all the characters have many flaws and no defining virtues; however, they are divided into those who are merely examples of human imperfection and those who actively embrace vice. Despite the book appearing as a display of crass jokes and schlock action on the surface, this distinction subtly underpins events; thus, while there are no heroes, there are characters who the reader is likely to feel deserve to overcome their opponents’ machinations.
Overall, I enjoyed this book. I recommend it to readers seeking humour that does not merely accept no limits but seeks them out so it can tarnish their sense of purity.
I received a free copy from the author with a request for a fair review.
March 17, 2024
I can honestly say that I've never read a book like this before. I say never, but I also read Jungle Jitters which is the previous title in the series so 'honestly' and 'never' are not strictly true. But, I read them back to back so it felt like just the one book so I'm going to stick with my original statement.
The Action Girls, fresh from their movie making exploits in the Congo have decided to explore a 300 mile tall giantess that is laying across multiple States and their target is to trek through her pubic bush to see the various micro orgasms (sorry, organisms) that have been blown up to human size by the same ray that created the giant woman.
Funny and rude with a smidgen of lunacy, this will definitely be one to divide readers into two camps and I'm a little surprised to find that I fall into the sniggering schoolboy element despite not having been to school in nearly forty years.
It's always good to read something outside your usual fare and I'm glad I read this as it definitely made me smile
The Action Girls, fresh from their movie making exploits in the Congo have decided to explore a 300 mile tall giantess that is laying across multiple States and their target is to trek through her pubic bush to see the various micro orgasms (sorry, organisms) that have been blown up to human size by the same ray that created the giant woman.
Funny and rude with a smidgen of lunacy, this will definitely be one to divide readers into two camps and I'm a little surprised to find that I fall into the sniggering schoolboy element despite not having been to school in nearly forty years.
It's always good to read something outside your usual fare and I'm glad I read this as it definitely made me smile
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January 18, 2025No stars.
*I'm not going to give you the whole 'what this book is about' blurb - you can read that elsewhere.
1. I’ll be honest – I have nothing nice to say about this read. I didn’t DNF it, but I kind of wish I had.
2. The writing style was just not for me. I typically like a bit of humor with my horror however, this
humor just wasn’t funny in my opinion, and the story fell completely flat due to it. HOWEVER, if you head over to Mike Rankin’s review at the link below, you can see the total opposite of my review, and perhaps this is a book that will land on your TBR. https://horrorbookwormreviews.com/pag...
3. Just because I didn’t like it, doesn’t mean you won’t; that’s the beauty of reading!
*I'm not going to give you the whole 'what this book is about' blurb - you can read that elsewhere.
1. I’ll be honest – I have nothing nice to say about this read. I didn’t DNF it, but I kind of wish I had.
2. The writing style was just not for me. I typically like a bit of humor with my horror however, this
humor just wasn’t funny in my opinion, and the story fell completely flat due to it. HOWEVER, if you head over to Mike Rankin’s review at the link below, you can see the total opposite of my review, and perhaps this is a book that will land on your TBR. https://horrorbookwormreviews.com/pag...
3. Just because I didn’t like it, doesn’t mean you won’t; that’s the beauty of reading!
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