Razor Wire Pubic Hair

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Summary: my only question?
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Witch CM3 book will I explore next?

RWPH will take you on an acid-induced trip through the most surreal environment imaginable. It takes place either in the distant future or on another planet and follows the life of a hermaphrodite sex-toy, in a land ruled by violent sex crazed bizarre women. Along the way you encounter zombies, rapists and very special frogs. Only for those with a wild imagination.

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Summary: Consistent
Review: Carlton picked a particular lens through which to view reality and ran with it. He stuck with it even at the cost of losing the reader.

There are several books I have read that use this particular technique; telling a story without a common frame of reference. Books like this let the reader drift for lack of gravity (or substitute whatever gravity the reader can provide). I'm not generally a big fan of this method. In the end, if you try really hard, what you wind up doing is putting your own framework in for the missing one. This is 1/2 a novel but Carlton did manage to keep me reading to the end and I do find some parts of the method appealing, so 4 stars.

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Summary: A new voice in horror
Review: Every new author that comes out is raved as the next Stephen King or the next Kurt Vonnegut. Carlton Mellick is not that way. He is unlike any author in literature. Therefore he is not the next of anything, he is the first. Someday he will be popular enough where people will start calling themselves the next Carlton Mellick, but for now he is one of a kind. Though I wasn't a big fan of Satan Burger and Electric Jesus Corpse, Razor Wire Pubic Hair has to be one of the better novels I've read all year. It is a metaphor for the world of sex; a journey into the nightmare world of a man's subconscious sexual desires. There are no men in this place. There are only violent lesbians who live only for sex and war. This is intelligent experimental horror fiction at its best. This book and House of Leaves are two of the most progressive horror novels ever written. Buy them both.

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Summary: You MUST read this!
Review: Every once in a while a book comes along that is exactly what you've been looking for. For me, this was it. It's like a very dark and very strange dream full of sex and violence. Imagine an apocalyptic future world like something out of an H. R. Giger painting, populated only by sadistic women and the living dead. Imagine you are a manufactured clone used for sex and food by a female lesbian warrior that has razor wire instead of pubic hair and her sister who has multiple vaginas covering her body like tattoos. Wait there's more, imagine that most of the people in the world have turned into sex-crazed rapists that screw and kill everything in their path. Imagine a giant vagina that speaks the meaning of life. Imagine getting raped in the anus by God Himself. But there's more. Much much more. This book is filled to the brim with strange and interesting things. It's also full of emotion, satire, and beauty. I believe it is a social statement on sex and gender. After I read it the first time I was thinking it was making a feminist statement. An anti-male, pro-vagina statement, even though the author is male. The second time I read it I felt that it was more of an anti-gender statement, pro-hermaphrodite. Perhaps Mellick is a hermaphrodite himself. It doesn't really matter. Read this book. It will give you visions of a very bizarre future and will make you question the concepts of sex and gender.

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Summary: WHAAAA?!!
Review: If a book this badly written can be published and gather fans, gheez I wonder why I was always shy about my writings, I'm going to shop my stuff around, its sick disgusting in a similiar vein but well thats not what this review should be about.
If you've ever ordered any albums from the obscure record label Razorback Records and you noticed a CD by the band called Lord Gore which features a cover of naked women stuffing orifices, licking, and ripping each others guts out, sucking eyes out, slashing each other to pieces, all while enjoying intense sex. Well looking at that cover is alot like reading this book, if you're into this type of stuff check it out, if not go back to reading your regular Stephen King junk where everything makes sense and all is happy in the end. Nuff said...

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Summary: Even the used and manufactured can have an opinion
Review: Mellick you beautiful genius you freakish omnipotent wonderlug you. What/s in pubic hair is more than woman made items to sustain create and avoid. Mellick has taken the premise of experimental writing and stream of consciousness writing to a level nearly on par with h selby jnr and then added the spice of the old cliche of what if...

what if there were no men on earth? what if there was no other way to add to the human existence? and hence you the reader have the 'toy.' by writing this novel through the eyes of the toy with no name the reader can superimpose himself into the world with no males.

it/s assumed that the world is without men because of the nouns and verbs used but it could as well be a world without any of those items one has come to rely on: x without y cannot equal z, and as such those double negatives cannot come to equal a positive. water cannot be created without two equal parts hydrogen to each part oxygen; strychnine cannot be used to assassinate rats without rats to assassinate; lincoln could not have been shot in the theatre had he not been in the theatre, had the shooter not had the revolver, had the bullets not been present in the chamber, had the theatre not been darkened enough to hide the shooter; ad infinitum.

