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Liber Malorum
"The biggest slice of collaborative magical fiction since the bible." When Bernadette breaks into her ex-boyfriend's house to steal his laptop, little does she realise the enormity of what she has let herself in for. Join Bernadette as she is unwittingly drawn into a bizarre yet uplifting circus of sex, drugs, music, witchcraft, anarchy and apples. Liber Malorum is an extraordinary serpent of a journey that weaves into the kaotic underbelly of civilisation. It spins through the myths and legends of an eclectic mix of 23 authors into a dangerous anti-authoritarian tapestry of spell-binding proportions. This is a call-out for the tearing down of fences, beliefs and boundaries. It is an intriguing seed of disobedience planted into the fertile soil of the strangest our own. A juicy, delicious apple of a book. "Harry Potter - if Irvine Welsh had written it!!" - Katherine Lambert
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523 pages, Hardcover
First published November 26, 2007
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March 7, 2025
Malorum is an odd mix. Imagine a fictional story by one person, vaguely linked to various separate stories by fellow authors, interspersed with articles on occultism. At 500 pages it feels a bit like a giant pagan zine.
Several sections are lifted out of RAW/Shea's Illuminatus!, William Blake, Principia Discordia, Leary and the like. I would have preferred to see the new content (including the main story) stand on it's own, rather than being padded out (propped up?) with established, popular works.
The main narrative concerns a young woman called Bernadette who breaks into a former lover's home in order to investigate his keen interest in neo paganism and the occult. She steals 23 of his books along with his laptop. So expect lots of jokes concerning Discordianism and over-played 'crazy' humor.
There's some interesting stories in the collection. I especially enjoyed the Lovecraftian tale and the story involving a property developer getting his comeuppance.
What happens when the original vibrancy of Discordianism decays into vacant herd conformity? I think some aspects of Liber Malorum reflect the process, but there's plenty here to entertain. It gets caught up in the tiresome pitfalls of cult-cliche but it also rises above it to provide some originality.
My rating here is for the new material in the book (in 2007) and not for the previously established works.
Several sections are lifted out of RAW/Shea's Illuminatus!, William Blake, Principia Discordia, Leary and the like. I would have preferred to see the new content (including the main story) stand on it's own, rather than being padded out (propped up?) with established, popular works.
The main narrative concerns a young woman called Bernadette who breaks into a former lover's home in order to investigate his keen interest in neo paganism and the occult. She steals 23 of his books along with his laptop. So expect lots of jokes concerning Discordianism and over-played 'crazy' humor.
There's some interesting stories in the collection. I especially enjoyed the Lovecraftian tale and the story involving a property developer getting his comeuppance.
What happens when the original vibrancy of Discordianism decays into vacant herd conformity? I think some aspects of Liber Malorum reflect the process, but there's plenty here to entertain. It gets caught up in the tiresome pitfalls of cult-cliche but it also rises above it to provide some originality.
My rating here is for the new material in the book (in 2007) and not for the previously established works.
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