Glabber

by Feck Speiderbeck

Glabber is an experiment in one's own understanding of their personal history, paired with a rambunctious misunderstanding of the history of sound. It acts as an unreliable study of verbal communication and self-confrontation.

A man lost in an endless desert analyzes his confused past while the harsh landscape works against him. As his memories engulf his present mind, what little insight he had hoped to glean instead causes a rift between his two halves. Though everything is impossibly visible in the empty desert, there is nothing for him to clutch onto as his internal confrontation slowly becomes an external and demonstrable monster. Above all else, he will have to utilize his understanding of the old baker moment in order to navigate the Monk Runs.

The reader will be forced headlong into the protagonist's abstract troubles, additionally handling little pieces of adverse phraseology along the way. By the end, understanding the whole will be either impossible or incredibly simple. It is all guided by how the reader decides to interact with what's going on.

86 pages, Paperback

Published November 10, 2021

Reviews

[Feck]

I wrote this, so therefore I believe it deserves 5 stars.

[gadabout · Rating 5 out of 5]

I understand the old baker moment now.

[Angie Dutton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty good fun and I do love me a good word salad, would have liked it to be a lot longer though it's hard to know the right balance with these kinds of things.

[Mateo Molina Adler · Rating 5 out of 5]

My friend wrote this, so therefore I believe it deserves 5 stars.

[99 Apples · Rating 5 out of 5]

forbidden knowledge has come to light for all to read and taste! this glabber has got me twirling!
the cover is so good, I like examining it every time I see my copy.

[Brian · Rating 3 out of 5]

I can tell Feck is a smart and interesting guy, and he's cooked up a real nice ratatouille of random thought fragments here in Glabber. It's a good experiment, and I've definitely seen this type of thing executed much worse by other authors (stream of consciousness type stuff, that is). But when the author's goal is to give the reader as tenuous of a grasp as possible on what the writing speaks on, it can only go so far for me personally.

Side note: I picked up this book because the author, Mr. Speiderbeck, gained some attention on his local New Orleans Subreddit by posting kooky stuff related to this work. So good on him for hooking in some people to his self-published work that way.

[Olivia Peck · Rating 5 out of 5]

Reminded me of the feeling I had when I watched that episode of SpongeBob where squidward was in the future.

[D.J. Desmond · Rating 3 out of 5]

Did I enjoy it? Old baker moment. Does it read like it was written by drugs on drugs? The gravity of the Monk Runs will show it. Something something the history of sound.

Yeah I am not sure what I read. There's no real plotline, but it's so unique in what it offers. For less than 100 pages it's not a waste of time. And you get to learn about the old baker moment (I still have no fucking idea what that is and I read this...)

[Charles Pedersen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fair Warning:

DON’T READ WHILE HIGH

[Downward · Rating 3 out of 5]

im not sure i understood this but then the epilogue seemed to suggest that not understanding it was the perfect way to experience the book while at the same time being kind of condescending about being the kind of person who didn't understand. god bless. my unsophisticated take is that using an abstraction as a kind of 'in' moment, asking people to understand without explaining is an exercise in seeing how much we can shape around nothing, like a ball of clay with a hollow center. don't tell us what's in there. oh its hollow. ok. we can still act like its a big thing. the guy spewing black liquid from his mouth felt like a 2000s horror movie cliche.