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Geek Love: A Novel (Paperback)

by Katherine Dunn (Author)
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A wild, often horrifying, novel about freaks, geeks and other aberrancies of the human condition who travel together (a whole family of them) as a circus. It's a solipsistic funhouse world that makes "normal" people seem bland and pitiful. Arturo the Aqua-Boy, who has flippers and an enormous need to be loved. A museum of sacred monsters that didn't make it. An endearing "little beetle" of a heroine. Sort of like Tod Browning's Freaks crossed with David Lynch and John Irving and perhaps George Eliot -- the latter for the power of the emotions evoked. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.


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This audacious, mesmerizing novel should carry a warning: "Reader Beware." Those entering the world of carnival freaks described by narrator Olympia Binewski, a bald, humpbacked albino dwarf, will find no escape from a story at once engrossing and repellent, funny and terrifying, unreal and true to human nature. Dunn's vivid, energetic prose, her soaring imagination and assured narrative skill fuse to produce an unforgettable tale. The premise is bizarre. Art and Lily, owners of Binewski's Fabulon, a traveling carnival, decide to breed their own freak show by creating genetically altered children through the use of experimental drugs. "What greater gift could you offer your children than an inherent ability to earn a living just by being themselves?" muses Lily. Eventually their family consists of Arty, aka Arturo the Aqua Boy, born with flippers instead of limbs, who performs swimming inside a tank and soon learns how to manipulate his audience; Electra and Iphigenia, Siamese twins and pianists; the narrator, Oly; and Fortunato, also called the Chick, who seems normal at birth, but whose telekinetic powers become apparent just as his brokenhearted parents are about to abandon him. More than anatomy has been altered. Arty is a monsterpower hungry, evil, malicious, consumed by "dark, bitter meanness and . . . jagged rippling jealousy." Yet he has the capacity to inspire adoration, especially that of Oly, who is his willing slave, and who arranges to bear his child, Miranda, who appears "norm," but has a tiny tail. A spellbinding orator, Arty uses his ability to establish a religious cult, in which he preaches redemption through the sacrifice of body partsdigits and limbs."I want the losers who know they're losers. I want those who have a choice of tortures and pick me." This raw, shocking view of the human condition, a glimpse of the tormented people who live on the fringe, makes readers confront the dark, mad elements in every society. After a hiatus of almost two decades, the author of Attic and Truck has produced a novel that everyone will be talking about, a brilliant, suspenseful, heartbreaking tour de force.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Why is this not more well known?, Jan 25 2008
By Mrs. Virginia D. Sparrow (San Diego, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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I read Geek Love years ago, by recommendation of the public library's librarian. I've recommended it several times, and few of my friends have gotten through it. I don't see why? I guess it's true, you either "get" the humanness of this story of you do not. I was touched by Oly, her parents and brother so deeply. Not sure why... I guess because her "freak showness" fell aside, and all I saw was Oly. Maybe others have a hard time getting past the weirdness. I get that.
Or perhaps the only people who will "get" this story are those of us who have felt freak show ourselves in one way or another. And who hasn't, really? Everyone hated high school. But those of us who took our oddness a little harder... we love Oly. We feel her outsider self opinion and hope beyond hope for happiness for her. And for her, she got the best she could probably expect with such a brutalized self esteem issue. That said, I still cried at the end wanting more for her than, as usual for her, self sacrifice. Now that I'm a mother, I "get" it even more. Thank you Katherine Dunn for such an incredible piece of art.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Could't put it down!, Mar 16 2005
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I loved this book! The story was so strange but still somewhat believable... has real shock value. I find that the book is similar in style to Chuck Palanuik's book Invisible Monsters but far more interesting and believable. I agree with the other reviewer who thought that the books ending wasn't fully realized and a bit rushed. Still, this book had me captive, I recommend it!
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1.0 out of 5 stars Disapointing and Boring, Jun 27 2004
This book is the type of book that appeared to have great promise, but sadly fell terribly short. It was a book, that through reviews, promised a dark shadowing prespective upon life, a certain lusted after grity quality that was enduring and of constant interest to the reader. It was a book however that I could not force myself to read past the fifth chapter due to it's undeniably terrible plot, story and general writing style. It's not because I found it disturbing, most usually the more contaversial the better for me, but it was boring, it dragged along like a pitiful tin can tied to the back of a rusty car 10 years after the wedding was through and the divorce had come through. I get the idea of the story, that even though they're freaks they all love each other in their own little twisted way, but I'm sorry that theme is overrated and overused in modern literature. I got the feeling the author was attempting to be witty, and literary, knowing not that her attempts failed miserably. Oh well though, all is well that ends well I assume, which refers to the fact that I traded Geek Love in at a second hand book store for a much better book (doesn't almost anything surpass this stinker?) and even managed to get some money from it too as when you don't get past chapter 5 in a book it keeps it condition pretty damn crisp and clean.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Warning: Viewer Discretion Advised
I couldn't put this book down, and carried it around for about a week, deeply and happily immersed. But, just for comparison, when I showed it to my boyfriend and he read the back... Read more
Published on Jun 3 2004 by lizvelrene

5.0 out of 5 stars one of my favorite books of all time
"Geek Love" is one of my favorite books of all time. I have purchased about six copies of "Geek Love" because I keep giving it away to friends insisting that they will love it,... Read more
Published on May 11 2004 by Peter Jones

4.0 out of 5 stars Far from Ordinary
This book is about Art and Lily Binewski, a couple who decide that through genetic experimentation they can create a family of circus freaks. Read more
Published on April 28 2004 by Kelly Irish

3.0 out of 5 stars Dropped the ball
It's obvious why this is one of those books to talk about. It's literature for people who've recently outgrown their Bukowski phase but still need a little grit. Read more
Published on April 16 2004

5.0 out of 5 stars memorable and stunning
"Geek Love" is truly unlike anything I've ever read, and that's a good thing. It's not necessarily pleasant -- no tidy endings or happily ever after here -- but it sure... Read more
Published on April 15 2004 by Ryan

5.0 out of 5 stars GEEK LOVE
KATHERINE DUNN'S NOVEL "GEEK LOVE" IS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS I HAVE EVER HAD THE PLEASEURE OF READING. AND IT STANDS THE TEST OF TIME. Read more
Published on Mar 16 2004 by hedwigschmidt

5.0 out of 5 stars Geek Love
I thought that this was an awesome book, it went through every possible feeling that a human is capable of. Read more
Published on Feb 21 2004

4.0 out of 5 stars Consdier this more of a warning than a review.
If you have a weak stomach, are christian, have children, like happy books, do not have a sense of humor, consider yourself politically correct... Read more
Published on Feb 14 2004 by L. Bricker

5.0 out of 5 stars How far would you go?
How far would you go to pursue a dream and how fair is it to drag your children with you? That is the basic, bottom line of this book. Read more
Published on Feb 11 2004

3.0 out of 5 stars A Study for the Bold
I haven't actually finished this book, but this is my second attempt. My first, when I was 16, was shadowed by a sense of wrongness, as I'm sure many people have experienced. Read more
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