Review: Beware: A fleshy tumor may grow over your kindle as you read
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 23, 2013
Everyman is a wild, bizarre story, written by an author who seems to me uniquely L.A. The novel starts with a typical 'everyman' of L.A., trying to break in to the movie business, walking home to his typical L.A. courtyard apartments. Then everything gets bizarre, the reader notices flesh growing like a tumor over their kindle, and they're in for a unique ride. Like the characters in the novel, you slowly start to realize what is happening. By the time you do, something physically has changed.This book is very physical. Flesh and body and organs fill the pages. It is both horrific and at the same time `so cool.'  You won't be able to read this without thinking of the movie version. I won't spoil it and choose the director.But besides the terror of the flesh, the overriding emotion you will feel is isolation. Characters are lost without the object they have trusted with not only their love, but their entire self-worth. Losing this person to an imposter is the biggest fear of all. Ironically, this same isolation is felt by the 'monster' himself. If you can be an `everyman,'  you are really 'no-man' and it is not you that others love, but that which you are pretending to be.The implications in this novel are deep, the writing demands you pay attention, and the scenarios are a lot of fun.