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A review by hurrikanekathrina
The Book With No Name by Anonymous
4.0
8 out of 10
Genre: Horror/Crime, Black Comedy, Present-Day-Western (?)
Feels like: Quentin Terentino's and Joss Whedon's lovechild
Fav. Character: Most of the characters that are still alive at the end (not many)
Quote: "Whatever you do, don't read The Book With No Name"
Characters in this book be like
For all you Pulp Fiction lovers out there, for all the people who love a mix of splatter, gore and black humor, for all of you who are okay with language so dirty it's definitely not quotable on GoodReads. This is the book for you. It's absurd, violent, grimy, nasty and hilarious. It's definitely a book where I expect a ton of negative reviews, because if this thing is not right up your alley, then you better stop reading after chapter one, because it only gets worse (but in a good way).
I picked this book up on a whim when I was about thirteen years old and had run out of books on vacation, naively borrowing it from my father because I thought it "looked cool". It took me about 50 pages until I put the book down with horror. It took about 8 years for me to pick this book up again and decide to give it another go now that I'm not an innocent 13-year-old anymore. If you're reading this and you're 13, don't read this book.
Present day, when I hear a book synopsis that already starts with something like a Supernatural seriel killer that goes bonkers after drinking a glass of bourbon and brutally mass murders everyone on sight , my reaction's gonna be like
This book feels like a mix of a present-day western meets crime/horror meets black comedy. Without giving to much away, if you decide to pick up this book against the anonymous author's (yes, we really don't know who it is except that he/she is British) warning at the beginning, you can expect to have a blast with a seriel killer that maybe has minor drinking issues, an Elvis impersonator hitman, a cowardly bartender who likes to pee in bottles and serve it to strangers, a vampire hunter by the name of Rodeo Rex, a couple of monks, a costume festival, a fictional, Mexican (?) city crawling with the undead and lots and lots of blood and gore. If that sounds like it could be your thing, go ahead and read this book, you won't be disappointed. If you think that sounds horrible, I can only quote the first words to you again: Whatever you do, don't read The Book With No Name .
PS: Halfway through this book I found out that it's actually a series, and man, I'm so excited!
Genre: Horror/Crime, Black Comedy, Present-Day-Western (?)
Feels like: Quentin Terentino's and Joss Whedon's lovechild
Fav. Character: Most of the characters that are still alive at the end (not many)
Quote: "Whatever you do, don't read The Book With No Name"
Characters in this book be like
For all you Pulp Fiction lovers out there, for all the people who love a mix of splatter, gore and black humor, for all of you who are okay with language so dirty it's definitely not quotable on GoodReads. This is the book for you. It's absurd, violent, grimy, nasty and hilarious. It's definitely a book where I expect a ton of negative reviews, because if this thing is not right up your alley, then you better stop reading after chapter one, because it only gets worse (but in a good way).
I picked this book up on a whim when I was about thirteen years old and had run out of books on vacation, naively borrowing it from my father because I thought it "looked cool". It took me about 50 pages until I put the book down with horror. It took about 8 years for me to pick this book up again and decide to give it another go now that I'm not an innocent 13-year-old anymore. If you're reading this and you're 13, don't read this book.
Present day, when I hear a book synopsis that already starts with something like a Supernatural seriel killer that goes bonkers after drinking a glass of bourbon and brutally mass murders everyone on sight , my reaction's gonna be like
This book feels like a mix of a present-day western meets crime/horror meets black comedy. Without giving to much away, if you decide to pick up this book against the anonymous author's (yes, we really don't know who it is except that he/she is British) warning at the beginning, you can expect to have a blast with a seriel killer that maybe has minor drinking issues, an Elvis impersonator hitman, a cowardly bartender who likes to pee in bottles and serve it to strangers, a vampire hunter by the name of Rodeo Rex, a couple of monks, a costume festival, a fictional, Mexican (?) city crawling with the undead and lots and lots of blood and gore. If that sounds like it could be your thing, go ahead and read this book, you won't be disappointed. If you think that sounds horrible, I can only quote the first words to you again: Whatever you do, don't read The Book With No Name .
PS: Halfway through this book I found out that it's actually a series, and man, I'm so excited!