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Bad Brains (Mass Market Paperback)

by Kathe Koja (Author)
3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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Still reeling from his divorce, would-be painter Austen takes a fall in a 7-Eleven parking lot that leaves him with brain damage and strange visions, a madness that sends him on a cross-country odyssey of debauchery and pain.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A terrifying look into self-disintegration and creation, Jun 28 1999
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This book is quite possibly one of the most raw, brutal, frightening pieces of fiction I've ever held in my hands. It describes better than anything the dark side of desire, what waits behind the mirror of art's perception, the thing that lurks unbidden within us all, pushed forth in the case of this book's main character by accident, trauma, seizures, but still undeniable. Koja's work is breathtaking; "Skin" and "Strange Angels" carry that same kind of ride through the blackness of the characters' psyches; but "Bad Brains" is in my opinion her best piece of work. Quite possibly the best book I've ever read.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Her work gets worse as she continues to write!, Jun 13 1999
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Koja is some kind of joke played on genre fiction by the publishing community. No wonder horror collapsed as a market! Of course Koja's work isn't technically "horror". It's "cutting edge", and it "pushes the envelope", as her promoters say. Well I have to state that her writing is the worst sort of detritus, and I do not wonder why most of her work stays happily out of print. I hope her books remain off the shelves and do not take up space that could be devoted to publishing work that deserves to be seen. BAD BRAINS was as bad as her other books. I've given her more than enough chances, and I'll stay clear of her fiction from now on.
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4.0 out of 5 stars See the early development of the best author about obsession, Dec 17 1997
Starting from Cipher, Koja begins the journey that takes her further from extrinsic abnormality into the most intrinsic sicknesses of the sole. Kathy Koja is the best expressor of the postmodern equivalent of Sartre's Nausea - this book is essential to understanding how Koja came to write Skin, which is the ultimate prose poetry novel of angst.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Promising, but unsatisfying.
After a freak accident, Austen Bandy begins to experience disturbing hallucinations even though his doctors tell him he's alright. Read more
Published on Sep 13 1997

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