Review: Corn Bred takes Jimmy Pudge in new direction
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 1, 2013
I'm a huge fan of Jimmy Pudge. I love his craziness, I adore his redneck sensibility, I freak out over his freakiness. And he's got a dirty mind that just drives me wild.No, seriously, I'm talking about his writing. Pudge just keeps getting better, and when he had me thinking "He can't top this craziness," darned if he didn't go right out and change everything. And I'm still loving it.Corn Bred has less of Pudge's usual nightmare-in-a-trailer-park style. Joshua, the main character, lives in a tidy little house with a sweet little fiance. He's a librarian, for goodness sake, not a porn star or a strapping serial killer who spent his life chained in a basement. He's a guy who survived a hellacious childhood at the hands of his schizophrenic father. But he has survived and made himself a happy little life.And then someone starts harassing Joshua, hurting those around him. And Joshua keeps waking up naked, bloody and with no memory of the past few hours. A trip to the psychiatrist seems to help, until Joshua's nemesis crawls out of his own head and turns Joshua's life upside down. Josh has another personality living inside of him, a personality that, if the shrink is allowed to "cure" Josh, will die. So it's a life and death battle and we just gotta wonder - is mild-mannered Josh able to defeat the damaged, amoral Corn Bred? Josh's own mind created Corn Bred to protect Josh from memories of his childhood terrors, but now it's a clash of wills as the two personalities fight for control of Josh's body and his life.Dont' wait for Pudge's usual belly-laughs and crazy asides. This book is all business, friends, and it's good. Pudge is stepping into a new arena of horror and he's up for the fight. This one oughta be a knockout.