mellick/s use of short paragraphs and a lack of completed details leaves nothing for the reader to lose. without the capability of imagination the reader would not envision the house with it/s storeys to ramble with the toy as the toy takes it/s revenge for the loss of it/s master. had mellick added anything further to pubic hair whether it be detail or description, name or place, person or color the reader would have the loss of ability to adapt this telling to usefulness.

as with all stories there may or may not be a moral or a purpose or a reason for pubic hair. it could be something as simple as reminding all who read it that unprotected sex will, in the end, kill all. perhaps it's mellick/s way of telling all of us women that although we think we can survive without men the end result could turn monstrous and disastrous. perhaps still it/s a gentle reminder that the creation of autonomous beings is outside of our realm of ability: it seemed as though the toy, though named, was still forgotten to think consciously until it was convenient or otherwise able to be harmful to the toy...reality is truly subjective even i think to the writer.

although the graphic detail may not be to the taste of all readers, and a development in genre such as this also may not be to the tast of all readers, the pure ability to delve into the experimental in a scope such as this sends not only experimental writing but also stream of consciousness writing to a level which can do no more than assist it to come to the forefront in literature today.

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Summary: mixed feelings
Review: razor wire pubic hair, in my opinion, recieves more underground hype for its strange content than the way its written. maybe its because the content is so alien it is nearly impossible to relate to except for the core of violent sex i can put into the context of SM(of which most of this book is, just in a very exaggerated form). the writing style is very similar to many college students, its just that carlton mellick III has a much greater imagination, or perhaps hes just crammed every strange sexual situation into this universe hes created, that because it is so alien, can accomodate all of it. the content, however, lacks graphic description and therefore does not border on pornographic material or anything of the sort.

that being said, it intrigued me enough to finish the read and i give props to the other for creating such an odd book. but it is not something i would recommend or not recommend. it seems merely an excerise in bizarre creations without much thought given to its audience.

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Summary: A Sexually-Charged Poetic Nightmare
Review: This author really knows how to effect me. He made me laugh at his Douglas Adams on acid ideas in Satan Burger. He made me ashamed of myself for thoroughly enjoying The Baby Jesus Butt Plug. Then I read Razor Wire Pubic Hair, and he turned my world upside down. The only thing I can compare it to is maybe Naked Lunch or the Japanese film The Iron Man. Though it is more fun to read than Naked Lunch. It is more tangible and less chaotic. It is more like the film version of Naked Lunch. Very surreal, but you always know what is going on. This book is just brilliant. The language is just crazy enough to keep you interested. The illustrations are both grotesque and erotic. The chapters are brief and to the point. The plot is unpredictable and goes in the most unusual directions. The characters are absurd yet very real. I recommend this book to fans of Naked Lunch, Aeon Flux, A Clockwork Orange, Visitor Q, The Iron Man, Eraserhead, The Holy Mountain, or anything that is very strange yet very good. Give this book a try. This book and Satan Burger would be a good place to start with this author.

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Summary: A Sexually-Charged Poetic Nightmare
Review: This author really knows how to effect me. He made me laugh at his Douglas Adams on acid ideas in Satan Burger. He made me ashamed of myself for thoroughly enjoying The Baby Jesus Butt Plug. Then I read Razor Wire Pubic Hair, and he turned my world upside down. The only thing I can compare it to is maybe Naked Lunch or the Japanese film The Iron Man. Though it is more fun to read than Naked Lunch. It is more tangible and less chaotic. It is more like the film version of Naked Lunch. Very surreal, but you always know what is going on. This book is just brilliant. The language is just crazy enough to keep you interested. The illustrations are both grotesque and erotic. The chapters are brief and to the point. The plot is unpredictable and goes in the most unusual directions. The characters are absurd yet very real. I recommend this book to fans of Naked Lunch, Aeon Flux, A Clockwork Orange, Visitor Q, The Iron Man, Eraserhead, The Holy Mountain, or anything that is very strange yet very good. Give this book a try. This book and Satan Burger would be a good place to start with this author.

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Summary: WOW! Yeah, uh, all I can say is.....WOW!!
Review: What a mind bender...a futuristic, zombie, sex, horror, surreal, fantasy hybrid that completely blew me away. A fast paced, incredible ride that has probably scarred my fragile little mind permanantly! Mellick really knows how to throw the reader for a loop, and gives us a twisted view into his demented mind. Highly recommended!